The Coffee Table
Thanks for the Laugh’
I read in the Eureka Springs Independent that David Bell died. Having moved away from Arkansas, it was the first I’d...
This Week’s Independent Thinker
Twenty-seven years ago, when we started the Lovely County Citizen, we would bray and hop when Jay Leno or CNN’s Aaron Brown put us...
Bossy’s Last Ride
There’s an obituary for David Bell in this paper, in a section aptly named “Departures” because the word obituary is from Medieval Latin obituarius,...
American Insights
The Long National Nightmare
It was a partly cloudy day in the nation’s capital when, at noon on Friday, August 9, 1974, Washington’s most powerful...
From the Back Porch
Like a tortoise, I have carried things from town to town until, now, the last town. Boxes, papers, a few folders saved just because...
Dinner for Six
Will Wright is owner of the Palace Hotel and a committed vinyl-phobe who has lived in Eureka Springs for the past 4 years.
How...
The Dirt on Nicky
Almost time for cucumbers
The Sassafras Hill Cucumber Consortium gathered for a quick confab regarding where to plant cucumbers this season. Members sat beneath a...
The Coffee Table
Pop and the Pope
After I explained to a new friend that I grew up without religion—hence it’s not really a part of my life—she asked, “So...
The Reel News
Catch of a lifetime
On Tuesday evening, April 7, 2026, 12-year-old local angler Lucas Di Giulio experienced what many fishermen spend a lifetime chasing —...
Esoteric Astrology as news for week April 22-28, 2026
Uranus Enters Gemini – Shock & Awe
The big news this month is the final entrance of Uranus into the air sign of Gemini (communication,...