https://www.smithsonianmag.com/rss/tag/arkansas/RSS feed for ArkansasenThu, 28 Aug 2025 18:33:38 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/she-spent-three-weeks-digging-for-a-diamond-for-her-engagement-ring-and-unearthed-a-2-3-carat-stunner-180987254/When Micherre Fox and her boyfriend decided to get married, she flew to Crater of Diamonds State Park in Arkansas to search for the diamond herselfThu, 28 Aug 2025 18:33:38 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/she-spent-three-weeks-digging-for-a-diamond-for-her-engagement-ring-and-unearthed-a-2-3-carat-stunner-180987254/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-us-capitol-is-getting-a-statue-of-johnny-cash-180984834/Standing alongside civil rights leader Daisy Bates, the singer-songwriter will represent the state of Arkansas in Statuary HallMon, 05 Aug 2024 17:16:06 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-us-capitol-is-getting-a-statue-of-johnny-cash-180984834/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/french-tourist-finds-746-carat-diamond-at-arkansas-state-park-180983651/Julien Navas plans to have the brown gem split into two pieces so he can give half to his fiancée and half to his daughterWed, 24 Jan 2024 19:05:06 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/french-tourist-finds-746-carat-diamond-at-arkansas-state-park-180983651/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/7-year-old-finds-295-carat-diamond-at-arkansas-state-park-180982919/Aspen Brown stumbled upon the pea-sized, golden-brown gem while visiting an Arkansas parkTue, 19 Sep 2023 18:00:08 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/7-year-old-finds-295-carat-diamond-at-arkansas-state-park-180982919/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/buffalo-river-jewel-of-the-ozarks-180980323/An unabashed tribute to the wild Arkansas waterway that became the nation’s first national river 50 years agoWed, 06 Jul 2022 12:30:00 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/buffalo-river-jewel-of-the-ozarks-180980323/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/treasure-hunter-finds-2-carat-frankenstone-diamond-in-arkansas-180980040/Adam Hardin discovered the impressive brown gem at an Arkansas state parkFri, 06 May 2022 18:32:39 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/treasure-hunter-finds-2-carat-frankenstone-diamond-in-arkansas-180980040/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/walmart-heirs-launch-new-music-festival-in-ozarks-arkansas-art-destination-180979942/FORMAT will bring big-name musicians, contemporary artists to BentonvilleThu, 21 Apr 2022 18:40:28 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/walmart-heirs-launch-new-music-festival-in-ozarks-arkansas-art-destination-180979942/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/meet-hattie-caraway-first-woman-elected-us-senate-180973888/After Arkansas elected her in 1931, Caraway was ignored by her peers but hounded by the pressThu, 02 Jan 2020 13:00:00 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/meet-hattie-caraway-first-woman-elected-us-senate-180973888/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/charlatan-ozarks-still-looms-over-haunted-crescent-hotel-180973743/A notorious quack peddled cures at an Arkansas resort in the 1930s. Nowadays the con game is all for showTue, 17 Dec 2019 18:30:47 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/charlatan-ozarks-still-looms-over-haunted-crescent-hotel-180973743/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/piranhas-been-found-arkansas-lake-180955163/The sharp-toothed fish was likely a pet gone rogue Mon, 04 May 2015 14:24:34 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/piranhas-been-found-arkansas-lake-180955163/