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FEATURES 23 ARKANSAS IN BLACK AND WHITE

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32 FALSE CONFESSION

No evidence links Charlie Vaughn to the murder for which he was convicted. So why has he spent 30 years in prison?

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9 THE FRONT

Q&A: With Siyona Gangidi, the 9-yearcoder who built a collaborative music app.

Big Pic: Remembering Pharoah Sanders.

13 THE TO-DO LIST

Filmland, Melissa Carper, LAP and B.L.A.S.T. at Pizza D, Amanda Shires at Rev Room, Hanif Abdurraqib at Hendrix College, Spirit Adrift at White Water Tavern, Shovels and Rope for the Oxford American, an experimental music showcase in Fort Smith and more.

19 NEWS & POLITICS

If elected, will Sarah Huckabee Sanders govern the way her father did?

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92 FOOD & DRINK

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73 SAVVY KIDS

98 CANNABIZ

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82 CULTURE

Digging deep into what happens if Arkansas voters elect to legalize marijuana.

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106 THE OBSERVER

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Why Arkansas musicians are exiting industry towns and moving homeward.

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THE FRONT Q&A

BLOCK (CODE) PARTY A Q&A WITH SIYONA GANGIDI AND RICHA ARORA.

The sourdough starter and the backyard shiitake logs you nursed during pandemic lockdown might be cool, but they’ll never be “Nine-year-old learns coding and builds a jam band app” cool. Sorry! So went the summer of 2020 for Siyona Gangidi, a fourth-grade student at Don R. Roberts Elementary School in the Little Rock School District whose collaborative app for music composition, “Band Fun,” is a finalist in a contest for young coders called “18u18.” We talked with Siyona about her project, and with Siyona’s mother, Richa Arora, about why we should help kids learn to code.

So is fourth grade a lot different than third?

Not really! At least not to me.

Tell me about the Band Fun app! What would I do if I wanted to use it?

My app is a social networking app to help musicians interact with each other easily, and create bands.

When did you first get the idea?

My inspiration for the app was because I love music, and I play the violin. I also got into the Prelude [Orchestra] Arkansas Symphony for kids, so for this project I wanted to combine how I love music and the project together.

behind making the ball move on the screen, and that it works when I press enter or whatever.

That really caught her interest. And there was a point when she would go on YouTube to search for information about a piece of code, and about how things can be implemented. We hope that she creates more apps that can serve the community and help the people around her.

I don’t know very much about coding. Are we talking about strings of HTML code or something different?

Siyona: I’m learning block coding.

WHAT ARE YOU READING RIGHT NOW?

I’m trying to read the “Wings of Fire” series. I’m on the 14th book. And I want to read “The Trials of Apollo” next.

WHAT INSTRUMENTS DO YOU PLAY?

piano, violin HOW DOES THE APP WORK? Users log

in, create a user profile that lists instruments they play, then join a chat room with others who have the same interests, plus share audio files with others.

“They can sing into the microphone and hit send to share,” Siyona said. “It’s easy to use.”

Richa, I suppose you might know a thing or two about how valuable coding experience is for Siyona, because you work in an IT field yourself, yes?

Richa: Yes. I work in IT — me and my husband both. Coding is everywhere, and will be especially in the years to come. They’re talking about artificial intelligence, and even surgeries being performed as much as possible in an automated fashion. So we definitely understand that in this time, even if the kids don’t grow up to be actual coders, that the thought processes — the critical thinking and the problem solving that come with learning how to code — are very important. It can help them understand advanced concepts and apply a step-by-step approach to build up something or to debug.

How did y’all get involved with the coding program in the online learning platform BYJU’S Future School?

Richa: So that started during the pandemic, early on, when schools were closed, and kids had a lot of time at home, and there was not much learning going on. I was worried about her getting behind, so I started looking for options to supplement the development. At that time she was taking twice-a-week coding lessons. And then as she started working and developing small things, I could see the joy on her face.

Just to make an object move in a programmatic way, like a ball moving from Point A to Point B. To understand that there is something going on

What’s that?

Siyona: It’s these blocks that will do something when you put them in the right way.

Like a puzzle?

Siyona: Yeah!

Richa: And things that involve “if, then.” If a user presses enter on the keyboard, move the ball to the right, if the user presses backspace, move it to the left. However you want your logic to flow, you insert those blocks of code at the right places.

Are there other kids at your school who are interested in coding, who you can talk to about it?

Siyona: Not really. There was a kid in my third grade class who knew about it, but not in fourth grade.

So the competition that you’re entering is called “18u18,” like “18 under 18.” So all the competitors are under 18, but you’re only 9! Do you think you’ll get to talk to older students about coding, or trade any tips?

Siyona: Sometimes maybe I do feel that I will as I get more advanced, but right now, no.

So what stage is Band Fun at? Are there bands forming on the app, and are they mostly Little Rock people, or all over the world?

Siyona: I just submitted it for the competition, so it’s not really live yet!

[Laughs.]

How did you test it?

I opened it on a LOT of browsers, so it would be different, and my mentor who was helping me build it signed in, and where it was storing all the data, I could see that his name was in there.

What happens at the competition? Do you have to show them the app?

Siyona: I submitted it using Google Forms, and after that, I just waited and in the summer, I heard that I was a finalist in it. I hope I win, but there are also other talented people out there.

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BOB TRAVIS

PHAROAH SANDERS (1940-2022)

F

ree jazz — that nebulous and borderless terrain of which Little Rock-born tenor saxophonist Pharoah Sanders is undoubtedly a sovereign statesman — gets compared to meditation a lot. And the comparison makes sense. Like meditation, Sanders’ jazz was less concerned with doing something and more concerned with being ready for something to happen. Less concerned with making a statement than with making room for a statement — creating the right set of conditions under which a statement might develop and then being present and curious and patient enough to let it waltz into view on its own time. In the avant garde company of Ornette Coleman and John Coltrane and Albert Ayler (and, these 10 NOVEMBER 2022

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days, Kamasi Washington), Sanders devoted himself to a form of jazz that valued expression above all else, and which viewed improvisation as The Whole Damn Point, not merely a series of creative liberties to superimpose atop an existing structure — say, the math of Brubeck or the melody of Duke. (What would a “lead sheet” for “The Creator Has A Master Plan” look like?

Preposterous!) If there was an overarching rule in Sanders’ music, it wasn’t typically a melody or a set of chords, but a malleable “groove” to linger in and around and above. It was as if he and Alice Coltrane in “Journey in Satchidananda,” for example, had set out not to “perform” a song at all, but to set a scene and make a mood.

Often, it was much more than a mood;

how Sanders managed, for example, in the aforementioned “Creator” to express the whole of the human condition in half an hour on a tonal foundation that, at its core, vacillates between only two notes, I’ll never know. But he did. By whittling away the trappings of versechorus-verse in favor of humanity-universehumanity, Sanders cut straight to the core for his listeners, many of whom liken the piece to a transcendental trip, or a medicinal salve. One YouTube commenter claimed that Sanders’ 1969 album “Karma” cured her insomnia when pharmaceuticals wouldn’t. Another fan, in his late 60s battling throat cancer, said he’d been listening to the record for decades and that it had made COVID-19 “almost bearable.” Another

said he’d played it for solace in the barracks as a soldier in Germany in 1970, catching “all sorts of shit from other GI’s.”

The tenor saxophone, in the wrong hands, has been the weapon behind some musical crimes of the most gruesome variety, rendered synonymous with something called smooth jazz, which hangs out in doctor’s office lobbies and customer service queues and ladies’ department stores. In Sanders’ hands, though, the instrument had not just a “tone,” but a whole personality and voice, one that asked questions and offered up theories and moaned and shimmied and fluttered and floated and threw wild parties. The man spoke little in performance other than to credit his fellow performers. When I saw him in 2018 at North Little Rock’s Pulaski Technical College for the Arkansas Black Hall of Fame’s Distinguished Laureate Series, he was nearly silent except to gesture his permission for the crowd to dance. But what Sanders said through his saxophone, then and ever, felt bigger than a single emotion from a single person. When he soared on a solitary note it felt not like a bird, but a whole flock, and when he undulated and wailed in seemingly unspeakable suffering, it sounded like the suffering of multitudes. (What I wouldn’t give to be there during a satellite jazz radio algorithm fail in the home decor section at Dillard’s, Sanders’ blood-curdling sax screeches midway through “Creator” freaking out the daytime shoppers.)

A saxophone reed is made from a Mediterranean member of the grass family called “giant cane.” It has a tough job, as it must be strong enough to withstand great pressure but supple enough to phonate and resonate.

The reed is thick at its base where it’s secured to the horn’s mouthpiece by a metal ligature, but near where the player’s lips and tongue rest it’s shaved terrifically thin so that it can vibrate under pressure from the player’s airflow. Sanders was known for a throbbing “split reed” technique that produced a harrowing howl. He’d bite the reed, or yell into the horn, or blow so hard into it that the whittled strip of cane would go into vibration overdrive, threatening to splinter into a thousand shards. Sanders had trouble finding the right reeds, he told The New Yorker magazine when he was 79 (he was 81 when he died Sept.

24), often tossing away whole boxes when they didn’t sound right. It’s no wonder; because they’re organic, no two reeds are exactly the same. Then again, no two of his performances were, either.

Here’s hoping wherever he is, he’s found a good one.

— Stephanie Smittle ARKTIMES.COM

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THURSDAY 11/3-SUNDAY 11/6. CALS RON ROBINSON THEATER, VIRTUAL. Championing Arkansas-made film and broader festival favorites alike, Arkansas Cinema Society’s flagship film fest is back for a fifth year with a full slate of films, including a robust list of shorts and features from Arkansas-connected filmmakers. Tickets weren’t yet on sale and the full program hadn’t yet been announced when the Arkansas Times went to press, but included Kristian Hill’s “God Said Give ’Em Drum Machines,” a documentary about the young Black artists redefining Detroit’s techno scene; Jack Porter Lofton and Jeffrey Dailey’s “The Vous,” about Memphis barbecue joint The Rendezvous; nine shorts and six student shorts to be screened in person, plus more offerings on a parallel virtual version of the fest. “We’re very excited about this year’s lineup with films from Academy Award winners like Sam Mendes and some of the hottest features from festivals like Sundance, Telluride and Toronto,” the Cinema Society’s executive director Kathryn Tucker said. “We’re so excited to be back in CALS Ron Robinson Theater and to bring back Filmland: Arkansas to in-person audiences.” SS

SPIRIT ADRIFT, MAMMOTH CARAVAN WEDNESDAY 11/30. WHITE WATER TAVERN. $15.

One of the most influential and heavy-hitting metal bands performing today is helmed by longtime Arkansas resident Nate Garrett, and this home state show is going to be a heavy music landmark in a year full of heavy music landmarks. “Arkansas was a special fucking place,” Garrett said in a 2017 interview. “I worked at a bar for a while and every night you could see a fucking amazing bluegrass band or, you know, a badass doom band. I mean, the South is sludge headquarters.” Low-end up-and-comers Mammoth Caravan open the show. SS ARKTIMES.COM

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OXFORD AMERICAN: SHOVELS AND ROPE, BUFFALO NICHOLS, TRÉ BURT

MARY ELLEN MATTHEWS

SATURDAY 11/5. UA PULASKI TECHNICAL COLLEGE. 7:30 P.M. $20-$49.

HANIF ABDURRAQIB

THURSDAY 11/10. STAPLES AUDITORIUM, HENDRIX COLLEGE, CONWAY. 7:30 P.M. FREE. If you visit the website of National Book Award finalist Hanif Abdurraqib, you’ll be greeted by a simple set of sentences written in all caps: “Hi. I’m Hanif. I write poems. I write things about music. I am probably eating french fries.” This bare declaration from the acclaimed poet and essayist is a surprisingly apt encapsulation of his deceptively modest, colloquial and generous approach to cultural criticism. His subjects need not seem initially profound because he’s capable of locating the profundity in anything. Even when he writes about a seemingly vapid pop star like Carly Rae Jepsen, he does it with the urgency of someone whose “life depend[s] on it,” as stated by the Guardian. Although Abdurraqib sincerely embodies a passion for popular culture, the guiding theme underneath all of his work is an unflinching curiosity toward what it means to be Black in America.

In “They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us,” a review of a Bruce Springsteen concert almost magically morphs into a meditation on police brutality. This devotion has culminated in his most recent book, “A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance,” which takes both a personal and horizon-wide perspective on the ways in which public moments of Black artistry have indelibly shaped American culture. Expect this reading and Q&A at Hendrix College to be attended by many bright and engaged undergraduate readers and writers who are eager to one day possibly follow in Abdurraqib’s footsteps. DG 14 NOVEMBER 2022

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The literary treasure that is the Oxford American turns 30 this year and, appropriately for a magazine that unearths the nuance and complexity of the American South, it’s celebrating with a stacked show including acclaimed folk duo Shovels & Rope, Houston blues guitarist Buffalo Nichols and Tré Burt (pictured at left), a gifted folk storyteller who shares not only John Prine’s record label, but his lyrical precision. Find the ticket link on the front page at oxfordamerican.org. SS

DAVID ADAM BYRNES, CLAY AERY

Anyone who keeps up with the regional country music scene has known Sherwood native David Adam Byrnes’ name for years. With his time in the Nashville “bro country” rat race in the rearview mirror and a double win at the 2022 Arkansas Country Music Awards for Entertainer of the Year and Male Vocalist of the Year, he’s gotten lots of airplay in the Fort Worth area and pops up pretty regularly on country bloggers’ lists of artists to watch. All that said, he pinged on our radar most prominently when he announced that the title video for his new record, “Keep Up With a Cowgirl,” would feature the work of some badass women on the professional barrel racing circuit: Stevi Hillman, Jordon Briggs, Lisa Lockhart and Kelsie Domer. Clay Aery opens the show. SS

ARCADENOW

FRIDAY 11/11-SATURDAY 11/12. THE BAKERY DISTRICT, 70 S. SEVENTH STREET, FORT SMITH. $25 WEEKEND PASS, $15 SINGLE-DAY TICKETS. With an aim “to champion and create space for the more experimental side of music, film, dance and visual art” across the state, this two-evening series features performances from Matt Magerkurth, Kevin Blagg, Damian Cheek, Stringsmen + BAANG, The Drowned, Job Smoot, Thomas Echols, and Leon Carlo featuring Serrano-Torres in which “the genre of music is undefined,” a release states, “but will include elements of post classical, ambient, electronic, solo instruments, modular synth and a rapper paired with string quartet.” Curated by Amos Cochran — a composer whose inventive works for strings, electronics and modified upright piano earned him a 2010 Kennedy Center Excellence in Composing Award — ArcadeNow is funded through the Northwest Arkansas-based Artists 360 Community Activator grant provided by the Mid-America Arts Alliance. Get tickets on Eventbrite. SS

LAP, B.L.A.S.T., PEACH BLUSH, OPEN KASKET FRIDAY 11/11. PIZZA D’ACTION. 8 P.M.

Badass mixed-genre show at the dive bar for the win. Selfdescribed as “synthy screamo for the girls and gays,” local rockers LAP are celebrating a split release with noisecore purveyors B.L.A.S.T. (Being Loud at Shitty Times), whose 2021 release was recorded in Memphis at the storied Sun Studio (legit!). They’re supported by Peach Blush, who’s making some of the dreamiest surf-informed rock in town, and by death metal peddlers Open Kasket. Bring earplugs and give the middle finger to economic inflation with Pizza D’s perennially cheap beer. SS

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FRIDAY 11/4. REV ROOM. 8 P.M. $12-$15.

AMANDA SHIRES

TUESDAY 11/15. REV ROOM. 8 P.M. $25 GENERAL ADMISSION; $149 VIP. If you’re unfortunate enough to be unfamiliar with the name Amanda Shires, let’s simply allow the names of a few other musicians in her orbit to speak to her reputation: John Prine? Jason Isbell? The Texas Playboys? Does that do anything for you? What if we told you that, in 2019, the singer-songwriter and fiddle virtuoso formed a country supergroup called The Highwomen with the likes of Brandi Carlile, Maren Morris and Natalie Hemby? And it might be, maybe, possibly worth mentioning that Shires sings like Dolly Parton and writes with the vivid imagistic stylings of Tom Waits. If that impressive resume doesn’t pique your interest, we feel sorry for you. On the other — more enlightened — hand, if you’re now clambering to witness Shires’s talent in person, you’re in luck. Amanda Shires will grace the stage at The Rev Room in Little Rock, touring in support of her critically acclaimed 2022 record “Take It Like a Man.” For the Shires superfans out there, VIP tickets are available that include early venue entry, access to an intimate soundcheck, free merchandise and memorabilia, and a Q&A with the artist. WW

MAGGIE HABERMAN

WEDNESDAY 11/16. CALS RON ROBINSON THEATER. 6 P.M. FREE; REGISTRATION REQUIRED. New York Times journalist Maggie Haberman lands in Arkansas to discuss her book “Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America.” Haberman, currently a White House correspondent at The New York Times, gained prominence through her coverage of Trump — leading up to, during and following his presidency. Haberman won her first Pulitzer Prize for her coverage of Trump, shared with a team of colleagues from The New York Times and The Washington Post. Haberman also spent time at Politico, the New York Post and the New York Daily News, and is also the co-author of “Held Captive: The Kidnapping and Rescue of Elizabeth Smart,” a biographical book about the abduction of Smart. Admission for the talk is free, but registration is required. OE ARKTIMES.COM

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‘FIDDLER ON THE ROOF’

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FRIDAY 11/25-SUNDAY 11/27.

ROBINSON CENTER. $34-$91.

MELISSA CARPER

FRIDAY 11/18. WHITE WATER TAVERN. 9 P.M. $12-$15.

When you put out a record that’s as front-to-back stellar as Melissa Carper’s 2021 “Daddy’s Country Gold,” you’re going to garner some comparisons to the greats: Jimmie Rodgers, Hank, Dolly, Roger Miller. And in Carper’s case, the praise isn’t hyperbole. “Makin Memories” and “I’m Musing You” feel classic right outta the gate, like they’ve been around for a lifetime, and it seems an embarrassment of riches that she’s gonna gift us with a whole ’nother album this month, with many of the same musicians who lent magic to “Daddy’s Country Gold” in the credits: Chris Scruggs, Dennis Crouch, Sierra Ferrell, Matty Meyer, Billy Contreras. Add to that Carper’s clever work as one-quarter of Sad Daddy and her dreamy duos with girlfriend and bandmate Rebecca Patek in Buffalo Gals, and we are counting the minutes ’til the forthcoming full-length “Ramblin’ Soul” offers up an Odetta cover and a charming stay-at-home tune titled “Boxers on Backwards.” If the future of country is queer, can we go ahead and crown Carper monarch already? SS

When it comes to Broadway musicals, few productions are as lauded as the 1964 smash hit “Fiddler on the Roof.”

This month, the Tony Award-winning story of Tevye the milkman’s struggle to maintain his family’s traditional Jewish religious and cultural lifestyle in the wake of encroaching modern influences comes to the Robinson Center stage.

Revived for the fifth time in 2015, this production of “Fiddler” from director Bartlett Sher benefits from authenticity brought by Israeli-born choreographer Hofesh Shechter, while still retaining the raucous energy of the show’s original run.

Seasoned audiences and newcomers alike will struggle to keep from singing along to show-stopping numbers like “Matchmaker, Matchmaker,” “Sunrise, Sunset” and “If I Were a Rich Man.” It’s been a long wait for patrons who bought tickets for the production’s originally scheduled January performances, but the immortal classic tale of family, faith and communal identity is certainly worth the delay — and worth celebrating. In Tevye’s words, “L’chaim! To life!” WW

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its own fictions, biases and erasures. Among the immersive architectural sculptures are reproduced maps; a cerulean canopy evoking constellations and underwater reflections; illustrations referencing 18th century botanist Carl Linneaus’ depictions of the New World — in which the Indigenous inhabitants were categorized as bestial; and images from Dominican folklore, such as the wandering ciguapas, libidinous female tricksters with backward legs, whom the artist renders with fur and flora. Báez has described the ciguapas as functioning like receptacles for the abject, or unaccepted, values of the culture and how, upon deeper reading, they represent female agency. Of her painterly and vivid works, the artist has said she doesn’t want to create “narratives of victimhood,” but rather flip the script to include beautifully subversive images of freedom. TS

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NEWS & POLITICS A ROAD MAP: Maybe Sarah Huckabee Sanders will follow her father’s lead if she’s Arkansas’s next governor.

THE HUCKABEE LEGACY

SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS HAS GIVEN FEW HINTS HOW SHE’LL GOVERN IF ELECTED. LOOKING AT HER FATHER’S TIME AS GOVERNOR MIGHT PROVIDE A CLUE.

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arah Huckabee Sanders is running for Arkansas governor on the names of her daddy, Mike Huckabee, and her guru, Donald Trump. She includes her maiden name in every ad and sign. Maybe Sarah will be a carbon of her old man, Gov. Mike Huckabee, when he was in his prime before falling into the Trump cult.

So, let’s reexamine the Huckabee Sanders issues, such as they are: TAXES Getting rid of taxes, at least those that burden wealthy people, is the Republican Party’s universal plank and Sanders takes a back seat to no one. She said she would end corporate and personal income taxes by the time she left office in eight years, fulfilling the Republican prophecy for a century that cutting taxes, especially for the wealthy, will produce furious economic growth — a prophecy that has never come true, in Arkansas or elsewhere, unless you buy the theory that it was the tax cuts after World War I that produced the roaring ’twenties (and finally the Great Depression). That is all speculative but one result is inescapable: If she eliminates income taxes, schools would have to close for half the year or teacher salaries halved, prisons would have to close or free inmates, and every college would have to slash its payroll and reduce its offerings.

BY ERNEST DUMAS But consider what another anti-taxer, Sarah’s daddy, did. As lieutenant governor he opposed even Gov. Jim Guy Tucker’s little tax on soda pop to meet the state’s Medicaid spending on the poor and disabled. Running for president in 2008, he claimed to have been the fiercest anti-taxer in Arkansas history — the first governor ever to cut taxes, and over Democratic opposition. None of it was true. The income tax cut in 1997 that he claimed was his was written by his predecessor, Tucker, and sponsored by every Democrat in the legislature. He signed it after the legislature passed it overwhelmingly.

Here’s the reason for hope that Sanders is just lying or that she will suddenly see the light. Her father did.

Mike Huckabee is the biggest taxer in Arkansas history and it was all for good causes: education, medical care, highways and nursing homes (OK, OK — nursing home owners). He raised more taxes than any governor in history, far more than Clinton, Rockefeller, Bumpers, Faubus or McMath. The billionaire boys club, the Club for Growth, called him out on it in 2008 when he was running for president but, calling them the Club for Greed, he claimed they were lying. They weren’t.

The Huckabees will dispute it, but you can verify it with the statute books and government revenue records. Huckabee signed all the bills into law, after sometimes begging legislators to

pass them.

His biggest tax increases were mainly for education after the Arkansas Supreme Court said Arkansas had to follow the constitutional mandate of 1874 that it provide a suitable and equal education for every child in the state.

He addressed the legislature and begged the members to pass a bundle of taxes, specifically income taxes.

Might Sarah Sanders have a similar Roadto-Damascus conversion? She doesn’t seem inclined, but who knows? She says she wants to help kids learn, including those who are sent to private schools. She wants their parents to share in the limited state funds for public education.

CRIME Sanders promises to ban violent criminals from Arkansas communities forever. Her daddy, however, had a celebrated soft spot for rapists and murderers, which didn’t help him when he ran for president in 2008 and 2016 but may have touched some people as a man capable of acts of compassion. Maybe his daughter, too — who knows? Mike followed two governors, Clinton and Tucker, who had cultivated the image of being tough on inmates. Many still remember Wayne DuMond, the serial rapist and killer with a long history of violent crime that Huckabee freed from prison. A Forrest City cheerleader who was later identified as a third cousin of ARKTIMES.COM

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Bill Clinton accused DuMond of rape, but rightwing outlets propagated the ruse that Clinton had arranged for the innocent DuMond to be framed. Huckabee wrote to DuMond in prison in 1997 that “My desire is that you be released from prison,” but he did not get it done until 1999 after visiting with the members of the state Board of Pardons and Paroles and making a personal plea for the rapist. DuMond moved to Missouri, where he was subsequently sent to prison for raping and murdering a woman; he was killed in prison before a trial for raping and murdering a second woman. Among Huckabee’s other commutations was Maurice Clemmons, who, after Huckabee commuted his 108 years of sentences for armed robberies and other forms of violence in Arkansas, moved to Washington state, where he raped his new wife’s daughter and murdered four policemen who were on a coffee break in a Tacoma suburb in 2009.

HEALTH CARE Like Trump and her daddy, Sanders denounced the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, although none of the three were ever specific about what was wrong with it or how they would change it other than repeal the law. Trump promised to get Congress to repeal it but never offered a plan or a bill. Huckabee had become a champion of universal health insurance when he was governor and promised in 2001 that before he left the governor’s office every single Arkansan would have good medical coverage, as Gov. Mitt Romney was doing in Massachusetts. He made a couple of feeble attempts to expand coverage.

What he would always claim was his greatest achievement in 10 years as governor was an idea — health insurance for all children — promulgated by Hillary Clinton. After her universal health plan died in Congress in 1994, she went to two Senate leaders, Republican Orrin Hatch of Utah and Democrat Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, and proposed that they at least change the Medicaid law to require coverage of children in every state. Back in Arkansas, Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, a children’s advocacy group started

by Hillary Clinton and others, decided to take up her new plan. When he took the governor’s office in 1996 after Jim Guy Tucker resigned, the new governor summoned several public-policy advocates, including Hillary’s collaborator, Amy Rossi of AACF, to his office to suggest some things that he might do as governor when the legislature assembled in 1997. Rossi suggested adopting Hillary’s plan for children.

Huckabee said great, Democratic Sen. Mike Beebe sponsored the bill, and the Democratic legislature passed it easily. Congress and President Clinton enacted essentially the same legislation later in the year and applied it to all states. Obamacare later expanded the idea to cover tens of millions of people besides

children, including a couple hundred thousand Arkansans. It has been a financial bonanza for the state, ensuring medical attention for hundreds of thousands of Arkansans, saving community hospitals, filling the state treasury and accounting for much of the treasury surplus that Governor Hutchinson brags about every year.

Conservatives, including a large contingent of state legislators, expect Sanders to undo Obama’s, Beebe’s and Hutchinson’s health care stuff.

Instead, let’s think about her daddy’s approach to governing in his salad days, before encountering Trump, and contemplate the chances of her doing the right thing rather than the mean stuff in her ads. It could happen.

SCHOOLS In his first term as governor, Huckabee urged his education agency to develop ways to improve math and reading skills. But no new revenues for schools. Running for lieutenant governor, he denounced efforts to consolidate rural and small-town schools and opposed a plan to do that by Gov. Tucker that was aimed at equalizing educational offerings throughout the state, including rural areas. But when the state Supreme Court said in 2003 that the state had to equalize and improve school offerings to meet constitutional standards, Huckabee became the biggest champion of school consolidation in 50 years. He asked the legislature to consolidate all school districts with fewer than 1,500 students. It refused but eventually went along with closing all schools with enrollments below 350. Huckabee said it was nearly pointless but signed it into law.

DEBT Sanders praises her mentor, Trump, for always doing what he promised. He pledged to rid the nation of two centuries of debt by the end of his presidency. Instead, he added a record $8.2 trillion to the debt. Gov. Huckabee had a similar change of heart, from opposing debt to championing it. Arkansas’s generalobligation debt, negligible for the previous half-century, exploded under Huckabee. He asked voters to let the state borrow another $150 million for the universities, and they obliged.

He proposed a bond issue of $575 million to improve interstate highways in 1999 and voters approved it. But in 2005 he wanted to issue $360 million of debt for highways and colleges, but the voters rejected both of them in a special election. The Cato Institute, a conservative think tank in Washington, pronounced him one of the worst governors in America because of his big-spending ways.

If she’s not your candidate and she wins, think about the chances she’ll do the opposite of what she says, and be more like her daddy than her idol.

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THE SOUL OF ARKANSAS

A photo essay from brilliant and unheralded documentary photographer Ron Evans.

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on Evans didn’t intend to become a photographer. When he graduated from Little Rock Catholic High School in the early 1960s, his chief ambition was to play rock ’n’ roll, something he did with local bands, including The Flames, for several years in his early adulthood. But when a broken left hand left him unable to play the guitar, he bought a cheap 35mm camera that he liked the looks of and started taking photos around Little Rock and, occasionally, the state.

Evans said he drew influence from the likes of documentary photographer Eugene Richards, whose first book, “Few Comforts or Surprises: The Arkansas Delta” was published in 1973. Thomas Harding III, the widely esteemed Little Rock pinhole photographer, was an early mentor. When Evans complained to Harding that the prints of Evans’ early work didn’t look like what he’d imagined, Harding told him he would need to print his own images to be happy with them.

So Evans started printing his own work in his kitchen.

That skill took him to Dallas, where he worked at Kodachrome as a photo printer. He didn’t particularly

like Dallas, but started working as a stringer for the Dallas Observer, a then-weekly newspaper that shared a sensibility with the Arkansas Times. He eventually landed a job there, where he photographed Dallas culture high and low, and ended up living and working in the area for more than 35 years, while always returning periodically to Arkansas.

Evans, 79 and now living in Virginia, devoted time early in the pandemic to reviewing the thousands of Arkansas photos he’d taken from the 1960s-1980s, and after whittling them down, compiled his favorites into a limited-run book, “Arkansas: Photographs by Ron Evans,” which he shared with the likes of President Bill Clinton, Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts Director Victoria Ramirez and the photographer Sally Mann. All but one of the following photographs come from that book. Evans, who is represented by the Afterimage Gallery in Dallas, is now prepping a similar project of his Texas photographs.

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MAN WITH HUNTING DOG, REDFIELD, ARKANSAS

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MAN LOOKING, NORTH LITTLE ROCK, 1982

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CHARLIE VAUGHN: A victim of a cruel legal system.

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The maddening irrelevance of Charlie Vaughn’s innocence

A SEVERELY INTELLECTUALLY DISABLED MAN HAS SPENT MORE THAN 30 YEARS IN AN ARKANSAS PRISON. THE SYSTEM DOESN’T CARE IF HE’S ACTUALLY GUILTY.

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Editor’s note: Radley Balko worked for years as an investigative reporter and opinion writer for The Washington Post, where he took on the Little Rock Police Department’s misuse of no-knock warrants in drug raids. His work inspired policy changes. Balko recently started The Watch on Substack, a subscription-based email newsletter. The following is a condensed version of his first investigation. Subscribe at radleybalko.substack.com.

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n the summer of 1995, an envelope arrived at the federal courthouse in Little Rock. Inside was a handwritten, barely coherent plea from Charlie Vaughn, a man serving a life sentence for murder in the Tucker Maximum Security Unit.

Vaughn can’t read or write, so he presumably asked another prisoner to draw up the document for him. It was a one-page bid for his freedom. “Amendment five is a constitutional right which was violated kidnap railroaded false imprisonment, [sic],” it read. “I would like to be released from custody.”

In 1991, Vaughn had confessed and pleaded guilty to the murder of 81-year-old Myrtle Holmes. In doing so, he implicated three other people. They were convicted after two trials and, like Vaughn, sentenced to life in prison.

In a form for indigent prisoners attached to his letter, Vaughn checked off that he had been falsely arrested, had received inadequate legal representation, and was wrongly convicted. He was right about all three. But without a lawyer, Vaughn provided no documentation for his claims. He couldn’t cite a trial transcript, evidentiary record or case law. He made no legal arguments.

Not surprisingly, the federal district court dismissed his petition with a short, little-noticed order, similar to thousands of other orders dismissing thousands of other petitions self-filed by prisoners every year.

A quarter-century later in 2015, faced with the possibility of more advanced DNA testing that could definitively implicate him, one of the other three people convicted for the crime confessed. In his confession, he insisted that not only did he commit the crime alone, he barely knew Vaughn or the other two people who had been convicted.

DNA did not implicate Vaughn or the others. In fact there was no physical evidence linking Vaughn to the crime.

The confession and other new evidence would eventually free the other two people wrongly convicted for the murder. But not Charlie Vaughn. Despite strong evidence that his confession was coerced, and despite the fact that even the family of the victim wants him released, Vaughn remains in prison.

Arkansas provides no real way for

prisoners like Vaughn to get back into state court, even when they have persuasive evidence of their innocence. This ought to be where the federal courts would intervene. But because of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA), a law signed five years after Vaughn’s 1991 conviction, the federal courts won’t even consider the evidence of his innocence.

AEDPA gives prisoners like Vaughn one shot at federal review. The two other defendants never took their shot. Vaughn took his with that handwritten letter in 1995. So now he’s out of luck.

AEDPA is a sprawling, bewilderingly complex law passed in the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing. One section of the law has proven particularly consequential — a provision restricting when prisoners can ask federal courts to review their cases.

This section is also especially complicated and confusing, and subsequent Supreme Court rulings have only made it harder to comprehend.

When it was passed, AEDPA’s proponents made no secret of their intent.

They claimed prisoners and unscrupulous defense attorneys were flooding the federal courts with frivolous appeals. They wanted to dam the system, slowing federal review of cases like Vaughn’s to a trickle.

But AEDPA’s culling process has little to do with the actual merits of prisoners’ claims. Instead, AEDPA winnows them down by imposing a dizzying array of procedures, deadlines and rules. Failure to follow any of them typically results in what’s called “procedural default” — a dismissal before giving any consideration at all to the prisoner’s actual claims. And as Vaughn did, the overwhelming majority face these hurdles without a lawyer.

For those prisoners fortunate enough to avoid procedural default, AEDPA still requires federal courts to show extraordinary deference to state court rulings. It isn’t enough for a federal judge to believe a state court is wrong on the law or facts of a case. The federal judge must find the state court was so wrong that “no reasonable jurist” would agree with the outcome. To overturn a state court ruling on a constitutional matter, then, AEDPA requires a federal court to deem state judges and justices all but unfit for the bench.

The federal court system is littered with cases attesting to AEDPA’s arbitrary cruelty.

But Vaughn’s case is among the cruelest.

“I’ve spent a good deal of my own money investigating my great-aunt’s murder,” says Michelle Tull, Myrtle Holmes’ grandniece. Tull now represents the family’s interests in legal matters pertaining to her great-aunt’s murder. “We don’t believe Charlie should be in prison. I’ve seen no evidence to convince me he’s guilty. He needs help and mental health care.”

‘I WASN’T READY FOR A CASE LIKE THAT’ When Holmes was murdered in September 1988, the savagery of the crime shook the small town of Fordyce. Holmes had been bound, raped, severely beaten and repeatedly stabbed with knives from her own kitchen. Her killer then slashed Holmes’ throat and stuffed her body into the trunk of her car.

After more than a year passed without an arrest, Holmes’ family hired a retired police officer to investigate. They offered him $5,000 to solve the murder.

The investigator was a Fordyce native, and he came to the case with a network of informants. As is often the case with informants, some had criminal records, some were addicted to drugs or alcohol, and some were facing their own charges at the time. One informant eventually directed the investigator’s attention to Vaughn, a high school dropout known in the community to have an intellectual disability and to suffer from mental illness.

It isn’t clear why the informant singled Vaughn out, but records show that Vaughn had recently been arrested and charged with making “terroristic threats.” Court documents don’t specify the nature of those threats, but Stuart Chanen, who has represented Vaughn since 2016, suspects it was related to a mental health episode. “My sense is that Charlie was seen as different, maybe a little off,” he says. “That’s probably how he became a suspect.”

By the end of 1988, the police had interrogated Vaughn at least four times.

Each time he told them he knew nothing of the murder. Yet in March 1990 Vaughn and two other men — Reginald Early and John Brown — were charged with robbing, raping and murdering Myrtle Holmes.

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evidence against Vaughn at that time came from informants and sources working with the private investigator. Some claimed to have seen the three men together around the time of the murder. Others claimed to have overheard them discussing the crime. But no one saw them going in or out of Holmes’ house.

For the next 10 months, Vaughn continued to insist on his innocence. Because he was indigent and Dallas County had no full-time public defender, a judge assigned Vaughn’s case to Edward Oglesby, an attorney in private practice. Oglesby had been out of law school for a little more than a year.

“I’ll be the first to say I wasn’t ready for a case like that,” Oglesby says. “But back then, if you were assigned an indigent case, you were expected to accept it unless you had a valid reason to withdraw. And lack of experience wasn’t considered a valid reason.”

After just a few conversations with Vaughn, Oglesby had doubts about his new client’s guilt. “I just didn’t think Charlie was capable of a crime like that,” he says. “At worst, I thought he might have been manipulated or drawn in by someone else.”

Oglesby also worried that Vaughn lacked the intellectual capacity to assist in his own defense. In January 1991, after nearly 10 months in jail and at Oglesby’s direction, Vaughn changed his plea from not guilty to “not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect.” The following month, Olgesby persuaded a state judge to order a 30-day mental health evaluation.

It isn’t clear if that evaluation ever happened, or if it did, how thorough it was. The judge never held a hearing on Vaughn’s competency, as was required by state law.

Instead, local law enforcement set out to extract a confession from Vaughn. On March 24, 1991, the Dallas County Sheriff’s Office sent an informant into Vaughn’s jail cell with a hidden tape recorder. The informant was from out of state, had never previously met Vaughn, and was told his own felony drug charges would be dropped if he could get Vaughn to confess.

Later the same day, the Dallas County sheriff announced that Vaughn had not only confessed, he had given police a detailed description of how he, Brown and Early robbed, raped and murdered Myrtle Holmes.

Vaughn also allegedly told investigators that a woman named Tina Jimerson drove the men to and from the crime. Vaughn would later say the informant had tricked him, telling him his innocence didn’t matter — that he’d get the death penalty unless he confessed. The recording of Vaughn’s alleged confession was never handed over to his defense, and police and prosecutors never disclosed the role of the informant in extracting the confession.

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Oglesby was eventually forced to withdraw from Vaughn’s case, in part because of a preplanned move to Little Rock. Vaughn’s new attorney had barely spoken to him before the court hearing to address the alleged confession. Vaughn would later say he told his new attorney he was innocent and wanted a jury trial. Instead, according to Vaughn, the new attorney too told him his only hope of avoiding the death penalty was to plead guilty and implicate the others. Vaughn’s second attorney is now deceased.

It’s perhaps understandable why a lawyer might have encouraged Vaughn to plead guilty.

Vaughn stood accused of a horrific crime that had traumatized the community. Eyewitnesses claimed to have seen him with the other suspects around the time of the murder. And the sheriff had just announced that Vaughn confessed.

A conviction might well have seemed like a foregone conclusion, and avoiding the death penalty the best possible outcome. And so on March 25, 1991, on the advice of his new lawyer, Vaughn confessed in open court. During a short colloquy with the judge, Vaughn said he, Brown and Early had robbed, raped and murdered Holmes, and that Jimerson had driven them to and from the crime.

The judge convicted Vaughn and sentenced him to life in prison.

‘A POSTER CASE FOR FALSE CONFESSIONS’ Vaughn’s alleged confession should have been suspect from the start. At his colloquy he seemed confused and appeared to be taking cues from the judge. The confession was also short-lived. Vaughn confessed in March 1991 and retracted his confession the following year. He has maintained his innocence ever since.

The confession also included several assertions inconsistent with what investigators knew about the crime, including a glaring one — Vaughn implicated himself in a rape he couldn’t have committed.

In the late 1980s, DNA testing couldn’t match blood or sperm to one person as it can today.

But it could exclude someone as the source of biological evidence. And in 1989, more than a year before Vaughn confessed, DNA testing had already excluded both Vaughn and Brown as the source of the sperm found in Holmes.

Reginald Early could not be excluded. Despite Vaughn’s confession, it’s highly unlikely either he or Brown raped Holmes.

The Arkansas attorney general’s office has brushed off this contradiction and pointed to other details provided by Vaughn, details supposedly known only to police at the time. But given that the police concealed the existence of the informant, their credibility here is suspect. Even if the claim is accurate,

without the recordings of Vaughn’s alleged initial confession, it’s impossible to know whether investigators may have conveyed those details to the informant, or if the informant conveyed them to Vaughn. (The AG’s office did not respond to questions for this story.)

Vaughn also got other details wrong. He misstated how the killer entered the house, how Holmes was killed (he wrongly said she’d been struck with a pipe and skillet), and even where she lived. And while the state has alleged that Vaughn and Early were longtime friends, in his colloquy Vaughn formally referred to Early as “Reginald.” At trial and in depositions, those who knew Early well called him “Reggie.” He was only known as Reginald in court documents.

“I think that’s significant,” says Jeff Kukucka, a psychology professor at Towson University who studies false confessions.

“When assessing the reliability of a confession, you look for those kinds of discrepancies. Why would he have used Reginald? The most likely explanation is that’s the name that was given to him by the informant or by police.”

According to data from the Innocence Project, about one in four convictions that have been overturned by DNA testing involved a false confession. Academic research also shows that people with intellectual disabilities are among the most likely to falsely implicate themselves.

“This case sets off every red flag and then some,” says Saul Kassin, a psychologist and professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice who has studied false confessions since the 1980s. “You have an intellectually disabled man, you have a year of incarceration, you have the threat of the death penalty, and you have him confessing to a rape that he couldn’t have committed. You have a jailhouse informant pressuring him. These are all classic characteristics common in false confessions.”

Kukucka agrees. “This is a poster case for false confessions,” he says.

In fact, Kassin has found that innocent suspects subjected to coercive interrogations are actually more likely to confess than the guilty. An innocent person worn down by an extended stay in jail or intense questioning will confess just to end the discomfort of the moment. Because they know they’re innocent, they’re confident the evidence will eventually clear them.

“It’s one of the most paradoxical and counterintuitive things about false confessions,” Kassin says. “They believe in justice and they believe in the system, so they think their innocence will shine through, that it will overcome the confession. The tragic thing is that it’s often the opposite — the confession is often the only evidence left that

keeps them incarcerated.”

Kassin and Kukucka both say Vaughn’s second attorney should have factored Vaughn’s disabilities into his legal defense. “Even back then, there was plenty of research showing that disabled and mentally ill people were vulnerable to false confessions,” Kassin says.

In 1992, a year after Vaughn’s confession, Brown, Early and Jimerson were all tried together for Holmes’ murder. The jury deadlocked 6-6, resulting in a mistrial.

The three were tried again in August 1992.

By then Vaughn had retracted his confession and declared his innocence. He refused to cooperate at the second trial, insisting his attorney had “put all them words in my mouth” to help him avoid the death penalty. He said he barely knew Brown or Early and that he knew nothing about the crime.

But John Brown’s attorney inexplicably failed to introduce the DNA tests that undermined Vaughn’s confession (the attorney would later be convicted of various felonies and

permanently disbarred). The jury convicted, and the judge sentenced Brown, Early and Jimerson to life in prison.

AN EXPLOITED TRAGEDY After a defendant is convicted, the case moves to a phase called “direct appeal.”

Here the courts are required to consider constitutional violations or an unfair trial.

Once a prisoner loses a direct appeal, the case moves into “post-conviction.” At this stage, a petitioner can bring claims based on evidence outside the trial record. This is when prisoners are most likely to discover the most consequential problems with the state’s case, like prosecutorial misconduct, undisclosed alternate suspects or exculpatory evidence that was never disclosed.

But there’s a catch. Once a case enters postconviction, it also becomes much more difficult to get a court to consider any new evidence. In many states, post-conviction procedures are loaded with restrictions and deadlines, and

BRIAN CHILSON

IN PRISON ON A TECHNICALITY: The 1995 handwritten “appeal” that has kept Charlie Vaughn in prison (above); John Brown, convicted of the same crimes as Vaughn, was released from prison in 2018; Arkansas Supreme Court Justice Robin Wynne served as prosecutor in Vaughn’s trial.

courts and legislatures have made it clear that the law should prioritize the “finality” of jury verdicts.

At the time Vaughn was convicted, a prisoner who exhausted his state post-conviction claims would then turn to a federal judge.

AEDPA, passed in 1996, changed all of that.

AEDPA requires prisoners to exhaust all their constitutional claims in state court before they can ask for federal review. If they fail to successfully navigate the gauntlet of state procedures and deadlines correctly, they lose by procedural default, at which point AEDPA all but bars them from federal court.

At the time Charlie Vaughn was convicted, few states showed less interest in protecting the rights of the accused than Arkansas. One study published four years before Myrtle Holmes’ murder ranked Arkansas dead last among all states in public defense spending per capita.

“We got $200 per felony to represent an indigent client — $350 if it was a potential death penalty case,” says Oglesby. “But you only got ARKTIMES.COM

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paid when the case was closed. It didn’t matter if it took two weeks or if it took a year.”

That created some perverse incentives. If a client pleaded guilty an hour after the attorney was assigned the case, the attorney got $350 for an hour’s worth of work. If the client went to trial, the attorney could be looking at months, or possibly years of work for the same $350, payable only once it was all over. Persuading clients to plead guilty and ask for lenience was far more lucrative.

Attorneys assigned to indigent cases could spend no more than $100 per case on an investigator. The state cap on all expenses — copies, mileage, experts, investigators, office supplies, everything — was just $1,000. Recent studies have put the cost of a bare-bones death penalty defense at $120,000 to $500,000 — or $60,000 to $250,000 in 1989 dollars. Postconviction attorneys say a thorough death penalty defense can run significantly higher, $600,000 to $1 million or more.

None of the four people convicted for Myrtle Holmes’ murder received the death penalty, but that blessing came with a curse: In most death penalty states, including Arkansas, only people sentenced to die are provided with a public defender once their cases enter postconviction. Unless they’re fortunate enough to find someone who will take their case for free, everyone else must negotiate the postconviction minefield on their own.

If you’ve been sentenced to anything less than death in Arkansas, you have 90 days at most to learn enough state law to understand post-conviction procedures, obtain and review a trial transcript, find experts willing to review the state’s experts for free, and send friends and family out to find witnesses and investigate alternate suspects.

According to Arkansas defense attorneys I’ve interviewed, it can take a month or more just to obtain a trial transcript. They also say prisoners typically aren’t aware of these deadlines. “In all my years practicing in this state, I can think of one, maybe two judges

who ever bothered to give a defendant notice about the deadlines,” says John Wesley Hall, a criminal defense attorney who has practiced in Arkansas for nearly 50 years. “I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard inmates say they didn’t know how or when they were supposed to file.”

A BROKEN WINDOW In 2015, when faced with the possible results of more sophisticated DNA testing, Reginald Early confessed. Early said he started drinking early on that late summer morning, then began wandering around his old neighborhood.

When he passed by Holmes’ house, he said, he flashed back to an incident years earlier in which Holmes had called the police on him as he attempted to rob her. In his drunken state he grew angry, then flew into a rage. He entered her home, robbed, raped and killed her, and then stuffed her body into the trunk of her car. Unlike Vaughn’s confession, Early’s description of the crime was wholly consistent with the evidence.

Early also stated unequivocally that he acted alone. He said he barely knew Brown, Jimerson or Vaughn. He then added a chilling detail: He had actually considered confessing shortly after his arrest. He changed his mind when he learned that people he barely knew — and knew were innocent — had been charged as well. At that point, he said, he assumed the police and prosecutors didn’t know what they were doing. So he decided to take his chances at trial.

At about the same time, Tricia Rojo Bushnell and the Midwest Innocence Project took up John Brown’s case. That legal team also reinterviewed the eyewitnesses who claimed to have seen the four suspects together or heard them discussing the murder. Nearly all of the witnesses were police informants or owed favors to the private investigator hired

by Holmes’ family. Some were battling drug or alcohol addiction. One had schizophrenia and couldn’t remember testifying. Another

potential witness, who was 14 at the time, said the police threatened to send him to juvenile hall unless he fabricated incriminating information about one of the four suspects. He refused. Decades later, he’d learn police falsely claimed he had implicated the man, anyway.

Early’s confession was powerful proof of Brown, Jimerson and Vaughn’s innocence. But it wasn’t enough to exonerate them. Federal courts have ruled that even when witnesses recant or someone else confesses, a defendant must show that prosecutors knew the original confession or witness statements were false and failed to disclose it. Since there’s no evidence police and prosecutors knew Early was lying about his innocence or encouraged him to do so, his confession alone wasn’t enough.

In court filings, the Arkansas attorney general’s office acknowledged there was no way for Brown or Jimerson to get back into state court with any of their new exculpatory evidence — not the confession, not the recantations that had eventually been collected from eyewitnesses, not new doubts about the reliability of the informant.

Yet in keeping with AEDPA’s hall-of-mirrors jurisprudence, when a state provides no avenue for a prisoner to adjudicate innocence claims, it’s the prisoner who is punished — the law considers the prisoner to have defaulted on the nonadjudicable claims. And again, once a prisoner has defaulted in state court, AEDPA treats any subsequent filings in federal court with more hostility.

In the end, even with their bounty of new evidence, John Brown and Tina Jimerson did clear AEDPA’s restrictions, but only barely. The two federal magistrates who first reviewed their respective cases both recommended against overturning their convictions. In both cases, a federal district judge would later disregard the magistrate’s recommendations with a long, analytical opinion explaining why even under AEDPA, the two had produced enough evidence to overturn their convictions.

“This case sets off every red flag and then some. You have an intellectually disabled man, you have a year of incarceration, you have the threat of the death penalty, and you have him confessing to a rape that he couldn’t have committed. You have a jailhouse informant pressuring him. These are all classic characteristics common in false confessions.”

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At the time Charlie Vaughn was convicted, few states showed less interest in protecting the rights of the accused than Arkansas. One study published four years before Myrtle Holmes’ murder ranked Arkansas dead last among all states in public defense spending per capita.

The two judges also separately found that prosecutor Robin Wynne, who went on to become an Arkansas Supreme Court justice, had provided false information to defense attorneys, and had either hidden or destroyed exculpatory evidence or knew about its destruction and failed to disclose it. The courts also found that in failing to disclose the existence of both the jailhouse informant and the now-missing recording of Vaughn’s alleged confession, Wynne had acted in bad faith.

(Wynne’s office did not respond to requests for an interview.)

When the Eighth Circuit later upheld those rulings, the state of Arkansas decided not to try Brown and Jimerson again. Both were freed in the fall of 2018 after 26 years in prison.

After their release, both also filed civil rights lawsuits. Jimerson’s case is still in litigation, but Brown will never receive any compensation. Two years after his release he died of congestive heart failure at age 53.

Myrtle Holmes’ niece, Michelle Tull, said Early’s guilt made sense to her, but she was always unsure about the others charged in her great-aunt’s murder. “I just kept waiting for the state attorney to present evidence that they knew her. That they knew Early. All they had were these — pardon the term — but these crackhead witnesses who couldn’t remember anything. I just kept thinking, where’s the evidence that the others had anything to do with this? Where’s the evidence? It never came.”

Mounting evidence of Vaughn’s false conviction didn’t matter as much as the procedural requirements of AEDPA, and Vaughn’s new attorney failed to convince the Eighth Circuit to allow lower courts to reconsider Vaughn’s case. “By design, AEDPA is complicated and unforgiving,” says David Moran, who runs the innocence clinic at the University of Michigan Law School. “You can be a really smart, well-intentioned lawyer, but if you aren’t an AEDPA specialist, you’re susceptible to making mistakes. And clients pay for those mistakes.”

Brown, Jimerson and Vaughn were all convicted on the same evidence. All three had to plead their cases to the same appeals court, based on the same evidence. But Vaughn had the added burdens of AEDPA’s ban on successive petitions and a less experienced

attorney. Now, only Vaughn remains in prison.

“This is an intellectually disabled man who has been in prison for a very long time‚” Chanen said. “He has compelling evidence of his innocence, and the state committed multiple constitutional violations to convict him. But because of AEDPA, this federal appeals court can reject him with one sentence. They’re under no obligation to explain why. And he has no right to appeal, object or ask them to reconsider.”

MEAN STATE Arkansas still provides no recourse in state court for prisoners who find evidence establishing their innocence.

After the federal appeals court overturned Brown and Jimerson’s convictions, the Arkansas attorney general’s office decided not to try them again. At first blush, that at least seems like recognition that the two were wrongly convicted. But the convictions were only overturned because federal judges determined the new evidence was so overwhelming that it cleared even AEDPA’s high bar. Arkansas officials had known about that evidence for years. Rather than drop the charges against Brown and Jimerson, they repeatedly asked federal courts to keep the two incarcerated on technicalities. And they nearly succeeded.

The state’s treatment of Charlie Vaughn has been even worse. The state of Arkansas argued that by not filing within a year of when the first bits of new evidence were discovered, Vaughn had failed to show “due diligence” in establishing his innocence. And because he missed AEDPA’s deadline, he was procedurally barred from benefiting from the exculpatory evidence.

At the time the new evidence was discovered, Vaughn was in a maximum security prison cell, in another part of the state, with no legal representation. “You’re going to argue that this poor man who is illiterate and has mental health issues should have known what was going on in those other cases, despite no access to the outside world?” Chanen asks. “That he should have been aware of court fillings? Come on. It’s just absurd.”

Last April, Chanen submitted a clemency petition for Vaughn to the state parole board, which screens petitions and makes

recommendations to the governor. As part of that petition, in December of 2021 — three decades after Vaughn’s confession — Chanen ordered the mental health evaluation Vaughn never received. Forensic psychologist Bhushan Agharkar concluded that Vaughn is severely intellectually impaired. Of the 1,500 people he has evaluated, Agharkar wrote, Vaughn is “unequivocally one of the lowest functioning individuals I have ever seen.”

He reported that Vaughn had “a debilitating lack of insight, rational weighing, ability to deliberate, and common sense.” Vaughn was “unable to perform simple math, interpret easy proverbs and sayings, or make simple change out of a dollar.” During the exam Agharkar asked Vaughn the length of the average human spine is. Vaughn responded, “10 feet.” When Agharkar asked Vaughn how high the ceilings in the exam room were, Vaughn replied, “5 feet.” Vaughn himself is 5 feet, 6 inches tall.

Vaughn’s second-grade teacher described him in the petition as “a sweet boy who wanted to learn,” but who clearly needed special care.

According to the clemency petition, should Vaughn be released he’ll have a place to go.

Angelo Hempstead is a childhood friend who looked out for Vaughn growing up. His family also owns a farm, restaurant and construction business in Smackover. Should Vaughn ever be released, the Hempstead family says they’ll take him in, giving him a place to live, providing him meals and finding him a job on the farm.

Michelle Tull also wrote a letter for Vaughn’s clemency application. Tull wrote that she believed Vaughn had been exploited by police and prosecutors, and that he is “also a victim in this terrible tragedy.” She added that though she’s “fairly certain” Vaughn is innocent, even if he played some role in her great-aunt’s murder, “31 years is simply long enough for a mentally disabled adult to be put in prison. My family and I want him released regardless.”

But in July, the parole board denied Vaughn’s petition. They offered no explanation.

Charlie Vaughn remains in the same prison from which he sent that handwritten petition in 1995. He has now been incarcerated for more than 30 years, and barring clemency or a pardon from Arkansas’s governor, he’ll die in prison.

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Joseph M. Kraska Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon & Galchus 888-371-9116 500 President Clinton Avenue, Suite 200 Little Rock Brooklyn Parker Jason Owens Law Firm 501-764-4334 1023 Main Street, Suite 204 Conway Litigation - Real Estate Payton C. Bentley Clark Law Firm 479-856-6380 121 West South Street Fayetteville Kael K. Bowling Friday Eldredge & Clark 479-695-2011 3350 South Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Suite 301 Rogers

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Product Liability Litigation - Defendants Devin R. Bates Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock Nicholas D. Hornung Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

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Jack Wagoner III Wagoner Law Firm (501) 663-5225 1320 Brookwood, Suite A Little Rock Jason H. Wales Wales Law Firm 479-439-8088 2961 North Point Circle, Suite 203 Fayetteville Phillip J. Wells Wells & Wells 870-782-4084 225 South Church Street Jonesboro Bud B. Whetstone Whetstone Law Firm 501-376-3564 Plaza West Building Little Rock David H. Williams The Law Office of David H. Williams 501-372-0038 211 South Spring Street, Second Floor Little Rock Kyle R. Wilson Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

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Product Liability Litigation - Plaintiffs Frank H. Bailey Bailey & Oliver Law Firm 479-202-5200 3606 West Southern Hills Boulevard, Suite 200 Rogers

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Shane Strabala Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone 501-374-6535 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1900 Little Rock John E. Tull III Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock Michael P. Vanderford Anderson Murphy Hopkins 501-372-1887 101 River Bluff Drive, Suite A Little Rock Richard N. Watts Watts, Donovan, Tilley & Carson 501-372-1406 2120 Riverfront Drive, Suite 275 Little Rock Thomas G. Williams Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock Kyle R. Wilson Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock Kimberly D. Young Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock Mary Carole Young Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone 501-374-6535 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1900 Little Rock

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Strive to be a Champion SCHOOL ATHLETIC PROGRAMS teach students many important life skills, including balance, time management, and hard work. The Pulaski County Special School District is proud of the many accomplishments of our student athletes and athletic programs, both on and off the field. Each of the four feeders in PCSSD has their own athletic director who oversees the success of student-athletes on and off the field. “Statistics have shown that students who are involved in extracurricular activities during high school make higher grades, have a higher graduation rate, lower discipline issues, and increased opportunity for college scholarship monies,” said Robinson athletic director Todd Eskola. “At Robinson, we not only encourage all students to be involved, but we strongly encourage students to not specialize. We want our student-athletes to be well rounded and be involved in more than one sport or activity!

Try out for an athletic team, join the band or choir, find an organization or club on campus to be plugged in with!”

Mills athletic director, Raymond Cooper, said, “Student athletes today are students FIRST. The days of athletes getting passed along and not performing academically are long gone. The training and the rigor it takes to be successful has increased drastically. Sports have become year round. There is no more offseason.”

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Meanwhile, big things are happening at Maumelle. Athletic director Kirk Horton is excited to watch the upcoming additions come to life. “Maumelle High School stands to gain a new baseball field, softball field, regulation track (with a turf infield where soccer or football could be played), and an indoor practice facility. This will allow our student athletes to be able to practice and play games on campus.

The project will also give our current field house a facelift and make all of our facilities for athletics up to date. The project is set to start Fall of 2022 and finish in Fall of 2023.

This will be a huge selling point for future enrollment.”

Maumelle’s $11 million dollar project is part of PCSSD’s Building for the Future bond restructuring that was passed by voters in November 2021.

The PCSSD Athletic Department provides student-athletes the opportunity for involvement on a variety of athletic teams. While striving for excellence, the athletic programs serve as an extension of the school district’s academic goals, supporting success in the classroom as well as on the field. The PCSSD Athletic programs aim to instill loyalty, teamwork and leadership while maintaining honesty and integrity in every student athlete.

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Denny Tipton, Sylvan Hills athletic director said his favorite part is watching the students grow, “I encourage our coaches to get into the hallways at their schools to get to know the students, which makes them want to participate in sports if there is already a relationship with the coach. I love when athletes have success in the classroom and on the field.”

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Take care CELEBRATING NATIONAL FAMILY CAREGIVERS MONTH

by Katherine Wyrick

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aregiving often calls us to lean into love we didn’t know was possible.” — Tia Walker Celebrated every November, National Family Caregivers Month is a time to recognize and honor family caregivers across the country.

Most caregiving comes from unpaid family members and friends, many of whom are trying to balance those duties with full-time jobs and other family responsibilities. Without the right support, it can be overwhelming.

In this issue, we provide resources and information for caregivers on self-care and advocacy. We also discuss the challenges that Arkansas faces regarding this issue and what’s being done nationally to address it.

Caretaking takes many forms — whether it’s caring for an aging adult or a child with special needs. Whatever your experience, we hope you feel seen and appreciated.

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With the stress of helping a loved one, caregivers often forget to care for themselves, which puts them at risk for compassion fatigue, burnout, and health issues — both mental and physical. It’s a common theme: They’re so focused on the needs of others, they neglect their own. According to AARP, more than ⅓ of caregivers experience poor health, and more than one in five say that caregiving made their health worse. AARP also notes that there are nearly 500,000 unpaid family caregivers in Arkansas alone, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that Arkansas is one of four states with the highest prevalence of unpaid caregivers.

The National Alliance for Caregiving and AARP both report that more than one in five adults are unpaid family caregivers, creating ripple effects within families and communities and affecting public health. But these caregivers play an essential role in society, given the lack of affordable, accessible long-term services and support.

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It’s also worth noting — and no surprise — that over half of family caregivers are women. Children, however, do it too. Over a million American young people aged eight to 18 care for an adult relative on a daily basis. It’s also no surprise that these issues disproportionately affect family caregivers of color, creating greater inequities.

So what’s being done to support them?

ADVOCACY

Fortunately, there’s a movement afoot at the national level to increase public awareness of family caregiving issues and advocate on their behalf. The National Alliance for Caregiving is one nonprofit that's made this its mission. Thanks in part to their efforts and the aptly named RAISE (Recognize, Assist, Include, Support, and Engage) Act, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently developed a much-needed national plan.

The recently released National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers strategy details more than 350 federal actions and 150 measures that state and local governments, public health departments, philanthropies and community-based, faith-based, and nonprofit organizations can take to support the nation’s 53 million family caregivers.

It couldn’t come at a better time. According to the NAC, there were 10 million more family caregivers in 2020 than there were in 2015, and that number is expected to keep growing.

Some issues addressed by the national plan include:

• Access to short-term care to give caregivers a break • Support with day-to-day and complex medical tasks • Inclusion in care teams so that caregivers can be part of the hospital discharge planning process and make transitions smoother • Financial education on caregiving costs so caregivers can better prepare • Better identification of family caregivers so they can receive information and support • Research on the needs of family caregivers to inform evidence-based policies

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As for local resources, there are many. Here we list just a few.

For aging adults:

The UAMS Schmieding Caregiver Training Program and the Donald W. Reynolds Center on Aging offer a variety of programs to the community, including free workshops for family caregivers providing unpaid care to older adults in the home and a variety of other free educational programs for seniors designed to promote healthy living.

CareLink is a nonprofit that has been serving homebound and active older people and their family caregivers for 40 years. Their mission is to connect older people and their families with resources to meet the opportunities and challenges of aging. You can call their information and assistance specialists, who will help you determine what resources and services might best fit your needs, and they’ll help you get them in place.

Elder Independence is local and equally committed to their clients and caregivers. They provide affordable home care services from family support and respite care to hospital sitter services. Despite their name, they also offer services for people of all ages with disabilities and other challenges.

FOR OVERALL FAMILY HEALTH & CARE

Methodist Family Health has a long history of helping children and families in Arkansas. Today MFH manages the Methodist Children’s Home, Methodist Behavioral Hospital, Methodist Counseling Clinics and Arkansas CARES. Whether someone in your charge needs mental health care, or you yourself do, they can help.

They offer care for adults and children struggling with a range of mental health issues.

The goal of their services is for clients to become proficient in social and independent living skills so they can reunite with family or move to the least restrictive residential treatment setting appropriate for them, such as a therapeutic foster home, or re-enter the community as an adult.

Kelli Reep of Methodist Family Health shared this advice for caregivers and those who love them.

FOR CAREGIVERS THEMSELVES: How do you avoid burnout?

Ask for and accept help. As much as we like to think we can do it all, we cannot. Burnout does nothing for your loved one you’re caring for, the people around you or yourself. Help is necessary.

How do you manage stress?

Taking regular breaks from caregiving is crucial. You can’t be 100% all day, every day. You have to find somewhere to find some peace and do something just for you.

It takes a tremendous amount of spiritual, emotional and physical energy to care for someone you love, who may or may not be the same person you’ve known so well. Giving yourself grace as a caregiver and accepting grace from others will go a long way to alleviating stress and anxiety.

FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO SUPPORT CAREGIVERS: How can you best help someone who is in this role?

Provide help when they ask. Caregivers need support as much as the person for whom they are caring. Let them know you are there to support them, then show up for them when they ask.

What are some things that are NOT helpful?

Offering unsolicited advice, expecting the caregiver to also be your reporter of the loved one’s medical visits and other health updates, and not fulfilling requests for help from the caregiver.

How can you support someone who is having a hard time as a caregiver?

The first thing is to let them know they are not alone. Caring for someone can be a lonely endeavor, and you become inundated with thoughts and feelings you don’t know how to process. For a family member or friend to be available to listen is a huge relief to a caregiver.

Another way is to take on a task that doesn’t overwhelm you but makes a difference in the caregiver’s life. This can be picking up kids from school, washing laundry, making dinner for a week — anything that frees the caregiver from other chores helps tremendously.

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Thursday, November 10, 2022 • 6-9 pm Center for Training & Wellness Easterseals is an excellent resource for people of all ages with disabilities and their families. You can support them by attending Art & Soul, an event that showcases original art created by the children and adults of Easterseals Arkansas and local renowned artists. Art & Soul also highlights artwork created through the A.R.T. (Artistic Realization Technologies) program, which provides creative expression for children and adults with limited use of their arms and hands. artandsoul22.givesmart.com Easterseals offers a wealth of support for caregivers here: easterseals.com/arkansas/explore-resources/forcaregivers/

YOU ARE A CAREGIVER IF . . .

If you’re a caregiver, you’re probably well aware of it. But should you have some lingering doubt, take this short quiz: • Do you take your child or an adult with a disability to the grocery store once a week?

• Do you take time off work to drive them to doctor appointments?

If you answered “yes” to either of these, you might be a caregiver. Other hints you might be one — if you regularly help someone with any of the following: • Transportation • Housework • Preparing meals • Medication reminders • Medical appointments • Managing finances • Getting dressed • Managing a chronic condition

THE SANDWICH GENERATION

Feeling smushed? You might be part of the “sandwich generation,” those who are taking care of children and aging parents at the same time. If you’re part of this demographic, care.com offers these tips for you: • Take time to recharge.

• Save time while updating family (with an app like Lotsa Helping Hands).

• Share the load with your family.

• Hire help.

• Talk to your employer.

• Let go of the desire to achieve a perfect balance.

• Determine your non-negotiable needs.

• Lean on support.

• Keep perspective.

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n a sultry Monday evening in late June, about 100 or so people congregated at the White Water Tavern. The evening marked nearly 13 months to the day since Emily Fenton moved back to Arkansas from New York, and she stood on a stage in front of a room filled with family, friends and admirers, playing a double handful’s worth of new songs being recorded live that night for an album. Her band included her new husband, Marco Samour, on guitar, as well as another recent transplant to Little Rock, Annie Ford, on fiddle.

It felt like the ending of a romantic movie, a movie that started several years back when Emily got a scholarship to Ithaca College in upstate New York to study musical theater, dabbling in writing and performing her own music, and eventually moving to New York City to focus on stand-up comedy. “I was doing a lot of irreverent comedy that I wasn’t good enough to be doing,” she said. “And I realized how thickskinned and rigorous that environment is. And I was like, ‘I don’t really want to do this.’ ” Getting paying gigs, either as a comedian or musician, was a constant struggle.

“It felt impossible, especially in New York,” Fenton said. “The only way I could get a substantial cut was by bringing X-amount of people through the door. It was so much selfpromotion and so much hustling just to get people to come to a show. … I started making a little bit of money as a musician the last year I was there. So I told myself, ‘OK, I’m a songwriter. This is what I can see myself doing.

This is what I need to build upon. But it didn’t become feasible until I came here.”

It’s a counterintuitive notion that it might be easier to make music when one’s living in a nonmusic-industry town. Dreams of stardom fuel ambition to follow in the footsteps of one’s favorite musicians who “made it,” shaking off the dust of their hometowns in search of fame and fortune in places like New York City, Los Angeles, Nashville or Austin. But the music business landscape looks very different than it did decades ago when “big break” ideology reigned supreme. The business changed even more in the wake of a worldwide pandemic, and performers were hit especially hard. “Making it” in times like these means that the “it” changes from wealth and celebrity to a steady income that pays the mortgage and the light bill and puts shoes on the kids’ feet.

Fenton started thinking about moving back south when a dog she adopted in New York, Frango, was injured. Surgery would run thousands of dollars cheaper in Arkansas, even factoring in the cost of Frango traveling from New York to Arkansas. Frango convalesced at Fenton’s parents’ house, where there was a

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large yard. When he got back to Brooklyn, Emily said, Frango was depressed. “Maybe I need to make a change,” she remembered thinking. “If it’s not good for Frango, maybe it’s not good for me.” She intended to move to Nashville, but the moving company lost all her belongings, so she came home to Arkansas to recalibrate. “I drove home with just what would fit in my car,” she said. “Ten days after I got here, I met Marco.”

She has been here ever since. *** Little Rock-based musician Nick Flora also took a hiatus from his hometown, moving to Nashville in 2007. His wife at the time had accepted a nursing job in the city and Flora saw it as an opportunity to build on his work promoting shows, playing in bands around Central Arkansas and touring regionally.

Another Arkansas native, Jessie Ott, moved to Nashville a few years later and started making dreamy alternative-pop records under the name Whoa Dakota. Both of them say Nashville in those days was close-knit but welcoming, even nurturing, to newcomers with talent and professionalism.

Ott described it as a double-edged sword.

“The great thing about Nashville is that everybody does music. And the horrible thing is that everybody does music. It’s hard to find an audience, but it’s easy to find collaborators and supporters.”

Flora said that when he got there, he thought Nashville would work more or less like where he had come from. “My goal when I moved there was to do what I did here,” he said, “which is play every venue in town, get to know every booker, and just become big in this city. I didn’t realize you can’t do that there. Everybody there is a musician. Everybody watching is a musician. Your barista is a musician. The bartender is a better bass player than everybody you know.”

But the character of central Tennessee changed dramatically in the time that he lived there, Flora said. “More fashion people moved there, and tech people moved there, and restaurateurs moved there. To me it was still very small and ‘countryish,’ and not even as in the style of music. The pace was just very slow.

It’s the South, you know? I felt that shift and that change and it was exciting at first. But you get to a point where 80 people a day are moving there for a good seven or eight years straight and you start to feel the claustrophobia. Everybody’s there trying to ‘make it’ in music until there just wasn’t a way to stand out.”

Ott noted that Nashville was starting to become more like Austin, or Los Angeles, or even Las Vegas. “You can’t get a cocktail for less than $8,” she said. “Rents are incredibly high. All of the things that are bringing revenue to that city are not really catered to musicians.

They’re catered to people who have a lot of

money — musicians who are trying to make it generally don’t.”

She said while she always loved Nashville’s energy, “I can’t afford to own a home here unless I get famous real quick.” Then the pandemic set Ott in a different direction completely. “Just before the pandemic,” she said, “when stuff started to get squirrely, I thought to myself, ‘Fuck it, I’m going to write a 1-4-5 country song.

It can’t be too hard.’ I always knew it would come naturally to me, which is why I resisted it, because I’m stubborn. I always want things to be harder.” And “Waitress in Nashville” was soon delivered. “It plopped right out,” she said.

“No big deal, in maybe 45 minutes.” Before long she had written and recorded a seven-song album that she released on streaming services the same week she moved back to Arkansas.

“When I first moved there, Nashville reminded me of Little Rock, but just a little bit bigger and a bit more going on,” she said. “Now it’s a very different situation. I got the idea to move home because my family is here. And I got the idea, ‘What if those of us that left come back and bring with us something we learned about being in an artist city with that energy and that insight?’ ” Since returning to Little Rock in the spring of 2022, Flora has yet to go back on the road as a touring musician, but has found a niche for himself, gigging around town in less glamorous, but often more lucrative venues — restaurants and lounges. “I never thought of the middleground, working-class musician as anything but a success,” he said. “And I got to do that for a very long time, literally right up until COVID. That’s when everything shifted for me.” *** Austin, Texas, boasts its own robust roster of musicians. But compared to Tennessee’s “Music City,” a working-class musician stands a better chance of getting paying gigs in local venues and attracting a local following. That’s what drew Bonnie Montgomery down to the Texas capital in the middle of the last decade. Matt Ford, her touring guitar player, lived in Austin and invited her to spend a month in the city with the promise they’d play a gig every night.

“And we did,” Bonnie said. “We played the Hole in the Wall and The White Horse. We were just on this honky tonk merry-go-round the whole month. It was wild, and beautiful, and blurry.

After that I was like, I need to be in Austin. I need to go where the universe is giving me a lot of work,” she said.

The band of musicians Montgomery put together in Texas were all full-time musicians, which afforded her the luxury to gig around town and even tour. Not long after, she started earning accolades — an Ameripolitan award for best female Outlaw Country performer, a tour and duet with country legend Dale Watson, a recording with Western swing icon Rosie

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Flores. In the midst of all that, after spending “too long,” Montgomery said, staying nights on friends’ couches and relatives’ spare rooms, she took up permanent residence in a cabin situated on a 12-acre plot of land in Wimberley, Texas, about an hour southwest of Austin.

“The minute I drove into Wimberley,” she said, “I was like, oh my God, I have to live here. … It looks a lot like the Ozarks. It’s green. It’s the Hill Country. Certain times of year it looks a lot like home. I had all these wonderful feelings of familiarity. But there’s also some desert vibes there, too.” Wimberley’s membership in the Dark Sky Society prohibits light pollution, and for Montgomery the night skies and natural beauty were inspiring, the rent was affordable, and the relative solitude fueled her productivity while leaving her close enough to the action in Austin.

Montgomery said she had a “beautiful” time getting to know the “old school” Austin, but saw its culture disappearing quickly. “While I was there, I got to know the people who started the old Armadillo Club. I sang at the closing of Threadgill’s,” she said. “Everybody was saying farewell, and I thought, ‘This needs to be a revolution! Why isn’t the city fighting to make this into a museum?’ It’s really sad because these cities have built their identity around the arts and the music, but it’s the classic tale that the artists can’t afford to live there anymore once everybody discovers what they’ve contributed to make these cities so beautiful.”

When the pandemic hit, Montgomery spent her “reclusive” period on a number of creative pursuits. “I was suffering because my livelihood was gone, and my collaborators were gone. It was devastating,” she said. Despite all that, she said it was a fertile time for writing without the distractions of making a living at making music.

“I didn’t have to answer any emails or plan any tours or get the van ready for going across the country, nothing,” she said. “Our minds were clear to just be artists, finally. It was hard, but it was also freeing.”

She wrote a lot in the early days of the pandemic when everything was locked down, especially classical music. She composed a complete string quartet she hopes to debut soon. She also wrote and recorded an album with her longtime steel guitar player, Kevin Skryla, at his home studio filled with vintage analog recording equipment and instruments, that she plans to release soon.

“During the pandemic it was just me and Kevin,” she said. “He can play the drums and bass and guitar and the steel and piano. Plus he runs the board. We would just be on our own time and go as far as we wanted and take as much time as we wanted.

“With most studios,” she continued, “it’s off the charts expensive. You’re counting the hours and you’re counting money, and it’s this weird rush. But you leave that experience thinking, ‘How much would we have done if we weren’t in a rush?’ ”

As sessions for the new album were wrapping up, Montgomery got opportunities to play the occasional live show again, and made several trips to Northwest Arkansas to work with House of Songs, an organization that works to nurture songwriters and foster collaboration.

That relationship bore many fruits, including Montgomery co-writing a song called “On The Run” with Ashtyn Barbaree that appears on Barbaree’s new sophomore album.

Montgomery also benefited from the Life Works Here grant from the Northwest Arkansas Council, a grant designed to attract remote workers, entrepreneurs and the self-employed to Arkansas, and enabled her move from Texas to Fayetteville. “I had a meeting with a group of people who got [the grant] at the same time as me. I was the only musician [among] a lot of crypto currency and blockchain guys. I don’t think artists are the majority of those getting these grants, but it does work for us. If you’re a remote worker.”

Her dream during the pandemic was to develop a classical music showcase for Northwest Arkansas that could function as an “ ‘in-between’ — not New York City and not Little Rock,” she said. “Working with House of Songs I realized there’s all these new venues up here, like The Momentary and Crystal Bridges [Museum of American Art]. During the pandemic, I wrote a lot of classical music that hasn’t been premiered. One of my big reasons for moving up here was to try to get a classical showcase going on.” *** A couple of time zones over, musician Nick Shoulders lived his own version of the solitary creative. “I moved into my van in my mid20s, went out west and busked on the streets of California, Oregon and Washington,” he said. “I lived by the ocean with my big dog in this vehicle. I definitely tried out the other way of living music outside of home, which is permanent transience.”

As he encountered others on the road living the same way, he started to realize this world of permanent transience — streetside busking for a living — had a home: New Orleans. “I became aware that was a place you could do it and there were a lot of like-minded folks you could hang out with doing the same sort of stuff. So I gravitated toward that neo-traditional country, Cajun and rhythm and blues music scene, and I loved it.”

As a native Arkansan whose family has roots in the state going back to the 1840s, Shoulders considers himself in the tradition of musicians branching out from the state to make their name in more populous regions of the nation. “I call it Johnny Cash syndrome,” he said. “People say Johnny Cash is from Arkansas, but there’s a dot dot dot, Tennessee. The Sister Rosetta Tharpes of the world, the Sonny Burgesses, all of these ARKTIMES.COM

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people had to get at least regionally out of the state because of the inevitable cap of resources we have. That has been a trope and something that has to happen for Arkansans to get known.”

At the time of the lockdown, Shoulders lived in one room of a three-room shotgun house in New Orleans’ Holy Cross neighborhood with two roommates. As businesses began to shutter, Shoulders was looking at the prospect of a long, hot summer in the city with no work and no creative outlet. He decided it was a good time to go up to the Ozarks and have a “quick vacation.”

“As much as I wanted to stick with New Orleans until the bitter end,” he said, “I was very aware of what happens to that place in disasters. I was witness to battles over toilet paper in the parking lot. So I thought, ‘OK, I’ll just get a couple of weeks ahead of this thing and see what’s going to happen.’ ” Over the next few months, he said, he moved four times, staying with different family and friends until he eventually landed at his uncle’s house on the Buffalo River. “I’m grateful,” he said, “I was able to get back to the woods and get into an environment that is conducive to my mental health because everybody was suffering and going through all sorts of craziness. That had my hackles down while everyone else was kind of stressed out.”

During the long spell when venues were closed and bands couldn’t play live, Shoulders became a living showcase for Northwest Arkansas, at least virtually. The roots music website Western AF filmed videos for Shoulders (and Willi Carlisle, Dylan Earl and others) performing mountain folk music in the woods, on cabin porches, and even in cavernous storm drains. The videos, in Shoulders’ words, “went kind of nutty for us during the lockdown.”

He and his crew seized the opportunity to galvanize that attention and pour it into their own DIY operation to make and merchandise their own records and merchandise. “We are so unbelievably lucky and it was such a turn of fate,” he said. “I know so many people who are so talented and deserving of the same attention who are just not riding the same curve of luck that we caught at that moment.

“During lockdown I got thrown straight into the turmoil and was kind of struggling with how to react. The most logical discourse, I thought, was just to write more weird songs.” “Home on the Rage,” Shoulders’ “lockdown record,” was released in April 2021 and Shoulders said he has been in constant motion ever since.

“Music is my entire employment,” he said.

“We released that album and just blasted into touring. Some of that has been good. Some of that has been really trying. Some of it has been profoundly rewarding. This whole meltdown is experienced so much more acutely by those who are out there on the interstates seeing the Hoovervilles get bigger and gas prices climb,

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In late 2019, performer and producer Dazzmin Murry was poised to become one of the next Arkansans to become better known beyond Arkansas’s borders. Recordings with bandmate Brie Boyce were featured in two Tyler Perry movies, and a chance meeting with a producer at an Arkansas Cinema Society event in Little Rock sparked plans for a trip to LA. Though she’s a portrait of showmanship onstage, Murry says talking to people she doesn’t know isn’t always easy, even if that conversation could lead to record deals and music work. “People assume that I’m extroverted. Which, with people I know, I am,” she said. “But with new people I’m super shy. It’s always awkward as an artist introducing myself as an artist.”

Those challenges aside, introductions were made, conversations took place, meetings occurred in fancy offices, and by the beginning of 2020, Murry found herself situated in a studio apartment overlooking Hollywood’s Sunset Strip that, according to other residents in the building, had once been occupied by viral YouTuber Logan Paul. Soon she was doing session work for film and TV as well as working with an independent label known to “upstream” artists to major labels.

Murry said she keenly felt that stress living alone in Hollywood. “My family was so worried about me,” she said. “I got to a dark place, I was so sad. It was a typical artist’s story. To see what that looked like, I’m sleeping on an air mattress. My rent was $2,100, and that was without utilities, without groceries, for a studio apartment.”

A trip home to Arkansas began to set the stage for her more permanent return. “We came home for a show that we had scheduled,” she said.

“And the day before, we canceled it because we didn’t want to be responsible for a superspreader event.”

As COVID-19 took hold, Murry launched her pandemic project, an artist mentoring and development nonprofit called Creator’s Village, aiming to help fill the voids that often keep artists from success. Opportunities had come up for her in nearby cities, “but it was two or three hours away. For an artist, it’s like, I need gas money, three hours away, one way, round trip that’s six hours, I need somewhere to stay.

I experienced that a lot, where it became a missed opportunity.

“Creator’s Village is my baby.”

It was birthed to fill a need to help form an inclusive and intentional community of artists capable of supporting each other and cultivate talent. Murry spent a lot of her pandemic downtime figuring out the 501(c)(3) world, learning what she could and couldn’t do, and making some “ridiculous” asks for support.

“I didn’t know what would happen,” she said, “but I got over my rut, and got over myself, and got the framework. COVID gave me the time to hash out all those details.” Creators Village has produced a wide array of programs from virtual songwriting and networking workshops to block party-style artist showcases.

And Murry stayed busy as a musician. Dazz & Brie continued to perform and write new material, including some ridiculously catchy themes and shorts for Arkansas PBS children’s programming, earning the duo a regional Emmy nomination. But their pace has slowed a bit, as Boyce splits her time between Arkansas, Georgia and Texas. When she is not in town, Murry has focused on studio work, producing other artists, writing scores for a couple of documentaries, and debuting a new “solo” musical venture, King Honey, on stage and streaming services.

Murry said writing and recording songs as King Honey was the first time she got to create music without outside influences or collaborators. “This has been the first project where I’ve been able to have my thoughts and see them fully formed before they’re influenced by someone else.” she said. “It’s been a pretty cool experience.” *** The drive to write songs and make music is a craft that is as often solitary as it is collaborative.

For Fenton’s part, she said that returning to Arkansas has given her a greater sense of herself and what it means to have a community behind her.

“The biggest thing I have relinquished,” she said, “is this fear of success. Because I had relationships that I felt thrived off me being unhappy, I made a vow that I was going to pursue my own well-being and whoever gets lost by the wayside in that, I have to cut those losses. I didn’t think I had anyone around me who was excited for me and proud of me. I found so many people here who are so proud of me. I kind of have imposter syndrome about it.

It’s that ‘Woo Pig’ mentality, you know what I mean.”

Her decision to live in Arkansas has led her to a way and a place of living that she said nurtures her best self. “I’m a theater person,” she said. “I grew up with the mentality that the most important person is the person onstage next to you. Learning to trust people with something that is so personal to me has been huge. Learning how to lead a band has taught me about communication, and grace, and forgiveness. I’ve learned a lot about embracing imperfection, and about feeling worthy of being able to play with very talented people.”

Bradley Caviness is the music programmer for Shoog Radio, the all-Arkansas musician radio show heard Tuesdays at noon on KABF-FM 88.3 in Little Rock.

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n the 1970s, Max Brantley boldly asserted that “smoked meat is not barbecue, unless you’re a Texan. Barbecue is sauce, nevermind the dictionary.” In 1984, the late Doug Smith, of Arkansas Gazette and Arkansas Times fame, claimed “that the only real barbecue, or barbeque, is pork. To deny that would be to sanction what goes on in Texas, and the only people who know less about this subject than Yankees are Texans.”

However witty this sentiment might be, I find it woefully unconvincing.

While we at the Arkansas Times love a good Arkansas/Texas jousting, I think we can all agree that barbecue is much, much more than

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simply the sauce. Could I slather my oven-baked pork chop in some McClard’s sauce and call it barbecue? Of course not. To say that barbecue is simply about the sauce would actually be to sanction what goes on in Kansas City, where one would be hard-pressed to find a traditional livefire barbecue pit. Instead, they seem to prefer those gas-assisted contraptions (otherwise known as fancy ovens with some wood shavings thrown in), slathering the finished product in sauce and calling it barbecue. Alas, they are Yankees and get a pass on account of ignorance, but I digress.

Arkansas has a somewhat loosely defined barbecue culture that is highly subject to

external influences. Plenty of ink has been spilled about Arkansas being a crossroads state, Southern and Southwestern and Midwestern all at the same time, and so goes our barbecue. As Jordan Wright of Wright’s Barbecue told me, “When you think about Arkansas barbecue, really it’s a collection of the three regions that surround us.”

Much of our statewide barbecue culture is informed by our neighbors across the Mississippi River in Memphis. This is evidenced by the fact that most anywhere you venture in Arkansas you’re going to get slaw on your pork sandwich, most of the time without even asking, because that’s the way God intended.

But in recent years another influence has been creeping into the state up from the southwest, and that’s Texas-style brisket.

Before all the Texas-bashing Arkansawyers jump down my throat, consider this: The late Justin Nolan’s landmark 2009 anthropological study, “Piney Woods Traditions at the Crossroads: Barbecue and Regional Identity in South Arkansas and North Louisiana,” reinforced what has long been known in that region: that the locals smoke beef brisket. As a matter of fact, Nolan, an El Dorado native, found that “beef brisket” were the most frequently mentioned words to describe the barbecue of the region by local pitmasters. For context, “pulled pork” was the fourth most frequently mentioned. One unnamed elderly pitmaster near Magnolia is quoted as saying, “Truth is, here’s the truth — it’s a melting pot here. Black, white, east, west: Everything comes together in our barbecue. You got the Cajun spices and the sweet ribbon cane from Louisiana, a hint of vinegar from the east, the sweet tomato sauce — that’s ours! The beef brisket’s so popular around here and chili notes that I suspect must come from Texas, along with their pinto beans.

We’re pretty tolerant around here. In fact, I think we’ve been adopting a bit of this and that from each other all along.”

Of course, it makes sense, given the Piney Woods’ geographic position and shared cultural connectivity with East Texas, that some culinary traditions would be informed by its neighbors — and vice versa. When surveying the barbecue of East Texas one will find just as much pork as they will brisket.

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Atop Arkansas’s brisket mountain sit three kings: Knightfire in Searcy, Wright’s in Johnson and Ridgewood Brothers in Russellville. These joints borrow heavily from a Texas style of meat smoking, with their focus on beef, large offset pits and salt and pepper bark. There’s no denying that these joints are some of the very best in the state. Some pork purists will balk at this statement, and that’s understandable, but only if they’ve never experienced the virtues of a properly prepared brisket.

In Searcy, Matt Knight has singlehandedly put his town on the Arkansas barbecue map.

What started out as a food truck in March of 2018 eventually led him to open a brick-andmortar restaurant in March of this year.

“Really, it just started out as a hobby,” Knight

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FROM FOOD TRUCK TO BRICK AND MORTAR: Ridgewood Brothers (left) in Russellville and Knightfire in Searcy rode the popularity of their brisket to move from mobile operations to permanent ones. told me. “Seeing people on TV, you know, I figured I could do that, too. And when I did I realized I actually had a talent for it. I love hearing people talk about brisket now because it was totally nonexistent in Searcy. Nobody wanted it, nobody talked about it, there was no interest. I’d say my biggest inspiration was the fact that nobody wanted it [brisket]. I’ve had really good brisket in Texas, and I wondered why people didn’t go crazy for it here.”

Knight says it took a while for his customers to “get it,” referring to brisket. For one thing it’s more expensive. Today, however, he sells about as much brisket as he does pork, going through about 350 pounds of brisket vs. 400 pounds of pork a week.

All the meat at Knightfire rolls off an impressive 1,000-gallon offset pit made by well-known makers Primitive Pits of Georgia.

When asked about the benefits of this style of barbecue pit, Knight said, “Personally I just think it’s real barbecue. It’s real wood, there’s no gas assist, it’s a live fire. To me, it makes the process more of a craft because you have to actually master the way your pit cooks. The top places in the world, and I consider Texas-style barbecue to be No. 1 out of them all, none of them use gas-assisted, rotisserie-style pits. They all use offsets. Bottom line is it just puts out a 94 NOVEMBER 2022

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better product.”

Jordan Wright, of Wright’s Barbecue in Johnson, Bentonville and Rogers, agrees on all accounts. “Once you’ve had a bite of moist, properly rendered brisket,” he explained, “it suddenly becomes an experience. Compare that to something that’s just chopped up and thrown on a plate with a bunch of sauce, you know, like they do in Kansas City. It’s better — it just is.

Texas-style brisket is the king of brisket.”

And the Texans have taken notice of our state’s brisket, most notably Texas Monthly’s esteemed barbecue editor Daniel Vaughn, who ventured up to Northwest Arkansas back in October of 2019 to write a feature called “Wright’s Barbecue Brings Texas Smoke to Arkansas.” Vaughn said the brisket at Wright’s was “the best brisket I’ve ever found in Arkansas.”

Despite the praise, Wright stays humble.

“You’re not going to be perfect 100% of the time.

It’s barbecue; you just aren’t. All we’re trying to do is get better.”

If the dedication of his customers is any indication, the approach is working. Since starting his food truck in 2016 and moving into his Johnson brick-and-mortar in 2017, he’s opened two more locations in Bentonville and Rogers, with a fourth rumored to be opening next year in Little Rock. All the meat at Wright’s

receives its treatment via one of 11 1,000-gallon Moberg offset smokers. For Wright’s, brisket is by far the most popular menu item, with brisket sales almost doubling that of pork butt, ribs, sausage and chicken combined.

I asked Wright about the benefit of using offset smokers for his barbecue. “It really comes down to bark development and the way the air moves from end to end. Using an indirect live fire is key to that. It’s really hard to do a propane-assisted rotisserie brisket. It can be done, but a lot of times the bottoms will get burned or they’ll cook too fast and tighten up.”

In Russellville, the newest kids on the brisket block have seen a meteoric rise in popularity.

Grant Hall and Robert Crouser, owners and pitmasters at Ridgewood Brothers, have a similar story as their Arkansas brisket comrades.

In February of 2019 they turned their backyard passion into a food truck, and in a couple short years plans were set into motion to open a brickand-mortar right on Main Street in Russellville, slated to open mid-November 2022.

The meat at Ridgewood Brothers is smoked on a 1,000-gallon offset Primitive Pit, the same brand used at Knightfire. By the time the brickand-mortar opens in mid-November, Hall and Crouser will have expanded the smoker lineup to include four 1,000-gallon Primitives, plus

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a direct heat pit (complete with a whole-hog flipper) made by Muleskinner Smoke Rigs of Bristol, Texas.

I asked Hall about the benefits of using the offset-style pit. “It’s really the perfect machine to cook a brisket, when you think about it.

What you’re essentially trying to do is cook two different cuts of meat that are attached in the middle.” He means the two sides of a brisket: the fatty side and the lean side, known as the point and flat, respectively. The flat tends to cook quicker because there’s less fat to render.

“With an offset pit you get the heat coming from one direction,” Hall said. “You’re cooking with hot air, so you can position the point, the fatty side, so that it absorbs all that heat. The flat doesn’t get bombarded with heat like the point does, so by the end of the cook the temperatures even out and both ends of the brisket are done at the same time. In Kansas City they cut off the point and turn it into burnt ends because they don’t understand how to do it.

“We don’t really call it Texas-style just because we don’t want to be put into a box. In Texas the style is so rigidly defined that it’s kind of hard to branch out from that. We want that freedom to do other things, to put our own regional spin on it. It’s West Russellville style!”

Whatever you want to call it, there’s no denying that brisket barbecue is on the rise in Arkansas. A major indicator of that is the fact that all three of these establishments started out as humble barbecue food trucks that became so popular in their respective communities that they moved into brick-and-mortars, and in Wright’s case, three going on four restaurants.

The pork purists and perhaps some gung-ho Texans will split hairs and say that brisket isn’t true Arkansas barbecue, but I don’t really care what they have to say. As far as I’m concerned, if you make it in Arkansas, you can call it Arkansas barbecue — never mind the haters, the gatekeepers or the Texans.

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In the past year people have traveled throughout the state and traveled into the state to hit the Trail: Many PK Grills have been awarded, participants have reported on their travels, friends have been made, great barbecue has been discovered and restaurants continue to serve their loyal communities. Four of the restaurants on the Trail have recently moved out of trucks and into brick-and-mortar locations.

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MARKET SIZE The first and most obvious change is that dispensaries would be allowed to sell to adults 21 and older beginning March 8, 2023.

Estimates of the size of the new marijuana market in Arkansas vary from two to four times the size of the state’s medical marijuana market, according to industry insiders. The state has more than 91,000 medical marijuana cardholders as of mid-October, according to Medical Marijuana Commission spokesman Scott Hardin, which means the state could see an increase of between 180,000 to 360,000 patients.

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he Arkansas marijuana landscape will change significantly for cannabis businesses and consumers if Arkansas voters approve an amendment to legalize recreational marijuana on Nov. 8.

Exactly what that landscape would look like is a different question.

We know there will be more consumers, but how many are we talking about?

We know there will be more dispensaries and cultivation facilities, but we don’t know where they would be located or the rules that might dictate the locations.

We know some regulations related to products, such as the 10mg cap on edibles, would be eliminated. Should we expect to find some new products on the shelves?

We talked to the folks running a cultivation facility, a dispensary, a processing facility and a cannabis business association to find out how things might change in Arkansas’s brave new cannabis world.

against putting too much stock in estimates of the size of the recreational market because the initial projections for the state’s medical market greatly underestimated its size.

“I think the first thing you have to do when you start talking about how this market is going to change is you have to remain just a little bit humble about our ability to predict this thing,” he said.

A study performed by the Arkansas Economic Development Institute and commissioned by Responsible Growth Arkansas, the sponsor of the amendment, estimated that cannabis sales would grow from $264.9 million in 2021 to $399.4 million in 2023. That’s a 50% increase in sales in the first year of recreational sales.

The study projected cannabis sales would grow to $695.8 million in 2027, about 2.6 times the 2021 sales by the fifth year of the recreational program.

DISPENSARIES There will also be more businesses that can grow cannabis and more places that can sell it.

The Arkansas Adult Use Cannabis Amendment would increase the maximum number of

dispensaries from 40 to 120 and the maximum number of cultivators from eight to 20. The medical marijuana amendment that voters passed in 2016 set the previous limits.

The amendment would allow the owners of existing medical marijuana dispensaries to receive a recreational dispensary license as well. Those licenses would have to be issued by March 7, 2023, according to the amendment.

The Alcoholic Beverage Control Division would issue an additional 40 licenses by a lottery on or before July 5, 2023.

So where will all those dispensaries go?

We don’t know. One thing we know for sure is they won’t be located within five miles of an existing dispensary, because that’s written in the amendment. That rules out most of Little Rock, since the capital city has three medical marijuana dispensaries and a five-mile radius around them covers most of the city.

Complicating matters is that the dispensaries also can’t be located within 1,500 feet of a school, church or daycare, according to the amendment. That rule, which already exists under the medical marijuana amendment, made it difficult to find appropriate locations

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for medical marijuana dispensaries.

Before the state Medical Marijuana Commission began issuing dispensary licenses, the commission divided the state into eight zones and allowed a maximum of five dispensaries in each zone.

Will the state continue to use the zone system?

Will the first batch of new dispensaries have to be located in the same zone as their owners’ medical dispensary?

Bill Paschall, who leads the Arkansas Cannabis Industry Association, said the rulemaking process at the ABC will be important in determining the answers to these questions and more. Paschall estimated his organization already spends 60% of its time working with regulators to craft and tweak rules and help his members learn how they can “stay within the ditches” of the current rules.

“It’s going to be extremely important,” Pashcall said of the rulemaking process.

Regardless of the location of the new dispensaries, Rahman said his Conway medical dispensary will need to change to accomodate all of the new customers. Those improvements might not require building expansion but would likely necessitate some construction to reconfigure the budroom and the vault, he said.

“We have a space crunch right now as it is,” Rahman said “We absolutely will have to figure out how to repurpose our space to accommodate not just our existing medical customers, but what I expect to be a large number of new customers interested in the adult-use market.”

The state will also add 12 small cultivation facilities that will be allowed to grow up to 250 mature plants at a time each (along with hundreds more plants at different stages of immaturity) in addition to the eight existing cultivation facilities that will be allowed to grow an unlimited number of plants.

The amendment states that the ABC shall issue the 12 Tier Two licenses on or before Nov. 8, 2023, one year after Election Day. PRODUCTS The amendment would make two big changes that could impact the products on dispensary shelves.

First, the amendment removes the restriction that prohibits dispensaries from selling an item that “requires the combustion of marijuana,” which would clear the way for pre-rolled joints. Pre-rolls, as they are commonly called, are a common item found in many marijuana markets.

Storm Nolan, the head of Fort Smith-based cultivator River Valley Relief, said pre-rolls account for 10-15% of the entire marijuana market in other states and should have a significant impact here as well.

“That’s going to be a huge, huge difference,” he said. “There’s a large market for pre-roll.”

Nolan said older people, such as those with arthritis, will find pre-rolls much easier than preparing flower for smoking.

Casey Flippo, CEO of Little Rock processor Dark Horse Medicinals, agreed that allowing pre-rolls will be a big change.

“I’m really excited about the prospect of pre-rolls and different things from a smokable application,” he said. “Naturally, I don’t condone smoking, but in the event that that’s what you’re into, I think that allowing us to make things a little bit easier and more accessible for the consumer is just gonna enhance the overall effect of the market.”

Flippo, who works with many of the state’s cultivators and dispensaries, also said the amendment will improve product availability and product diversity.

The amendment would also eliminate the 10mg cap on edibles, a point that nearly derailed the amendment after a state board seized the elimination of the cap as justification for rejecting the amendment’s ballot title.

The Supreme Court didn’t agree with the Board of Election Commission’s argument and approved the ballot title, paving the way for some higher THC levels in edible products.

The state Alcoholic Beverage Control Division, which will continue to regulate the state marijuana industry, will determine the rules that govern THC limits in edibles.

Nolan also said customers will likely see products with higher potencies for patients who have built up a tolerance, as well as more beverages, mix-ins and “more discrete ways of consumption.”

Even if the state approves recreational marijuana, Nolan said his business would still be focused on medicinal relief. There are many people in Arkansas who want to use marijuana for medicinal reasons who are unable to “jump through the hoops” of getting a patient card, he said. Legalization would lower the barrier for entry and allow those customers to use marijuana to treat their ailments.

Nolan would also be interested in getting one of the 40 dispensary licenses that will be made available through a lottery.

“We do plan on applying,” he said.

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here’s something about a first job that makes an imprint on the memory. Some go the traditional route of babysitting, or wash dishes at a local restaurant. But The Observer thinks back on fond days of brisk autumnal nights at a Southwest Missouri corn maze.

The maze was in the middle of nowhere at the end of a two-lane highway near the MissouriArkansas border. To get to the entrance, guests had to drive past on a long, straight stretch of road, which gave them a chance to survey all it had to offer — pumpkin patches that teased orange giants, chicken houses and barns full of attractions. Eventually it led to the parking field. Unbeknownst to most, visitors also drove past the owners’ house, which was quaint and moderately decorated for the season. Their business was literally in their backyard.

What was a perfectly photographable and family friendly corn maze during the day crawled with teenage employees in creepy costumes for the late-night scare fest.

Chainsaws revved through the night; poor, unfortunate teenage boys were shot with paintballs for hours straight on the “Zombie Paintball” ride and screams echoed through the old barn filled with creepy-faced ghouls and fog machines. Nervous kids on first dates paid their dues for a neon wristband that charmed their evening partner with an all-access pass to the attractions, and motorcycle bikers with pink-dyed beards in support of Breast Cancer Awareness month picked pumpkins and sat around campfires.

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and now, years later, it turns out that this first job was a perfect Observing spot.

In a 1998 black Pontiac Firebird with popup headlights, The Observer drove through the winding Missouri backroads to work each weekend for sometimes 12-hour days. (What a way to spend the final years of high school during football season!) Pay came at the end of every Sunday, and it surely wasn’t enough for the hours put in. But pay didn’t matter much to The Observer at the time, and it turns out that having a fun first job taught us a great work ethic.

Nearly all of the money collected at the admission gates of the corn maze passed through The Observer’s hands, which is a highstakes task for a 17-year-old, thinking back.

Thousands of pumpkins were sold each season; some probably weighed up to 40 pounds and were sold for dirt cheap just so the owners could have empty fields. Gourds of all shapes and sizes lined dirt pathways and kernels of corn were everywhere — everywhere. There was even a massive corn pit that felt really nice to lie down in after a day’s work.

Unlike most people in The Observer’s hometown, their family kept to itself and didn’t have a name that stretched back generations.

With no real ties to anyone well-known and no connections with successful families in that corner of Missouri, The Observer is still unsure how they got the job in the first place.

The interview process wasn’t much more than a quick introduction and a pleasant, “See you on Friday.”

The corn maze owners were a married

couple who worked on their farm year-round growing cash crops. They had two kids who were always running around causing trouble to keep themselves busy while their parents ran a successful operation. Each year around the beginning of October — though recently, opening day has been inching earlier — the family unlocked the gates to their fall business.

Fall nights were chilly in that part of Missouri, and guests and employees alike warded off the cold with flannel shirts and plenty of hot chocolate. Frito pie made with the melted cheese on top was one of The Observer’s favorite concession stand picks. The smell of wet, fallen leaves and the goat from the petting zoo often seeped into the wooden cashier shed.

Country music blasted out of speakers around the grounds, and though The Observer wasn’t much of a fan of the genre, the 2016 Keith Urban hit “Blue Ain’t Your Color” ended up on a playlist or two.

The corn maze is still running, and we hear it has expanded exponentially since The Observer’s time there — The Observer hasn’t been back since their working days. Facebook fame graced the old workplace and with it came the addition of sunflower fields, giant slides, a carousel and a go-kart track.

Every fall, The Observer gets a little extra warmth in her heart when they remember that first job at the maze. There is something so specific about the way the tall bar stools teetered on the uneven dirt ground in the cashier shed; how the sound of the old walkie-talkie cut in and out, and how it felt to drive home under dark star-filled skies.

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