🌱 How a Massachusetts bookbinder helped give Mount Ida its name

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• How a Massachusetts bookbinder helped give Mount Ida its name

Today's riddle: What are the two sides of a circle? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

• Wednesday: Partly sunny and very warm, with a high of 80 and low of 44 degrees.
• Thursday: Sunny and not as warm, temps: high: 69, low: 36.
• Friday: Plenty of sunshine, with a high of 61 and low of 30 degrees.

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📰 News we're reading

• Our Arklahoma Heritage: A Massachusetts bookbinder followed his brother to Arkansas and settled Mount Ida (todayinfortsmith.com) — Mount Ida’s name traces to Granville Whittington, a Massachusetts bookbinder who opened a general store in the Ouachita highlands. In 1842, he secured a post office for his store and named it after a hill back home. The nearby county-seat community eventually adopted the name, too.
   

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🗓 Events Nearby

Thursday November 12

• Ageless Grace →
  Mt. Carmel Community at The Village, 540 Ponce De Leon Dr, Hot Springs Village
  9:00 am
• 🏀 vs. Bauxite
  Mountain Pine School District Mountain Pine, AR 71956
  4:30 pm
• BB: JR/SG at Poyen
  Centerpoint School District Amity, AR 71921
  5:00 pm
• 👑Homecoming
  Kirby School District Kirby, AR 71950
  5:00 pm
• đHomecoming →
  Kirby Elementary School Kirby, AR 71950
  5:00 pm

Friday November 13

• 🏀 vs. Sacred Heart
  Mountain Pine School District Mountain Pine, AR 71956
  4:30 pm

Monday November 16

• FAFSA Night
  Centerpoint School District Amity, AR 71921
  5:00 pm
• BB: 7th/JR at Mount Ida (Away)
  Centerpoint School District Amity, AR 71921
  5:00 pm

Tuesday November 17

• BB: JB/SR at Caddo Hills (Away)
  Centerpoint School District Amity, AR 71921
  5:00 pm

Thursday November 19

• BB: JVG/SR vs DeQueen (Home)
  Centerpoint School District Amity, AR 71921
  5:00 pm

Saturday November 21

• Matt Mathews →
  Oaklawn Hot Springs, 2705 Central Ave, Hot Springs
  6:30 pm

Saturday November 28

• WRESTLE-FEST →
  199 3rd Ave, Mountain Pine
  7:00 pm

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🗞 Nearby News

Hot Springs

• Hot Springs Elks Lodge 380 hosts annual picnic, donates $6,000 to Arkadelphia Human Development Center (hotsr.com)
• Approvals, tablings, and denials highlight ACC meet - Hot Springs Village Voice (hsvvoice.com)
• 6 Surprisingly Affordable Pizza Places In Arkansas For A Cheap Dinner (newsbreak.com)

Mena

• Yellowstone Star Dawn Olivieri Reveals Why She Left LA for an Arkansas Ranch (pulptastic.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "What are the two sides of a circle?" — The inside and the outside ! (Thank you James M. for sending it in!)
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