A city within a park: Arkansas’ Hot Springs National Park turns 100 - Roadtrippers Magazine
The resort town of Hot Springs, located about an hour southwest from Little Rock, is a hybrid of sorts. One side of the main street includes hotels, boutique shops, and restaurants, while the other side belongs to the national park with its medicinal waters, miles of hiking and biking trails, and the historic Bathhouse Row.
This little-known Native American society was once as powerful as the Aztecs and Incas - National Geographic
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC - The Spiros were once “the single most powerful group ever to exist” in North America. This groundbreaking new exhibit in Oklahoma shares their story.
The Kittens of the Spider World - Inside the Growing Subculture of Insect Pet Owners
Kathy Hendricks pointed at the shelves of plastic little cups that decorate her living room. In each cup, tiny little black dots scurried about and crawled along the sides.
The Legend of the White Dog
Nelson King may never have opened his wildly popular restaurant White Dog Hill in Clinton, Oklahoma, if he had ignored the ghostly messages coming from the glove box of his sister’s car.
Sinking Stereotypes: How Women are Sinking Stereotypes in Male-Dominated Sport of Fishing
The sun was just starting to glow on the horizon along Fort Myers, Florida when 55 boats slid out into the ocean to hunt for the elusive king tarpon.
What Happens to The Stuff We Leave in Hotels
Jo Licata wasn’t sure what to do with the 6-foot-tall stuffed dinosaur in her office. The massive Barney doll had been left at the Hilton San Francisco Union Square last year, and it was Licata’s job to dispatch it. But who would take a giant stuffed animal on short notice?
The Fire Gods of Carrier, Oklahoma
On Monday, the night sky above Oklahoma City’s Bricktown will erupt in an explosion of light, noise and music. Crowds of gaping mouths sighing “oooh” and “aah” accompany the bombastic display of colors that race into the sky, detonating into spectacles of sizzling brightness that paint the night with celebration and American pride.
Choctaw Code Talkers of WWI
October 1918 The Americans were losing World War I, the Great War, when 19 men from Oklahoma’s Choctaw Nation set foot in southern France to fight for a country that did not even recognize them as citizens.
How Zane Woods Will Change the World
Zane Woods is going to change the world.
That change may not come today, it may not come tomorrow and it may not even come during Woods’ own lifetime, but he will, without a doubt, change the world.
Evolve or Dissolve - the Ongoing Evolution of Desmond Mason
“I’ve always been the outsider,” Desmond Mason said, his tall, NBA-sized frame squashed in the small metal coffee shop chair. “I’m an outsider in the art world. I was an outsider in the basketball world.
Trap, Neuter, Release
On a dark Thursday night that promised rain, MaryDoris Casey was creeping around some dumpsters behind a row of fast food restaurants and wading through overgrown lots filled with the detritus of empty soda cups and food bags.