Month: December 2024

The art of sending and receiving Christmas cards in the mail has dwindled, though it has not entirely vanished. I remember, when I was young, my parents signing cards and putting them in envelopes, addressing and stamping them, and taking them to the post office for delivery. The cards they received were displayed on the living room wall through the holiday season.

Recently, I was standing outside an abandoned Presbyterian church in rural Clark County thinking about the collapse of civilizations. Or rather, thinking about how they don’t collapse.

I’d come to this spot two years previously with the artist V. L. Cox, who had secured permission from the Presbyterian synod to remove the stained-glass windows from the church (or what remained of the windows,

Katherine Phillips Mitchell was born into a home of hope. Although her parents Clem Phillips and Parthenia Nash Phillips lived in the area of Little Rock known as Hanger Hill, they originally came from Hope in Hempstead County. Her siblings Clemmie, Charles, Doris, and Delois were raised with the value of hope educationally,

While reviewing the CALS Encyclopedia of Arkansas (EOA) usage stats for the month of September, I noticed a huge influx of web visits from South Korea: 8,208 to be exact. (Monthly visits to the CALS EOA from South Korea usually total around 100.) Some of our most common visiting nations include Australia (1,263 in September),