One of Spa City’s most well-known collectors and civic leaders gives his take on the area’s past, present, and future
When Davis Tillman relocated from Memphis to Hot Springs in the early 1990s, he didn’t expect he would still be there more than three decades later. “It was pretty bleak when I first moved here. I thought, I’ll give it two years,” he says. The motivation for his move was to help with his father’s antiques store, Tillman’s Antiques, but he had one good-natured demand: “Part of my negotiation with my father was to be able to buy the building and renovate the upstairs,” he says. These floors above the store became a well-collected backdrop for charity events and parties through the years. With each new face he met, he became more intertwined in the community. “It turned out to be one of the best moves I ever made in my life,” he says. “Hot Springs has been a good place to live, and it’s good to see it going in the right direction. Every year it gets better and better and better.”
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