Walmart held it's yearly toyland event in Downtown Bentonville on Friday November 3rd. Toy makers from across the country took part in the celebration to showcase the toys topping every child’s wish list for Santa this year.
There was your favorite characters like The Flash, Transformers, Power Rangers, Car, children’s activities, food and an opportunity to test out the top toys of the season.
We stopped by several tents checking out what new toys are hot this year and hanging out with our favorite folks! Check out the video below with some of the cool stuff coming for this year's holiday season!
The Bentonville Film Festival will be held May 1st-6th, 2018. Submission Deadline for entries is fast approaching! Films accepted for the Festival will be announced in March of 2018. The official deadline is December 12th, 2017 with a late deadline of Jan 12th, 2018 (Please see fees link for cost of entries). Get your Submission in now! Click here to find out more about submitting an entry, rules and fee information. For more information on the 2018 Bentonville Film Festival Click Here!
As part of our Do The Ozarks Halloween series, The Arkansas CW Crew went back this year to the famous haunted hotel The Crescent Hotel. Built in 1886, the first 15 years it served the carriage set and was a exclusive year round hotel resort.
1937 to 1940 the college closed and it open as the Baker's Cancer Curing Hospital. The Hotel was reopened a restored to its original grandeur. Many came, were treated and died. Several of the ghost stories come from this era that they say wander the hotel.
During our tour we had a chance to go into Theodora room, Michael's room and the Morgue. We found orbs when we went back through our photos. By Theodora's room we found yellow and orange orbs that showed up in the hallway by a door frame and then showed up around Dustin when he was pretending to look for his keys like Theodora is known for doing when she has been sighted. This was a yellow and orange smaller orbs. Which carry a meaning of warning and protector orbs.
Then we experienced an orb outside around the crew after we came out from the morgue. it was an orange orb. Orange orbs are known to paranormal investigators as orbs that have assumed the role of a protector. This orb was very strong and big. You can check out more photos of the orbs in the gallery at the bottom of this article.
Find out about one of the most famous haunted hotels, The Crescent Hotel by watching interviews below. Room 419 -Theodora's Room Part 1
Room 419 -Theodora's Room Part 2
Stairwell and Michael's room 218
Michael's room 218 Part 2
Morgue Part 1
Morgue Part 2
Morgue Part 3
Morgue Part 4
You can find out more information on ghost tours by going to: Crescent Hotel Ghost Tours. Check out Gallery below.
As part of the Do The Ozarks Halloween Series we stop by the Basin Park Hotel in Eureka Springs to check what haunts could be found. Not only did we find a treasure trove of history, we found some ghost with a new app!
We had lot fun with this new app, it is called Ghost Hunting Tools (Detector) We downloaded it to our phones and checked out the hotel! This ghost detecting tool translate frequency into letters that form words. Check out the ghost stories we heard about and what we saw with our ghost detector by watching the video below.
The Arkansas CW and 40/29 is a proud partner of Alba Botanica NWA Fashion Week Shows! The Alba Botanica Fashion week hits the runway November 9th and 10th here in Northwest Arkansas! Fashion Designers from across the state will be showing off their talents on the runway at "Drake Field" in Fayetteville from 6pm-11pm both nights. Proceeds help fund the development and production opportunities for our local designers. Participating Boutiques and Designers: Love Zelda, Couture Bridal, Junque Rethuque, Hello Luvvy, Alberti & Co. Bride N Groom, Aimz Designer, Rosie Rose Designer, Masons, Melonhopper, Rulli Torres, Rustic Mule, Felix Bui Couture, HEM Apparel, Material Concepts, She Said Yes Bridal, Cordale J, RC by Richard Cotto, Vesta's Boutique, Down Right Denim, Chavon Shree, Brittany Nicole.
The Arkansas CW, ABC 40/29 TV, Ropeswing 3W Magazine and Maybelline New York. Ropeswing, Paris Presents , Uptown Eyes Glassware Gallery, Signature Bank of Arkansas, CitiScapes Magazine, Power 105.7, Real Techniques, Olive Tree Salon, KUAF National Public Radio, DiaGeo and Wedington Family Dental. For more information on the shows, how you can support or buy tickets go here: http://nwafw.com/ NWA Fashion Week is a non-profit organization and this is their mission: Northwest Arkansas Fashion Week (NWAFW) exists to highlight designers, artists boutiques and other creative professionals who are committed to building a vibrant, inspired creative community in Northwest Arkansas.
We start our Do The Ozarks Halloween Series with a trip to the The Fort Smith Museum of History. Over the next few days leading up to Halloween we will be posting more haunted places around around area.
The Fort Smith Museum of History was our first stop on our list of haunted places we wanted to visit in our area. The museum was established in 1910. This museum strives to preserve over 40,000 artifacts from the city's and surrounding region's history. You can go here to find out more about visiting hours and upcoming events. Click for more info fortsmithmuseum.org .
With so much history gathered in one place, comes plenty of ghost stories. We had a chance to check out some of these stories with the help from Caroline Speir Historical Interpreter/Exhibit Designer of the Fort Smith Museum of History. We experienced several unexplained things while we were there. This included our camera bagged being moved not once but twice to a floor we weren't on. A child's hand prints showing up on a piano top and by and old doll house, plus two blue orbs showing up at night in front of the museum. Check out 9 episodes below from our visit to the museum.
(picture taken to the above right on Oct 7th 2017 -two blue orbs by front door of museum)
Percy Robertson,winner of Division 3 at the Arkansas/Oklahoma Youth Talent Competition in Fort Smith, has added more hardware to his collection. Percy competed at the Arkansas State Fair in Little Rock on Oct 21st and he danced away with First place in the Senior Dance Division and took Overall State Fair Talent Winner! Congratulations Percy on a job well done!
PROUD SPONSOR OF THE ARKANSAS / OKLAHOMA STATE FAIR YOUTH TALENT COMPETITION
There was your favorite characters like The Flash, Transformers, Power Rangers, Car, children’s activities, food and an opportunity to test out the top toys of the season. 
1937 to 1940 the college closed and it open as the Baker's Cancer Curing Hospital. The Hotel was reopened a restored to its original grandeur. Many came, were treated and died. Several of the ghost stories come from this era that they say wander the hotel. 
During our tour we had a chance to go into Theodora room, Michael's room and the Morgue. We found orbs when we went back through our photos. By Theodora's room we found yellow and orange orbs that showed up in the hallway by a door frame and then showed up around Dustin when he was pretending to look for his keys like Theodora is known for doing when she has been sighted. This was a yellow and orange smaller orbs. Which carry a meaning of warning and protector orbs.
Then we experienced an orb outside around the crew after we came out from the morgue. it was an orange orb. Orange orbs are known to paranormal investigators as orbs that have assumed the role of a protector. This orb was very strong and big. You can check out more photos of the orbs in the gallery at the bottom of this article.
We had lot fun with this new app, it is called Ghost Hunting Tools (Detector) We downloaded it to our phones and checked out the hotel! This ghost detecting tool translate frequency into letters that form words. Check out the ghost stories we heard about and what we saw with our ghost detector by watching the video below.
With so much history gathered in one place, comes plenty of ghost stories. We had a chance to check out some of these stories with the help from Caroline Speir Historical Interpreter/Exhibit Designer of the Fort Smith Museum of History. We experienced several unexplained things while we were there. This included our camera bagged being moved not once but twice to a floor we weren't on. A child's hand prints showing up on a piano top and by and old doll house, plus two blue orbs showing up at night in front of the museum. Check out 9 episodes below from our visit to the museum.
