Darcy Courteau

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Waiting out a hurricane blown up from Louisiana; DC's hammock and dog, Travis.

In the summer and fall of 2020, I camped on the veranda of the house where I was born, in Madison Co., Arkansas. Inside the house I found a copy of Alan Weisman's The World Without Us, a journalistic exploration of what the world would look like if humans instantly disappeared, leaving everything as they left it.

The fallen maple in front of the house at Rimrock.

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The old canning factory at the Dunaway Place, now owned by my family. Ray Crabtree (left) and Everett Dunaway (Crabtree was a cousin on Mary's side & lived in Kansas) pose in front of the tomato canning factory.

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Tom & Mary (Riggins) Dunaway on the porch of the home they built on Pinnacle Mountain. With grandchildren Gene & Lylith, children of Noah Dunaway. My father purchased the place from them in 1967.

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The Rimrock/Dunaway house.

The kitchen at the Rimrock/Dunaway house. John Courteau did the dishes mid-summer.

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View from the porch of the Rimrock/Dunaway house. A few weeks before I arrived, a windstorm toppled the maple in front of the house.

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Gene Dunaway feeds a lamb under the maple in front of the house.

A copperhead pays a midnight visit.

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Wilma (Dunaway) and Carl Vanlandingham. Taken under the bluffs. Wilma and Carl, grandparents by then, were fixtures in my childhood. So were the bluffs.

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Mary Riggins Dunaway feeds chickens in front of the bluffs.

The bluffs behind the barn.

The pond Up Top.

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Travis and Raymond Trolinger check on an abandoned buzzard's nest. Raymond had trail cameras sprinkled around the property, and we'd ride around in his UTV to see what was out there.

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Everett and Lylith Dunaway Everett holds his baby daughter, Lylith, in front of the shack where he and his 5 siblings grew up. The shack is now a wing of the big house.

Everett, Janice, and Clifford Dunaway under the barn and bluffs. Everett Dunaway earned 2 Bronze Stars and a Purple Heart as a sharpshooter in Germany and France in WWII. Back in Arkansas he hunted, though back then you had to go to White Rock to find dee

Elaine (Dunaway) Trolinger and her sister, Janice (Dunaway) Knight on the porch of the childhood home they recovered.

Raymond and Elaine Trolinger outside the home in which she was born.

Inside Raymond and Elaine Trolinger's place, her recovered childhood home.

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Children under the maple. Back row: Don (left) and Lylith. Front left to right: Clifford, Janice, Sue, Gene. Under the maple, with the farm in the distance. Posing with guns.

Travis mostly likes being a country dog.

Garbage outside the last useable cabin.

The last useable cabin.

Night walks on mailbox road.

Sunset taken from the last useable cabin.

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Wilma Dunaway under the maple.

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Wilma Dunaway, the only girl of Tom and Mary's 6 children, who married Carl Vanlandingham. With her sister-in-law Lydia, who married Oscar.

Mary and Everett Dunaway Everett Dunaway with his wife--not mother--Mary in, most likely, the Back Pasture at the Dunaway Place/Rimrock, Pinnacle Mountain, Madison County, Arkansas.

Elaine (Dunaway) Trolinger in the church & community center she and I attended as children. When she was little it was also a schoolhouse, and she attended gradeschool there.

The barn at Rimrock.

Inside the barn.

From the hay mow in the barn.

Behind the barn.

The bluffs behind the barn.

Stuff left in the last useable cabin.

Morning on the veranda.

Evening walks on Mailbox Road.

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