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Checking out Camden
The sleek Camark cat peering into a white pitcher is resting in the hands of Danny Harrell, the enthusiastic manager at the McCollum-Chidester House Museum in Camden. “These continue to be quite collectible,” Harrell tells two visitors to the 177-year-old National Register of Historic Places property. He plays a video that shows some of the “climbing cats” attached to the side of a house. They were a trademark creation of Camark Pottery, a prominent firm from 1927 to 1982 in the Ouachita County seat.
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