Department
History
Document Type
Autobiographical Writing
Publication Date
6-14-2023
Abstract
Most accurately, we should probably call this “two men, a boy, and a store.” It features three generations of males from the same family—the father, his only son, and his first-born grandson. The store, Arkadelphia’s first “big box” discount store, Howard Brothers (colloquially known as Howard’s), sat atop the last northward hil l on Tenth Street (aka US Highway 67/AR Highway 7) and looked eastward and northeastward across its parking lot over the Caddo River and Ouachita River floodplains. The occasion arose when the father and his wife drove from Montgomery, Alabama over the course of about a dozen hours and mostly over two-lane roads to visit their son and daughter-in-law and their almost two-year-old son that summer of 1974.
Recommended Citation
Granade, S. Ray, "Three Men and a Store" (2023). Creative Works. 79.
https://scholarlycommons.obu.edu/creative_work/79