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Oaklawn Park Ponies...Something to Have Faith In
If you grew up in Hot Springs you will understand this post. This morning at 7:30, as I drove past Oaklawn, there were....there horses!...

Diana McDaniel Hampo
Dec 4, 20202 min read
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Rocky's Where the Waitresses Still Call Me Sweetie
Dear Hot Springs, I love Rocky's Corner. Their pizza is so freaking good. Chicago style of course. Their chicken wings are freakishly...

Diana McDaniel Hampo
Nov 23, 20202 min read
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The "Incident" on Whittington
My dad, I Granger McDaniel, was a scrawny little boy during the Great Depression in Hot Springs, Arkansas. In the early thirties he was...

Diana McDaniel Hampo
Jul 16, 20202 min read
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Crawdads and Caddo Indians in Gulpha Gorge
There is not a sweeter spot in Hot Springs than Gulpha Gorge, the beautiful creek and park snuggled in between Hot Springs Mountain and...

Diana McDaniel Hampo
Jul 2, 20202 min read
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Playground Love in Hot Springs
I wear a tiny gold elephant on a simple chain almost everyday. If you know me, you'll know this story and you have seen my elephant. This...

Diana McDaniel Hampo
Mar 22, 20202 min read
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My 3 Favorite Seceret Foods in Hot Springs
My 3 Seceret Foods in Hot Springs Everyone has their favorite food, and that's great, but I'm sick of food that tastes like cardboard,...
Jun 64 min read


A Miracle on Pleasant Street...A Record Store We Don't Deserve
I'm not sure I want to tell you about this remarkable place, because I love it. There's a store that's a secret for most of us . on...
Mar 132 min read


Daddy Jack and His St. Joseph's Nuns
Daddy Jack and His Nuns  In the 1920s through the late 1940s, my grandfather, Dr. Jack Stell, was a surgeon, then Chief of Staff, at St....
Jan 283 min read
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