June and July in photos

June featured several busy nights at Piggott's Independence Park, and actually the facility celebrated it's 20th birthday that month too.

More action from Independence Park. It's amazing to think of the thousands of players and fans that have enjoyed the facility the past two decades.

The girl's softball diamond stays busy during city play too, and has hosted some post season tournaments.

We run a lot of photos of ribbon cuttings, here's what it looks like moments later. Pretty obvious that this was at Burns Floor Covering. One note of trivia--this building also housed KTEI-FM when the radio station was still located in Piggott.

Deanna Dismukes (left) retired from the Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum Educational Center at the end of June. She's shown visiting here with another recent retiree, Ethel Mohler, who retired after a long teacher career from PES this spring.

The Piggott R/C Modelers hosted their annual fun fly, and renamed the local field in honor of Paul Pfeiffer. These two veterans of the sport were caught talking things over, and share between them decades of experience. On the right is Bill Mayo and on the left is Bobby Baker.

Some of the planes on hand for this year's fun fly.

The scale warbird competition at the Fun Fly drew a variety of entries including this Zero.

Lady Mohawk volleyball coach Melissa Williams held a camp in June. As is tradition, the girls were allowed to mug for the camera after getting a good group picture for the newspaper. These are seldom seen by anyone but the reporter and coaches, so enjoy.

The 2010 parade Grand Marshall was Scott Sims, Gulf War veteran and member of the Arkansas Army National Guard.

Bro. Charles Richardson shows where his sons get their arm strength during the annual parade.

The Piggott High School Marching Mohawk band.

Marion Berry (left) made his final trip to the Piggott picnic as a sitting U.S. Congressman, as he'll retire at the end of the year. He's pictured visiting with Rector Mayor (and Times publisher/editor) Ron Kemp. At right Nancy Kemp is shown talking with Democratic Party activist and Paragould attorney H.T. Moore.

Gov. Mike Beebe has some of the best hair I've seen on a politician in years.

The slide was a big favorite at the annual Piggott picnic, as evident by the looks on these faces.

Funnel cake season, it's the most wonderful time of the year.

Miss Piggott 2010 Jillian Parker and dad Shawn share a moment at the conclusion of this year's pageant.

Fireworks are very difficult to photograph, and here is one of this year's attempts. I should have avoided the trees in the foreground.

Eugene Mann brought this bunch in with a big fish they caught near town. Moments later the fish dribbled on the floor and the young man at lower right.

The final Piggott Library Summer Reading Program was held at the gazebo and featured the Kinders.

The Piggott Public Pool also marked a milestone, as it celebrated 30 years of service this year. This shot was taken during the Fun Day held Friday, July 2.

With several teams making it to post-season play there were plenty of roadblocks held at the four-way-stop in Piggott.

From the Pollard Picnic, fill in your own caption.

Also from the Pollard Picnic, but Mark Morgan is proving that those great dinners don't fix themselves.

Waiting for the start of the Miss Pollard Pageant.

More memories from the Pollard Picnic--just love the hat.

Have you ever seen a cucumber growing on a tomato vine. Now you have, courtesy of one of the gardens of Claude Jones of Piggott. The photo was taken by Times intern Kenneth Blair.