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REFLECTIONS Vol. 38, No. 2 Arkansas Humanities Council Winter 2014 What’s Inside Recently-funded Projects Learn about major grants we have awarded Page 3 Launch of Ozark Literary Journal See report on and excerpts from Cave Region Review Page 4 Chairman’s Report Mark Christ details ways you can help fortify the Ar- kansas Humanities Council Page 6 Summer Seminar An AHC co-sponsored sum- mer seminar for secondary teachers Page 10 UALR Creates Civil Rights Website A website dedicated to Arkansas’ Civil Rights Heritage Page 12 ... and more Confederate Sunset by Gerry Toler From the Cave Region Review Page 2- Reflections Winter 2014 Partnerships 2014 The Arkansas Humanities Coun- of Arkansas Heritage. of Race and Ethnicity. The website cil has great partners! Take a look As you are sitting by the fire this for the trail was funded by AHC in at the projects that are highlighted winter reading the poetry of Billy partnership with the Department in this issue and you’ll see that the Collins or Seamus Heaney, why not of Arkansas Heritage. The article on success we have had promoting the pick up the current copy of Cave page 12 tells about the kickoff of the public humanities in Arkansas is Region Review and enjoy the poetry project. due in large part to partners that of Arkansas State University’s Rick And look at what’s coming! share our mission and vision. Lott? Cave Region Review is pub- Did you know that Major League Our most important partner is lished by students at North Arkan- Baseball’s first spring training was the National Endowment for the sas College in Harrison and funded in Arkansas? The University of Humanities. NEH provides the by an AHC minigrant. See page 4 Arkansas has begun production on foundation for everything we do for a report on the project along a documentary film on professional through its support grants to state with excerpts from the current issue. baseball teams that held pre-season humanities councils. Have you ever thought about training in Hot Springs. Have you We partner with the Department what teachers do outside the class- ever marveled at the beautiful old of Arkansas Heritage to offer Ar- room, on their own time, to provide courthouses we have in Arkansas? kansas Heritage grants. The Win- quality instruction for their stu- AETN will produce a film about the throp Rockefeller Foundation spon- dents? The article on page 10 tells cultural significance of the histor- sors our REACH grant program of the summer seminar for teachers ic courthouses and the efforts to for humanities projects in schools that was co-sponsored by the Butler preserve them. These two films are across Arkansas. Through our part- Center for Arkansas Studies and projects of the Arkansas Heritage nership with the Central Arkansas AHC. Grant program. Library System we cosponsor the AHC and the Winthrop Rockefel- This summer teachers from Arkansas Literary Festival and the ler Foundation have partnered to of- across Arkansas will attend the re- Butler Center’s Legacies & Lunch fer schools in Arkansas the REACH nowned Little Rock Writing Project. lecture series. We sponsor History (Raising Education Achievement The Battle of Jenkin’s Ferry will be Day with the University of Central and Competency in the Human- the focus of a series of events. Mem- Arkansas and help support the ities) grant program. Turn to page 9 bers of the Marshallese community Arkansas Historical Association’s and read about the efforts of a teach- in northwest Arkansas will begin the annual conference. er in Malvern that have brought Marshallese Oral History project. As you peruse the aricles in this national recognition to the school. The founding of Lawrence County issue of Reflections, you will find How about a day trip to Stuttgart (the home county of Imboden); that grantmaking and the organi- to visit the Museum of the Arkansas General William O. Darby; Indi- zations that receive the funds are at Grand Prairie, where you can visit an tribal records in Arkansas; the the heart of what we do. a pioneer dwelling from the 1800’s? search for the battlefield at Wallace’s The next time you sharpen that See page 13 for an example of the Ferry; the photographs of Hugo and Old Timer pocket knife your daddy Small Museum Minigrant program, Gayne Preller; the Brinkley Acade- gave you for Christmas 50 years ago, funded in partnership with the my and Washington, AR during the you will probably be using a whet- Department of Arkansas Heritage Civil War are all humanities projects stone from Arkansas. See the article and AHC. that will begin this year. on page 14 to learn more about Want to learn about Arkansas’ 2014 promises to be exciting! whetstones and the Arkansas Ar- rich civil rights heritage? Visit the cheological Survey project funded Arkansas Civil Rights Heritage Trail in partnership with the Department just launched by UALR’s Institute Paul S. Austin, Executive Director Winter 2014 Reflections- Page 3 Board Awards $148,761 in Major Grants The Arkansas Humanities Council $20,000 grant to conduct oral interviews The First Boys of Spring board of directors met Nov. 15, 2013, to of members of the Marshallese com- A $25,000 grant was awarded to the review major grant applications. They munity in Northwest Arkansas. April L. University of Arkansas at Fayetteville for awarded 13 grants for humanities proj- Brown, project director. the production of a film on profession- ects throughout the state. Major grant al baseball teams that held pre-season applications are accepted in February training in Hot Springs. Larry Foley, and September of each year. Projects re- RESEARCH project director. ceiving grants on Nov. 15 are listed be- Arkansas Family History Information in 19th Century Indian low. OTHER MEDIA Tribal Records Gen. William O. Darby The Sequoyah National Research PUBLIC PROGRAMS The Darby Foundation in Fort Smith Center in Little Rock was awarded a was awarded a $4,770 grant to produce 2014 Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday $3,900 grant to locate and catalog doc- media on the early life and military ca- Weeklong Commemoration uments that will be used to create a reer of Brig. Gen. William O. Darby. The Arkansas Martin Luther King searchable database on the Chickasaw, Emory S. Dockery, project director. Commission was awarded a $5,411 Choctaw, Cherokee, Seminole and Mus- grant to support its observance during cogee (Creek) tribal records. Daniel F. the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday week. Littlefield, project director. Washington, Ark., and the American Activities included an empowerment Civil War: A Traveling Exhibit summit at Old Jacksonville Elementary Archeological Survey to Locate Battle- Pioneer Washington Restoration School and A Day of Service observance field at Wallace’s Ferry Foundation in Washington, Ark., was at the Pine Bluff Convention Center. The Arkansas Archeological Survey awarded a $6,000 grant to develop a Gov. Mike Beebe, Dr. Carolyn Blakely in Fayetteville was awarded a $5,754 traveling exhibit about Washington and Dr. Joel Anderson spoke during the grant to conduct field work at the site of during the Civil War. Josh Williams, project director. week. DuShun Scarbrough and Walter Wallace Ferry Civil War engagement. Washington, project directors. Carl Carlson-Drexler, project director. Old School: Remembering the Brin- kley Academy Battle of Jenkins Ferry Founding of Lawrence County: Park Central Little Rock was award- A New Perspective on Early Settle- A $3,447 grant was awarded to the ed a $3,037 grant to develop a traveling ment Friends of Jenkins Ferry Battlefield Or- exhibit on the history of the Consolidat- Five Rivers Historic Preservation Inc. ganization in Sheridan for a series of ed White River Academy, commonly in Pocahontas was awarded a $14,699 events recognizing the last Civil War bat- referred to as the Brinkley Academy. tle fought on Arkansas soil. Mary Baxley, grant to conduct research on the history Grace Hayes Blagdon, project director. project director. of Lawrence County. Bill Carroll, project director. A House of Light: the Art and Photog- Little Rock Writing Project raphy of Hugo and Gayne Preller A $16,000 grant was awarded to the PRODUCTION The Old Independence Regional University of Arkansas at Little Rock for Courthouses of Arkansas Museum in Batesville was awarded a its writing workshop for Arkansas teach- The Arkansas Educational Television $15,790 grant for a multimedia exhibit ers. Heather Hummel, project director. Network in Conway received a $24,952 based on photographs taken by Hugo grant to produce a film about cultural and Gayne Preller in the early 20th cen- Marshallese Oral History Project significance of historic courthouses in tury. Chris Engholm, project director. The Marshallese Educational Initia- Arkansas. The film will also explore -ef tive Inc. in Fayetteville was awarded a forts to preserve the structures. Casey Sanders, project director. Page 4- Reflections Winter 2014 Successful Launch of Ozark Literary Journal North Arkansas College pre- fers Northark students numerous sented the fifth volume of Cave opportunities and benefits. Region Review: A Journal of Lit- This year’s featured poet is Rick erary and Visual Art to the pub- Lott, a widely published poet lic on Nov. 7, 2013, in the John who teaches creative writing and Paul Hammerschmidt Con- literature at Arkansas State Uni- ference Center on Northark’s versity. Lott, who has six poems in the new Cave Region Review, south campus in Harrison. said, “A good poem should not Titled “A Celebration of the attempt to inform or persuade. It Humanities,” it was the third should re-create in vivid images annual launch reception for the a small piece of the world that journal.
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