There is a small town in Arkansas that I've spent some time in called Newport. It's part of the Mississippi delta region, a rural, flat place that has a lot of closed down Sinclair and Esso Service Stations, trailer homesteads, grain silos, cars on blocks and acres and acres of cotton, soy, sorghum, and, of course rice.

Newport is located on the White River, a feeder branch of the Mississippi, and has a population of a little over 7,000 souls. It's been around since 1875 and became the Jackson county seat in 1892. And that is about the most important thing that has happened to the town for 141 years.