Apr 29, 2023
As a new college graduate, Larry Dunn needed a job. So he made a bold promise to the superintendent interviewing him. "If you hire me, we will bring state recognition to Magnolia." Larry more than delivered on that promise, having just returned with his students from New York City and a performance at Carnegie...
Apr 17, 2023
"Older things are fascinating to me," Amy Staten McNeil told me when I asked how it came to be that we now have a museum in Magnolia. Amy is the brainchild behind the South Arkansas Heritage Museum, where she also serves as founder and chairman of the board. The museum was incorporated in 2016 as a non-profit...
Apr 15, 2023
When David Beene was a young boy growing up in the country outside of Stamps and Buckner, Arkansas he used to have to walk to town down a dirt road. Occasionally a car would come along, but they never stopped to offer him a ride.
"The people who came by you would speed up and cover you in dirt," he said. "They knew...
Apr 13, 2023
Apr 10, 2023
I met his daughter before I ever met him. The little girl in the Central Baptist Church daycare with the bright eyes, big smile and outgoing personality led me to believe that this was a very special family. My thought was confirmed when I met the rest of the Martin family shortly after!
Deputy Leroy Martin became...