"This reminds me of Mount Springfield," Rock said from the top of a steep, rugged hill, nearly five hundred feet above the western edge of Arkansas Tech's campus. He was with Steve Goff, a copy editor from the paper he worked with in the sports department twenty-five years earlier. Like Rock, Goff remembered Mount Springfield from the old Simpson's cartoon. It was a mountain of worldwide geological significance just outside Springfield that appeared in one episode and was never again mentioned in the animated sitcom's thirty-year network run. In a somewhat similar illogical circumstance usually reserved for television programs, Rock had lived in Russellville for several years and visited there at least a hundred times over the course of his life without any notice of this mountain that towered over the Tech campus. Yet, there he was, and he could not see any route down that would not require advanced mountaineering skill and equipment.
