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Has there ever been a small state with as much money being invested in the arts as is the case in Arkansas right now? I can't think of one. We start...
Billed by The Wall Street Journal as an exclusive, the story in the May 22 edition outlined developments that could have huge implications for south...
Don House has spent four decades photographing and writing about the Arkansas Ozarks. From his base in Hazel Valley in rural Washington County, he has...
I 'm among that fortunate group of Arkansans who read Mike Trimble's stories and columns in the Arkansas Gazette. Running out to the driveway to pick...
It's a beautiful spring Saturday, and I'm eating pie. Not just one piece of pie, mind you. A lot of pie. The occasion is the third annual Arkansas Pie...
I took on a pickup in Atlanta, and the truck won. Our family was in Georgia for a festive series of events. My son Evan was receiving a law degree and...
The south Arkansas woods were filled with gunfire on that spring day in 1864 as Confederate troops ambushed a Union foraging expedition at a place...
In retrospect, it's clear that former Pulaski County Judge Floyd G."Buddy" Villines was a visionary. Villines was county judge for 24 years, serving...
It's fitting that Shelley Short, president and CEO of the Arkadelphia Regional Economic Development Alliance, is ordering something sweet with her...
Chuck Ambrose, chancellor of Henderson State University at Arkadelphia, is impressed by the resilience of his students. "They went through a pandemic...
It's time for my interview with Henderson State University Chancellor Chuck Ambrose, but something has slowed us down. It's the first day of March...
It's time to escape Little Rock and celebrate the fact that legislators have gone home following a session that could only be described as divisive...
Following the worst legislative session of my lifetime, I need a trip to the mountaintop. I head for Petit Jean Mountain. Hoping for a day of...
When I lived on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., in the 1980s, one of my favorite annual events was the Smithsonian Folklife Festival on the National...
On a winter day in 1992, Brooks Blevins walked into a cramped, windowless office in the attic of the Alphin Building on the campus of what's now Lyon...
I'm riding through what once was Fort Chaffee with Keith Gibson, a west Arkansas business leader and member of the powerful Arkansas Highway...
I wrote last year about a trip I took with Jamie McAfee, the chef at the Pine Bluff Country Club, to the legendary Dixie Pig in Blytheville. After...
When we began the Arkansas Food Hall of Fame in 2017, we decided to keep it exclusive. I can think of almost 100 restaurants in Arkansas that deserve...
Andrew Rogerson, the chancellor of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, announced his resignation in August 2019. It was a time of declining...
For a couple of weeks during this year's legislative session, education dominated the conversation at the state Capitol. But it was all of the K-12...
The Colonial Pancake and Waffle House, which has been a fixture for six decades in Hot Springs, is packed on this Friday morning. It's spring break...
I'm at a large round table with a group of Arkansas business and civic leaders. We're sharing lunch and discussing economic development. Sitting next...
Arkansas has received a lot of positive publicity because of its decision to place statues of Johnny Cash and Daisy Bates in the U.S. Capitol's...
Later this month, we'll mark the anniversary of the deadliest martime disaster in American history. On April 27, 1865, the steamboat Sultana exploded...
It's easy to become depressed if one focuses on politics and government. At the state Capitol, the Know Nothings controlled the legislative session,...
When David Pryor was governor from 1975-79, he kept a plaque on his desk that read "Arkansas Comes First." In these first three months of the Sarah...
It was one of those holidays that mainly benefit bankers and government employees (George Washington's birthday, to be exact), and the streets of...
I love old houses. I know a city is a good place to live when its residents work hard to preserve and restore historic properties. However, I've never...
Dr. Thomas William Hardison, physician for the Fort Smith Lumber Co., had a dream. He thought company holdings on Petit Jean Mountain should be a...
Arkansas lost more population per capita than any other state from 1940-1960. At the beginning of that period, this state had seven seats in the U.S....
We left our son's apartment in Austin early that morning to begin our exploration of the Texas Hill Country. My wife is a native Texan and, like me,...
I enjoy driving the rural roads of southeast Arkansas, a historic region that has been losing population for decades. It's quiet here, and I find...
March 12 marked the 50th anniversary of the death of one of the most influential county sheriffs in Arkansas history, Robert Moore Sr. of Desha...
As an Arkansas history aficionado, I love Fort Smith. I can spend a full day downtown, hanging out at Fort Smith National Historic Site and the...
Earlier this year, the Little Rock Convention and Visitors Bureau (LRCVB) released a tourism master plan for the state's largest city. The plan noted...
I wrote a lot about the Democratic Leadership Council when I worked in Washington, D.C., for the Arkansas Democrat in the 1980s. That's because a...
Several hundred people gathered one afternoon last month at the Statehouse Convention Center as the Little Rock Convention and Visitors Bureau (LRCVB)...
Social media has its drawbacks--far too many to name here. When used correctly, however, it can connect us with interesting people. I've long used my...
We're the only boat on the water this Thursday afternoon at Grassy Lake. It's a naturalist's dream, as if someone took a piece of the Florida...
I received an email from Wayne Cash, a distant cousin of Johnny Cash, just as I was finishing a book on Johnny. I've written about Wayne before. He...
In December, the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra announced the largest individual gift in its 56-year history. The gift came from the estate of Lee...
On Jan. 26 at The Breakers, a posh Palm Beach hotel, Arkansas' Jane Lyon was in the spotlight. The occasion was the annual Eclipse Awards ceremony for...
When city officials, donors and other dignitaries gather next month for the grand opening of the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts (AMFA), it will be the...
We’re getting close to the April 22 grand opening of the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts (AMFA). The museum hasn’t attracted half the publicity that...
My mother was a daughter of the Grand Prairie, born in Des Arc in 1925, two years before the Great Flood inundated east Arkansas. Rice was becoming an...
It's a warm January morning as I step out of the main house at Wingmead. It's 5:30 a.m., and Tim Doepel, who has managed wildlife on this 15,000-acre...
Some of the richest farmland in America surrounds Eudora, the Chicot County town that was the subject of last Sunday's column. That column focused on...
In April 1930, an 18-year-old farm boy named Crown Cox was hunting near the Little Missouri River in western Pike County when he noticed a rock with a...
Like many children in a landlocked state, my sister and I wanted to go to the beach each summer. Our father, who spent long weeks during the school...
I'm not much of a cook, but I'm looking at recipes and getting hungry. Those recipes are in Crescent Dragonwagon's delightful 30th anniversary edition...