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For decades, Rex Nelson has been traveling Arkansas. He learned to
love the back roads, small towns, and people of the state while
going on trips with his father, who sold athletic supplies to high
schools. They sat in old Depression-era gyms built by the Works
Progress Administration, ate in small-town cafes, and waded in
streams on warm spring days. Throughout his career as a
sportswriter, political writer, senior staff member in the
governor's office, presidential appointee to the Delta Regional
Authority, and now corporate communications director for Simmons
Bank, Nelson has written millions of words about Arkansas and its
people. In this collection of columns from the Arkansas
Democrat-Gazette, Nelson brings to life the personalities,
communities, festivals, and tourist attractions that make Arkansas
unique. As he says, "Arkansas is a hard place to explain to
outsiders. We're mostly Southern but also a bit Midwestern and a
tad Southwestern. The Ozarks are different from the pine woods of
the Gulf Coastal Plain, and the Delta is different from the
Ouachitas. Invariably, though, those who take the time to get off
the main roads and get to know the real Arkansas are entranced by
the place."
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