Carrie Mae Snapp saved the lives of The Beatles when the English rock group’s airplane made a brief stop in Walnut Ridge in 1964. But if not for a friend who had seen the Fab Four land at the Lawrence County airport the previous night, and for a pilot who admitted the group was…
Now at the 60th anniversary of his death, we recall Ernest Hemingway’s deep ties to Arkansas By Kenneth Heard // Photos courtesy ASU Ernest Hemingway would often refer to Piggott as “the pig,” and he hated the humid summers, calling them “Christ-offal,” when he visited the Clay County town and the home of his…
‘If Strings Could Talk’: Anna Brinker Continues to Grind She’s 30 years old, but country and western musician Anna Brinker sings like a veteran of the genre, telling stories of lost love and broken hearts, of old country roads and family photographs, of empty Jim Beam whiskey bottles and rusty pickup trucks. Brinker has…
In the bizarre world of the traveling oddities shows that feature two-headed animal skeletons, dolls with fangs, lockets made out of human bones and hair and gothic artwork from the pages of a Goethe novel, one man’s crass is another man’s pleasure. “It’s not everyone’s cup of tea,” says Michelle Cozzaglio, the developer of…
Most of Cabot attorney and former comedian Kevin Rook’s career contains punch lines. It’s a career that has gone from the laughter of comedy clubs with the likes of Robin Williams and Chris Rock to the somber halls of justice in family law and criminal court. With Rook, there’s always a payoff line and…
Long before there were benchmark exams, school funding formulas or even the Arkansas Department of Education, there was a cave. Snug in the canyons that lined the spring-fed Hall’s Creek in what is now western Randolph County is a small cavern that served as a school in the early 1800s — before Arkansas had…
November marks National Veterans and Military Families Month and includes the holiday of Veterans Day. AY About You thanks all of our veterans and their families for their selfless service to our country. By Kenneth Heard | Photos by Tony Milligan Harold Johnson used to sit on the wings of trainer airplanes parked…
by Kenneth Heard There are several well-known haunted places in the state for people to visit. With its tales of failed medical practices when once an experimental cancer treatment hospital, the Crescent Hotel in Eureka Springs is known to be the most haunted spot in Arkansas. Both Gurdon and Crossett are spooked by lights along…
By Kenneth Heard Amy Pennington rewound the DVR set up in the old Craighead County jail in Jonesboro to see if her night vision camera caught a ghost knocking over a box of files. Pennington, of Palestine in St. Francis County, and members of her team, Arkansas State Paranormal, were inspecting the two-story…
By Kenneth Heard In August of 2005, University of Texas students returned to Austin with a sense of excitement and optimism of beginning a new school year. Students began moving into the dorms and the apartments that ringed the campus, and the Texas Longhorns, anchored by quarterback Vince Young, started football practice that eventually ended…
