The Man From Magazine Three steps into Booneville’s Oak Manor Nursing Center yields the signs of renewal. The facility’s main hallway is getting a fresh coat of paint, so workmen have laid down dropcloths and hung sheets of industrial plastic from the ceiling to contain any spatter. On the other side of this protective…
Your Guide to the 2022 Holiday Season It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas — and Thanksgiving and the New Year and all things in between — everywhere we’ve been going. The five and ten is glistening once again. Back in seasonal vogue are the candy canes, silver lanes, just as well as…
Here’s a Novel Idea: Write One! Arkansas is home to a little over 3 million folks – many of them creative people with varied experiences, vivid imaginations and a natural urge to tell stories. It’s no wonder that the state has produced such noted novelists as John Grisham, Donald Harington, Joan Hess, Douglas Jones,…
I have early memories of hunting with my father – putting on bright orange vests over our camouflage (which always seemed counterproductive), sitting on the cold, metal deer stand in the early morning, maybe not being so patient or quiet as my father would have liked, and occasionally seeing deer, but never managing to actually shoot…
Randy Zellers remembers sitting on the back of a truck’s tailgate eating Cadbury Fruit & Nut bars with his father during one of his first hunting trips as a child. Zellers, who is an assistant chief of communications for the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, also reminisces on the cold hunting trips when he’d…
Rocky Lindsey, DVM, has a passion for providing veterinarian care for animals owned by people in impoverished countries around the world during missions through the organization Christian Veterinary Mission. CVM works to help people with the health and productivity of their livestock that is often critical to a family’s survival. “One of the places…
Lindsey family’s pasture-raised animals create regenerative farm Rocky Lindsey, DVM, is an associate professor of animal science at the University of Arkansas at Monticello (UAM). He and his wife, Alicia, and their two sons, Isaac and Jonah, were recently named as the Drew County Farm Family of the Year for sustainable practices on their…
Little Rock Zoo’s GloWILD is Back for a Spectacular Second Year When it comes to the holiday season, everyone has got that “something” they just can’t go without. Maybe it’s your favorite festive sweater. Others might be counting down the days until peppermint mocha makes its debut on café menus everywhere. There is, however,…
Photo taken at “Eternal Flame” at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta, Georgia Faces of Arkansas: The Face Of Government Agencies, Arkansas Martin Luther King, Jr. Commission DuShun Scarbrough, Executive Director The mission of the Arkansas Martin Luther King, Jr. Commission is to promote and preserve Dr.…
To be transformed is to be changed, and change happens to individuals as a whole at a seemingly constant rate. That’s why, according to Lorenzo Lewis of The Confess Project of America, the barbershop is such a special place – walking in the shop ready for change and getting up from the chair feeling renewed. …
