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’…
House of a Hundred Rooms: stories the ghost tour guides do not tell by Keith Scales If anything in these legends should shock the faith of the over-scrupulous reader, he must remember the nature of the place, and make due allowance; he must remember that he treads the halls of an enchanted palace, and that…
Josh’s StateoftheOzarks Picks 2016 The memories of a past year. Of the many photos I took as editor of StateoftheOzarks, these are my favorites. Most aren’t very fancy. Few are particularly edited. But they are a montage of my life’s last 12 months. As a writer, I do, naturally, have a lot to say about…
The Haunted Hotels Crescent & Basin Park in Eureka Springs The north entrance of the Crescent Hotel, high atop West Mountain overlooking Eureka Springs, is ablaze with lights on an unseasonably warm spring evening. Called the “most haunted hotel in America,” the beautiful structure was built in 1886. Stories of strange happenings abound, some of…