The ATV Adventure is just one of many new experiences at The Shepherd of the Hills in Branson. Visitors can also enjoy outdoor activities like the Vigilante Extreme ZipRider, Zipline Canopy Tours, Ropes Course … and weekends this October there’s Shepherd’s Spooktacular, Haunted Hollow, horse-drawn wagon rides, s’mores and more! The Christmas season, which starts…
Every year, Junior Achievement of Arkansas is helping to prepare the leaders of tomorrow by teaching young students about how money, careers and business work. Junior Achievement connects K-12 students with successful men and women who serve as role-models that they can learn from. And it’s working. Last year alone, the organization impacted roughly 13,000…
Stay “in the know” about all the great events going on around Arkansas. AY’s Publisher, Heather Baker, will tell you what the hot spots are this weekend. Thursday, Oct. 3 What: Mean Girls Day: Make Fetch Happen Where: Bark Bar When: 4-10 pm Get into the Mean Girls spirit and help Gretchen Wieners finally make…
by Dustin Jayroe Stargazing can be an incredibly humbling experience. Simply looking at the sky on any given night allows one to not only marvel at the vastness and splendor of our universe, but also to peer back at the history of it. Because it takes time for the light from an object to reach…
by Mark Carter Photos courtesy of Arkansas Game and Fish Commission The Buffalo River, America’s first officially designated national river, annually attracts thousands of visitors from across the country for its scenery and opportunities to hike, camp and float. Our publisher, Heather Baker, took her family out to the Buffalo River this past…
by Dustin Jayroe “Goats and shows, goats and shows, gotta have me my goats and…” I digress. Although, I am not sure if I should. Autumn is back in full swing, which means a couple of things, at least for me — sweater weather is finally back and there is a “goatload” (couldn’t resist)…
This week marks the final days of Verizon Arena. Soon the entertainment venue will be known as Simmons Bank Arena. On Thursday, Oct. 3, the venue will be known as Simmons Bank Arena. The arena has been known as the Verizon Arena since 2009 when Verizon bought Alltel. The venue had been known as…
by Ryan Nix // Photography by Jamison Mosley In the past few months, our country has been a hotbed of turmoil. Shocking violence, natural disasters, measles outbreaks, Joe Biden planning to educate our children with vinyl records while President Trump floats the idea of buying Greenland and launching nukes at hurricanes had me desperate for…
by Joe David Rice // Photos Provided by Casey Crocker, Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism Progress is good, I’m told. That may be true, but I still lament the loss of certain features that used to be common across Arkansas’ landscapes. Swinging bridges, for instance, are increasingly rare, as are grist mills. The…
by Joe David Rice Cryptozoologists have been busy in recent years. They’ve traveled to Nepal and Tibet hoping to track down the Abominable Snowman, to Scotland looking for its Loch Ness Monster and to the Pacific Northwest seeking Bigfoot. A select few have spent time in Arkansas searching for two similarly elusive creatures. One,…
