Lake Chicot State Park, near Lake Village, Arkansas, reminds me of our own Chicot State Park in that it is heavily forested and is a few decades old. But to really even it up, you would have to add False River to our park, since Lake Chicot is the largest oxbow lake in Arkansas and the state park is right on it.
Lake Village is a bucolic little town that meanders for miles along the lake. Fishing piers jut out from the well-clipped slope that falls from the roadway, and, on the day we drove through, people all along the way were making use of the shady areas for outdoor cooking and conversation. We were making our way to Greenville, Mississippi, to visit the home of Delta blues, just twenty miles away.
Greenville, like so many places, has a Main Street that has seen better days. Many of the buildings were boarded up; more than half were empty. It seemed that this would be the right place for singin' the blues. But after we had taken a tour of the city, we did find a spot that brought smiles to our faces: the Greenville Cypress Preserve. How can you be sad when someone has created a place like this.
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| Sunset on the lake, right out our back window. |
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| The Greenville Garden Club set up the trust in the 1940s. |
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| Thank you, GGC! |
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