Home At Last
They've come from Texas and India, from Wisconsin and Iran. Some have spent decades in Northwest Arkansas, others only months.
They've come from Texas and India, from Wisconsin and Iran. Some have spent decades in Northwest Arkansas, others only months.
“It started slow, but people started showing up,” said Miguel Gamboa. He was talking about his band’s recent gig at Teatro Scarpino in Fayetteville, but it cou…
“Shavi” Samaranayake has a unique view of Northwest Arkansas. He’s only seen most of the region from above, in the left seat of a Piper Arrow.
Brett Booker was a Houston kid until he started looking at colleges. That was a decade ago, and Booker has called Northwest Arkansas home since.
A transfer to Northwest Arkansas was almost a homecoming for Angie Madigan. When she found out that Procter & Gamble wanted her and her husband, Tim, to reloca…
The Marshallese migration to Northwest Arkansas can be traced to one man.
Born in the Marshall Islands to a Marshallese father and a Hawaiian mother, Gomez Zackious moved to Hawaii when he was 6 months old. He grew up on Maui but spe…
Albious Latior remembers his first thought when he moved to Springdale in 1997 as a third-grader.
Carmen Chong Gum’s route from the Marshall Islands to the United States included a lot of back-and-forth.
John Delapena, dressed in a gray Nike T-shirt and black high tops, was ready to play basketball.
Nou and Tou Lee moved to Northwest Arkansas from Minnesota in 2002, attracted by the affordable property and mild climate.
Asian Americans in Northwest Arkansas often adopt U.S. customs in recreation, food and dress. Religion is something they’re less likely to change. Most continu…
Nou Lee wonders what will become of her ethnic heritage when her generation isn’t around to preserve it.
Ntsuab Pai Kong remembers the sounds — the gunshots nearly every night, the wailing of women who had lost a husband or son.
Pohn Sok-Amnouay arrived in the U.S. in 1977 with the clothes on his back and a few dollars in his wallet. The plane landed in Amarillo, Texas, during a freak …