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Immigrants helped shape Arkansas. The state shouldn’t forget that history.

  • Andrew DeMillo

I’ve never been to Tontitown, nor have I had the pleasure of partaking in its storied annual Grape Festival. But the northwest Arkansas community founded by Italian immigrants feels familiar to me. That’s partly because of Deputy Editor Antoinette Grajeda’s recent article on how the debate over immigration enforcement is playing out in the small […]

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An Arkansas community founded by Italian immigrants becomes a flashpoint over ICE

  • Antoinette Grajeda

A quiet, empty field near a cream church with green roofing will come alive with the sounds of summer when the Tontitown Grape Festival returns in early August.  Children lapping up melting grape ice cream cones, teens gleefully screaming on spinning carnival rides and families standing in long lines for homemade spaghetti and fried chicken […]