Category Archives: Fiction Writer

Readers of The Water Cure may recall that the secret Skylark mission’s purpose in the novel was obscured with the fiction that the launch would lift an unmanned, remotely-operated Apollo command/service module spacecraft to dock with the Skylab space station … Continue reading →

This towering trademark of Eureka Springs not only has a unique place in the town’s history, but in the flow of the People of the Water Cycle as well. Two characters attend the hotel’s grand opening ball in the first … Continue reading →

Monday I walked downtown for a nice late brunch at Mud Street Cafe, my favorite veggie hashbrowns and a double latté. Finished the opening pages of a fourth book in the “People of the Water” Cycle (#PGAN4). Working title: “The … Continue reading →

Eureka Springs is home to a number of rock and gemstone shops, hearkening back to a day when it seemed every rural highway in the Ozarks and Ouachita mountains featured a number of them. My daughter’s favorites include Crystal Waters, … Continue reading →

This KUAF Radio feature on the Ozarka Water Company, and the discovery of its long-lost third source spring goes right to some sources that are local legends, including John Fuller Cross himself. https://www.kuaf.com/ozarks-at-large-stories/2021-02-22/rediscovering-the-origins-of-ozarka-water-in-eureka-springs?_amp=true

Nicole Aunapu Mann is scheduled to be the first Native American women to fly into space and the first female mission commander of a NASA commercial spaceflight next month. She will oversee the SpaceX Crew 5 mission to deliver four … Continue reading →

Last night as I was walking, the working title of my forming fourth novel in the series changed in a flash of inspiration. And with the steps leading home, came the resolution of the main conflict in the story. I … Continue reading →

This large and colorful brochure was issued by the city’s Commercial Club some time after 1919, the date of several of its testimonials to the curative powers of the spring waters. The quality of the color printing, staple binding and … Continue reading →

In an earlier post, I asked a more generic version of this question: Did Spring Waters Actually Heal People? But let’s get more specific. What about the waters of Eureka Springs, back in the late 1800s and early 1900s. What … Continue reading →

The Ozarka Company and the new Basin Park Hotel, both managed by William W. Duncan, printed this very early 6.25″x14″ fold-out health travel and tourism brochure. The spring water company began operating under him in 1905 and the hotel opened … Continue reading →