January 14, 2007

When the waters of the Mississippi River and its tributaries left their banks in 1927, more than thirty-six of the seventy-five counties of Arkansas were covered with water, some by as much as thirty feet. One of the counties that lay under this watery cover was Chicot County. At the same time that the floodwaters surrounded the Grocery and Comm. Co., pictured here, in Dermott (Chicot County), the movie Let It Rain was showing at the local theater.