by Do South | Feb 1, 2019 | Travel
It’s an ordinary weekday at Oaklawn Racing and Gaming in Hot Springs, Arkansas, and despite the biting weather, the parking lot is loaded past the second lot. Icy barbs ping the pavement and leave frosty traces on the shuttle bus turning its endless loops outside....
by Do South | Sep 1, 2018 | People, Travel
[title subtitle=”words: Dwain Hebda images: courtesy Visit Hot Springs “][/title] By day, Amy Shipman is a mild-mannered high school librarian. The demure blonde maintains racks of books and periodicals for the benefit of young minds, few of whom ever...
by Do South | Jul 31, 2018 | Travel
[title subtitle=”words: Marcus Coker images: Marcus Coker, courtesy Visit Hot Springs and The Waters Hotel”][/title] Recently I traveled to Hot Springs as a guest of Visit Hot Springs, and although it wasn’t my first visit to this charming southern town,...
by Do South | Dec 1, 2017 | Travel
[title subtitle=”words: Dwain Hebda images: courtesy Visit Hot Springs, and Garvan Woodland Gardens, and Arkansas Dept. of Parks and Tourism”][/title] Hot Springs has always defied an easy description, in large part due to its eclectic offerings. You can...
by Do South | Oct 1, 2017 | Travel
[title subtitle=”words: Dwain Hebda images: courtesy Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival”][/title] For ten days this fall, Hot Springs will become the center of the film universe as the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival returns for its twenty-sixth...