Entries for the 'people' Category

Naomi Chambers, thirty-nine, lives in Fort Smith in a house built in 1910. There are antique metal lawn chairs on her front porch, and she sits cross-legged, in her high-waisted jeans and saddle shoes...

On the easel in Adam Campbell’s Fayetteville studio is a portrait of TriCycle Community Farm founder Don Bennett, so realistic it feels as if you could reach out and touch him. The oil painting, shaped like a hexagon...

It’ is 101 degrees at Foundation Farm in Holiday Island just outside Eureka Springs, and the edges of the squash leaves are turning brown in the blinding sun. In the midst of the field is Patrice Gros, who is stooped over, assessing the situation...

The path to The Barn at Twin Oaks Ranch cuts through Dardanelle, a little town of 5,000, halfway between Fort Smith and Little Rock. Today, two barges chug across the murky water...

The sun is sinking low by the time Ted Noland enters the corral in Poteau, Oklahoma. He’s a little action figure of a man, barely five feet six inches, and he slips easily through the railing...

At first glance, Jon Smith seems like a typical nineteen-year-old. He lives in Siloam Springs, attends John Brown University, has a girlfriend and a couple jobs...

It’s eight o’clock on a Saturday morning and already Jed Reinhard and Lucas Stoltz, two members of the  River Valley Ale Raisers, are hard at work. They’ve set up a makeshift...

What does your car say about you? Maybe it says you’re a responsible citizen who has your tags renewed on time. Or maybe there’s a little decal on the back windshield that shows...

Rodney Collins stands in his front yard in Little Rock, just a stone’s throw from the Arkansas State Capitol. He lives for days like this one, the sky rumbling, the clouds low, rain splashing...