Cave Springs

For most of the year, Kimberly Hutcheson runs a quiet business. She owns and operates Experience Escape Rooms in Cave Springs, but during the month of October, her business expands to the structure next door: The Asylum.

For the first time in 10 years, the Cave Springs community gathered in full force at the Illinois River Watershed Partnership sanctuary this weekend to celebrate the Bats and Bluegrass Festival. Ozarks at Large’s Jack Travis spoke with organizers and attended the event to get to know the people and causes behind the festival.

Early voting is underway in a special election in Cave Springs that’s asking voters to consider approving the annexation of nearly 2,800 acres into the…