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After several years of advertising in the nation's leading lifestyle magazines, the first rooms at the luxurious Louis Hotel in the Delta town of Wilson have opened. So has Wilson's Tin House Golf Club. Gaylon Lawrence Jr., one of the largest landowners in the country who has been buying up wineries in California, continues his transformation of this old company town into an upscale destination.

Pulaski County Judge Barry Hyde isn't the typical county judge, an elected official worried mostly about roads and bridges. As chief administrator of the state's most populous county, he tackles issues one wouldn't normally associate with the office.

I can already hear the blues soundtrack playing from a speaker on the front porch as I pull into the parking lot adjacent to an old house in Crossett. It's late on a Wednesday afternoon, and I'm in this far south Arkansas town, known as the Forestry Capital of the South, to visit Chester and Laura Huntsman.

T he new Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts is receiving rave reviews across the country. Forbes described it as "America's most inviting art museum." In the process, the place where it's housed--Little Rock's MacArthur Park--is welcoming visitors who otherwise wouldn't have set foot in this part of town.