We have a somewhat leisurely day planned as we head to Little Rock by way of Redfield. One of the things I'm most looking forward to on this trip is having a milkshake at the Mammoth Orange Cafe in Redfield, AR. I love small town soda fountain/cafes like that and they are an endangered species.
There's not a whole lot in Little Rock that really catches my eye, which is odd, but then again maybe not. Being the state capital, there's all kinds of stuff to do and see and visit but it's regular stuff like you can see in any other town. I want offbeat, quirky stuff that we will remember, not just another museum that we will get confused with all the other museums we've seen.
We might actually visit the Old State House Museum because one of their current exhibits is about the "history of Arkansas law and justice". That's the blurb on their website which sounds like a big snoozer to me. After a little further digging, I found that this exhibit includes Old Sparky I and II (retired electric chairs), an actual jail cell, and torture devices such as the Tucker Telephone. Now that's something we can sink our teeth into! I'm not really into all that stuff but Jayson is and there's this art thing that I really want to see in Eureka Springs that I haven't told him about yet. So...this is not about electric chairs, it's about leverage.
Those who think I'm being devious and manipulative are obviously single. All the married women reading this are giving me virtual high fives with a fist pump.
3 comments:
I'm struck that Old Sparky had a sequel (II). How does one know that there is a "new and improved" model of electric chair? And how do they test it before putting it to use?
Gee, I never gave that much thought. Were the prisoners not getting dead enough so they had to bring in Old Sparky II to make them deader? I will ask someone at the museum.
It's not leverage..it's called marital harmony.
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