Gilbert General Store News Today

It's winter, and we'll likely hear more than once that the coldest spot in the state is Gilbert on the banks of the Buffalo River in Searcy County. Calico Rock on the White River is sometimes the coldest town. At other times, it's Mammoth Spring on the Spring River.

The complementary bottle of Jackson Hole Airport’s hand sanitizer was a masterpiece of sanitizer chic, not dissimilar to Chanel’s classic parfumerie flask. I clutched it as if it were an amulet before boarding the first segment of my flight to St. Joe, Arkansas, population 125, where I would join my family to float America’s First National River, the Buffalo. I was giddy with excitement, weighed down with masks, scarves, sanitizing wipes and a hefty history of northern Arkansas a...