As a kid growing up in the ’80s in Northwest Arkansas, Crescent Dragonwagon’s name was pretty much synonymous for me with Eureka Springs. Forty minutes away from my sleepy little Northwest Arkansas town, her missives and cookbooks assured my pre-teen imagination, was a land where people made a living (somehow) as artists, where working writers lived simply but abundantly in some fantastical shire called Dairy Hollow, and where the word “vegetarian” didn’t spark a furrowed brow.
U of A PressThe New York native reflects on the spirit of Eureka and its cast of characters in her new blog post, which we nod to today in celebration of the Arkansas Times’ 48th birthday; Dragonwagon first wrote of Eureka, she reminds us, in the very first issue of the Arkansas Times.
Cheers to Dragonwagon, cheers to Eureka, cheers to the Times and cheers to her cookbook “Dairy Hollow House Soup & Bread,” which gets a 30th anniversary release this year from the U of A Press.
