Entries for 'Tonya McCoy'

The NICU at Mercy Hospital in Fort Smith is dappled with light from machines that blink steady as a heartbeat. The space is awash in moms draped in hospital gowns, holding vigils...

David Grim stands over his creation playing Dr. Frankenstein to his ‘Bride of Frankenstein.’ He’s tall and lanky, and stoops a little over his easel to doctor a scar he’s painted in acrylics...

The sun is shining at the Arkansas Oklahoma State Fair, and Dan Poor, who is fifty, is standing ninety-feet above the ground on a platform the size of a record album...

Artist Rae Russell lives on a little piece of paradise in Fayetteville. On sweltering afternoons, she takes a break and swims in the creek that flows behind her house. In the mornings...

Ryan Goodman is tracking the extreme drought from his home in Tennessee. He watches closely, the statistics that show eighty percent of the Arkansas’ pastureland scorched...

It's late in the fourth quarter. On the road. An unruly crowd of Texans, some in boots and 10-gallon hats, fill Cowboys Stadium. Arkansas is trailing by a touchdown. The ball snaps...

First Baptist Church in Van Buren filled on June 9, 2011, with friends and family who came to remember the life of Karen Kay Yeager Windsor. A harpist played “Amazing Grace,” two of the pastors spoke, and the congregation rose to sing...

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...