PAPER TRAILS: Arkansan spotlights gravesites
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Sean Clancy
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Remember last week, when we spoke with the Little Rock autopsy technician who was gaining a certain level of viral fame answering questions about his job via TikTok videos?
Let s continue with that theme.
Meet Robert Finders of Conway. The 49-year-old recently started Eclectic Arkansas, a YouTube channel in which he visits cemeteries and gravesites of note across the Natural State. He s made 10 so far. Check them out at arkansasonline.com/18papertrails.
Among the places he has filmed are Gass Cemetery near Harrison, where Arkansas Razorbacks football legend Brandon Burlsworth is buried; the grave of actress Lisa Blount ( An Officer and A Gentleman ) at Cedar Grove Cemetery near Floral; Creature From the Black Lagoon actress Julie Adams final resting spot at Oak Ridge Cemetery in Malvern and a memorial to SEAL Team Six member Adam Brown in Hot Springs.
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“People should keep an eye in the sky for soaring falcons, fiery dragons, enormous suns, an astronaut and a sea of whales,” Adam says. “In Ashburton we have the factory which makes the largest kites in the world. There’s a series of whales and a blue whale with a little baby.”
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Fresh from the recent Nelson kite festival, Christchurch s Julie Adam, takes a kite for a spin on New Brighton Beach. After decades of wear and tear from flying enormous and heavy kites, Adam now favours “stingers”. “The public won’t know the difference, but they fly on their own without needing a pilot kite to lift them,” she says.