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Taco Bag in Evening Shade

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Taco Bag in Evening Shade   Original Cast of "Evening Shade"   Remember the TV sitcom “Evening Shade”?   I don’t really, other than Burt Reynolds was one of the stars.   I believe he was a high school football coach and Marilu Henner was his wife.   I also believe the show was set in a fictional town in Arkansas.   A few years ago as I traveled from Heber Springs to Mammoth Springs after the Little Red River had been blown out by an epic rainstorm, I passed through Evening Shade and thought: “what a coincidence.”   After doing a little research, I know now Evening Shade, Arkansas was the location for the show.   Since then, I have passed through Evening Shade many times chasing water; attempting to find wadable trout water after the USACE performed their daily buzz-kill: elevating the water I was fishing from docile to treacherous.   Each time I passed through, I thought about a TV series I never watched, but other than a passing thought, move