ESI Staff
Original Ozark Folk Festival 2025 – a celebration in community, culture, and creativity
August 31 might be a good time to get plenty of restorative sleep at night, start fixing a healthy breakfast, keep up with some...
78th Original Ozark Folk Festival Schedule & Artist Highlights
Thursday, September 4 – Roots & Rhythm in the Historic Auditorium
6 p.m. – Hedgehoppers with Still on the Hill: Third graders perform traditional square...
78th Original Ozark Folk Festival Ticketed Events
Thursday, Sept. 4, 7:30 p.m. Historic Auditorium Lower Level
Barefoot Ball Tickets $15 online or $20 at the door.
Featuring Front Porch and The Patti Steel...
Land in our Hands
Nights turned into mornings, friends turned into family
“These are all volunteers,” Albert Skiles reflected while reminiscing on one of his photographs from 1973 at...
Hall Closets
Arkansas has produced its fair share of exceptional athletes over the years, those who dominated fields and courts all over the Natural State. In...
From the Back Porch
If you have ever, on a late Friday afternoon in fall, sat in the front seat of a school bus filled with teenage energy,...
American Insights
Words Worth Remembering: America’s ‘legal despotism’
No one was more attuned to the burgeoning of American democracy than the curious Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville. Traveling...
Esoteric Astrology as news for week August 20 – 26, 2025
Virgo – Sheaf of Wheat & Shimmering Stars
On Friday this week, August 22, the sun shifts from the fires of Leo (the Light of...
The Dirt on Nicky
Condo Flora
August lay like a sauna on the condo by the lake. The adventurous gardener sauntered around the complex. Other visitors probably peeked behind...
The Reel News
Pictured are Rudy, Richard and son, and brother Tyron from Springdale, who fished with Juan Granados with Hooked on Fishing.
Beaver Tailwaters report:
There’s something about...