If you have a kiddo, you won’t want to miss sign-ups for summer reading at the Garland County Library, June 10 – July 31! The Summer Reading program is open to children ages 1-18. There is no deadline to sign up, but it’s best to sign up before June 10 so you don’t miss out on logging your reading hours to win amazing prizes. Participants can visit the library every
By Erin WoodIf you’re a nostalgic ‘80s fan and love to go on the hunt Where’s-Waldo-for-adults style, you can’t miss Little Rock illustrator Sally Nixon’s latest, Let’s Go to the Mall: An ‘80s Seek-and-Find. Featured at the 2024 Six Bridges Book Festival and published by the always-on-trend Chronicle Books, this retro twist on the seek-and-find book features 20 radical scenes of life in the 80s. Explore burger joints, video rental stores, and
Literacy is key to living, as well as enjoying, life. So, all advocates of the written word should consider attending “Read Between The Wines,” a night benefitting the Literacy Council of the Ouachitas. This annual event has gained a reputation as a fun convergence of book lovers in the greater Hot Springs area. And this year’s event promises music, art, and history as well as words. This year’s visiting author
According to the American Booksellers Association, nearly a quarter of independent booksellers’ annual profits come from holiday sales. With holiday book-buying dollars, consumers can make significant impact on independent bookstores, small publishers, and local authors—and this can be done conveniently online. Some considerations: What is Amazon’s impact? Both author and publisher make pennies on the dollar. Most authors don’t sell the tens of thousands of copies necessary to earn a
By Erin Wood A new illustrated book about the musical and cultural impact of Arkansas women launched on September 17. “Women’s stories were underrepresented in Arkansas music history,” said author Stephen Koch about From Almeda To Zilphia: Arkansas Women Who Transformed American Popular Song. “Despite their collective cultural impact, these women’s stories have too often been overlooked, forgotten, or never told.” Koch’s book profiles 30 artists with Arkansas connections who’ve influenced
By Erin WoodTwo 2024 Arkansas Center for the Book “Great Reads” selections represented our state at the 2024 National Book Festival in Washington, D.C., in August. The 2024 Festival theme was “Books Build Us Up.” The 2024 Great Read for Youth is the picture book Cypress Knees and Tupelo Trees: Discovering Plants and Animals of the Swamp (Et Alia Press, 2023), written and illustrated by Cathy Melvin. The 2024 Great
By Erin WoodThe Central Arkansas Library System (CALS) has announced the lineup for the 2024 Six Bridges Book Festival, which will be held September 23-29, 2024. Celebrating its 21st year, the Six Bridges Book Festival will host approximately 50 authors in virtual and in-person panel discussions, readings, book signings, and other programs. Most festival events will be free and open to the public and will be held at CALS’s Library
By Erin WoodLittle Rock author Frank Thurmond says his latest novel “is inspired by fascinating historical events and real-life characters (including the author’s own 19th century namesake), and tells the story of an alluring young woman who gambles her way through the Texas frontier in search of her outlaw lover.” Lottie Deno: A Novel of the Civil War and the American Southwest is a first-person account of a girl becoming
Arkansas Women Who Transformed American Popular SongBy Stephen Koch • Illustrated by Katherine Strause By Erin Wood Bonnie Dodd became known as a songwriter and steel guitar player, particularly in country and Western swing music. Nicknamed “Little Blossom” by iconic singing cowboy Tex Ritter, her songs of heartbreak have been recorded by everyone from country music legend Hank Williams to the family gospel group The Staple Singers (“I’ll Take You There”).
By Erin WoodArkansongs, the award-winning syndicated radio program examining Arkansas people, places, and especially its music, celebrated its 25th year on February 18 at The University of Central Arkansas’s Windgate Center for Fine and Performing Arts. With storytelling and musical entertainment by Arkansongs writer-host Stephen Koch, the program featured Arkansas musicians Almeda (aka “Granny”) Riddle, Jimmy Driftwood, Sippie Wallace, Levon Helm, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Black Oak Arkansas, and many others.
By Erin WoodConway resident and UCA Creative Writing professor Jennifer Case’s book We Are Animals: Essays on the Nature and Politics of Motherhood will be published in September 2024 with Trinity University Press. We Are Animals examines key moments in Case’s life where the conflicts between her identities of being a child-bearing mammal and a woman in twenty-first-century America (with one of the highest maternal death rates among developed countries
By Erin Wood A long list of accolades makes up the curriculum vitae of Dr. Christopher M. Jones: MIT-educated rocket scientist, holder of four additional degrees including one in physics and another in math from Morehouse College, ordained minister, and first African American gubernatorial nominee by a major party in Arkansas. He also takes great pride in being the father of three daughters and the husband of emergency medicine physician
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“Moku Playland” Photo of Kate Zunick Courtesy of Hot Springs Sister City Kate Zunick relaxes in one of the most beloved features of the Moku Playland exhibit — a giant wooden “hot springs” tub filled with hundreds of smooth wooden balls inspired by the bubbling thermal waters of Hot Springs. Hidden somewhere among the
Moku Playland Pop-Up Opens June 1 with Interactive, Screen-Free Fun for Families Families and visitors to downtown Hot Springs will have the opportunity to experience a unique style of hands-on play this summer as Moku Playland opens June 1 for a special month-long pop-up at 831 Central Avenue. Open Thursday-Tuesday
The Hot Springs Fire Department entry nears the finish line in the 2025 Running of the Tubs. — Courtesy Visit Hot Springs The lineup is complete for the 2026 Stueart Pennington World Championship Running of the Tubs bathtub races through historic downtown Hot Springs. The race starts at 9 a.m. on Saturday,
Where are we?” Missy Conry and Melissa Stevens By Missy Conry & Melissa StevensCan you spot where we took this picture? Take a selfie in front of the same mural and text to 501-651-0545 for a free drop-in class! You can also text us for hints if you need a clue. As we reflect
