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Buffalo Island: Black Pot, Arkansas

As told by Buffalo Island Central EAST Students
Buffalo Island, Arkansas

Story Narrative:

Two elderly men stand in a crowded museum space and talk about some of the objects on the walls, including old tools.

This simple black pot is much more than it seems as locals Rudy and Doodle share about the one on display in the Buffalo Island Museum in Arkansas. This story is connected to Buffalo Island Central EAST's online story map From Swamp to Farmland and interactive exhibits at the Buffalo Island Museum, which both trace the the history of agriculture in the area. Either click on the video to watch it or follow the instructions below to make it magically come to life like it does in the Museum by scanning this "Black Pot" picture in the HP Reveal app.

Doodle (00:04): That's what you make lard in. You'd kill your hogs and you'd make lard in that. You'd render your lard, get it in a 50 gallon can, we'd have. And you'd make soap in it, lye soap. You'd make some cracklins, you know what-

Doodle (00:22): That's the skin off a hog. They fix it and make cracklins. And they was good.

Rudy (00:28): Also wash clothes in them.

Doodle (00:30): Yeah.

Doodle (00:30): You'd get a big pot boiling, put them in there, and you had a stick, just keep [inaudible 00:00:34].

Rudy (00:34): Stir them around and keep working them. Then when you take them out of there you put them in the cold water, and you had bottles of bluing that they put in, that bluing in there to keep your clothes-

Doodle (00:47): Blue.

Rudy (00:48): ... like blue jeans and stuff.

Doodle (00:51): Then you'd put them in another tub and starch them, then you'd hang them on the line and everything, and it'd come a good wind, and blow them down, you had to do it all over again.


Asset ID: 8684
Themes: The Way We Worked, farming, Arkansas, students, tools, antiques, history, AR, Augmented Reality
Date recorded: 2018
Length of recording: 1:00 m
Related traveling exhibition: The Way We Worked
Sponsor or affiliated organization: Buffalo Island Central High School, EAST (Environmental and Spatial Technology, Inc.); Buffalo Island Museum, Arkansas
More informationhttps://museumonmainstreet.org/blog-node/storytelling-augmented-reality-rural-arkansas

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