Natural State Snapshots

February 1-7, 2016

Photo by Kay Bona

After our snowstorm had come and gone, I was itching to get out with my camera, so I drove up to Lake Atkins, in Atkins, Ark., to get a sunset picture. You might remember Atkins as the Pickle Capital. Atkins Pickle Company was the major industry in the town of Atkins for more than fifty years, and its legacy survives in the annual Picklefest celebration that began in 1992. The building that housed the pickle plant now houses Atkins Prepared Foods. The new company employs more people than the pickle plant did at its end, but it does not provide the same level of recognition for the town once dubbed the “Pickle Capital of the World” and known as the home of the fried dill pickle.