{"id":435,"date":"2008-10-24T21:09:52","date_gmt":"2008-10-25T04:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2008\/?p=435"},"modified":"2008-10-25T15:35:05","modified_gmt":"2008-10-25T22:35:05","slug":"moving-into-tennessee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2008\/?p=435","title":{"rendered":"Moving into Tennessee"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arriving in Tennessee almost at the moment that the autumn color\u00a0was about to emerge\u00a0represents probably the greatest unintended and certainly\u00a0the\u00a0most welcomed\u00a0consequence of this trip.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This seasonal saturation of color is something that many Californians quietly envy.\u00a0 There is good reason.\u00a0 It warms you to your core.\u00a0 And it doesn’t stop at the colors.\u00a0 After enduring 5 states\u00a0of iceberg lettuce*, I find myself awash in a sea of rich vegetables prepared in the most decadent and heart stopping ways.<\/p>\n

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*\u00a0Lettuce\u00a0clarification – After consuming more iceberg lettuce (or, as I like to call it, crunchy water) in the past month than I have eaten in my entire\u00a0adult life, I ordered a Caesar salad at the first restaurant that offered one.\u00a0\u00a0My\u00a0hopes crushed\u00a0when the waitress placed a bowl of iceberg lettuce with Caesar dressing and a packet of Parmesan cheese on the side in front of me.\u00a0 I miss home.<\/p>\n

My time in West Memphis was amazing.\u00a0 On my first day, Debra Rieves had introduced me to Dixie and Ralph Carlson.<\/p>\n

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Theirs is a remarkable story.\u00a0 Married for 60 years this coming April, they are first generation farmers who purchased\u00a0320 acres at the age of 19 producing cotton, soybeans and oats.\u00a0\u00a0Along with Ralph’s brothers, they built that farm into more than a 25,000 acre enterprise in three states.\u00a0 In 1966, they succesfully obtained a charter to start the first community bank in Crittenden county.\u00a0 Along the way, they raised 4 children, Ralph won 3 gold medals for tennis in the Senior Olympics and Dixie became a master gardener.\u00a0 More, Dixie is an elected State delegate for the Republican Party and attended this year’s convention.\u00a0 She also serves as a State Commissioner on the Keep Arkansas Beautiful Commission and on the County Election Commission.<\/p>\n

Dixie and Ralph graciously opened their home and their hearts in the greatest southern tradition.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Arriving in Tennessee almost at the moment that the autumn color\u00a0was about to emerge\u00a0represents probably the greatest unintended and certainly\u00a0the\u00a0most welcomed\u00a0consequence of this trip.\u00a0 This seasonal saturation of color is something that many Californians quietly envy.\u00a0 There is good reason.\u00a0 It warms you to your core.\u00a0 And it doesn’t stop at the colors.\u00a0 After enduring […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2008\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2008\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2008\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2008\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2008\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=435"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2008\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":447,"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2008\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions\/447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2008\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2008\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2008\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}