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TIME TOUR: The train depot at Transportation Plaza
By all rights, you should hear ghostly train whistles at Transportation Depot at Market Street and Broadway Terrace. Locomotives pulled into the Iron Mountain D...
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Elizabeth Robbins -
January 1, 2021
TIME TOUR: Glimpses of Christmas
Singers in gleaming white vestments, holding candles, filed down the winding Hot Springs Mountain trail. On Arlington Lawn they took their places on a stage tha...
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Elizabeth Robbins -
December 1, 2020
TIME TOUR: Marjorie Lawrence
Who was Marjorie Lawrence and what was her connection to Hot Springs?
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Elizabeth Robbins -
November 1, 2020
TIME TOUR: Owney Madden
When Owney Madden moved to Hot Springs in 1935, he was one of the most-feared gangsters in the country. At his death in 1965, he was eulogized as a “truly diffe...
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Elizabeth Robbins -
October 1, 2020
TIME TOUR: Hot Springs School District
The first schools in the Hot Springs area were subscription schools, circa 1845, at Chalybeate Springs and at the lower end of Hot Springs Valley. These closed ...
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Elizabeth Robbins -
September 1, 2020
TIME TOUR: The local drive-ins
To a lot of people, growing up in Hot Springs wasn’t special because of our famous bath houses or historic buildings. It was special because, on crisp fall nigh...
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Elizabeth Robbins -
July 31, 2020
TIME TOUR: The Ostrich Farm
“There was a time when Hot Springs always knew where to find a feather to put in its cap,” a reporter once wrote. That place was the Ostrich Farm, a source of...
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Elizabeth Robbins -
July 1, 2020
TIME TOUR: Happy Hollow Amusement Park
When summer arrives, people in Hot Springs are lucky enough to have an amusement park to head to — Magic Springs Theme & Water Park. Hot Springs, however, was b...
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Elizabeth Robbins -
May 31, 2020
TIME TOUR: Bootlegging in Garland County
“Garland County is the worst in the state in whiskey stills,” announced Major D. Keating of the State Police during the middle of Prohibition. He continued, “In...
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Elizabeth Robbins -
May 7, 2020
WATCH: 'Time Tour' launches Friday online
On Friday, readers of The Sentinel-Record will be taken back in time, exploring Hot Springs' history in a new monthly column -- "Time Tour" -- exclusively onlin...
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staff reports -
May 6, 2020
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