Yours truly, speaking on “Cultivating Character in the Garden”

A couple of other speakers at the garden show: Tina Marie Wilcox (left, head gardener and herbalist at the Ozark Center’s Heritage Herb Garden in Mountain View, AR) and Susan Belsinger (right, culinary herbalist, teacher, lecturer, blogger, and writer). And then “guess who” in the center.

A pretty rare tool: A tapered auger for wagon hubs, with a hook on the bottom for hanging weights that provide extra pressure on the cut

An antique furniture maker’s workbench, from an old Fort Smith furniture manufacturer

Homemade handles...singing my song

You don’t see this every day.

An old Fort Smith trolley, still operational, giving tours of downtown

The old Fort Smith courthouse where the "hanging judge", Judge Isaac Charles Parker, plied his trade (reconstructed gallows below)