Though First Called by the Hogs, Visitors Always Fall in Love with Downtown Fayetteville Viewed in the past mainly as the destination to see the University of Arkansas Razorbacks football games, Fayetteville is undergoing a culture resurgence that offers many more incentives for visitors to travel to the northwest corner of the state. …
Whether Local or National, Dan Waymack and Crew Put Their Hearts Into TV Ad Spots Dan Waymack and his team can say more in 30 seconds than most people can say in a day. Waymack, the owner of Little Rock video production company Waymack and Crew, has been shooting catchy television advertisements for…
A Small Shop in Leslie May Have the Best Bread in the State Other than using an electric mixer and a cooler, the workers at Serenity Farm Bread in Leslie could make their sourdough bread with no power. It’s fitting the company is in a rural northern Arkansas town that was a popular…
Connected by Craft: ‘Back to Basics’ at the Arkansas Craft School There’s a return to the basics of craftsmanship at the Arkansas Craft School on the corner of South Peabody and Arkansas 66 in Mountain View. Instructors there teach students how to hammer and hone knives, craft leather, turn wood to make pens and…
Break Maiden: The Peerless Pocahontas Pony Called ‘Wonder Horse’ While Oaklawn jockeys raced on their horses in Hot Springs, Roy Rogers rode off into the sunset on Trigger and Festus limped after the steeds in Gunsmoke, thousands of children galloped in their own homes half a century ago. The Wonder Horse, a popular…
Hijacked! The Inside Story of One of the Most Bizarre Hijackings in U.S. History It began as an ordinary flight when pilot Harold Johnson, of Walnut Ridge, boarded Southern Airways Flight 49 in Memphis on Nov. 10, 1972. It ended 30 hours later after three hijackers took over the plane, demanded $10 million,…
The Science of the Scare: Amid the Terrors of the Pandemic, the Frights of the Night Return In the frightening time when the COVID-19 pandemic runs rampant, U.S. Capitol protestors run amok and politicians run their mouths, the owners of haunted houses and terror parks want to scare us even more this Halloween season. …
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…
