MYSTICAL, MAGICAL PLACE WHERE YOU CAN GO BACK IN TIME WITH CHIVALRY, NOBEL MEN AND NITES.

SURE CHARLES DOVISH AT YOUR SERVICE ME LADY.

ORIGINALLY FROM MINNESOTA CASTLE ROGUES MANNER OWNER SMITH DRAYER AFTER TRAVELING THE WORLD OVER AFTER EVENTUALLY SETTLED IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS.

TRAVELED THROUGH ARKANSAS AND EUREKA SPRINGS AND BAVER ARKANSAS AND BECAME ENCHANTED WITH DID AREA AND THE QUALITY OF LIFE AND THE LIFESTYLE.

SO WE DECIDED TO SETTLE HERE 23 YEARS AGO.

DID YOU ALSO WANT TO BAILED CASTLE, QUOTE/UNQUOTE OR JUST A DREAM HOME?

NEITHER, I PLAYED IN THE SANDBOX, BUILT LOTS OF SANDS CASTLES AND THROUGH LIFE I ENJOYED CREATING SPACE, ENJOYED RENAISSANCE FESTIVALS AND LIFESTYLES.

ROW MANT SIZED ABOUT RENAISSANCE PERIODS, MEDIEVAL PERIODS.

BUT IT HAS NOT REALLYEN ADVISED BUILTING A CASTLE UNTIL WE SETTLE HERE AND OPENED OUR REGS MANOR RESTAURANT IN EUREKA SPRINGS.

WE HAD SOME FRIENDS THAT HAD A HOUSE HERE OVERLOOKING BEE VERON DID CLIFF THAT THEY WERE SELLING.

WE BOUGHT IT AND THE NEEDS OF THE HOUSE AND THE LOCATION ON THIS CLIVE, IT CRIED OUT FOR A CASTLE.

BEING A STRATEGIC SITE THERE IS ETCHED OF A LOT OF LIFE HERE BEFORE.

THIS IS A STROO TEE JIBBING YOT THE FANTASY OF A CASTLE FIT RIGHT IN TO THE LOCATION.

THE MATERIALS ARE ALL FROM HERE THAT YOU USED.

WE HARVESTED NATIVE CEDAR, ARKANSAS CEDAR AND WALNUT.

BOTH PROLIFIC TIMBER IN THIS AREA.

SO AS THE DREAM AND THE FANTASY OF BUILDING A CASTLE SETTLED AND WE DECIDED TO TAKE IT ON.

WE MADE WISH LIST OF TIMBER, BAMES AND BOREDS AND WORKED WITH A LOCAL LOGGER, AND MILE RIGHT AND HARVEST ADD DREAM LIST OF TIMBER THAT WE HAD TO DRY FOR SELF YEARS AS WE PREPARED THE SITE FOR THE CASTLE.

WE DEDICATED THE LAST 20 YEARS TO BUILDING WITH DIFFERENT TEAMS OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE COME AALONG AND WANTED TO CONTRIBUTE IN THE CREATING OF THE CASTLE.

WE HAD A LOT OF CRAFTS PEOPLE AND THEIR TALENT IN MAKING THIS VISION POSSIBLE.

AS IN ANY CASTLE WORTH IT'S SALT IN ONE OF THE BEDROOM SUTETHERE IS QUITE AN EXTENSIVE COLLECTION OF NIGHT OR MORE AND SWORDS JUST IN CASE YOU NEED IT.

WE HAD ANOTHER ENTHUSIAST THAT HAD BEEN INVOLVED WITH DIFFERENT CASTLES IN HIS LIFETIME AND WAS COLLECTING ARMOR AND SWORDS AND HE CAME TO THE END OF THIS LIFE AND DONATED HIS [TKHRO-EBGZ] OUR PROJECT THAT HE HAD BEEN ABLE TO DISPLAY OUT IN THE GATE KEEPERS COTTAGE.

YOU CALL TIT GATE KEEPERS GOT TIG BUT THAT IS QUITE AN LAB RIGHT SWUTEOF BEDROOMS.

PRIST WAS OUR FIRST EFFORT TO ESTABLISH OUR BUILDING STYLES AND PROFILES.

WE TRIED TO COPY OFF OF A CASTLE FOR A PERIOD IN HISTORY OR CULTURE.

WE UTILIZED DETAILS FROM ALL OVER DID WORLD IN DIFFERENT PERIODS OF HISTORY TO CREATE OUR OWN STYLE OF BUILDING.

TO PRESENT THE PROJECT FROM THE CASTLE FROM BEING AN ARCHITECTURAL FOLLY, THE PEOPLE FUNCTION WE BROUGHT INTO THE CASTLE WAS AN EVENT CENTER.

A GREAT HALL WHICH WAS IN THE DAYS OF THE CASTLE WAS A COMMUNITY GATHERING PLACE FOR SAFETY, FOR HEALTH AND ALL SORTS OF COMMUNITY FUNCTIONS.

SO THE PROJECT THAT WITH BUILT THE CASTLE WAS A GREAT HALL FUNCTION EVENT FOR BUSINESS MEETINGS, FUNDS RAISERS, WEDDINGS, CELEBRATIONS AND THAT SORT OF THING.

SO IT PREVENTS THE ARCHITECTURAL FROM FOLLY.

FOLKS THAT WANT TO SUTAT KING ARRIVE AUTHORS TABLE CAN DO SO.

SO WE CAN CREATE A ROUNDTABLE OR WHATEVER CHOREOGRAPHED EVENT THEY HAVE.

SO GO BACK IN TIME TO THE MIDDLE AGES AT CASTLE GOINGS MANOR NEAR EUREKA SPRINGS.

DINE AT KING ARRIVE AUTHORS TABLE.

GOAT KNOW A MEDIEVAL MAIDEN.

AND HEY POSSIBLY EVEN GO SO FAR AS TO FIGHT OFF A DRAGON, YOU NEVER KNOW.

IT WAS THE ORIGINAL GENERAL STORE CIRCA 1905 IN THE SMALL COMMUNITY OF HOLLAND NEGOTIATE EAST OF CON WAYS.

GOODS GROCERY RAN BY N.E.

GOODE AND HIS WIFE BENEE.

THE HOLLAND SPRING BAND AS SHOWN IN THIS OLD PHOTOGRAPH WAS QUITE POPULAR BACK IN THOSE OLD DAYS.

AND NOW UNCLE BENJAMIN AND HIS BAND ARE CARRYING ON THAT TRADITION.

IT IS SOMETHING TO PICK AND GRIN ABOUT BECAUSE AFTER GOOD DIED IN THE 1970S THE STORE REMAINED CLOSED FOR ALMOST 70 YEARS.

WAITS NOT UNTIL 3,014 WHEN THE GOODS WERE FINAL LOW ABLE TO REHOPE HOLLANDS STORE.

ALL MY LIFE WE WANTED TO REOPEN MANY I REMEMBER THE BOTTLE CAPS FROM UNDERNEATH.

SO ME AND MOM HAVE ALWAYS KIND OF HAD PASSION TO REOPEN IT.

SO WHEN THE OPPORTUNITY CAME TO DO IT WE WERE JUST REALLY EXCITED AND STARTED PUTTING THE PLAN TOGETHER.

A LOT OF IT SEEMED IMPOSSIBLE.

BUT WHEN THINGS ARE MEANT TO BE IT JUST SEEMS TO HAPPEN.

SO IT REALLY AMAZING THAT IT HAS COME TOGETHER.

IT IS EXCITING FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY.

IT HAS BONDED AND YOUS BRINGING US ALL OUT HERE.

I'M ABOUT TO BUILD BEHIND MOM SO WE CAN BE CLOSE.

SO THAT WAS THE SITE, IT FORCED US TOGETHER.

WE LOST A LOT OF FAMILY.

AND IT HELPED US BE CLO SER.

SUSAN WHAT DO YOU REMEMBER BACK THEN WHEN YOUR GRANDFATHER STARTED THIS STORE?

WELL IT WAS ALREADY RUNNING WHEN I CAME ALONG.

AND I JUST REMEMBER MY GRANDMOTHER AND GRAND DAD AS A FIXTURE IN HOLLAND.

AND MY GRAND DAD ALSO NOTICED HE WOULD SLIP THE KIDS CANDY.

ESPECIALLY WHEN MY GRANDMOTHER WENT BACK IN THE HOUSE.

IF HE DIDN'T HAVE ENOUGH MONEY.

HE WOULD SAY WAIT UNTIL VINNIE WENT BACK IN THE HOUSE THAT WAS [A-ULGDZ] FUN.

I DIDN'T MISS ANYTHING LIKE THAT I ALWAYS THOUGHT WAITS REALLY INTERESTING -- HE WOOP PUT THE PENICISM HE ADDED IT UP AND THERE WAS YOUR RECEIPT.

IT WAS REALLY INTERESTING.

HE NEVER HAD A CASH REGISTER OR ANYTHING.

SO IT WAS ALSO -- IT WAS JUST SOMETHING I THOUGHT WHY DO SOME DAY.

I DON'T KNOW HOW I KNEW THAT.

BUT IT WAS JUST KIND OVEN GRAINED IN ME I GUESS.

AND LOW AND BEHOLD, AND LATER ON YOU SAID IT WAS CLOSED FOR 39 YEARS?

YES MY GRANDFATHER DIED.

MY GRANDMOTHER JUST SORT OF FOLDED UP AFTER.

THAT I ALWAYS HAD KNIT THE BACK OF MY MIND THAT WE WOULD DO THAT AS A FAMILY YOU KNOW HOW THAT GOES.

WE ALL HAVE ATTEMPTS BUT IT USUALLY DOES NOT PAN OUT.

I GUESS I INSTILLED IN MY CHILDREN THE LOVE OF OLD THINGS AND OLD PEOPLE AND ROOTS.

I ALWAYS WANTED THEM TO HAVE A PLACE TO GO.

AND MY GRANDKIDS ARE EVEN EXCITED ABOUT THIS WHOLE THING.

SO I THINK LIT CONTINUE.

SO NOW IT IS AND YOU CHRISTY, YOUR DAUGHTER.

RIGHT.

AND EVENTUALLY THAT IS JUST GOING TO BE PASSED ONTO HER .

IT WILL.

AND WE WENT AHEAD AND DID IT TALL LEGAL WAY.

SO THERE IS NO QUESTIONS.

HER CHILDREN ARE ALL REALLY EXCITED BIT TOO.

I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WAS REALLY INTEREST JUST BEFORE WE OPENED.

MY GRANDSON STOOD IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STORE AND PUT HIS HANDS ON HIS HIPS.

HE JUST GOT ALL GLOSSY EYED.

HE HEARD ABOUT US TALK BIGOT FOREVER.

HE SAID THIS IS REALLY GOING HAPPEN.

SO FOR YOU TO BE A WITNESS FOR YOUR CHILDREN, THE FEELING IS YOU HOPED THEY WOULD FEEL.

IN FRONT OF YOUR EYES IT WAS KIND OF AWESOME IT REALLY WAS.

SO IT HAS BEEN A GREAT EXPERIENCE AND THE GRANDKIDS TENDED TO HELP MANY HE WERE DETERMINED -- I LOST MY HUSBAND AFTER WE MOVED OUT HERE.

WE MOVED OUT HERE ABOUT A YEAR WITH THE PLAN ON DOING THIS.

SO IT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED BEFORE THEN BUT HE HAD A WRECK ON DID ROAD AND THAT IS WAY AFTER ABOUT A MONTH.

SO I WAS OBVIOUSLY DEVASTATED.

BUT THE KIDS RALLIED AROUND ME AND THEY WERE GOING MAKE THAT HAPPEN.

SO IT IS A GROUP EFFORT, FAMILY.

AND WE ARE IN SYNC.

IT IS ENOUGH TO KNOW THAT YOUR FAMILY LOVES THAT YOU MUCH.

BY THE STORES ORIGINAL WOOD BURNING STOVE.

87 YEAR OLD EVE HAVE ALY MCGAHA PARSONS TOLD US ABOUT COMING TO GOODS CROSSING.

EE HAVE ALY YOU WERE BORN HERE IN HOLLAND?

BORN IN HOLLAND ARKANSAS, BORN AND RAISED HERE.

WENT TO SCHOOL HERE AND MARRIED HERE.

SO WHAT DO YOU REMEMBER ABOUT THIS GROCERY STORE?

WHICH I GUESS BACK THEN WAS KIND OF LIKE A GENERAL STORE.

YES YES.

WELL WE DO ALL OF OUR SHOPPING HERE.

BECAUSE WHEN WAYS GROWING UP MOST PEOPLE DIDN'T HAVE VEHICLES.

AND SO WE -- THIS WAS WHERE WE GOT OUR GROCERIES.

WE CAME HERE SHOPPING FOR GROCERIES OR CANDY.

AND I KNEW MR. GOODS AND VINNIE GOODS WHO WAS VERY GOOD PEOPLE.

AND I WENT TO SCHOOL WITH THEIR SON.

EVERYONE CALLED HIM EASY RA.

BUT HIS MOTHER CALLED HIM JUNIOR SO WE CALLED HIM JUNIOR.

SO LOOKING AROUND DOES IT LOOK ABOUT DID SAME AS IT DID BACK IN THE EARLY 19 HUNDREDS.

WELL, SUSAN HAS -- IT WAS MORE FOOD ITEMS.

UH-HUH.

THEN LIKE WHAT SHE HAS NOW.

I GUESS LOOKING AROUND HERE I GUESS IT HAS GONE BACK, MADE FULL SISHELLO OWE LIKE A GENERAL STORE NOW.

YEAH YEAH.

THIS IS THE ORIGINAL.

WOODWORK.

STONE.

BUT IT WAS KIN OF A HIGHLIGHT FOR US KIDS TO GOAT HIGH GET TO COME TO THE STOFF MR. GOODS WAS ALWAYS A HAPPY FELLOW.

SO TAKE A DRIVE TO GOODS GROCERY TALL WAY IN HOLLAND.

AND ENJOY THE SIMPLE TIMES WHEN FOLKS WENT TO THE STORE [STKWRO-UFT] VISIT, HAVE A SODA OFF OF THE PORCH AND MAYBE LISTEN TO SOME GOOD OLD DOWN HOME MUSIC.

MOONSHINERS CAVE & FALLS.

NEVER HEARD OF IT?

NEITHER HAVE WE.

BUT WE HAVE ABOUT TO FIND OUT.

AFTER TAKING THE WINDS LOW.

YOU COME DOWN TO THE DEFINITES PARK AND SIGN AND GO DOWN TO THE LEFT-HAND SIDE OF THE ROAD.

YOU GO DOWN AND THE TRAIL HEAD WILL BE OFF TO YOUR LEFT.

THERE IS NOT A SIGN MARKING THE TRAIL HEAD JUST AN OPENING INTO WOODS WHERE YOU CAN SEE IS IS THAT IT IS A TRAIL.

TRAIL SOMEWHAT STEEP AND ROCKY SO BE SURE AND WARE STURD SHOES OR SHOES WITH HIKING SUPPORT.

AFTER ABOUT A QUARTER OF A MILE ON THE MAIN TRAIL.

LOOK AT THE TWO TWIN TREES RIGHT BEFORE THE CREEK.

THIS IS WHERE YOU WILL VEER OFF TO RIGHT.

AFTER ABOUT A HUNDRED FEET OR SO OFF OF THE MAIN TRAIL.

YOU WILL SEE THE CALF ADVERTENT AND THE FALLS OFF TO YOUR LEFT.

MOONSHINERS CAVE IS NOTERAL TRUE CAVE BUT A BLUFF SHELTER WITH A MANMADE STONEWALL FRONT TO ENCLOSE IT.

DEPENDING ON WHAT TIME OF THE YEAR YOU HIKE HERE THE WATERFALLS ARE AN EXTRA ADDED ATTRACTION.

WHAT IS KNOWN ABOUT THIS SITE IS THAT THERE WAS AN OLD HOME STEAD JUST ABOUT THE BLUFF AND THE FAMILY WHO LIVE THERED MADE A ROOTICLER OUT OF THIS SHELTER FOR STORAGE.

THE INITIALS IN 1905 ARE STILL VISUAL.

SOMETIME AFTERWARDS IT WAS THEN USED FOR MOONSHINERS AS A HIDE OUT.

THUS THE THE, MOONSHINERS CAVE.

BEFORE YOU MAKE THE HIKE TO MOONSHINERS CAVE & FALLS TO MAKE SURE THERE WILL BE A FALL YOU NEED TO TIME IT OUTRIGHT AFTER THAT RAINSTORM LIKE WE DID.

FOR MORE ON MOONSHINERS CAVE ASK FALLS OR TO SET AUTOPSY GUIDE HIKE YOU CAN CONTACT NEARBY DEVIL'S DEN STATE PARK.

EPPED SCOOT WHEN [KH ] IS JUST OUTSIDE OF LITTLE ROCK THERE IS A PLACE OF BUSINESS THAT HAS BEEN AROUND SINCE 1912.

COT TOMS MERKENATISM IT IS FAMOUS NOT BECAUSE PRESIDENTS AND GOVERNORS ARE EATEN HERE BUT BECAUSE OF A BURGER.

HUBCAP BURGER.

WHICH IS JUST ABOUT AS BIG AS THIS ONE.

LATOIA WHAT IS FOR LUNCH TODAY.

SOUTHERN PARK CHICKEN, MASHED POTATOES, GREEN BEANS AND CORN.

OF COURSE THE TAPELE HERE IS FRIED GREEN TOMATOES I SEE OVER THERE.

YES, PROBABLY ONE OF [O-URB] BEST SELLERS.

THE OTHER STAP SELL THE HUBCAP BURGER.

OF.

YES, THE HUBCAP BURGER IS 17 OUNCES AND ONE OF OUR BEST STAPS TOO.

WHAT ABOUT DID MISSISSIPPI MUD CAKE.

A PIECE OF CAKE THAT IS CUT IN HALF WITH HOT FUDGE AND WHAT TYPED CREAM.

WHAT DO YOU LIKE ABOUT WORKING HERE.

[TPR-F] CREW.

THE CREW IS KIN OF CRAZY.

IT IS A GOOD PLACE TO WORK.

TOIA MENTIONED THE 17 [-UFRPBS] HUBCAP BURGER.

THEY CAN ALSO BUILD YOU ONE WITH FOUR PATTIES.

YES, THE QUADRUPLE BURGER.

FOR POUNDS OF MEAT.

THE QUADHUBCAP BURGER WAS ALSO FEATURE ODD THE TRAVEL CHANNELED MAN VERSE FOOD.

BUT WHAT ALSO MAKES COT TOMBS THE INSTITUTION IT IS ARE THE PEOPLE.

.

WE GET PEOPLE IF ALL OVER.

WE GET TRAVELERS.

WE GET ALL DIFFERENT TYPES.

WE LOVE IT.

WE EVEN HAVE PEOPLE LIKE GINA DAVIS STOP THROUGH.

WE GET JUST ALL DIFFERENT TYPES OF PEOPLE.

AND OF COURSE GORE NORS HAVE EATEN HERE.

YES.

BILL CLINTON.

NOW YOU PROBABLY SELL MORE OF THE FOOD I IMAGINE THAN SOME OF THE AMERICA TILL: WE DON'T TELL THE AMERICA TILL ANYMORE MANY WE CUT THAT OUT ALL FOR LOOKS.

SINCE THE EARLY 19 HUNDREDS THEY SETTLED FOR THE MERCAN TILL STORE: JUST THE OLD BUILDING, THE OLD STORKS IT USED TO BE A STORE WHEN I CAME HERE AS A KID.

BUT IT HAS CHANGED.

THEY HAVE TABLES IN THE BACK FOR THE FARMERS TO EAT FAST.

IT IS GOOD FOOD.

AND IT WAS AN OLD HARDWARE STORE.

SO WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE THING TO EAT HERE?

WELL, I LIKE DID CHICKEN FRIED STEAK AND THE MASHED POTATOS AND THE ONION RINGS ARE GOOD AND THE HUB CAP.

AND THE MISSISSIPPI MUD IS GOOD.

OH, YEAH.

EVERYTHING.

IT IS A GOOD PLACE.

I HAVE BEEN HERE A LONG TIME.

THE REGULARS DO HAVE THEIRVILLE ID REASONS FOR COMING HERE JUST ABOUT EVERY SINGLE [TKA-EUFPL] IT IS A FRIENDLY ATMOSPHERE.

THE FOOD IS THERE A HAD AROUND HERE T GIRLS ARE FUN.

SO WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE THING TO EAT HERE?

CHICKEN.

AND IT IS ONE OF MY FIRSTS.

I ENJOY THE PORK CHOPS ON MONDAY.

CHICKEN STRIPS.

I HAVE NOT HAD ANY BAD FOOD HERE.

I CAME HERE PROBABLY THE FIRST TIME WITH MY OLDEST DAUGHTERS CLASS.

AND THEYED THAT PLANTATION, THE FAMILY HOME RIGHT.

THERE I FELL IN LOVE WITH THE ONION RINGS AND THE HUBCAP BURGERS.

I'M OLDER AND I HAVE TO TRY WATCH MY CHOLESTEROL.

SO I OT A STEAK TODAY.

I HAVE BEEN COMING HERE ABOUT 30 YEARS.

THIS IS MY FOURTH TIME BEING AT THIS LOCATION.

WE LIKE THE OLD TIME STORE.

WE COME UP HERE AND VISIT THE ARCHITECTURAL THINGS LIKE TO MUSEUM.

SO PAY A VISIT TO COTHAM'S AND SEE FOR YOURSELF THE GOOD FOOD AND GOOD PEOPLE.

OH, MY GOODNESS, WHAT HAVE WE DONE HERE MANY WE HAVE THE GRAD DROOPLE HUBCAP BURGER.

FRIED GREEN TOMATOS AND THE WORLD FAMOUS ONION RINGS.

NOW, 1000 EAT THIS?

I DON'T KNOW.

I'M TRYING MY BEST.

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