ARKANSAS SIGHTSEEING: Faulkner County Museum confronts the charming, ugly

Faulkner County Museum is housed in a former jail built in 1896 in Conway. (Special to the Democrat-Gazette/Marcia Schnedler)
Faulkner County Museum is housed in a former jail built in 1896 in Conway. (Special to the Democrat-Gazette/Marcia Schnedler)

CONWAY -- One possibly unintended function of historical museums is to remind us that the fabled Good Old Days weren't always so good.

That naysayer's notion comes to mind at the excellent Faulkner County Museum in Conway when confronting a 1920s kitchen equipped with a wood-burning range.

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