H OUR TO hour, on a day with blue skies, green grass and wildflowers, it’s not especially difficult to find reasons to love this state—spring days, fog blankets on early mornings, silhouettes of hawks wheeling overhead, that beautiful exchange of the life we see giving life right back. And then there are days like March 7,…
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For the dancers of Ballet Arkansas, acting out the world’s great love stories isn’t acting at all.
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With every image, photographer Terra Fondriest allows a glimpse into her life in the Ozarks. When asked to participate in this profile that would shed additional light on her world, she accepted—but on one condition: She wouldn’t be the only one observed.
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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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An excerpt from Patsy Watkins’ It’s All Done Gone: Arkansas Photographs from the Farm Security Collection, 1935-1943
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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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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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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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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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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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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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