September 11, 2010

The first national lumberman’s association, the International Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo, was formed in Gurdon (Clark County) in 1882 by six stranded men returning home from the Southern Lumber Manufacturing convention in nearby Camden (Ouachita County). The name “Hoo-Hoo” originally came from founding member Bolling Johnson, who was describing a strange tuft of hair growing on the head of a nearly bald friend. Many odd names such as “Snark of the Universe” and “Jabberwock” are associated with the order. The twenty-first-century order has approximately 3,500 members.

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