Wife of Ozark Mountains Farmer, Missouri

Shot by John Vachon, this picture was taken in May 1940.

Part of Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Photograph Collection at the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

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Children of Oklahoma drought refugees on highway near Bakersfield, California.

The photograph was shot in June 1935 by influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist, Dorothea Lange when she was working as a staff photographer for a federal agency.

From the negative caption card, “Family of six; no shelter, no food, no money and almost no gasoline. The child has bone tuberculosis.”

Part of Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Photograph Collection at the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

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Georgia sharecropper sorts tobacco.

Shot in July 1938 by influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist, Dorothea Lange when she was working as a staff photographer for a federal agency, this photo is from near Douglas, Georgia.

From the caption card for the negative, “ ‘You don’t have to worriate so much and you’ve got time to raise somp’n to eat.’  The program to eliminate the risk and uncertainty of a one-crop system meets the approval of this sharecropper.”

Part of Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Photograph Collection at the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

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Mother and baby of family of nine living in field.

This photo is by Resettlement Administration staff photographer Walker Evans took this photo in March 1936 in a field on U.S. Route 70 in Tennessee, near Tennessee River between Camden and Bruceton. The family was living in the open field in a one-room hut built over the chassis of abandoned Ford truck.  Meals were cooked in a rudimentary, open lean-to near the hut.  The hut was “housing” provided by a landlord for an illiterate wood-cutter.

The family’s twelve-year old daughter is pictured in the lean-to at Eyes of the Great Depression 047 and Eyes of the Great Depression 036.

Part of Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Photograph Collection at the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

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Children in the tenement district, Brockton, Mass., December 1940.

This photo is by Farm Security Administration photographer Jack Delano.

Part of Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Photograph Collection at the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Color Photographs .

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Camping in the United States has, at times, been by necessity rather than recreational choice.

This tent is in a blueberry picker camp near Little Fork, Minnesota, August 1937.  It was photographed  by Russell Lee, staff photographer in a U.S. agency called the Resettlement Administration (in operation 1935 – 1937).

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This photo was taken by National Child Labor Committee photographer Lewis Wickes Hines in December 1910.

Photographs from the records of the National Child Labor Committee (U.S.) at the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

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This may become a regular feature – or maybe not.

1. T.G.I. Friday’s
2. Grizzly kills man at Yellowstone National Park, first fatal mauling since 1986
3. honey badger – The honey badger (Mellivora capensis), also known as the ratel, is a monotypic species of mustelid native to Africa, the Middle East and the Indian Subcontinent. (wikipedia)
4. In some cultures, Friday is considered unlucky. (Wikipedia)
5. Engineered from the finest genes, and trained to be a secret courier in a future world, Friday operates over a near-future Earth, where chaos reigns.
6. Hogweed – Heracleum Mantegazzianum — a plant more commonly known as the giant hogweed and native to Central Asia — is spreading fast in several states, and experts are urging some residents to beware. The tall plant with large, attractive flowers the size of umbrellas contains sap that causes blisters, burns, even blindness.
7. Kidnap survivor Elizabeth Smart joins ABC News as commentator.
8. Solar System Scope – Interactive 3D model of the solar system – interesting, but too busy with ads.
9. Katrina killed Six Flags New Orleans – Wikipedia
10. Your Paintings – a BBC website which aims to show the entire UK national collection of oil paintings, the stories behind the paintings, and where to see them for real. It is made up of paintings from thousands of museums and other public institutions around the country.

11. The Mountain from TSO Photography on Vimeo.

I resolved one of Karen’s big travel concerns last week — and I must admit this fix does make it easier for me, too.

Navigating the truck and camper into some fuel stops can be challenging, especially for someone who doesn’t have a lot of experience towing something quite that large. I had been thinking about a possible solution that would alleviate this, but wasn’t sure how to go about it. Fortunately, the subject came up at one of the retiree breakfasts at Old South where I learned that Walt P____ had already implemented it on his rig as well as where he had it done.

My solution is a 45 gallon auxiliary fuel tank in the bed of the truck. I had it installed at a truck accessories shop in Adkins.

It’s a very simple setup. A line off the bottom of the tank runs to the truck’s normal fill nozzle. There is a ball valve and a check valve in the line. When the ball valve is open, diesel fuel will gravity drain to the normal fuel tank until it is full, when the check valve will stop the flow. (This gravity fill arrangement is prohibited for gasoline fueled vehicles because of flammability issues in an accident.) The tank has an overflow line to accommodate expansion if the fuel in the tank heats up.

A GM fuel system idiosyncrasy can cause problems when using an auxiliary fuel tank.

Apparently, based on fuel usage, the vehicle’s computer predicts when the tank should be empty and, at some point after that, shifts to run the engine in an economy mode, operating on only four cylinders. When running with the auxiliary fuel ball valve open, the level indication for the factory installed fuel tank will not change until the auxiliary fuel tank is empty, long after the engine would shift to four cylinders in operation. The resolution for this fuel system idiosyncrasy is simply to close the ball valve and let the main tank be drawn down and then, at the next travel stop, open the ball valve. The computer will see the rise in level as indication that the truck has been refueled and will reset its fuel tank usage calculation, as I understand it.

My plans are to operate. the valve periodically during the travel day.

Our fuel capacity will now give us at least a 650 mile range without refueling. This is quite a bit farther than we plan on traveling in a day. After we are at our day’s destination and have the camper unhooked and set up, we will refuel without having to navigate the camper through pumps and vehicles at the filling station.

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Update 3/5/2011 – The fuel idiosyncrasy never materialized.  It seems that computer simply resets the fuel expectations each time the engine is turned off.  The only thing I’ve seen strange is that if the economy seems to be improving, at times the fuel gauge will suddenly drop from full to empty and the  low fuel light will come on – always when still running with fuel in the auxiliary tank.

We still have the truck, though we traded the fifth wheel in for a motor home in 2008.  The auxiliary tank comes in especially handy when diesel fuel climbs in price like it is currently doing.  I filled the tanks all the way up a couple of weeks ago when the price was $3.49 a gallon.  It’s now over $3.75 and, since I am not working during the Unit 2 outage, the low price fuel should last several more weeks before I have to refuel.

A lost Exit78 post, recovered from Internet Archive WayBackMachine; March 2011

A couple of month’s ago, we stopped at Jay Wellwood’s seafood restaurant in Conway, Arkansas. We had a good meal, a good visit, and, now, I’m finally getting around to posting about it.It’s called Joey’s Seafood & Grill and it’s not easy to find if your only familiarity with Conway is I40, US64 and US65. We didn’t find it the first time we tried to find it, so I’ve included a map of it’s location below. The address is 755 Club Lane.

From the corporation website:

• Joey’s Seafood and Grill is the only one (seafood chain) catering to the quick casual pace in a full service experience for the seafood diner. It’s a niche with very limited competition and limitless potential.
• Founded in 1985 by legendary seafood lover Joe Klassen, Joey’s Seafood and Grill is a fresh take on the cozy, neighborhood seafood restaurant.

Update: 3/5/2011 – Joey’s was changed to Mickie’s Bluefish Grill after our last visit there and, then, in late November 2009, the restaurant closed “mainly because of the downturn in the economy.”

Comments on “Joey’s Seafood and Grill, Conway, Arkansas”

May 1, 2007

Mark @ 10:04 pm

Thanks Mike,
I am enjoying exploring your blog.
Mark

A lost Exit78 post, recovered from Internet Archive WayBackMachine and updated; March 2011