by Do South | Mar 1, 2017 | Travel
[title subtitle=”words: Marla Cantrell images: courtesy Garvan Woodland Gardens “][/title] This month, Garvan Woodland Gardens in Hot Springs, Arkansas, becomes a kaleidoscope of color as more than 150,000 tulips bloom. There’s nothing like walking along...
by Do South | May 1, 2016 | Southern Lit
[title subtitle=”words: Marla Cantrell”][/title] The traffic light turns from yellow to red, and Lena hits the brakes. The old Dodge truck, bronze and white and rusty in spots, shimmies to a halt. Lena looks around. She is driving the back roads to...
by Do South | May 1, 2015 | Travel
[title subtitle=”words: Marla Cantrell images:Saidee Holmes and courtesy Mid-America Science Museum”][/title] It is one of those perfect spring days. A breeze is rippling through treetops, the high will reach the mid-seventies by mid afternoon, and it...
by Do South | Jan 1, 2015 | Travel
[title subtitle=”words: Nancy Hartney images: courtesy Oaklawn/Coady Photography”][/title] On the first Saturday in May, racing fans turn an eye toward Kentucky and The Derby. But folks in Hot Springs, Arkansas are months ahead with their betting dreams....