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Named for a little rock in
the Arkansas River (honest), this state's capital has
delivered a lot to the world. Consider the famous Old
Mill featured in the opening credits of the classic film
Gone With the Wind, or the stately home of television's
Designing Women-it's not located in Atlanta as the
show's creators would have us believe, but in downtown
Little Rock. Two little girls from Little Rock, Jane
Russell and Marilyn Monroe, rocked the world's backwoods
perception of Arkansas in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, and
America's first family called the city home for many
years before moving to Washington.
But Arkansas has a lot more to offer than the
politics and pop culture emanating from its capital-it's
also "the Natural State." With the exception of an ocean
front, Arkansas covers almost all the geographic
possibilities: There are the forest-covered mountains
and valleys of the Ozarks, the remarkable waters of Hot
Springs National Park, and the lush farmlands and plains
of the south. This natural landscape thrives on water
from the state's many lakes, as well as the White,
Arkansas, and Mississippi Rivers. For culture, few areas
can match the pickin' and fiddlin' of the Ozarks's best
bluegrass musicians, and nearby Fayetteville is home to
a thriving arts and literary scene. Seems the hillbilly
world of Al Capp's "Dogpatch" is long way from the
Arkansas of today.
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