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By Fred Knox, CEO, Rivendell Behavioral Health Services, Inc.

(October 24th, 1908)

A lucky few National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers (NHDVS) branches were intended to display elegant stained-glass windows of Civil War heroes, artifacts from temporary commemorative arches built for the Grand Army of the Republic’s (GAR) 21st Annual Encampment in September 1887 in St Louis, Missouri. The oversized windows - called “cathedral glass” or “transparencies,” and incorporated into state-of- the-art “illuminations” at the gathering – are as fascinating as components of a technology-driven display as they are for their artistic beauty. After sunset, electric lights would bring the images of President Abraham Lincoln and General Ulysses S. Grant to life for onlookers in the streets below, in the way that neon and Jumbotrons would have first awed twentieth-century audiences.

By Jacklyn Chappell, Public Relations Mark your calendars, donors — and meat lovers!

Coming to our stage on Saturday, August 30 is Joshua Michaels and Dirt Road Saints.

Mark your calendars now. The Mountain Home Moose Lodge #1953 has scheduled its popular 17th annual GermanFest for Saturday, October 18.

Arvest Bank has made the 2025 Forbes America’s Best-in-State Employers list in Arkansas for the sixth straight year. It is the only banking and financial services company to make the list in the state.

Despite being stunned in the second straight game, this time by the Oklahoma Wildcatters tonight in Austin, the Arizona Ridge Riders hold claim to the top stop in the 2025 PBR Camping World Team Series standings by a game, while the race for second has tightened up with three teams boasting an 8-4 record.