
The twinkling of holiday lights is more than ever a joy to behold at the end of a year when so many other normal pleasures have been dimmed. Happily, most of the Christmas-lights extravaganzas that excite so many Arkansans each December are going with the glow again. Their routines may…

Big as a whale, the C-130 Hercules awes and dazzles visitors to the Arkansas Air & Military Museum at Fayetteville’s Drake Field. They can walk up the plane’s rear ramp into the yawning cargo bay, spacious enough to carry 92 soldiers or a tank and other hardware. The museum also…

With Crater of Diamonds State Park’s search field open again, two visitors on an average day are rewarded with a thrill well worth all that digging in the dirt. These fortunate folks strike it lucky at “the only diamond-producing area in the world open to the public,” as the Crater…

The question most often asked by visitors to Chaffee Barbershop Museum gets a disappointing answer. “They want to know whether we have a lock of Elvis Presley’s hair on display,” says Rod Williamson, curator of the place where the King of Rock ’n’ Roll got his first Army haircut on…