"Noah Count and the Arkansas Ark" by Gary Blackwood
From Read Me a Story, Ink by Robert Topp
August 26, 2025 · 8 min
About this episode
The episode tells the story of a family's unique ways of predicting a flood and the father's decision to build a large raft in preparation for it.
Mama, Papa and Granny all have peculiar ways of knowing that a big rain is coming – none of them very scientific. But that doesn't stop Papa from building a raft the size of an ark for the great flood of 1908.
People in this episode
Host: Robert Topp
Topics covered
- family
- flood
- adventure
- imagination
- historical fiction
Keywords
- flood
- raft
- Arkansas
- family
- 1908
- imagination
- storytelling
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: Noah Count and the Arkansas Ark
Places: Arkansas
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