Word: hyar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kensett, Arkansas, where Mills was raised, is said to have got its name when a Missouri Pacific agent, seeking advice about a railroad station site, was told: "You ken set it hyar or you ken set it thar." Mills's Second Arkansas District abounds in picturesque place names: Morning Sun is 75 miles from Evening Shade, and other places are named Joy. Romance, Rose Bud and Oil Trough. The son of a prosperous Kensett merchant and banker, Mills was sent to Harvard Law School, returned home to a job in his father's Kensett State Bank...