Entries for 'Tonya McCoy'

Jerry Glidewell taps the keys briskly on his computer in his office where he is ending a busy day of work as Executive Director of the Fort Smith Boys and Girls Clubs. Right now it’s that tapping that he hears as he juggles fundraising, public relations, and

The drive to Eureka Springs zigzags across steep hills, through lush valleys, and a countryside filled with oak, maple, cedar, and pine. At the end of the journey sits the town of 2,300, where...

A three foot tall red and navy nutcracker soldier with a long white beard stands guard outside Sandy Wikman’s home in Fort Smith. He watches gallantly from beside the front door...

Paul Hoover was a driver for the Fort Smith Fire Department at Station No. 1. Like the rest of the men and women there, he spent a lot of time on the job, working twenty-four-hour shifts...

Inside Studio 7 in Rogers, artist Tania Knudson guides her students through the process that will teach them to let go of their left-brain thinking. She uses squirt bottles of house paint, large sheets of art paper...

Dave Malone lives in West Plains, Missouri, not far from the Arkansas state line. It is there he writes poetry so intimate that it feels at times as if you’ve stumbled across a journal filled with...

Marlane Barnes time at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville taught her one very important thing —she wanted to act. That decision led her to her role in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 2...

2008 was a year of reckoning for graphic designer Dave Holcomb. The TV station he worked for in Dallas faltered and then fell, filing bankruptcy and shutting its doors...

Bryce Albertson walks in carrying a box that looks big enough to hold a whole year’s worth of baseball cards. The box is covered by a cardboard sleeve, and Bryce takes his time opening it...