The topic will be her 2014 memoir, “Sundays with TJ: 100 Years of Memories on Varner Road,” which focuses on her late father, T.J. Kearney, and his experiences growing up in southeast Arkansas.
There will be a reception at 6:30 p.m. in the lobby of DAH, hosted by the Friends of the Arkansas State Archives, a nonprofit organization that supports ASA’s events. The event is free and open to the public, but guests must register online by Friday, Jan. 19: http://kearneypentopodium.eventbrite.com.
The event is the first of four lectures in ASA’s 2018 Pen to Podium: Arkansas Historical Writers’ Lecture Series.
Janis F. Kearney is an author, publisher and presidential historian. She served under civil rights legend Daisy Bates as managing editor of the historic Arkansas State Press Newspaper. In 1988, she became publisher and owner of the newspaper. In 1992, Janis worked on the Clinton-Gore Campaign, and joined the Clinton Administration in 1993, where she served as a media specialist in the White House Media Affairs Office, director of public communications for the US Small Business Administration, and for five years, served as the country’s first Personal Diarist to a President. In 2001, Janis and her husband, Bob J. Nash, founded Writing our World Publishing in Chicago. In 2015, she established the Read.Write.Share Writers Group, an umbrella company serving new and emerging writers.
The Arkansas State
Archives is a division of the Department of Arkansas Heritage and is
responsible for collecting and maintaining the largest collection of historical
materials on Arkansas in the world. The State Archives has two branch
locations; the Northeast Arkansas Regional Archives is located in Powhatan and
the Southwest Arkansas Regional Archives is located in Washington.
Other divisions of
the Department of Arkansas Heritage include the Arkansas Historic Preservation
Program, the Arkansas Arts Council, the Delta Cultural Center in Helena, the
Old State House Museum, the Arkansas Natural Heritage Commission, the Mosaic
Templars Cultural Center, and the Historic Arkansas Museum.
