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As towns across rural Arkansas continue to bleed population, the most obvious victims often are the churches. I recently saw an online plea for funds to help keep up a Presbyterian church building at Helena, a once-beautiful city on the banks of the Mississippi River that has been losing residents for decades.

Horace Springer and his teammates ate meals early so they could watch the young women at Henderson State University in Arkadelphia arrive to eat theirs.

I’m leaving Historic Washington State Park in Hempstead County for a meeting at Arkadelphia in Clark County, but I have some time to kill. Rather than taking Interstate 30 out of Hope, I get on U.S. 67 and explore Nevada County, which is between Hempstead and Clark counties.

Because so many of Oscar-winner Martin Scorseses movies have been set and shot in his native New York, its easy to forget that his first movie for a Hollywood studio was actually filmed near Camden.