Deep History of the High Road The landscape of Southeast Arkansas is, at its core, a story of geologic tension. Water—relentless, patient, and unforgiving—carved a terrain of elevated ridges and sprawling bottomlands that has dictated human movement for thousands of years. From this tension emerged the region’s most enduring artifact of continuity: the High Road. Known historically as the Chemin-A-Haut and later the Louisiana Trace, this ancient corridor was never merely a convenient path. It wa

Bicentennial Back, by K. Brad Barfield In the year 2026, Ashley County, Arkansas, reached a milestone that was less a celebration of progress and more a confrontation with its own foundations. This moment—framed in Bicentennial Back as the fictionalized “2026 Regression” or “System Shedding”—serves as the narrative lens through which K. Brad Barfield explores the county’s deep history. In this framework, Ashley County’s story is not a straight ascent from wilderness to civilization, but a layere

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