Arkansas Fiji

[carnation]

EW, where is the Fiji House? Anywhere near Pomfret?

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Originally Posted by carnation

EW, where is the Fiji House? Anywhere near Pomfret?

Right in front of Pomfret, to the back and left of the SAE house.

The Fiji's use to be near Futrall I think at one time, where they're building a parking garage now.

[carnation]

Oh no, no more Futrall or Holcomb? And they knocked down the 4-H House and I think if I went back, I wouldn't be able to find anything except Old Main. I'm still upset that they knocked down my grandmother's house.

Maybe Fijis were in the 4-H House for awhile, that seems to ring a bell.

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Originally Posted by carnation

Oh no, no more Futrall or Holcomb? And they knocked down the 4-H House and I think if I went back, I wouldn't be able to find anything except Old Main. I'm still upset that they knocked down my grandmother's house.

No no no, they were next to Futrall. Futrall is still there (it's where I stayed in undergrad), but there use to be a few houses next to it until they tore those down to make a gravel parking lot for Futrall/Holcomb. Then, this last year they started building a several story parking garage over that old lot.

Maybe Fijis were in the 4-H House for awhile, that seems to ring a bell.

I kind of thought that the 4-H house was Carnall Hall, but I don't know why.

[carnation]

No, 4-H was this gorgeous old rock house--looked kind of like the ADPi House--right behind the DG House, I believe. Until about the 80s, girls who lived there would serve as the staff there and pay off their tuition that way. It really helped a lot of women and there was huge competition to get in. Most of them were Home Ec majors.

Several years ago, the U said they were going to tear it down and there was a huge outcry. They backed off and then one summer day when almost everyone was gone, they came out with bulldozers and ripped it down as quickly as possible. They lost a *lot* of College of Agriculture alum support over that one.

Carnall, of course, is the old dorm over by Old Main that's now some kind of campus B&B. It was a dorm until maybe the sixties and my grandmother was the housemother for years before she got married!

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Originally Posted by carnation

Carnall, of course, is the old dorm over by Old Main that's now some kind of campus B&B. It was a dorm until maybe the sixties and my grandmother was the housemother for years before she got married!

An expensive B&B too. (at least by Arkansas standards)

And rumors are flying that the person who did this created a bomb and then shot the bomb with a shotgun. I'm not sure how terribly plausible that is, but that's the current rumor.