Entries for the 'people' Category

Ronnie Cluck looks like an older version of Paul Bunyan, and it’s easy to imagine him swinging his nineteenth century broad axe. He is building on the bluff in Van Buren...

Butch Whitlow never wasted a minute. “I’ve run a hundred miles an hour with my hair on fire ever since I can remember. I raced boats, ran this business...

Marcus found a scrapbook his mother kept in the years before he was born.  Looking at them now, he sees the person she used to be before the trials and tribulations turned her world around.

It is a beautiful story of love and the lessons he learned from his extraordinary mom.

Words matter. That's the biggest lesson @Urban's managing editor learned from her mother.  This is her story of what's left behind when your mother leaves too soon.

Last year, four emails came in quick succession, all in one day, each from a parent of a sick child.  By the time the fourth message arrived, Fort Smith photographer Kat Hardin felt something shift inside her...

Several years ago I discovered a singer-song writer named Iris DeMent who was born in Paragould, Arkansas. I loved her mournful voice...

Tom Newcity restores old desk fans, the kind with a wire cage around the blades and that oscillate back and forth.  They are remnants from an earlier time, a time of black and white movies...

Flying far below the radar is a group of musicians that lights up downtown Fayetteville nearly every weekend.  They play because they love it, because it makes them happy, because they don't know how to stop.

Temper their enthusiasm with day jobs that keep them in check (and in charge) and you have some of the longest running music careers on the local scene.

Preston Swofford rises early each morning, works out, and then starts his shift at St. Edward Mercy.  Sounds pretty ordinary until you consider that he's ninety, and he doesn't have to be here.  This is what he lives to do.

Already Arlis Nuckolls is feeling the shift.  His T-shirt clings to his back, sweat breaks in a line across his upper lip, and he stops for a moment to lean on his shovel.  Which he is using to dig a grave at Newberry Chapel Cemetery in Alma.