is in charge of the ghost tours that begin here, and the ghost stories, and they work together to make the hotel the lively old dame she is.
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Keith Scales, who plays Baker in a one-man show, says the key to his portrayal is the chip on his subject's shoulder: "Every day he is battling someone."
The Ozarks are a crossroads, and over the last 10,000 years or so Eureka Springs has attracted pilgrims and seekers of every kind. It was said the waters healed the sick and made you whole again, so the Osage chief who carved out the holy basin next to the spot where the Basin Park Hotel now stands on Spring Street would recognize the impulse if not the architecture. This has always been a boom-and-busttown and a hide-out and a rest cure, a place to lay low or live high. Bank robbers, bootleggers, railroad magnates and cathouse madams all made their fortunes here. Gangsters from Chicago kept the hotels and roadhouses and nightclubs busy after World War II, and when the local economy.
