The “Arkansas Traveler” painting, according to David Ware, Arkansas Capitol historian, may be the most famous artwork associated with the state. “I knew the painting long before I came to Arkansas, thanks to a Currier and Ives print that hung on my parents’ living room wall,” said Ware, who grew up in Nebraska and moved to Arkansas in.

A traveler was riding by that day, And stopped to hear him a-practicing away; The cabin was a-float and his feet were wet, But still the old man didn't seem to fret. So the stranger said "Now the way it seems to me, You'd better mend your roof," said he. But the old man said as he played away, "I couldn't mend it now, it's a rainy day." 3.

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Arkansas Traveler Tune ( KB). No one knows for sure who wrote the Arkansas Traveler music. Possibly the tune appeared in the folk tradition before , and the dialog presupposes knowledge of the tune – the Squatter knowing the first half, the Traveler knowing the first part and the "turn of the tune.”.

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A diamond on a red field represents the only place in North America where diamonds have been discovered and mined. The twenty-five white stars around the diamond mean that Arkansas was the twenty-fifth state to join the Union. The top of four stars in the center represents that Arkansas was a member of the Confederate States during the Civil War.

The film opens with a quotation from Life: "To the small-town man who envies the glamour of the city, he is living assurance that small-town life May still be profitable to the city man who looks back with longing on a small-town youth, he is a living example of simplicity, kindliness and common sense." According to files in the AMPAS Library.