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Erasing Boundaries: Lawrence
County at 200
In November, the Arkansas
Humanities Council awarded a program grant to the Arkansas History Commission
and its Northeast Arkansas Regional Archives (NEARA) branch. The grant in part
supports a public program on January 15, 2015, at Powhatan Historic State Park.
The program, Erasing Boundaries: Lawrence County at 200, will feature a variety
of speakers presenting research on the political, social, and economic history
of territorial Arkansas, and the early archaeology of the region. For more
information or to register for the program, contact the Arkansas History
Commission at tatyana.oyinloye@arkansas.gov
or call 501-682-6892.
Conservation Corner
Conservation of Arkansas’s
constitutions, Quapaw treaty, and secession document — the statehood documents
— spanned a number of decades, and the conservation work performed reflects
changing views on appropriate treatments for paper.
Black History Commission News
Garland Martin Taylor is excited
about getting started on “His Birdseye View: Henry Jackson Lewis’s Arkansas
Years. 1866-1888,” a research project recently funded by the Curtis Sykes
Memorial Grant Program. This
project will result in the compilation of biographical research on Lewis, a
well-known African American artist and land owner from Pine Bluff in the late
1800’s. The Curtis H. Sykes Memorial Grant Program offers grants to fund
projects related to African American history in Arkansas, and is currently
accepting applications. Potential applicants should note that the deadline for
submitting applications to be considered during the next funding cycle is 4:30
p.m. on Friday, January 2, 2015.
From the Director
If you were a child growing up in
Arkansas in the 1970s, there’s a good chance that the first cartoon characters
you got excited about meeting at an amusement park weren’t wearing mouse ears
or princess costumes. The AHC has decided to start a Pinterest board on
Dogpatch to share some of the more interesting finds from our collection. We also
would like to invite members of the general public to share your pictures or
memorabilia of Dogpatch with us and our Pinterest followers.
