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Arkansas town capitalizes on its brush with The Beatles
Category: Various Date: September 18, 2012, 10:27 pm Feed: Yahoo Music
pa href="http://news.yahoo.com/arkansas-town-capitalizes-brush-beatles-190037163.html"img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/jBzGUPOCrwfgII7CHZy2RQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2012-09-14T190037Z_1_CBRE88D1GTC00_RTROPTP_2_MUSIC-US-USA-ARKANSAS-BEATLES.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Handout shows a still image from The Beatles: Rock Band" align="left" title="Handout shows a still image from The Beatles: Rock Band" border="0" //aLITTLE ROCK, Ark (Reuters) - A farming town in northeastern Arkansas is hoping that an unexpected visit by The Beatles nearly 50 years ago can get its economy rocking again. This weekend Walnut Ridge hosts Beatles at the Ridge, a festival dedicated to The Beatles#039; only stop in Arkansas. It all goes back to a Friday night in 1964, when a plane carrying the Fab Four to a Missouri dude ranch experienced mechanical problems and was forced to land on a World War Two-era airstrip in Walnut Ridge. .../pbr clear="all"/
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