Wednesday, April 12, 2017

ASA's traveling exhibit opens at Historic Arkansas Museum

The Arkansas State Archives’ traveling exhibit, The Great War: Arkansas in World War I, will open Friday, April 14th, with a reception at Historic Arkansas Museum as part of 2nd Friday Art Night.  A selection of original World War I artifacts picked up off the battlefields along with several World War I propaganda posters from the collections of the Arkansas State Archives will be displayed at the museum as part of the exhibit.

Elizabeth Griffin Hill will also be signing copies of her new book, “Faithful to Our Tasks: Arkansas's Women and the Great War,” at the exhibit opening.

The exhibit will be on display at Historic Arkansas Museum from April 14, 2017 through August 16, 2017 and can be viewed Monday through Saturday, 9 a.m. until 5 p.m., and on Sundays from 1 - 5.