Where culture clings to the vine: an interview with the last grape farmer in Tontitown, Arkansas

by DOMENICA DIRAVIAM The winding two lane roads of Northwest Arkansas lead through a town with a population of 4301 inhabitants. Many of these share a bloodline with the original 40 Italian families, who in 1895 followed a somewhat circuitous route from Italy, which was undergoing a massive economic and demographic revolution at that time, …