What Batesville needs now, he says is a tourist attraction. What residents say . . . The first is beauty. It is a very pretty area with four distinct seasons, none of them incessant. Our fall can be glorious.
Spring is the prettiest.
The second word is history. Batesville is the second oldest town in Arkansas. We have some beautiful old houses with fish-scale siding and gables. The college is the oldest in the state, founded in 1872, and has a strong program . . . . The only thing we are not is racially plural, and in my mind that is a drawback . . . .