The amount of the gift was stunning for a town as small as Eureka Springs: $34 million. That s what the Walton Family Foundation is giving to fund a facility for Opera in the Ozarks at Inspiration Point, an institution that has been around for more than seven decades.
I'm walking across the Clear Spring School campus in Eureka Springs as nationally known woodworker Doug Stowe tells me how much he has enjoyed teaching here the previous 20 years.