After Mass Shooting, a Town in Arkansas Struggles to Move Forward
DUMAS, Ark. -- The small city of empty storefronts and vacant lots that is Dumas has seen its population drain away steadily over the decades. But each spring, people of the diaspora have made their way along two-lane country roads, driving through cotton fields and catfish farms and finally into Dumas for Hood-Nic, the community's big "neighborhood picnic," which serves as an informal homecoming.