Author Archives: W. Keith Brenton
Grotto Spring
If you follow Spring Street north from Crescent Spring, make the turn to the west at its northernmost bend, you’ll come to Grotto Spring. This beautiful spring reservation is a must-stop for visitors in cars or on the tour tram. … Continue reading
A Stairstep Town
Don’t laugh, now! A lot of Eureka Springs’ streets are staircases! Just don’t try to drive up and down them. For that, we have Mountain, Owen and Pine Streets, among others! Cora Pinckley Call’s long-sold souvenir book, “A Stairstep Town” … Continue reading
Harding Spring
I skipped Harding Spring! It resides on Spring Street between Sweet Spring and Crescent Spring, of course. A number of healings by water were reported here, including a rather famous one for blindness. Harding Spring features the railed “lover’s leap” … Continue reading
Crescent Spring
Crescent Spring is the next stop on our tour of Eureka’s spring reservations, set aside for public benefit early in the city’s history. This is the one for which Crescent Hotel is named, and you can still climb the stone … Continue reading
Calif Spring
If you walk a couple of blocks southwest of Basin Spring, where our tour began yesterday, you’ll come to Calif Spring (various spellings throughout the years) on the grounds of the Eureka Springs Historical Museum. The spring is now sealed … Continue reading
The remaining stereoviews
Collected from the ‘net a couple of years ago and since vanished, these last few stereoviews in my collection include a few more of the Crescent Hotel, the site of at least a couple of pivotal scenes in the “People … Continue reading
Skylab launch: 50th anniversary
Skylab, the first United States space station, was launched to orbit 50 years ago today, at 5:30 pm EST, May 14, 1973. It was a unique configuration of the Saturn V launch vehicle. The event figures into the story of … Continue reading
Horseback ride
This 1906 newspaper ad tells potential visitors that a pleasant horseback ride in the woods is available via the Frisco Railroad and its connecting line to Eureka Springs. Stan, one of the characters in my novel “The Water Cure,” works … Continue reading
Still more antique stereoviews
Enjoy 10 more of these stereoviews of Eureka Springs taken at the turn of the 20th Century (most by photographer D. Callahan). Viewed through a fairly common device then, known as a stereoscope, these provided 3-D views. This would have … Continue reading
Little red depot
This is another stereoview of Eureka Springs, specifically of the original wooden depot that served from 1882-1912. At one point it had red trim and was fondly called “the little red depot.” This is the structure that Jen, Stan and … Continue reading
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