Arkansas Life

After Arkansas Life folded in July 2020, the magazine’s website was taken down by our parent company. Some of the pieces have been reposted in a text-only, un-bylined format, but unfortunately, hundreds of articles I wrote and edited from 2013-2020 are permanently lost. This is a selection of personal favorites that still exist:

Double Exposure: What do Andy Warhol, Crystal Bridges and Southern funeral homes have in Common? One man: Tim Hursley.

Just Out of Frame

Watching it Fall

Maiden Voyage

A Dream Grows in Dogpatch

The House that Cotton Built

Portrait of the Artist

Interlude: Taking the Stage

The Last Days of Morris Antiques in Keo

The Butcher and the Public

The Rise and Fall of the National Blueway

Something Old, Something New, Something Burro’d Just for You (shortie)

Big Dam Photo: Smoke on the Water (shortie)

Various Selected work

Garden & Gun: Various Short Stuff

-An Outfitter for Every State (Cycling)
-Cool Ideas for Summer (Hop on a Bike Trail)
-Lots of Southern Agenda blurbs (Buffalo Outdoor Center, Museum of Automobiles, Mountain Valley Water, Ozark Folk Center State Park, etc., etc.). Not published online, but available upon request

Southbound (Atlanta magazine): “Digging for Precious Stones at Crater of Diamonds State Park”

The New Territory: The Treasure House of Yellville, Arkansas (not available online)

Arkansas Nonprofit News Network: Race and policing become election flashpoints in a diversifying Springdale

Outside Magazine: The 12 Best Places to Live in 2019

Arkansas Times: The timeless appeal of Newport’s Postmaster Spirits