Scott McGehee is an Arkansas local with a desire to create food. With a family influence like his great-grandmother having run the Red Apple Inn near Heber Springs and his father having partnered with Mark Abernathy to create Juanita’s and Blue Mesa Grill, it’s easy to see where he got his spark. “I have family…
Getting presents is one of the great parts of the holiday season. But giving them is even better. AY Publisher Heather Baker is challenging our readers to give back to those who need it most. One of Baker’s passion projects is foster care and helping these children get their footing. This holiday season, the Second Chance…
(KARK) – History captured on a library of tapes. Days, months, years are remembered and cataloged here, some of these tell his story. From a humble start in south Arkansas to the highest office in the state… To a run for the leader of the free world to the land of TV…Mike Huckabee has had…
For the Johnny Cash Heritage Festival in Dyess in October, the author of a 2018 book on Cash identified several major Arkansas and family influences on the legendary singer’s identity and career that hark back to his childhood in Arkansas. They were the songs he sang with his family while working in the cotton fields;…
By Julia Trupp It’s that time of year when gifting is on everyone’s radar. In two weeks, Northwest Arkansas can ring in the giving season at The Berry Farm in Bentonville at the Help One Now Gala. Jenny and her husband Dave Marrs, founders of The Berry Farm and partners with Help One Now (and…
Al Bell, the visionary music business leader, producer, Grammy Trustees Lifetime Achievement Award recipient, and Arkansas Business Hall of Fame Inductee, is hosting two upcoming free University of Arkansas-sponsored events, including a film screening on Sunday, Oct. 28, and a lecture on Monday, Oct. 29. Bell is the university’s 2018-19 McIlroy Family Visiting Professor in…
There is a squeal heard around the neighborhood of Chenal Valley twice a month. It’s from my home after a team of two uniformed women have left my home and gotten into a car with the words MOLLY MAID on them. That’s because I made a decision about nine years ago to spend more…
By Janie Jones | Photo by Jamison Mosley Some serial killers stay close to home in their comfort zone. Jeffrey Dahmer, Dennis (BTK) Rader and John Wayne Gacy come to mind. But others stay on the move. Their nicknames attest to their mobility and wandering ways: the I-5 Killer, the Santa Rosa Hitchhiker Killer, the…
I have an interesting story. I was raised by my cousins in Dermott, AR, after my mother passed away from a drug overdose three weeks after my 12th birthday. I was, for all intents and purposes, an orphan. My parents had been divorced since I was a few months old, and my father, an…
There is a beautiful 104-year old home on a pecan orchard in Drew County just west of Dermott. It is the home of Charles Graham, a traveling minister and evangelist. Graham calls this area home now as it is where he and his 12 siblings were raised just across the highway in what was…
