Jennings Osborne is a local business man who made national news a few years ago when his neighbors complained about his three million strong Christmas lights display. He bought out both next door neighbors and expanded his show to three lots before the Arkansas Supreme Court shut him down as a public nuisance in the famous Yule Duel of 1994.
In defeat Osborne packed most of the show off to Disneyland but kept a couple of patriotic symbols and a massive American flag.
Over the years the display has faded to a pretty decrepit single flag and then came Ike.
It wouldn't be the Osborne light saga without the neighborhood angle and thus when the massive flag fell it took out the power lines running up Cantrell, cutting power to all surrounding neighbors.
Oh to be a fly on the wall at the next Robinwood block party.
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