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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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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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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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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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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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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 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

For Christmas this year I asked a dear friend and local artist Michelle Yates to draw "The Bat Tower" for me. It was a Christmas present...

Dec 29, 20242 min read