Piggott, Arkansas
Piggott is a city in the US state of Arkansas. In 2020 there were about 3,600 people living in Piggott which is the largest city in Clay County.[1] The town was first called Huston, but was later named Piggott after Dr. James Piggott, an early resident.[2] In 1956 the town was used as the main location in Elia Kazan's movie, A Face in the Crowd, starring Lee Remick and Andy Griffith.[2]
Hemingway
American author Ernest Hemingway visited Piggot many times during the 1930s. His second wife's parents, Paul and Mary Pfeiffer, lived in Piggott. They converted a barn into a studio where Hemingway could write. He wrote a lot of his novel A Farewell to Arms in the studio. The house and barn are now the Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum and Educational Center which is run by Arkansas State University.[3]
References
- ↑ Piggott city, ArkansasUnited States Census Bureau. Retrieved September 9, 2023.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Piggott – Piggott Arkansas – Piggott AR. arkansas.com. Retrieved 12 December 2010.
- ↑ Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum and Educational Center. hemingway.astate.edu. Retrieved 12 December 2010.
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