Remembering Rogers

OPINION | James Hales: Summer of the potato famine, sighting of the world’s tallest man and a carnival gone awry — Tom Hughes’ perspective on the world from Rogers in the 1930s and ’40s

March 28, 2024 at 1:00 a.m.

by James F. Hales Remembering Rogers

A parade down First Street about 1940. Croxdale's Grocery is on the corner of First and Elm Streets. The building that housed Croxdales was one of the first masonry buildings in Rogers, The Commercial Hotel, built in 1885.

(Courtesy of the Rogers Historical Museum) — A parade down First Street about 1940. Croxdale's Grocery is on the corner of First and Elm Streets. The building that housed Croxdales was one of the first masonry buildings in Rogers, The Commercial Hotel, built in 1885. (Courtesy of the Rogers Historical Museum)

I wrote a book about historical sites in Rogers that came out in 2006, "Rogers, Arkansas, 1881-2006." Shortly after publication, I received a long letter from Tom Hughes who at the time lived in California.

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