Arkansas alchemy: In Hot Springs’s rebirth, a lesson for national parks
The rainwater that fell on Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto here in the 16th century is only now bubbling out of the ground into the historic bathhouse that Rose Schweikert has turned into a restaurant.
It has changed a lot in its centuries long journey, landing as rain, picking up some carbon dioxide here, some acids and minerals there, and filtering about 7,000 feet below the Earth’s surface before shooting back up at a temperature of about 285 degrees F.
This small town nestled in the Ouachita Mountains has also changed a lot since de Soto’s time. A domain of Native American tribes, the French, and then the US, it has been a baseball haven, a gangster getaway, and a purveyor of reputedly healing water. Babe Ruth walked these streets. So did Al Capone. And
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