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The majestic Crescent Hotel in Eureka Springs Arkansas
looks silently down from the picturesque hilltop. Guests
come and go during the busy tourist season in victorian
Eureka Springs. But in the wee hours of the morning,
a few guests hurriedly check out of their rooms without
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After midnight, a silent nurse is somestimes seen
pushing a covered gurney toward the elevator,its old
wheels squeaking with each step.
But not all of the guests checked out of this
splendid old Hotel. For a few years after the
great depression, the Crescent was actually a cancer
hospital, run by the flamboyant Doctor Baker from Iowa.
Many desparate patients flocked to the Baker Cancer
Hospital in hopes of beating this dreaded disease. The
town's newspapers are strangely missing from the local
library and museums for those two years.
Dusty Rainbolt takes us back to a time when movies
were just learning to talk, gangsters were running the
big cities and doctors weren't all they were quacked
up to be. Come along and you will learn what those missing
newspapers would like to tell us now, but are forever
silent, as you experience Death Under the Crescent
Moon.
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