‘I Don’t Fiddle’

Fouke’s mural painter a musical, artistic Everyman

By: Jim Williamson - Texarkana Gazette

Staff photo by Jim Williamson. Joe Davis touches up the mural of an American eagle in Fouke, Ark. Davis is creating two murals on a downtown building to change the perspectives of Fouke. He is a retired artist and musician who played in orchestras in Harrah’s in Reno, Nev. Davis and his wife moved...

FOUKE, Ark.—Joe Davis is painting murals of Fouke to help residents see there is more to the community than a monster and imprisoned evangelist Tony Alamo.

Davis, 67, is a retired musician and artist who lives in a hundred-year-old house in Fouke. From the late 1960s to the early 1970s, h...

Published: 11/08/2010