African American man and woman in white wedding attire
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Romance, Arkansas

Arkansas in Love

You know that Shakespeare was no Arkansan when he wrote, “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” No woman here would care to be compared to the hottest, most mosquito-heavy, most miserable part of the year. In England, such comparisons might sail a bit closer to the heart. May the entries below prove a little better themed for pursuing love here in Arkansas.

White woman smiling in pants tank top purse posing by stanchion red rope street traffic
Joey Lauren Adams (1968–)
Actors and Filmmakers
Young white woman with curly brown hair in red and white dress
Antiquities (2018)
Films
Black woman with long curly hair back turned holding guitar behind her with text "August Lane a novel Regina Black author of The Art of Scandal"
August Lane
Fiction
Illustration of two women looking at each other one in blue jumpsuit holding a paintbrush the other wearing overall shorts t shirt and backwards hat holding trowel both standing in front of two story house and cartoon hummingbird text " Their love story is a bit of a fixer upper. Bed and Breakup Susie Dumond Author of Queerly Beloved"
Bed and Breakup
Fiction
Lamb chop with caviar and pesto on dinner plate
Caviar
Animal Culture, Foodways
Brick building with oval shaped windows with cars in parking lot and hanging "Little Italy" sign on two lane street
Bruno’s Little Italy
Businesses, Foodways
Newspaper clipping "A White Man Duly Married to a Negro Man"
Chesser and Holly Marriage Case of 1888
Criminal Activities, Sexual Orientation
Hand tinted photograph hillside town with large hotel on peak
Crescent Hotel
Attractions (Historic and Current)
"Welcome to Delight Home of Glen Campbell" sign with guitar art
Delight (Pike County)
Pike
Romance book cover featuring a white woman in an old-fashioned blouse and hat at the top and a shirtless white man and long-haired white woman embracing at the bottom
Delta Pearl
Fiction
Two white men in large field with railroad tracks
Diamond Mining
Industries, Mining
Text "inspired by the book finding love in bridal veil
Finding Love in Mountain View
Television and Streaming
Group of older white women indoors cutting a ribbon with large scissors
First Spouses
Four African-American women in matching dresses
Gladys McFadden and the Loving Sisters
Gospel
Statue of a dancing girl on brick column outside multistory brick building with parking lot
Great Southern Hotel
Businesses, Museums and Historic Sites
Newspaper ad picturing two men standing by a conveyor belt with cookies and headline "cookies by the thousands"
Jackson Cookie Company
Businesses, Foodways
Romance book cover featuring a white woman in a parka standing in the snow
Love Finds You in Snowball, Arkansas
Fiction
Ozark Golden Wedding Jubilee
Festivals and Events
Iron tower replica on two-tiered fountain and wall with plaque with multistory building with clock tower in the background
Paris (Logan County)
Logan
Single story red brick post office building with sign saying "Romance" and parking lot
Romance (White County)
White
White woman with short curly hair in gold and white dress
She Couldn't Say No
Films
Lighted glass-walled chapel at night with trees
Thorncrown Chapel
Buildings, Museums and Historic Sites
Text "A Thrilling Romance of The Civil War The History of Mrs. Mollie E. Williams Written by Herself Forty-Two Days in Search of a Missing Husband A Lesson of Woman's Fidelity
A Thrilling Romance of the Civil War: The History of Mrs. Mollie E. Williams Written by Herself: Forty-two Days in Search of a Missing Husband
Nonfiction
Text "Meg Ryan David Duchovny They missed their connection" above White man dressed in suit tie and dress shoes sitting on bench looking at white woman with wavy medium length hair wearing long coat on other side looking straight forward arms crossed snow falling down on them above text "What Happens Later Directed by Meg Ryan"
What Happens Later
Films
Book cover featuring white women in a tank top and shirtless white man embracing
Wild Child
Fiction
Field of yellow flowers with trees in the distance
Wildflowers
Botany
"Welcome to Altus" sign with brick base and roof
Wineries
Foodways, Industries

In Pictures: Notable Couples of Arkansas

Hattie and Thaddeus Caraway
Farkleberry Follies with Dale and Betty Bumpers
Elton and Betty White
Johnny and June Cash at Fordyce on the Cotton Belt
Dale Evans with Roy Rogers
Hillary and Bill Clinton