ESI Staff

8399 POSTS 0 COMMENTS

The Nature of Eureka: Nature for Kids

Nature was always a part of my childhood growing up in Maine, where meadows of milkweed were home to thousands of monarch butterflies. A...

Kenneth Robert Bolin Sept. 10, 1950 – June 5, 2017

Kenneth Robert Bolin of Berryville, Ark., was born Sept. 10, 1950 in Chicago, Ill., son of Robert Kenneth and Jeanne (Wellick) Bolin. He went...

Patricia Joan Diggs Feb. 28, 1942 – May 31, 2017

Patricia Joan Diggs of Eureka Springs, Ark. was born February 28, 1942 in Wichita, Kan., daughter of Eugene and Anna (Katzer) Stomp. She departed...

Gary Ray Wyas Nov. 7, 1951 – June 7, 2017

Gary Ray Wyas of Holiday Island, Ark., was born November 7, 1951 in Douglas County, Mo., son of Raymond and Helen (Freedman) Wyas. He...

Blues Festival where you want it – biker bars, hotels, parks, wildlife refuge

Blues Festival is a great time, and great time of year, for dancing and those who do it. Now, Victor Wainwright is a piano...

Dropping A Line

Fourteen year-old Isaiah Seams from Cypress, Texas, had a good fight with this 30-inch striper he caught this week from Beaver Lake on a...

Tick-borne diseases rampant, and have subtle distinctions

Editor’s note: This is Part II of Faces of Lyme, telling stories of numerous people in or near Eureka Springs who have contracted tick-borne,...

Recognizing Lyme early is key

Real estate agents Jeff and Lee Jeans, who moved to Sedona, Ariz., six years ago, both contracted Lyme disease while living in Eureka Springs....

Lyme has residual effects

Inger Svendsen is one of at least a dozen people in Eureka Springs who are living evidence of the fact that Arkansas was wrong...

Symptoms of Lyme can be many and varied

Leanne Wingrove was a jeweler and back-to-the-land homesteader living in Erbie (near the Buffalo River) when she tested positive for Lyme disease in 1998. “They...