State quarter program at halfway mark (Arkansas)

Erie Times News ^ | 11-5-03 | IATED PRESS

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WASHINGTON — On the road to change, the quarters are halfway there.

The U.S. Mint's 50-state quarter program, which began with Delaware and will end with Hawaii, reached the halfway mark last week with the debut of the Arkansas 25-cent piece.

Quarters are produced in the order that the states ratified the U.S. Constitution and joined the Union. The states come up with the design, which features images or themes honoring the state.

An employee of the U.S. Mint in
Philadelphia loads a cart with freshly minted Arkansas
quarters, Monday, Nov. 3, 2003. On the road to change,
the quarters are halfway there. The mint's 50-state quarter
program, which began with Delaware and will end with
Hawaii, reached the halfway mark last week with the
debut of the Arkansas 25-cent piece. Quarters are
produced in the order that the state ratified the U.S.
Constitution and joined the Union. The states come
up with the design, which features images orthemes
honoring the state.
(AP photo)

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[G.Mason]

Good one!

I somehow feel sad for an entire state to have to suffer for the "legacy" of one slime ball.

My sympathies to the people of Arkansas.

[Graybeard58]

"My sympathies to the people of Arkansas."

...Mine too. Home state of Orville Faubus, Bill Clinton and Wesley Clark.

[G.Mason]

"Home state of Orville Faubus, Bill Clinton and Wesley Clark.

I forgot those other two.

Perhaps the state should lay low, 'till the heat is off?

[Arkie2]

Heh heh! Now that you've insulted the good people of Ark by putting that slimeball on there do you have a picture of the real qurarter?

[Arrowhead1952]

Here is the sign at the Arkansas border.

[Terry Mross]

Believe me, those in Arkansas who voted for him are still very proud of their vote.

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Now that you've insulted the good people of Ark by putting that slimeball on there do you have a picture of the real quarter?

Here's the real one for the good people of Arkansas. Please don't show it to the bad people of Arkansas who cursed the nation by not killing the slimeball's career before he showed up on the national scene.

[GraniteStateConservative]

Paul "Bear" Bryant, Glen Campbell, Johnny Cash, Ronnie Dunn, Jerry Jones, Scott Joplin, Tracy Lawrence, General Douglas MacArthur, Sidney Moncrief, Scottie Pippen, Charles Portis (author of True Grit-- a gift to America if ever there was one), Collin Raye, Brooks Robinson, Barry Switzer, Conway Twitty, Sam Walton, Kemmons Wilson (founder of the Holiday Inn chain), and Corliss Williamson.

Not everyone from Arkansas is/was bent on the destruction of the American way of life.

[GraniteStateConservative]

Arkansas
(You Run Deep in Me)
by Wayland Holyfield
 

October morning in the Ozark Mountains,
Hills ablazing like that sun in the sky.
I fell in love there and the fire's still burning
A flame that will never die.

Chorus
Oh, I may wander, but when I do
I will never be far from you.
You're in my blood and I know you'll always be.
Arkansas, you run deep in me.

Moonlight dancing on a delta levee,
To a band of frogs and whippoorwill
I lost my heart there one July evening
And it's still there, I can tell.

Repeat Chorus

Magnolia blooming, Mama smiling,
Mallards sailing on a December wind.
God bless the memories I keep recalling
Like an old familiar friend.

Repeat Chorus

And there's a river rambling through the fields and valleys,
Smooth and steady as she makes her way south,
A lot like the people whose name she carries.
She goes strong and she goes proud.
Repeat Chorus

 

Adopted by the 1987 General Assembly as an Official State Song.

As an aside, this guy's son works in Mark Pryor's office. I met him when I went to DC in September. Arkansans should pass along their thanks to his dad for the great song when they run across him.

[WinOne4TheGipper]

Barry Switzer I don't know... He was coach at OU, after all, plus he wasn't really all that good as Cowboys coach.

[G.Mason]

"Believe me, those in Arkansas who voted for him are still very proud of their vote."

Terry ....... all I can say is I hope you are wrong.

[Terry Mross]

All my relatives, whom I see very rarely, would vote for him again. Those Clintonites are blind!

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Paul "Bear" Bryant, Glen Campbell, Johnny Cash, Ronnie Dunn, Jerry Jones, Scott Joplin, Tracy Lawrence, General Douglas MacArthur, Sidney Moncrief, Scottie Pippen, Charles Portis (author of True Grit-- a gift to America if ever there was one), Collin Raye, Brooks Robinson, Barry Switzer, Conway Twitty, Sam Walton, Kemmons Wilson (founder of the Holiday Inn chain), and Corliss Williamson.

With all due respect, I'm not impressed.

How's this? (to name a few)

Thomas Jefferson
George Washington
James Madison
Henry Clay
John Tyler
Sam Houston
George Mason
Dolly Madison
James Monroe
Pochahantas
William Henry Harrison
Chief Powatan
June Carter Cash
Lewis Powell
Dave Matthews
Booker T. Washington
Bill "Bogangles" Washington
Zachary Taylor
Patrick Henry
William Howard Armstrong
Pearl Bailey
Ella Fitzgerald
Francis Tarkington
L. Douglas Wilder
Arthur Robert AsheJr
Sam Snead
James Monroe
George Wythe
Robert E. Lee
Stonewall Jackson
J.E.B. Stuart
Bill Monroe
Woodrow Wilson
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[GraniteStateConservative]

Never heard of any of 'em.

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[Graybeard58]

I'm sorry for casting aspersions on your state. The finest man I ever met was born there.

My Dad. Born March 2ond 1916, Paragould, Arkansas