When this Norphlet boy and his Smackover bride left the Ozark hills, 12 years would go by before we left Texas and returned to Arkansas. That journey started the morning we left Fayetteville heading for Houston, where I had been hired by Exxon.
The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and City of Norphlet, Arkansas (“Norphlet”) entered into an April 26th Consent Administrative.
In the late 1950s and into the '60s, when most families in the rural South had only one car, it was commonplace for young boys and men in their 20s to "thumb" a ride. Those times are gone, and what I did when routinely hitching a ride is certainly not what I would recommend today. That being said, let me tell you about hitchhiking.