Down A Gravel Road

Down A Gravel Road
Finding Curry Road

Welcome to the Adventures of Living On Curry Road

Rye, Arkansas is located eleven miles north of Warren, AR, fifteen miles west of Monticello, AR and approximately thirty miles south of Pine Bluff, AR. Rye has been the home of the Curry family for over five generations. This family has farmed this land producing cattle, chickens, timber. The area is beautiful and the family culture is equally impressive with its generations of family that continue to live by the standards that made America a great country.

Rye, AR and the Curry family are a story of strong American values and the building of personal character, the love of God and a lot of very hard dedicated work. Donald Curry and Kay Curry are the current owners of most of the original farm land originally developed by the generations of Curry family. Kay Curry is the daughter of Jimmy and Hazel Baker and married Donald over fifty years ago. Both have continued the legacy of the farm life on Curry Road. Donald and Kay have raised a family of two daughters and one son. Mark Curry currently operates a cattle operation as well as four chicken houses on his part of the property. Lisa Tooke, wife of Dennis Tooke of Lake Charles, La and Donna Curry, of Little Rock, AR plan to retire back to the farm land when thier retirement time comes.

Jane and I were asked to help in a restoration of the 104 year old house shown above. We are so blessed to be allowed to have input as well as provide a labor of love to help restore this house to its original beauty for Donald and Kay Curry

As Jane and I came into the property with our RV, we came down the gravel road leading to Curry Road. We came down this gravel road and had to stop and take a picture. We are including that picture with this overview so you too can see the beauty of this area.

It reminded us of the book “The Painted House” by John Grisham and we hope you will get the same response.

Jane, Carl and Charlie Pierce







Saturday, September 11, 2010

Another Weeks Work Done

Well, guess what, the golf course designer we engaged turned out to be Tommy Arendt and Cookie Arendt.  Who would have ever guessed.  We didn't get much golf course design work done due to all the visiting and we ended up going on a four wheeler trip.  Tommy and Cookie used Donald's new version of 4 wheeler and Jane and I used Donald's old four wheeler that I have begun to keep up.

Jane and I look more like real racers don't we?  Tommy was a little scared as you can see on his face.  Cookie, well she was just Cookie.








One major accomplishment was to find and acquire our Propane tank.  Ole "hawk eye" Jane found it in the local thrifty nickel and we picked it up.  Actually, Mark and his trusty tractor and trailer and truck picked it up while Tommy and I gave direction.  Now we got to hook it up!   PS Mark seemed to know exactly where the previous owner lived,  strange out here?


Jane and I also were able to complete the dinning room.  The ceiling is done, the walls are finished and the floor is now down.  We think it looks great.  One more room towards our Thanksgiving Day goal.
Boy are we going to eat and be merry that day.



Well, its back to the "salt mines" for Jane and I.  We are looking forward to having Tommy come back this week and help us paint the outside of the house.  What a help that will be and we will be kind to Mr. Arendt for his help.  

What a great place to be!!!!!

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