You might think we’re talking about Dickens, what with all the spirits past, present and future. But no, fair reader, we’re talking about the best watering holes our state’s got to offer. Pull up a stool—we’ll fill you in.
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Death Versus Dignity
An excerpt from Patsy Watkins’ It’s All Done Gone: Arkansas Photographs from the Farm Security Collection, 1935-1943
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Water Colors, River Runs
Still drifting forward, they stared out through dark glasses, their canoe crammed with gear and tied down with straps to ward against spills. For the past several days, they had been on the Buffalo. Their route had started at Mount Hersey, a quiet spot between two creeks that flow into the river, and would end…
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Worth The Wait
They wanted land for their family of 10, and not gated-community land, either. They searched. And searched. Years later, when they finally found the spot, a 5-acre property in the shadow of Pinnacle Mountain outside Little Rock, there was already a home on it—a home that didn’t work. But why let a little thing like that stop you when you’ve got Herron Horton Architects on your side?
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Lady in Waiting
It was something she never thought she’d do, pageants, and yet there she was, 15 and on the stage at Our Diamond Miss in her hometown of Fort Smith. As the years passed, she earned crowns. Scored sashes. She thought it was all in the past. Then she had a daughter.
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This Little Piggy Went to Market
Pigs have changed—but that’s not all, folks. In both the long- and short-term, the farms where they’re raised have changed, too. For some perspective, we turned to someone who’s stood on either side of the fence
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Arkansas Life’s Best of 2018
From ponzu-spiked poke bowls to crowd-funded playoffs, mountain bike trails to church-basement music shows, here’s what’s best about 2018 in Arkansas—scout’s honor
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One and the Sain
Descriptions of Johnny Sain vary wildly. Some in the Arkansas River Valley know him as a local writer specializing in the outdoors. Elsewhere, he’s better known as the baseball icon who pitched Babe Ruth’s last at-bat and Jackie Robinson’s first. Ask enough questions and you’ll realize they are, of course, different men. But for all their differences, they’re really just … one and the Sain.
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How An Arkansan Came to Win A 1,000-mile Dogsled Race
THE TRAIL was quiet. There was little wind to disturb the silence deep in the woods of Alaska’s interior. A single beam of light cut into the sub-Arctic darkness as Allen Moore’s headlight bobbed its way through dense pine forest. Hours ahead of the other mushers, he was making good time as he neared the…
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The Last Days Of Morris Antiques in Keo
“Even knowing nothing of the story but the end, it was interesting to stand in the space, to take in the scene as it was. But to understand why things were as they were—why a woman wearing a purple coat roamed the space with tears welling her eyes as each item was cataloged and stuck with a little red auction tag—for that, you would need to go back to the beginning.”
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In Our Natural States
Our lives play out in places. Home is one. Work is another. “Third places,” however, tend to vary—and everyone has a place they call their own.
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