September 2022

Sharing New Big Print Books Bull Shoal Library has six cartons of new-to-them large print books thanks to the generosity of libraries in Van Buren, Arkansas. When the Van Buren libraries needed to cull their books to make space for new volumes, they donated their excess books to the Library in Bull Shoals.

Bull Shoals Caverns is a limestone cavern located in Bull Shoals, Arkansas. The caverns were created approximately 350 million years ago, during the Ordovician period and were carved out by water method. Located in Mountain Village 1890.

Every small town seems to have a “spot.” The place where everyone goes to hang out. Those spots often become the hub because of the people who run them. Flippin in the 1960’s was no different. Over the years there were several different little cafes, a few I remember on Main Street, but most of them were open only for breakfast and lunch. But in the early and mid-60’s, the Razorback Drive-In became “the” place to be for a lot of us. Opening around 1962, the Razorback was started by Rudy and Wanda “Dude” Johnston, and it sat where Gray’s Diner now is, although it was a different building entirely.

TEXARKANA — The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission was forced to close all three boat ramps to Mercer Bayou in Miller County near Fouke last weekend in response to the discovery of giant salvinia, a fast-spreading nuisance plant that is not native to the United States.