by Do South | Mar 31, 2018 | People
[title subtitle=”words: Marla Cantrell image: courtesy Kathy Lumpkins “][/title] For forty-two years, downtown Van Buren, Arkansas, has hosted its Old Timers Day Festival, an event that celebrates the area’s past. This year, the festival, on April 28th and...
by Do South | Mar 31, 2018 | Guides
by Do South | Jan 1, 2018 | Southern Lit
[title subtitle=”words: Marla Cantrell”][/title] The Arkansas River, at least where Liddie lives, is not the world’s most beautiful waterway, but she still goes to the grounds of the National Historic Site in Fort Smith to see it when the weather’s nice....
by Do South | Aug 1, 2017 | Uncategorized
Van Buren Downtown Junk Fest Labor Day Weekend, September 2-3 9am–6pm | Free to attend downtownjunkfestvb@gmail.com A lot has been going on in downtown Van Buren, Arkansas in recent months. Freedom Park, next to the Old Frisco Train Station, opened on...
by Do South | Mar 1, 2017 | People
[title subtitle=”words: Marla Cantrell images:courtesy Maryl Koeth and Bob Purvis”][/title] On March 26, 1996, Bob Purvis lay in a field outside West Memphis, Arkansas, waiting to see the Hale-Bopp Comet, which had been discovered the year before. He...
