We couldn't afford the good tickets, so we spent the flight crammed in coach.

The words Arkansan, Arkansawyer and Arkie are in common use. Each term has its partisans and its detractors.

Earland possesses the expansiveness that seems to come with his instrument--a quality that helps make him dangerous, even untoppable in jam sessions--and combines the expected keyboard fireworks with a busy and insistent pulse from the organ's foot-pedal bass register.

To the west Ollo Lophand and Tim Stone were moving through the horselines, feeding and watering the remaining garrons.