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Sarah Huckabee Sanders hosting 'Freedom Tour', campaigning across Arkansas

Sarah Huckabee Sanders hosting 'Freedom Tour', campaigning across Arkansas

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A history of hospitality

OPINION | REX NELSON: A history of hospitality by Rex Nelson | Today at 1:47 a.m. By the 1930s, the era known as the Big Cut which had begun in the 1880s as northern-owned companies moved into Arkansas to harvest virgin timber was ending. In the pine-covered hills of southwest Arkansas, that meant a loss of jobs. Montgomery County had a population of 12,455 in the 1910 census. By the 1960 census, that number had dropped to 5,370. The closure of sawmills and the onset of the Great Depression led to thousands of people moving out of the area. It took the construction of Lake Ouachita to finally turn things around.

Destination: Lake Ouachita

ADVERTISEMENT OPINION | REX NELSON: Destination, Lake Ouachita Tourists from Arkansas as well as surrounding states are driving in droves to vacation at the hospitable Hot Springs getaway. by Rex Nelson | Today at 1:57 a.m. Arkansas Democrat-Gazette illustration by John Deering. Bill Barnes is sitting in his office on a cloudy Monday, accompanied by dogs who go by the names of Port and Starboard. On the walls of the office at Mountain Harbor Resort & Spa on Lake Ouachita are reminders of the legendary status Barnes has achieved in the state s tourism industry: induction into the Arkansas Tourism Hall of Fame, induction into the Arkansas Outdoor Hall of Fame, and photos of him with a who s who of the state s business and civic leaders.