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Courtesy / Ruth Coker Burks
In the 1980s in Hot Springs, Ruth Coker Burks was in her 20s, a single mom with a daughter, when she walked into a hospital room no nurses wanted to enter and sat with a gay man with AIDS so he wasn t alone in the last hours of his life. For the next several years, she cared for dozens more men who were dying of the virus and educated countless others about HIV prevention. Coker Burks tells her story in a new memoir,
All the Young Men, and discusses the book in a two part interview.
December 15, 20202:21 pm
Apparently Christmas is still happening, and if you’ve let this much of December go by without making a gift-giving plan, we’ve got a few suggestions, most made in Arkansas and all made to delight the recipient. Get cracking, though; if you’re sending these gifts through the mail instead of dropping them off locally, the clock’s ticking.
UA Press
“Trees, Shrubs, and Woody Vines of Arkansas”
I’m fairly confident that I will win Christmas with my tree-obsessed son with a gift of “Trees, Shrubs, and Woody Vines of Arkansas,” a new 536-page field guide from the Ozark Society (and distributed by the University of Arkansas Press). It’s by several of the preeminent plant experts in the state: Johnnie Gentry, former director and curator of the UA Herbarium and emeritus professor of biology at UA; Jennifer Ogle, collections manager at the UA Herbarium; and Theo Witsell, ecologist and chief of research for the Arkansas Natural Heritage Commissio