Cherokee Bill and Ike Rogers

Cherokee Bill and Ike Rogers

[title subtitle=”words: Tom Wing, Historian image: courtesy of Tom Wing via the Fort Smith National Historic Site and the Western History Collection at the University of Oklahoma Libraries “][/title] This month’s lesson begins with a photograph and a story...
Sweet History—The Kopper Kettle Story

Sweet History—The Kopper Kettle Story

[title subtitle=”words: Marla Cantrell Images: Jade Graves, Jade Graves Photography”][/title] Tommy Greer sits at a kitchen table in the break room of Kopper Kettle Candies in Van Buren, Arkansas. The cabinets, just a few feet away, are knotty pine, and...
Queen of the Row

Queen of the Row

[title subtitle=”words: Marla Cantrell images: courtesy Mad Possum Pictures via: Manit Attakul (Miss Laura’s); Lane Breeden (on-set shots); Stacy Ericson (photo of Chuck King) “][/title] Fort Smith, Arkansas was a loud frontier town at the dawn of the...

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