Mae Hamilton A vacation getaway doesn’t always have to mean tramping around museums or staying at an all-inclusive resort on some tropical island’s sandy beach.
Occasionally, getting away from it all simply means spending a few nights holed up in a cave outside a small Arkansas town deep in the Ozark Mountains.Known as Beckham Creek Cave, this unusual but popular vacation spot has an interesting history.
Back in the ’80s, with tensions with the USSR at a boiling point, many folks were afraid that the United States’ heartland would be bombed by the Russian army.
Thankfully, that didn’t happen. Still, people back then bought remote properties and built fallout shelters, just in case. Businessman John Hays, founder of Celestial Seasonings Tea.
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