by Do South | Jul 1, 2015 | People
[title subtitle=”words: Marla Cantrell images:courtesy Harold Mainer and Henry “Hank” Hauser”][/title] Sixteen million Americans served in World War II. Only 855,070 are left today, most in their nineties, and Arkansas is home to 11,070 of...
by Do South | Nov 30, 2013 | People
[title subtitle=”story: Marla Cantrell | images: courtesy Tanya Dedmon”][/title] In 1944, when the world was at war, the draft found Austin “Skinny” Bell Swearingen. At eighteen, he’d seen little outside of Cecil, Arkansas, a town so small it was barely a...
by Do South | Oct 31, 2013 | People
[title subtitle=”story: Marla Cantrell | images: Jami Coleman”][/title] The small black-and-white photo of a cross erected in Belgium in the 1940s is what Jim Grady remembers most about his father. The image shows up in Jim’s birthday pictures, tucked...
