Cold Dark: Eureka Springs’ Art

by Joshua Heston

Into the cold dark. Rainwater glistened black streets. Rising clouds of mist obscured tops of ancient buildings. Normally unnoticed trees became ghost sentinels, undulating in a haunted night. Above the narrow alleys and close crowded windows and beyond the now-silent streets, the rainbow lights of Eureka Springs’ own downtown castle glowed. The window eyes of the Basin Park Hotel have looked over these streets for 112 turns of the year. The rain and wind hardened. I pulled up my collar and hurried upwards, to the lights and warmth…