August sizzles like a smelter; even bugs and lizards swelter, Ron Wolfe writes in his monthly calendar in Tuesday's Style section. August is the parched month that cries out, “water! — water! — watermelon!” Camels go dry, but elephants — white elephants — are for sale by the yard.
Find out about August activities, including the Hope Watermelon Festival, the Cave City Watermelon Festival, the National Championship Chuck Wagon Races, Hot Springs Blues Festival and Eureka Springs' Yards and Yards of Yard Sales.
Read tomorrow's Arkansas Democrat-Gazette for full details.