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







Tuesday, September 7, 2010

September Already

Well, it is September and boy can we tell it by the temperature.  Love this weather, got to get even better.

To the basics,  we've started scraping the ole house and boy is it a lot to scrape.  We have finished the north side of the house and most of the back so we'll be adding our first coat early this week, if the good Lord's willing and the creek don't rise".  Lots of work but with the new roof, the paint will make a lot of difference.

We are also beginning the development of the 3 par golf course for the annual Thanksgiving Day Curry-Baker Celebrity Golf Tournament.  The first three holes are already laid out by the good Lord, all we have to do is cut it and take care of it.  We're bringing in the well know golf course designer Tommy Arendt from Rogers AR and his trusty assistant Cookie Baker for the final preparation.    Tommy is well known for "Re-Designing" many golf courses in his career.  He typically does not like to play most courses the way they were designed so we're going to let him design this one the way he likes to play.  (no fairways because he never uses them anyway)



 
The above is hole number 1.  Its a 165 yard hole over a tree, over a pond with the green located exactly 3 yards to the right of the front door of the barn and 5 yards short of the wire fence.  This baby will be a challenge to any golfer.


Hole number two will tee off just to the left of the 1 green and will carry back towards the Curry Road side of the course.  It will be 145 yards and the green is just to the left of the Cedar tree shown above and 
about 8 yards short of Curry Road.   Excellent on rainy days.



The third hole is 155 yards with the tee box just west of the Curry Road expressway and again over the pond.  There will be a 2 stroke penalty for hitting any water fowl on this hole and the green is between two Cedar trees and slopes left to right.



We'll be able to reach the third hole by cross the pond over the Robert Donald-Kay Baker Curry bridge as shown above.  This magnificent structure was donated by Donald and Kay as gesture of their love of golf and the 5th Tee foundation of Rye AR.

One last bit of information, we are now operating the 1986 Honda Four Wheeler that has been in retirement for at least 8 years.  Yep, Donald brought her out and had her primed for a little more action.
Now Jane and I can travel the roads the way you're supposed.  Thanks Donald, and when Jane drives, look out peacocks, dogs and guineas cause she needs a little more practice.



Thanks for watching, hope you enjoy the updates,

Carl Jane, Donald and Kay



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