The Butler eBanner Newsletter of the Butler Center for Studies Winter 2018 Art Exhibitions American Red Cross in Arkansas Records Now Open Feb. 9–April 28 Butler Center Loft Gallery he year 2017 marked the 100th anni- Delta Rediscovered—images of early versary of the American Red Cross’s life in Arkansas’s White River Delta by photographer Dayton Bowers, Tpresence in Arkansas. To commemo- who was active in Arkansas County rate that centennial, leaders of Red Cross between 1880 and 1924, chronicling chapters in the state—principally Candy Car- the rise of prosperity in the Delta and operating Arkansas’s first known ey of the Greater Arkansas Red Cross Chap- photography studio, located in DeWitt. ter, based in Little Rock—donated Red Cross March 9–June 30 records to the Butler Center last year. As part Butler Center West Gallery of the centennial celebration, items from the Mid-Southern Watercolorists 48th Annual Juried Exhibition—founded collection were displayed in the Butler Cen- and incorporated by five artists in ter’s Underground Gallery last summer. Now Little Rock in 1970, Mid-Southern the entire collection has been processed, and Watercolorists seeks to elevate the stature of watercolor and educate the its contents are available to researchers in the public about the significance of the Research Room of the Bobby L. Roberts Li- Arkansas Red Cross worker Gonzalo Garza watercolor medium. brary of Arkansas History & Art. entertaining children in a hurricane shelter, April 13–June 30 Among the items contained in these records Brownsville, Texas, February 12, 1967. Butler Center Galleries are the founding documents and early minutes Howard Simon: Art and Illustrations— The collection also contains thousands of Howard Simon, who lived in Arkansas from the Pulaski County Red Cross chapter, photographs documenting the work of the in the 1930s, was a renowned artist as well as administrative records covering American Red Cross in Arkansas. These pho- of many crafts, including illustrating, many other years between 1917 and 2016. tographs include images of disaster relief work painting, and woodcutting. This exhibition, which includes items on Scrapbooks contain newspaper clippings and following home and business fires, tornadoes, loan from the UA Little Rock Center other mementoes describing the work of the floods, chemical spills, airplane crashes, and for Arkansas History and Culture, American Red Cross in Arkansas, including other disasters. They also show Arkansans was organized by Henderson student Katelynn Caple. documents and scrapbooks from the Jefferson serving in Red Cross efforts in Florida, Texas, Exhibitions, which are free and open to County chapter and the Union County chap- Puerto Rico, and other places after hurricanes, the public, open during each month’s ter. In addition to paper records, the collection floods, and other disasters. One series of photo- Second Friday Art Night (2FAN), 5–8 contains many other items, including post- graphs depicts the help given by the Red Cross p.m. in the Roberts Library. ers, pins, clothing, and other reminders of the at the Pine Bluff Convention Center to refugees Sounds in the Stacks work of the Red Cross. Cont. on page 2 Thurs., Feb. 15, 6:30–7:30 p.m. CALS Rooker Library, Little Rock Chris Parker & Kelley Hurt: husband Tom Glaze Papers Now Available and wife piano/vocal duo—FREE he Tom Glaze Papers, now available Glaze. The bulk of the collection consists of Thurs., March 15, 6:30–7:30 p.m. for research, contain the professional material related to The Election Laws Institute CALS Thompson Library, Little Rock Bill Thurman: St. Patrick’s Day/Celtic Tand personal records of attorney, trial (TEL), a nonprofit that worked to combat voter music celebration with vintage and appellate judge, Arkansas Supreme Court fraud in Arkansas from 1970 to 1978, as well instruments—FREE justice, and election reform advocate Tom as trial research and correspondence related Thurs., April 19, 6:30–7:30 p.m. to Glaze’s time serving as a justice for the Ar- CALS Terry Library, Little Rock Dogtown Ukulele: a rock-and-roll kansas Supreme Court. The collection contains ukulele band—FREE personal correspondence, newspaper clippings, personal records, photographs, and research for his book Waiting for the Cemetery Vote: The Arkansas Sounds Fight to Stop Election Fraud in Arkansas. Fri., Feb. 23, 7:00 p.m. Tom Glaze was born in Joplin, Missouri, on CALS Ron Robinson Theater Tribute to True Soul Records—FREE January 14, 1938, to Harry Glaze and Mamie With live music and a panel discussion, Rose Guetterman Glaze. He graduated from the celebrate the pioneers of Little in Fayetteville in 1960 Rock soul music and the legendary and then attended the University of Arkansas More events on page 8. Tom Glaze Cont. on page 2 Cont. from Arkansas Red Cross, p. 1 Dorado. Photographs show blood dona- Burns Park in North Little Rock, a Lepre- from Hurricane Katrina in 2005. tions at the Lowry Blood Center in Lit- chaun Lock-Up in Conway, a foot race in In addition to disaster relief, the pho- tle Rock and in other chapter buildings, Maumelle (which became known as the tographs also present a century of public shopping malls, churches, and schools. Turkey Trot because it was held around education and training work by the Red Chapter meetings and award ceremonies Thanksgiving), barbecue fundraisers in Cross. Featured are health fairs in shop- are also included among the events pho- Pine Bluff, and a bass fishing tournament ping malls and at the state fairgrounds, tographed. in Felsenthal. Along with these events Family Safety Day outside the Pulaski The American Red Cross has always are celebrity car washes and holiday teas, County chapter headquarters in Little relied on financial support from the pub- as well as the Four Days of Hope telethon Rock, the weeklong Duck and Cover lic, and many of the photographs display to fund relief efforts following spring- Disaster College conducted on the cam- events that generated funding for the Red time tornadoes. pus of the University of Arkansas–Pine Cross chapters. These include dinners The collection can be accessed in the Bluff annually for several years, and and dances at the National Guard Ar- Roberts Library’s Research Room, and swimming classes at public pools in El mory in Little Rock, golf tournaments at the finding aid is availablehere . n

Cont. from Tom Glaze Papers, p. 1 riage having ended in divorce in 1974. lature meet the Arkansas Constitution’s Law School in Fayetteville. Upon receiv- In 1980, he ran for a seat on the new requirements that the state supply every ing his law degree, he moved to Little Arkansas Court of Appeals, which was child with a suitable and equal education. Rock in 1964. created two years earlier to relieve the Research and correspondence related to In 1970, Glaze formed TEL to monitor huge workload of the Arkansas Supreme these cases are included in the collection. elections and educate election officials. Court. Six years later, he ran for an Ar- After retiring, Glaze authored a memoir, As part of TEL’s work, Glaze served as an kansas Supreme Court justice seat, to Waiting for the Cemetery Vote: The Fight attorney on a series of lawsuits and out- replace the retiring George Rose Smith. to Stop Election Fraud in Arkansas, with of-court legal battles from 1970 through He was elected three times to eight-year the help of Ernie Dumas. He died on 1976, starting with his disclosure in 1970 terms on the court, finally retiring in Sep- March 30, 2012. He is buried in Mount that thousands of fraudulent names were tember 2008 in the advanced stages of Holly Cemetery in Little Rock. attached to initiative petitions for the Parkinson’s disease. The Tom Glaze papers contain a wealth American Party of Arkansas. Most of While on the Arkansas Supreme Court, of information regarding the justice sys- the battles Glaze faced were in counties he was responsible for striking down tem and election law in Arkansas. This that were nationally or regionally famous laws that allowed discrimination on the collection, MSS.11.66, is available in the for suspected voting misconduct. The basis of sexual orientation and order- Research Room of the Roberts Library, bulk of material in the collection regard- ing an overhaul of the state system for and the finding aid is availableonline . ing election fraud investigations centers financing public education. He started For more information about Tom around Conway and Searcy Counties. as the most reluctant of the judges in Ar- Glaze, see the entry on him in the Ency- In 1978, Glaze ran for chancery judge kansas’s major school funding case, Lake clopedia of Arkansas History & Culture in Pulaski County and was elected. He View School District No. 25 v. Huckabee, by Ernie Dumas, from which some of the married Phyllis Laser, a Little Rock busi- but he became its most ardent advocate, biographical information for this article nesswoman, the same year, his first mar- demanding that the governor and legis- was taken. n Thanks to these sponsors of the Butler Center’s monthly Arkansas Sounds Concert Series

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Page 2 The Butler eBanner A Word from the Center The Butler eBanner is the quarterly electronic David Stricklin, Director of the Butler Center newsletter of the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, a department of the Central Arkansas Library System. Mailing address 100 Rock St. Little Rock, AR 72201 Physical address Bobby L. Roberts Library of Arkansas History & Art 401 President Clinton Ave. Little Rock, AR 72201 501.320.5700 • [email protected] www.butlercenter.org Bobby Roberts, sharing the stage with several Arkansas governors, at the opening of Ali Welky: Editor the ASI building in 2009. Mike Keckhaver: Designer

e’ll have a piece on this when we called for almost nine years the ASI, we have some new signage which is really a three-building complex Winter 2018 Wto show off, but I’m very we share with our colleagues from the facts. One of the verses she wrote says: pleased to announce that the Central Ar- UA Little Rock Center for Arkansas His- kansas Library System (CALS) Board of tory and Culture; the complex includes You may write about foul corruption. Trustees has voted to rename the build- 1882 and 1914 buildings that were re- You may write about Judgment Day. ing where most of the Butler Center’s habbed and a 2009 innovative steel struc- You may scribble on purgatory. staff is located and where a lot of our ac- ture that has won an armful of design and Shirley’s there to light the way. tivity takes place. The Arkansas Studies engineering awards. Bobby’s passions Institute (ASI) building is now the Bobby for history and for adaptive reuse of his- Ms. Hayes attached a note when she L. Roberts Library of Arkansas History toric structures make this building, really sent the poem to Shirley, saying, “You & Art. Bobby was the CALS director for and truly, something that wouldn’t exist helped me find some material on Adol- 27 years. He retired two years ago after a if it hadn’t been for Bobby. It is a fitting phine Fletcher Terry. I didn’t even know I remarkable time on that job that brought thing to rename it in his honor. More to was interested in her until I talked to you. an extraordinary stream of CALS con- come on that. If ever my pen runs dry, I know where to struction projects. They included a dozen Recently, I was given a copy of a poem go for inspiration: The Butler Center.” branch libraries, the renovation of the written in 2015 by Karen Hayes in trib- Thanks, Karen Hayes, for your poetic old Fones building to house the Main Li- ute to Shirley Schuette, one of the folks tribute, though I’m sure Shirley Schuette brary, the renovation of the very cool Cox on our archival staff. All of the Research has nothing to do with foul corruption! building on the Main Library campus, Services staff perform desk service in our And thanks, Shirley and your colleagues, the Arcade building—a public-private research room, and Ms. Hayes was quite for creating a welcoming and inspiration- partnership that CALS owns a little more taken with the resources available to all al environment in our research room. than half of and that contains the fantas- kinds of writers—poets looking for in- Come see us and find out for yourself, tic Ron Robinson Theater—and what spiration as well as historians looking for in the Roberts Library. n

ally did claim an unrepresentative share Arkansas In Memoriam of famed Arkansans. However, studies By Guy Lancaster, editor of the Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture have shown that we tend to believe that s I am writing this just before ures also died in 2017: Frank Broyles, the current year has claimed more than New Year’s Day, the last few Sue Kidd, and Cortez Kennedy. It also its fair share of noteworthy people, given Aweeks have brought us notice of claimed artist Gene Hatfield, Congress- that we remain cognizant of more recent the deaths of Poet Laureate Peggy Vining, man , comedian Ralphie May, news. After all, 2016 had its own share of mystery novelist Joan Hess, Paralympian pioneer horticulturalist James Moore, deaths, from Senator to re- Grover Evans, and journalist Roy Reed. Harvard professor Robert Blair Stobaugh, nowned chairmaker Dallas Bump. Maybe Already, however, 2017 was feeling like and longtime state senator Stanley Russ. there is no great meaning in this particu- one of those years when we have lost Of course, many other noteworthy Ar- lar memento mori, but looking at this list many of our icons. In the field of music, kansans passed away, too, but these listed proves a valuable reminder of just how for example, Glen Campbell, Sonny Bur- are the figures on whom we already had many people have played a role in shap- gess, Bob Wootton, and CeDell Davis all EOA entries at the time of their deaths. ing Arkansas, and how many Arkansans passed away. Several major sports fig- And it feels like a lot, as if this year re- have shaped the world. n

The Butler eBanner Page 3 News from Butler Center Books New Arkansas Titles for Spring his spring, the Butler Center discusses the African Americans who Steven Teske. The Elaine Massacre will will publish a history of Recon- served in the Arkansas General Assem- be published in June ($22.95 paperback; T struction days in Arkansas; a bly, Kenneth Barnes gives insights into $39.95 hardcover). commemorative volume on the 1919 the political violence that convulsed massacre in Elaine, Arkansas; and an the state, Thomas DeBlack unravels the engrossing memoir by Malvern native Brooks-Baxter War, and Rodney Har- Ann Miles, whose penchant for danger ris visits the 1874 Constitution and its and daring made her one of the top stunt- effects on Arkansas’s future. These es- women in the movie business. says offer valuable insights into Recon- struction in Arkansas and how its effects still resonate today. The book will be available this spring ($22.95 paperback; $39.95 hardcover).

In February, we will publish Spider- walk: The High Life and Daring Stunts of a Small-town Girl from Arkansas by Ann “Annie” Miles. Miles grew up in Malvern and walked out of her home as a teenager in the 1950s and into a daring Reconstruction was a tumultuous and and dangerous job at the famous Steel controversial time in Arkansas’s his- Pier in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Using tory, an era in which African Americans her experience as a teenage rodeo rider sought to secure the benefits of their and gymnast, Miles landed a job as the hard-won freedom, the former leaders Even nearly a century after it occurred, star of the renowned “Diving Horse Act” of the state pursued restoration of their the Elaine Massacre of 1919 remains the at the Steel Pier, riding horses from a pre-war economic and political status, subject of intense inquiry as historians height of four stories into a tank of water. and the U.S. Army and the Freedmen’s examine why authorities in the Arkansas “I was going to Atlantic City, New Jer- Bureau sought to maintain a balance be- Delta used such overwhelming violence sey, for my 1958 summer job,” writes tween competing interests. By the time to put down a farmers’ union, debate ex- Miles, who was seventeen at the time. Reconstruction ended in 1874, Arkan- actly how many people were killed, and “It seemed normal to me. I had to sup- sas had been wracked by brutal political interrogate how the event has shaped the port myself and pay for my education. It violence, black legislators had had their century following the massacre. didn’t enter my mind that riding a horse first opportunities for service, and the In The Elaine Massacre and Arkansas: off a forty-foot tower probably scared Republican Party was sundered amid the A Century of Atrocity and Resistance, my parents to death. They didn’t say tragi-comedy of the Brooks-Baxter War, 1819–1919, edited by Guy Lancaster, that. They listened to my aunts who said, setting the stage for the rise of the Demo- some of our region’s most prestigious ‘Nice southern girls don’t go traipsing cratic “Redeemers.” historians provide the larger story neces- around the country all by themselves.’ In A Confused and Confusing Affair: sary for understanding what happened. Well, I was a nice southern girl and I Arkansas and Reconstruction, edited Contributors to the book include Richard did.” by Mark K. Christ, Carl H. Moneyhon Buckelew, Nancy Snell Griffith, Mat- In addition to performing the hair- provides an overview of Reconstruction thew Hild, Adrienne Jones, Kelly Hous- raising horse-diving act, Miles did stunt in the , Jay Barth explores ton Jones, Cherisse Jones-Branch, Brian work in the motion picture industry (in- post–Civil War politics, Blake Wintory K. Mitchell, William H. Pruden III, and cluding the famed “Spiderwalk” stunt

Page 4 The Butler eBanner for The Exorcist—seen by the public junior high schools—East Side, Forest only many years later in 2000’s The Ex- Heights, Pulaski Heights, Southwest, orcist: The Version You’ve Never Seen), and West Side—in 1961 and 1962. The modeled and acted for television, spent a First Twenty-Five gathers the personal short time as a Playboy Bunny, and was a stories of these students some fifty years hair and makeup artist on Broadway. Her later. In their own words, these individu- fascinating insider show-biz tales follow als share what they saw, heard, and felt the evolution of a pioneering young girl as children on the front lines of the civil out on her own into a savvy career wom- rights movement. These stories provide an who called her own shots. Along the insight about this important time in Little way, she fondly recalls how she became Rock and American history, and examine friends with some of the country’s elite how these often painful events from their entertainers, including teen idol Ricky childhoods affected the rest of their lives. Nelson and jazz great Louis Armstrong. Spiderwalk will be available in February life through the lens of the songs he wrote ($21.95 paperback; $39.95 hardcover). and recorded. Music journalist and his- *** torian John Alexander has drawn on de- Butler Center Books, which publishes cades of studying Cash’s music and life, around six books a year, is funded sole- from his difficult Depression-era Arkan- ly through sales of its books and dona- sas childhood through his death in 2003, tions from the public. Donations may to tell a life story through songs familiar be made through www.cals.org by click- and obscure. Appropriate for both seri- ing on the CALS Foundation tab. Butler ous country and folk music enthusiasts Center Books has more than fifty titles in and those just learning about this musi- print and available to order. For a com- cal legend, this book will appeal to a fan plete list, click here. Books are available base spanning generations. Here is a bi- in bookstores, including River Market ography for those who first heard “I Walk Books & Gifts on the Main Library cam- the Line” in 1956, a younger generation pus in Little Rock at (501) 918-3093; who discovered Cash through songs like from major online retailers; and from his cover of Trent Reznor’s “Hurt,” and our distributor at (800) 621-2736. Your everyone in between. purchases as well as your donations will Much has been written about the his- help ensure that we continue to bring you toric desegregation of Little Rock Cen- Excavated in 1974, the Sloan site in the best in Arkansas history. For purchas- tral High School by nine African Ameri- northeastern Arkansas is the earliest ing information, click here. can students in 1957. History has been recognized cemetery in the New World, silent, however, about the students who containing the graves of a small group desegregated Little Rock’s five public of Native Americans who died over ten thousand years ago. Although no skel- etons were found in the acidic soil, the number, size, and quality of its artifacts he University of Arkansas Press attest to the presence of a far more com- will also present several no- plicated and sophisticated culture than Ttable Arkansas-related titles this had previously been thought to exist dur- spring, including John M. Alexander’s ing the Dalton period. The Man in Song: A Discographic Biog- Bringing together the work of thirteen raphy of Johnny Cash; The First Twenty- eminent scholars, Dan F. Morse de- Five: An Oral History of the Desegrega- scribes and assesses the assemblage of tion of Little Rock’s Public Junior High artifacts as an indicator of the territorial Schools, edited by LaVerne Bell-Toll- stability of late Pleistocene peoples. In- iver; and Sloan: A Paleoindian Dalton cluding an overview of the Dalton period Cemetery in Arkansas by Dan F. Morse. in the southeastern United States and a Butler Center Books and the University discussion of the region’s geologic and of Arkansas Press share the mission of vegetal prehistory, this comprehensive publishing works on the history and cul- study of the Sloan artifacts provides a ture of Arkansas and the South. multifaceted assessment of a site rich in There have been many books written information about the technology of a about Johnny Cash, but The Man in Song single prehistoric society. is the first to examine Cash’s incredible For more information, visit UA Press. n

The Butler eBanner Page 5 ... Butler Center Events flash in the Spotlight

Sounds in the Stacks, October, at the CALS Sounds in the Stacks, October, at the Nixon Library featured the U.S. Navy Band CALS Terry Library featured the vocal/ Southeast Woodwind Trio. piano duo of Brenda and Ellis.

Sounds in the Stacks, November, at the CALS Amy Sanders Library featured musician Jeff Coleman. Amy Sanders, for whom the Sanders Library is named is on the left, and Sanders Library manager Ginann Swindle is on the right.

Group of students from Valley View Junior High in Arkansas Jonesboro and Benton Middle School in Benton Sounds, at the opening of Education in Exile: Student November, Experience at Rohwer at Second Friday Art featured the Night on January 12. The exhibition was partly Cate Brothers curated by the students, who chose pieces of Band. art that moved them and added their own words to the conversation about what life might have been like for students their age held in the camp during World War II. Exhibition is on view in the Concordia Hall Gallery through June 30.

November’s Legacies & Lunch focused on Arkansas archeology, with Jamie Brandon (right) and Lydia Rees, authors of the website Bluff Shelters of the Arkansas Ozarks (archeology.uark.edu) Arkansas Sounds, December, welcomed the talking about rock shelters Bob Boyd Sounds for a holiday concert. used in Arkansas in both prehistoric and historic times.

Page 6 The Butler eBanner For Legacies & Lunch in December, Diane Gleason— author of Dardanelle and the Bottoms: Environment, Agriculture, and Economy in an Arkansas River Community, 1819– Arkansas Sounds, October, showcased two 1970—discussed vocal groups: the women’s choir Top of the Rock life in the town of Chorus and the men’s choir Acappella Rising. Dardanelle and the adjacent rural area known as the Dardanelle Bottoms.

Wen Norton of Norton Arts with CALS art administrator Colin Thompson. Arkansas artist Adrian Brewer painted this oil-on-canvas image of Big Rock, the bluff and quarry located between Emerald Park and the Arkansas River, in 1925. The painting, recently restored by the A group of librarians and archivists from Egypt conservation team at Norton Arts, will be on visited Arkansas in November as part of a U.S. display in the Butler Center Galleries in July Department of State tour. Among other sites in an exhibition featuring works by Nicholas, in Little Rock, the group visited CALS and Adrian, and Edwin Brewer. The Butler Center is the Butler Center. They are shown here on able to fund restoration of Arkansas art like this the CALS Main Library campus in front of the painting through various sources, including the CALS centennial sculpture and in the Arkansas Betty Rice Art Conservation Fund. Studies Institute building meeting with Butler Center director David Stricklin. January’s Legacies & Lunch featured Guy Lancaster, editor of the Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture, discussing his recently released book of essays Bullets and Fire: Lynching and Authority in Arkansas, 1840–1950.

The Butler eBanner Page 7 Cont. from Events, p. 1 catchy melodies and socio-politically industry in Arkansas and elsewhere, is Arkansas musicians behind the True Soul relevant lyrics. the culmination of a national project led record label. by the UA System Division of Agriculture and its Center for Agricultural and Rural Fri., March 23, 7:00 p.m. Legacies & Lunch (Noon–1 p.m.) Wed., Feb. 7 Sustainability. Co-sponsored by the CALS Ron Robinson Theater Clinton School of Public Service. Lyon College Pipe Band—free 15 and under, $5 CALS Main Library Darragh Center ages 16 and up. Using video footage, recordings, and stories, Wed., April 4 Batesville’s award-winning Lyon College the Butler Center’s Arkansas Sounds CALS Main Library Darragh Center Pipe Band will feature traditional Scottish concert series producer John Miller will David Ware, capitol historian at the bagpipes, dancers, and a ceilidh band with give the history of True Soul Records, the Arkansas Secretary of State’s Office, guitars, accordions, uilleann pipes, and legendary African American–owned, Little discusses his book It’s Official! The Real singers. Rock–based label. Story behind Arkansas’s State Symbols (Butler Center Books, 2nd ed. 2017). Fri., April 13, 7:00 p.m. Wed., March 7 CALS Ron Robinson Theater CALS Ron Robinson Theater Finding Family Facts Sean Fresh & The NastyFresh Crew—$10 Screening of the documentary The Favored A free genealogy course—3:30–5:00 p.m. Little Rock R&B/hip-hop recording artist Sean Strawberry, produced by UA professors Feb. 12; March 12, April 9 Fresh and his six-piece band, The NastyFresh Larry Foley and Dale Carpenter. The hour- Roberts Library, 401 President Clinton Crew, will perform original songs combining long film, which focuses on the strawberry Ave., Room 204 Student Intern Conducts Interviews about WWI he Butler Center’s Young His- story of her grandfather’s experience as torians Internship program has a prisoner of war. Crawford also record- Tbecome a useful resource for the ed her account of the poignant warning WWI Student Digital History Project that her grandfather gave his wife after launched last summer. Intern Alex Craw- coming home from the war (to wake him ford, now a senior at Little Rock Central gently to avoid getting hurt) and other High School, has conducted a pair of vignettes about “shell-shock” resulting interviews with families of World War I from his injury and capture. veterans and recorded several podcasts Crawford’s second recorded interview of WWI Soldier Letters. was with former governor Jim Guy Tuck- Alex Crawford in the Research Room With technical help from the Butler er Jr., who shared the one and only time studying the WWI diary kept by Jim Guy Center’s Chris Stewart, Crawford’s work his father ever spoke of his experiences Tucker’s father, in preparation for the has been added to the online resources in WWI. Crawford’s audio interview and interview with Tucker. for Arkansas teachers at the Butler Cen- transcription are now linked to a virtual ter’s Arkansas History Hub. Click here to exhibit on Sr. recently collection of letters in the files of the Mo- access the project. created by UA Little Rock’s Center for rale Section of the Department of War. Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Arkansas History and Culture. In No- These documents detail a “complaint of Culture Staff Historian Mike Polston, vember, Crawford co-presented his in- assault” on a black officer from Camp who is the director of the soldier letters’ terview with Tucker with UA Little Rock Pike by a white private in a Military Po- project (see page 9), matched Crawford archivist Sarah Bost at the 2017 annual lice patrol in a train station in Louisiana. with two different potential sources for Arkansas Curriculum Conference. Crawford recorded a podcast of this let- the WWI veteran family interviews. The Meanwhile, UA Little Rock professor ter as part of the Arkansas WWI Centen- first interview was with Central High li- Brian K. Mitchell provided Crawford nial Commemoration website, and it can brarian Claudia Smith, who told a family with documents uncovered in the Fold 3 be found here. n Gallery Gifts for Your Valentine Galleries open Mon. - Sat. 9-6 Butler Center Galleries Follow us on 401 President Clinton Ave. Facebook for news Little Rock • (501) 320-5790 and updates.

Page 8 The Butler eBanner the encyclopedia of Arkansas history & culture WANTED: Authors and Media We need entries, photographs, documents, videos, maps, and audio clips to help make the EOA the most comprehensive and engaging resource on Arkansas history. Entries Needing Media (photographs, etc.): James Albert (Jim) Gaston (1941–2015) Saddle (Fulton County) Charles Wilson Allbright (1929–2015) Thomas Arthur (Tom) Glaze (1938–2012) Cynthia Scott (1951–) William Howard “Dub” Arnold (1935–) Kay Goss (1941–) Richard Wayne Snell (1930–1995) Arkansas River Blues Society Lawrence Preston Graves (1916–1994) Barney Alan Sugg (1938–) Wayne Hubert Babbitt (1928–1994) James Houston (Jim) Gunter Jr. (1943–) Texarkana Regional Airport Bagley-Ridgeway Feud (1960–) Blanche Thebom (1915–2010) Clarence Elmo Bell (1912–1997) James Robert (Jim) Hannah (1944–2016) USS Glide Henry Garland Bennett (1886–1951) Marion Steele Hays (1925–2011) USS Monarch Jesse N. “Buddy” Benson (1933–2011) Hickman (Mississippi County) USS Sebastian (AK-211) Dwight Hale Blackwood (1886–1953) Darrell David Hickman (1935–) Vaden (Clark County) Lyle Brown (1908–1984) Clifton Howard (Cliff) Hoofman John Lee Webb (1877–1946) Henry Gaston Bunn (1838–1908) John Miller Howard (1908–1980) WOK [Radio Station] Burtsell (Clark County) Roland Janes (1933–2013) Carroll D. Wood (1858–1941) Turner Butler (1869–1938) Bradley Dean Jesson (1932–2016) Susan Webber Wright (1948–) Conley F. Byrd (1925–2014) Jonesboro Municipal Airport If you have photos or other media, please Carpenter’s Produce Deena Kastor (1973–) contact Mike Keckhaver at mkeckhaver@ June Carter-Perry (1943–) LifeQuest of Arkansas encyclopediaofarkansas.net John J. Clendenin (1813–1876) Donnie Lee Lindsey Sr. (1924–) Entries Needing Authors: Mary Connelly (1835?–1908) Little Africa (Polk County) Arkansas Catholic [Newspaper] Donald Louis Corbin (1938–2016) Lost Forty Brewing Arkansas Coalition to Abolish the Death Crisis Pregnancy Centers Ode Lee Maddox (1912–2001) Penalty Denver Dale Crumpler (1912–1957) Joseph Kirby “Jodie” Mahony (1939–2009) ARKids First (1973–) Richard Leon Mays (1943–) Cooper v. Hensley et al. Gregory A. Davis (1948–) Paul Moffatt McCain (1920–2003) Cotham’s Mercantile Clark Wayne Dowd (1941–2016) David Miller (1928–) Cummins Prison Strike of 1974 Robert Hamilton (Bob) Dudley (1933–) David Wiley Mullins Jr. (1946–) Hope Female Institute Charles DeWitt Dunn (1945–2013) William David Newbern (1937–) Hotel Como Alan Eastham Jr. (1951–) North Little Rock Municipal Airport KASU [Radio Station] Eddie Mae Herron Center & Museum Frank Pace (1912–1988) Lockhart v. McCree Don Fess (1915–1999) Palmyra (Lincoln County) Religious Exemptions to Civil Code Fourth Military District Helen Lyle Pettigrew (1894–1977) Josiah H. Shinn Honey Bruce Friedman (1927–2005) Pick and Shovel [Newspaper] Speed Traps Frog Town (Sebastian County) John Ingram Purtle (1923–2010) White House Café (Camden) Jacob Frolich (1837–1890) Pratt Remmel (1915–1991) If you would like to write one of these entries, Floyd Hurt Fulkerson Jr. (1921–) Conrad Alfred Rideout (?–1906) please contact Guy Lancaster at Virginia Gardner (1904–1992) Rivervale Inverted Siphons [email protected]

Arkansas Great War Letter Project Tops 1,000 Online Letters n October 1, 1917, from his Arkansas soldiers. Many of those letters Since mid-summer 2017, each week barracks at Ft. Douglas, Utah, are preserved by families and archives the site averages over 200 visitors view- OCorporal George E. Rork, serv- throughout the state. Even more are pre- ing approximately 1,000 pages. On ing in the 20th Infantry, picked up a pen served in the state’s local newspapers. December 21, Project Director Mike to write to his “Dear Friends” in Polk Many of the letters sent home by soldiers Polston, Butler Center staff member and County, Arkansas, about his experiences were ultimately published in the local pa- staff historian for the Encyclopedia of while serving his nation during the Great pers. Arkansas History & Culture, announced War. According to his letter, “Today is set To make these letters more accessible, that the 1,000th letter, one from a Lafay- aside by the Army Y. M. C. A. as ‘news- the Museum of American History/Cabot ette County doughboy, had been posted paper day,’ every soldier is requested to Public Schools launched the Arkansas on the site. The project continues, with write his home newspaper a letter.” Few Great War Letter Project last year. Tran- students and volunteers submitting tran- soldiers needed such prompting, result- scriptions of many of those letters can scribed letters on a weekly basis. There is ing in countless letters being written by now be read at the project’s website. no projected end to the project. n

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Monetary Donations: Adella Gray Bob Razer Bobby and Kathy Roberts ASOB/ARKANSAS TRAVELERS FUND Jane Gray Todd Lila Riggs BETSEY WRIGHT FUND John Adams Demetries Grimes Marci Riggs Elizabeth Cline Diane Allen Anne Haley Bobby Roberts Vincent Insalaco Editte Alsen Melva Harmon Judy Robertson TOM DILLARD EOA ENDOWMENT Sarah Argue Steve Harrelson Johnnie and Tommy Roebuck Bob Razer, in memory of Walter Nunn Stephanie Baker Wanda Hartz Holly and David Stricklin and Sally Browder, in David Balin Ann and Dr. Morriss Henry Phil Ross honor of Ron Robinson Patsy Balin Betty Herron Skip and Billie Rutherford James Willis John Bangert Jean and Walter Hervey Jr. Senator Mary Anne Salmon IN SUPPORT OF THE BUTLER CENTER Catherine Barrier David and Marian Hodges Mary Schroeder Carl Miller Jr. Foundation Emily Barrier Norman Hodges Megan Schroeder Charles and Chris Feild Laura Bartell Michael Hollomon Elaine Scott Bob Razer, in memory of Frances Nix Allen and Sherry Bird Richard Hutchinson Joanna and Robert Seibert Bob Razer, in memory of Karen Russ Brenda Blagg Ann Ingram Stacey Sells IN SUPPORT OF ARKANSAS SOUNDS Robert and Sharon Blair Molly Ingram Aubrey Sermons Arkansas Record-CD Exchange Rick Bloomingdale Jim Jackson and Lisa Ferrell Lottie Shackelford Nancy Bowen Missy Jackson Cathy and John Slater Materials Donations: Mosemarie Boyd Stephanie Johnson Craig Smith Chris Allen Del Boyette John T. Jones Ezra Smith Diane Allen Jay and Robbie Bradford Sherry and John Joyce Kevin Smith Charlene Bales Karla Bradley Ann Kamps Stephen Smith Kay Bland, Telluride, CO Sandy Bradley Kristen Kent Nan Snow Glenn Block Kirk Bradshaw Fred Knight Dr. Victor Snyder Fred Boosey Max and Judge Ellen Brantley Cathy Koehler Carolyn Staley Sheila Bronfman Dr. Richard and Sheila Bronfman Eileen and Rick Levenson Kay Stebbins Janet Meyer Buford George Bruno Laura and Gary Linn Nancy and Rev. Richard Stower Stella Cameron Marie and Richard Bruno Aaron Lubin Dorothy Stuck Sheila Holland Cotton Diane Bryant Percy and Donna Malone Judy Tenenbaum Alysanne Crymes Gloria Cabe Garth and Joann Martin Patsy and Ben Thomasson Rebecca DeArmond-Huskey Julie and Robert Cabe Ron Maxwell Tyler Thompson Jon Evans Meredith Cabe Gabe Mayhan and Kathryn Tucker Frank Thurmond Charles Feild Anne Carter Robin Mays Michael Todd Ann Gilbert Sam and Charlie Cole Chaffin Peggy and Roger McClain Scott Trotter Dent Gitchel Alice Chamberlin Kay McClanahan Rebecca and Everett Tucker Alma Hahn Herschel Cleveland Pat and Jim McClelland Tim Tucker Page Hill Michael Cook Virginia and Tommy McGhee Daniel Tullos Marian Hodges Glenda Cooper Thomas McGowan Ian Tullos Elissa Hughes, Kokomo, IN Dorcy Corbin Ricia McMahon Janis and Judge Bill Walmsley Paula and Lee Johnson Wesley Cottrell Jane McMullin Deborah Walz Michael Klossner Robert and Debra Crapo Kathy McNatt Samuel Ward Lorene Leder David Criner Mark Middleton Louise Ware Little Rock Musical Coterie Nelson Cunningham Heather Miles Jacquelyne Weatherspoon B. J. McCoy, Murrieta, CA Angela Danovi Shirley Montgomery Jack Webb Pat Morgan, Memphis, TN T. Martin Davis Barbara Michael Moody Margaret Whillock Sharon Mosley Sergio and Frances De Leon Harry T. and Linda Lou Moore Susie and Michael Whitacre Mike Polston Robert and Lucille DeGostin Beatrice Moore Sue and Joe White Republican Party of Arkansas Lee and Mauri Douglass Myra and Pat Moran Julie and Bill Wiedower Charles Rodgers Pat Edwards Pat Morgan Charlotte Williams Nathania Sawyer George Ellis Bob Nash Dina Wood Charlotte Schexnayder Tina Eoff Nancy and Robert Newcomb Randy Wright William Sherman Dana and Walter Nixon Donna Kay and Charles Yeargan Raida Snyderman Nicholas Flagler Freddie and Vic Nixon Patricia Youngdahl Gail Stephens Fran Flener Elizabeth Nyhus SAM BRATTON FUND Rhonda Stewart Martha Foster Pat O’Brien Anne and Charles Allen Shelle Stormoe Tracey Franks Ron Oliver Elizabeth Cline David Stricklin and Sally Browder Bridgette Frazier Lazar Palnick Patrick Hays Ann Tettlebaum, , MO Mary Mel French Cheryl and Jerry Park Nell and Bob Lyford Jane Waterson Fred and Kathleen Fullerton Helen Pate Pat Qualls Kathy Wells Woody Futrell Patricia and Mark Pollack Bobby and Kathy Roberts Bob Willard Judy and Bill Gaddy Marva Pruitt JIM PLEDGER FUND Blake Wintory Denise and Dr. Hershey Garner Barbara and Senator Elizabeth Cline Melissa Woods Marcie Gibson Joi and Senator Lynda Dixon Ann Gilbert David Pryor Jr. Vincent Insalaco Kay Goss Judy Ramer Jan and Vaughn McQuary

Page 10 The Butler eBanner This feature of our Butler eBanner invites readers to click their way into our many and varied digital resources. Arkansas social life and customs

captured on home video

eatured this time is a thirty-minute video produced in October by Anna Lancaster and Na- thania Sawyer of the Butler Center’s Research Services Division. The video compiles some of Fthe home movies that have been donated to the Butler Center’s archives over the years— narration has been added to put the images in their proper historical context. The video covers de- cades of Arkansas history, from the 1920s to the start of the twenty-first century. The video gives a glimpse of Arkansas life on a personal level and features many landmarks around the state, as well as Arkansans traveling around the country. With family movies (including movies from the family of Adolphine Fletcher Terry and David Terry of Little Rock) and such diverse happenings as a 1926 balloon race, the 1957 desegregation of Little Rock Central High, and the operations of a Little Rock dairy and a hot dog restaurant, this video cov- ers both the historic and the everyday. And just like videos of today, there is no shortage of babies and pets. Many of the videos featured were collected from the public as part of National Home Movie Day, which began in 2002. Click here or on the picture above to view the video.

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