Springtime is prime time for festivals in Arkansas. Following the bevy of special events focused on the solar eclipse, annual celebrations are scheduled in com…
The growing Arkansas Quilt Trails program has expanded its presence in the Little Rock metropolitan area, with 17 of the colorful outdoor artworks on view in S…
Twenty-five of Arkansas' 52 state parks lie in the zone of totality for next Monday's solar eclipse. Many are located in natural settings with acres of viewing…
You could watch the eagerly awaited April 8 total solar eclipse in the comfort of your backyard or nearby parking lot. But joining an organized celebration mig…
This is now a placid Saline County community, population around 600. But Bauxite bustled with as many as 7,000 workers and their families while playing a key r…
A city of 3,500 with two breweries, an indoor mini-golf course and a customized Monopoly game figures to be doing something right at a time when so many small …
Portraits of Democrat Hattie Caraway and Republican Martha Mitchell, Arkansans who were far apart in their politics, are perched next to each other in a new ex…
Two museums in Bentonville rank with the nation's best of their kind. The famous one, and justly so, is Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Less familiar, …
An indoor-outdoor foray can deliver a double dose of winter pleasure this weekend in Cleburne County, about an hour's drive north of Little Rock.
This weekend is for the birds -- at Pinnacle Mountain State Park and Little Rock Zoo, as well as other nature-focused locations across Arkansas and around the …
Visitors to the excellent Shiloh Museum of Ozark History can savor a taste of time travel in Northwest Arkansas. That region has seen the state's most dramatic…
Black History Month, starting Thursday, can still stir emotions among Arkansans about Little Rock's 1957-1959 Central High School desegregation crisis. That se…
One safe bet at Oaklawn Racing Casino Resort in Hot Springs is that you won't go hungry or thirsty -- assuming you are still solvent after wagering on the poni…
There is plenty to keep you busy at all hours at Oaklawn Racing Casino Resort in Hot Springs: horse racing, gambling and eating food including Oaklawn’s sign…
Built in 1896 as the Faulkner County jail, the brick museum building served as the county's library before being converted to its current use in 1995.
In and around Mount Ida, the identity of the official Arkansas State Mineral can be guessed just by looking around.
Since a year ago, three new or improved Little Rock museums have brightened cultural horizons in Arkansas' capital city.
As 2024 begins with Ukraine and Gaza still ravaged by armed combat, a display at Jacksonville Museum of Military History puts a human face on the statement att…
These festive events, as a posting explains, "are established for a number of reasons -- most often to strengthen the friendly diplomatic relations between the…
In the third decade of the 21st century, memories of our history continue to dim, kept alive in all seasons by repositories like Old Independence Regional Muse…
The picture windows at Pinnacle Mountain State Park's information-packed new Visitor Center are garnished with testimonials to the popular natural attraction i…
Families flocking to the Museum of Discovery as the holidays unfold can enjoy two action-packed new activity areas. Science Lab is already open, while Dynamic …
All over Arkansas, the lights are going on -- millions and millions of them -- in festive flourishes for the holiday season.
This week's Green Friday activities at more than a dozen Arkansas state parks will focus on enjoying active fun while learning about nature.
Visitors who go to Parkin Archeological State Park for its showcase displays of a prehistoric American Indian community can also view a way of life that vanish…
Saturday's Veterans Day salutes in Little Rock as elsewhere will focus on the few living World War II vets, as well as the much larger numbers who have served …
TYRONZA -- An interracial labor union in the rural Arkansas Delta achieved a degree of success during the Great Depression in the face of rigorous Jim Crow seg…
Next year will mark the centennial of the massive Albert Pike Memorial Temple in the 700 block of Little Rock's Scott Street. What goes on at Masonic sites lik…
Medical science helps explain why so many Arkansans are paying to be frightened this month at the several dozen Halloween haunted houses across the state.
BAs crowds at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art are thronging to see the exhibition of photographs by Annie Leibovitz, visitors can also enjoy a more tran…
Lorena Black's death at age 101 in 1979 finally ended her family's 113 years of living in the New Orleans-style home that now serves as a museum and art galler…
Browsing through Jim Yeager's new book "Hard Times and Hardball" is rather like nibbling on peanuts and Cracker Jack at the old ballgame.
POWHATAN — There evidently were 19th-century graffiti artists, to judge from a sign on a wall inside the former Lawrence County Courthouse, whose cornerstone w…
A free multimedia concert with the theme of racial amity is the main event for this month's 66th anniversary of the Little Rock Nine's dauntless desegregation …
It was around 10 p.m. Sept. 18, 1964, when the owner of the Polar Freeze diner heard a large plane approaching to land at Walnut Ridge Regional Airport.
Some displays at the BAFB Exhibition could revive mostly forgotten dread in Arkansans old enough to remember the Cold War.
Arkansas has several dozen identified ghost towns at sites that eventually were abandoned for one reason or another. Only one is a state park, where two steel-…
A rusty bathtub displayed in the kitchen at Potts Inn Museum suggests the rough-and-tumble amenities faced by overnight guests at the lodging that opened in 18…
A cavalcade of rockabilly legends and an imposing mastodon skeleton are two stars of the show at Arkansas State University Museum in Jonesboro.
The joys of toys, for youngsters and the young at heart, are at play interactively in a fun-filled exhibit this summer at Mid-America Science Museum.
Art enthusiasts can enjoy two new public murals in the ever-expanding outdoor picture gallery that now includes 18 works under the aegis of Downtown Little Roc…
The enormous Nyborg Building, completed in 1938 with Art Deco touches, once contained more than 500 hospital beds. Before closing in 1973, it housed many of th…
It was one small step for Arkansas women's rights – maybe not so small – when Cane Hill College became the state's first coeducational school of higher learnin…
Visitors take a medical time trip when viewing an exhibit both heartbreaking and heartwarming at Arkansas Country Doctor Museum in Lincoln, 20 miles southwest …
When the Founding Fathers signed the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia 247 years ago today, the only permanent European settlement in present-day Ark…
The Knife Gallery, one of Historic Arkansas Museum's most popular exhibits, has opened again after a three-year closing to update its displays focused on Bowie…
Some years back, Ripley's Believe It or Not decided that one Arkansas event was peculiar enough to inspire a cartoon with this exclamation-marked caption: "In …
The affectionate documentary "It Ain't Over" has a split personality.
There's a closer-to-home alternative for Arkansans who make the long drive each summer to sun and splash on Gulf of Mexico beaches from Texas to Florida.
It's amazing to see 45 tigers all in the same place -- and even more incredible to find those big cats lovingly housed in Arkansas, seven miles south of Eureka…
