The paper distributed road maps to orchard locations. The town of Lincoln revived the festival feature and has had a fall Arkansas Apple Festival every year since 1976. -- Roy Curt Rom This story ...

But this scraggly specimen produces the Arkansas ... with old property maps. Three wind-bent apple trees neatly spaced along the edge of a wheat field were all that remained of the orchard.

I look at it as a retirement thing," says 64-year-old ... Apples range from Northern Spys, Arkansas Blacks, Ida Reds and Jonathans - some 17 varieties - are represented in the five-acre orchard ...