History teaches us valuable lessons and offers us guidance in how we should go into the future. In researching the Civil War and the affects it had for the state of Arkansas, I realized quickly how truly devastating this period in our history was for the people who actually lived it. When one opens their mind to the true meanings of what others have lived through, we quickly become entrenched and awed by the power of the human spirit. This is seen in the faces of the men during the reenactments of these battles. They become one with the person they are imitating.
Magazine is home of an almost extinct butterfly and snail.
Paris is the county seat of Logan County. Logan County has a record of history, both before and after the civil war. An Old Man's Tale Stories began and never end among the mountain people. They hear these tales and search a lifetime to prove them to be true. They too become old men and tell that same tale to someone new in hopes that he might succeed where they failed.