Date: 3/14/26 8:52 am From: Joseph Neal <0000078cbd583d7c-dmarc-request...> Subject: Crip's relative is back (Fayetteville)
A Brown Thrasher is singing out in my yard this morning in Fayetteville. And right on time. They nest in my yard and often show up in second week of March.
This annual event reminds me very much of Arkansas’s most famous Brown Thrasher – Crip, the thrasher that nested for many years at Morrilton in Ruth Thomas’s yard. She wrote a lovely book about Crip and the ecology of what she named Crip’s Hill.
“Crip, Come Home” was published in 1950. Sections of this book first appeared in her columns in the old Arkansas Gazette. Her writings played an important role in founding of Arkansas Audubon Society.
The book is out of print. But thrashers still return to our yards, as did Crip. The book is still a great read.
