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Events for May 3, 0012 - June 7
Brian Thompson: “Saving the Buffalo River—Again”
CALS Butler Center for Arkansas Studies Presents LEGACIES & LUNCH
Speaker: Brian Thompson
In 2013, a large industrial hog farm was quietly granted a permit to be built along the banks of Big Creek, a major tributary of the Buffalo National River. Due to the sensitivity of the location and the lack of public notification, Arkansas conservation organizations challenged the state regulatory processes that allowed for this permit to be approved. Brian Thompson’s book is a first-hand account of the seven-year controversy over this industrial threat to our nation’s “first national river.”
Brian Thompson is retired from a thirty-four-year career with Tyson Foods.
Katie Adkins and David Ware: “Exploring the Arkansas Digital Newspaper Project”
CALS Butler Center for Arkansas Studies Presents LEGACIES & LUNCH
Speaker: Katie Adkins and David Ware
Since colonial times, newspapers have served as front-row observers of American life—but paper doesn’t last forever. America’s “old news” has long been preserved by microfilming, but now new technology brings new expectations—and access. In partnership with the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress, staff at the Arkansas State Archives are working to digitize historic Arkansas newspapers,
Blake Wintory: “The Unionist Demby Family”
CALS Butler Center for Arkansas Studies Presents LEGACIES & LUNCH
Speaker: Blake Wintory
Using a range of artifacts and documents from the Old State House Collection, the Butler Center, and other institutions, Blake Wintory will provide insight into the lives of James W. Demby and his son Josiah Demby, two Arkansas Unionists during the Civil War. The Dembys are also documented as watchmakers and jewelers in Historic Arkansas Museum’s Arkansas Made project.