Subject of a Book. She was known as the "Goat Woman" of Smackover, Arkansas. Rhena Meyer was an accomplished musician who could play seven instruments simultaneously as a one-woman band. When a circus that she was with closed at the beginning of the Great Depression in 1929, she and her husband, Charles Meyer, settled in the oil boom-town of Smackover, where they lived for decades in their 1915 Model-T circus-medicine-show truck. Her husband died in 1963. She was widely known for her many pet goats. In the 1960s, she performed on local television programs playing the piano, as her goats "sang" along. A children's book about her life, entitled "The Goat Woman of Smackover" by Ramona Wood, was published in 2001. The circus truck is on display at the Arkansas Museum of Natural Resources in Smackover, and it is the only one of its kind known to exist.
Subject of a Book. She was known as the "Goat Woman" of Smackover, Arkansas. Rhena Meyer was an accomplished musician who could play seven instruments simultaneously as a one-woman band. When a circus that she was with closed at the beginning of the Great Depression in 1929, she and her husband, Charles Meyer, settled in the oil boom-town of Smackover, where they lived for decades in their 1915 Model-T circus-medicine-show truck. Her husband died in 1963. She was widely known for her many pet goats. In the 1960s, she performed on local television programs playing the piano, as her goats "sang" along. A children's book about her life, entitled "The Goat Woman of Smackover" by Ramona Wood, was published in 2001. The circus truck is on display at the Arkansas Museum of Natural Resources in Smackover, and it is the only one of its kind known to exist.
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