My name is Coco Dorsey, and I traveled to Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., along with my dear friend, Kathy Hall, a stage 4, metastatic breast cancer survivor, to participate in One Voice Against Cancer Lobby Day in June. We were two of 52 people from around the country representing the Livestrong Foundation. Our job…
We were nearly sick by the time we pulled into Yellville. Route 14 which snakes along the ridges between Mountain View and Yellville should be on any serious list of the best motorcycle roads in the world. It’s an epic coiled spring of a road that, if done in a car, can make the best…
Tucked away near the famous grave and monument to David Owen Dodd at Mount Holly Cemetery in Little Rock, Ark., is a small, black-and-gray memorial stone to an Arkansan who, while on a bombing run with his B-29 crew of 11, is still missing off the coast of Japan. While not nearly as prominent as…
Talk to Stephanie Abernathy about her childhood, and it’s difficult to reconcile the tone of hope in her voice with the ugliness of her experiences. Photography by Cindy Momchilov [pullquote]Photo above: Stephanie Abernathy, who is being honored for her volunteer work at the Benton County Children’s Advocacy Centers and First Lady Susan Hutchinson, the…
Photography provided by Todd Perry “The family is our refuge and our springboard; nourished on it, we can advance to new horizons,” author Alex Haley stated. Quoted in Traits of a Healthy Family, a 1985 book by Dolores Curran, Haley went on to say, “In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past,…
Photography by Beth Hall and Janet Warlick The Facts of the Matter [pullquote]Above Photo: Becky Shaffer (left) and Cassandra Webb at Saving Grace of Northwest Arkansas. Photograph by Beth Hall.[/pullquote] [dropcap]Caring[/dropcap] for the most vulnerable members of our society, namely children, is a challenging task. The Children’s Bureau, an office of the U.S. Department of…
College of the Ouachitas opens largest print farm in the world and transforms lives. Photography by Sara Blancett Reeves [dropcap]Spools[/dropcap] of brightly colored plastic filament slowly spun. The plastic melted and extruded in each of the three-dimensional, or 3-D, printers working away at the College of the Ouachitas (COTO) in Malvern, Arkansas. The filament…
Wouldn’t it be a dream to make a life-changing amount of money with a favorite hobby? Steve Scherrey of Conway, Ark., did just that. [dropcap]He[/dropcap] is the first person to ever win the Annual Arkansas Big Bass Bonanza Fishing Tournament twice. In 2000 he won $100,000 and last year he won $50,000. This tournament…
Dr. Jamie Byrne-McCollum has served a number of roles with the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life and is the campus advisor for a Little Rock chapter of a college-based relay event. She had no idea, however, that decades later she’d still be participating, and for deeply personal reasons. Photography by Sara Blancett Reeves …
The father of modern criminal investigation and the group of crime solvers he inspired. By Janie Jones [dropcap]Did[/dropcap]you ever wonder where fictional crime writers get the inspiration for their work? It is sometimes, as the saying goes, “ripped from today’s headlines.” The father of the modern detective story, Edgar Allen Poe, used fact as fuel…
