🍂✨ Step Back in Time This Fall Festival! ✨🍂 Make Miss Laura’s a must-see stop on your festival route! On Saturday, October 4, from 10 AM–4 PM, enjoy FREE admission to Fort Smith’s most unforgettable historic home. 👒 Our staff will be dressed in authentic 1930s attire🎥 Catch our brand-new short film shown every half […]
💃📚 What’s a Poor Girl to Do? Prostitution in Mid-Nineteenth Century America takes readers into the hidden world of working women who defied society’s strictest rules. This eye-opening book reveals how poverty, survival, and limited choices led many women into sex work—and how they navigated stigma, morality, and independence in a rapidly changing America. 👉 […]
Get ready for a glowing good time at our 2nd Annual Radium Girl Paint & Sip! In proud partnership with the Fort Smith Regional Art Museum and Barker Realty, we’re bringing you an unforgettable night of history, creativity, and fun! Kick off the evening with a captivating presentation about the courageous Radium Girls, followed by […]
Get ready for a glowing good time at our 2nd Annual Radium Girl Paint & Sip! In proud partnership with the Fort Smith Regional Art Museum and Barker Realty, we’re bringing you an unforgettable night of history, creativity, and fun! Kick off the evening with a captivating presentation about the courageous Radium Girls, followed by […]
🍸✨ Madam Millie: Bordellos from Silver City to Ketchikan by Max Evans traces the unforgettable life of Millie, a larger-than-life madam who ran successful houses of prostitution across the American West. From New Mexico to Alaska, her story is one of grit, scandal, survival, and surprising business savvy—offering a rare glimpse into a hidden side […]
💋✨ Madam Millie: Bordellos from Silver City to Ketchikan by Max Evans tells the remarkable true story of Mildred “Millie” Clark Cusey—an orphan who rose to become one of the most successful madams in the American West. From the mid-1920s through the 1970s, Millie built an empire of bordellos in New Mexico and beyond, defying […]
✨ As we turn the final pages of Madam Millie: Bordellos from Silver City to Ketchikan, we’re left in awe of Millie’s extraordinary journey—from orphan to one of the most successful madams in the American West. Her story of survival, wit, and unapologetic ambition kept us hooked through every chapter. But Book Club isn’t slowing […]
✨🌹 A Very Nouveau Christmas Soirée at Miss Laura’s 🌹✨ Step into the magic of the season at our 2nd Annual Christmas Celebration, presented in partnership with the Fort Smith Regional Art Museum. 🎶 Live music to set the mood🍷 Elegant food & refreshments🎭 Captivating presentations🎅 A visit from our Sultry St. Nick Immerse yourself […]
📚✨ Bertha’s Book Club – December 13 at 10 AM ✨📚 Step into the Wild West with the untold story of Big Nose Kate, the notorious companion of Doc Holliday. She may never have published her memoirs, but she left behind letters, musings, and rare accounts of her extraordinary life. From witnessing the Gunfight at […]
📚✨ Bertha’s Book Club – December 13 at 10 AM ✨📚 We’re closing out the year with the fascinating story of Big Nose Kate, Doc Holliday’s notorious companion. From her personal letters to her larger-than-life tales of the Wild West, Kate’s story has kept us hooked — and now it’s time to wrap up this […]