The Butler eBanner Newsletter of the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies Winter 2019 Art Exhibitions February 8–April 27 Concordia Hall Gallery Anne Dale Robertson Family Letters Paintings by Charles Henry James: Back to the Garden Available to Researchers Artist and musician Charles Henry James, who has split his time nne Lewis Dale Robertson, a prolific between Little Rock and his native letter writer, became the keeper of New York for nearly thirty years, takes her family’s history. The history she a humorous, free-wheeling approach A to socio/political engagement, preserved is contained in the Anne Dale Rob- filtered through the lens of pop ertson family collection, MSS.18.43, now culture tropes, op art, surrealism, held by the Butler Center. The family story, and psychedelia. which takes place mostly in central Tennessee February 8–May 25 and eastern Arkansas, is told through more Loft Gallery Made in America: Vintage Film Posters than 650 letters and a small number of related from the Ron Robinson Collection documents. It stretches over five generations, The Butler Center holds an extensive two continents, three countries, and two wars. collection of Arkansas-related and other movie posters. The late Ron Anne Lewis Dale was born on May 14, Robinson of Little Rock, an avid 1821, the third of five children of Edward collector who was the president of Washington Dale and Anne Moore Dale. Four Cranford Johnson Robinson Woods Excerpt from a letter from Fannie Waddel, wife (CJRW) and also served as a U.S. Air additional children were born to Edward and Force officer in Vietnam, generously his second wife, Fanny Baird. The family, all of a professor at Arkansas College in Bates- donated these film posters, which are prolific letter writers, became spread out over ville, who was among the friends who corre- mostly related to Arkansas history, sponded with Anne Robertson. U.S. politics, and American popular central Tennessee and into Alabama, Louisi- culture. ana, and Mississippi. March 8–June 29 Anne was living with her sister Elvira Pil- A tanner by trade, James was looking for op- West Gallery low, the wife of Jerome B. Pillow, near Co- portunity to establish a business. Part to Whole: The Making of Art, the lumbia, Tennessee, when she married Scot- In 1855, Anne and James moved their family Artist, and the Artists’ Group with artists Mia Hall, Robyn Horn, Dolores tish immigrant James Robertson on October to Arkansas. Throughout the years, they lived Justus, Barbara Satterfield, Sandra 9, 1845. James had arrived in Louisiana in at various locations in Lee and Phillips Coun- Sell, and Elizabeth Weber November 1840 and traveled on to Nashville, ties. Their sons James and Edward established There can be a great divide between the viewer who stands before a work Tennessee, carrying letters of recommenda- businesses in Marianna and Helena. Jerome on exhibition and the artist who tion provided by his brother John’s employer. Cont. on page 2 creates that work. This exhibition tells the story of how work is made, why work is made, who the artist is, and how ongoing conversations among Barnett Family Collection Available to Researchers like-minded artists often lead to he Barnett Family Collection, County in about 1890 and worked at the gen- wholes greater than the sum of their MSS.07.52, first became available to eral store owned by their uncle R. D. Williams. parts. researchers in 2009. Donated to the They eventually formed a partnership that last- April 12–July 27 T Underground Gallery Butler Center by the Barnett family of Bates- ed through four generations in Independence EMBRAID—Three Northwest Arkansas ville, Arkansas, this collection presents a pic- County and northeastern Arkansas. In addition Strands ture of the development of a typical Arkansas to the various businesses operated by the fam- This mixed-media collaboration of three Northwest Arkansas artists— mercantile system, including timber produc- ily partnership, family members served on the Brandon Bullette, Octavio Logo, and tion, farming and farm management, whole- boards of community improvement efforts, Tina Oppenheimer—offers emotive sale and retail businesses, and banking. such as the Curia Drainage District, and were experiments in color, texture, and pattern to create artworks that give Additional material has now been added to active in First Methodist Church of Batesville. viewers a way to embark on an the collection, nearly doubling its size. This Both the original collection and the addendum intuitive journey to explore the human addendum, dating from 1817 to 1989, con- contain records of this community service. condition. sists of business and family documents, pho- For nearly 100 years, a Barnett Brothers en- Exhibitions open in the Galleries at Library Square during each month’s Second tographs, and memorabilia. terprise remained at the same downtown Bates- Friday Art Night (2FAN), 5–8 p.m. in the CALS Roberts Library. Brothers Ira N. II, Charles A., and James ville location, until the Barnett Department More events on page 8 F. Barnett moved to Batesville from Sharp Cont. on page 2 Cont. from Robertson Family Letters, p. 1 Mexican War and the Civil War; life on writing to L. A. Godey about his views attended Arkansas College at Batesville farms (plantations) in Tennessee and Ar- on the conflict breaking out between the and went on to the seminary in Austin, kansas, both before and after the Civil North and the South. Texas. War; revivals and other religious activi- Anne Dale Robertson died on February The oldest items in this collection con- ties; nearby battles and the effect in the 17, 1888, at the home of her son Edward sist of correspondence and documents community of the loss at Fort Donelson; in Marianna, Arkansas. Her letters were dating to nine years before James Robert- and the presence of what the letter writ- preserved by the family and came into son arrived in the United States in 1840. ers considered the enemy army. the hands of her great-granddaughter, The newest documents are dated to 1888 From the letters, we learn that Anne was Catherine Robertson Barnett, the wife of and consist mostly of correspondence be- well educated. She applied for a teaching Ira N. Barnett III of Batesville. (See page tween Anne Robertson and her siblings, certificate so that she could teach oth- 1–2.) They were donated to the Butler children, friends, nieces and nephews, ers in addition to her own children. She Center by the Barnett family. Research- and grandchildren. sponsored a ladies’ reading club through ers can access the letters in the Roberts Topics discussed in the letters include Godey’s Lady’s Book subscriptions. She Library Research Room, and the finding service in the U.S. Army during the was outspoken about political matters, aid is available online here. n

Cont. from Barnett Family Collection, p. 1 and includes correspondence and mem- Store closed in 1988. The new portion orabilia from an around-the-world trip of the collection contains documents and they undertook in 1958 as part of a mis- photographs related to improvements sion project in Pakistan. It also includes made to the store building in 1905, in the couple’s own correspondence and the 1930s, and in the 1970s. The Barnett letters exchanged with their children and Brothers building is now home to the In- grandchildren. dependence County Library. Additional items of interest in the ad- There is a strong focus in the added ma- dendum include warranty deeds and terial on the life of Ira N. Barnett III and other documents for land transactions, his wife, Catherine Robertson Barnett. the proposed plan for dissolution of the This begins with documents from the Barnett Brothers partnerships, family and time of their marriage in January 1925

mong the older items A is an 1826 land patent by Abner West in Lawrence Catherine Robertson Barnett, ca. 1930s. County and a plat map with A prolific letter writer, she preserved the original survey notes by correspondence of her great-grandmoth- er, Anne Dale Robertson. Catherine’s Charles Pelham, dated 1817. correspondence is included in the adden- dum to the Barnett Family Collection.

business correspondence, and obituaries terested in community and business and memorials for Ira N. Barnett II in history in Arkansas, and especially in 1935. Among the older items is an 1826 Batesville, Independence County, and land patent by Abner West in Lawrence northeastern Arkansas. The added mate- County and a plat map with original rial donated by the Barnett family also survey notes by Charles Pelham, dated included a substantial collection of let- 1817. Among the newer items is a poster ters belonging to Anne Dale Robertson, from March 1986 showing the ground- great-grandmother of Catherine Rob- breaking for the Catherine Robertson ertson Barnett. These letters have been Barnett Home for developmentally dis- processed as a separate collection and are abled adults, including a photograph of available to researchers as the Anne Dale Governor Bill Clinton and Catherine Robertson family collection, MSS.18.43. Barnett. (See page 1–2.) Researchers can access A young Catherine Robertson, holding With the addition of this material, the these materials in the Research Room of school books, ca. 1920; she married Ira Barnett Family Collection provides an the Roberts Library, and the finding aid is N. Barnett III in 1925. even richer resource for researchers in- available online here. n

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 s you can see, the Butler Center new 2009 building was indeed put next Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, is now in the Central Arkan- to them, just about everybody agreed a department of the Central Asas Library System’s Bobby L. the result was stunning. Three buildings, Arkansas Library System. Roberts Library of Arkansas History & from three centuries—an architectural Mailing address Art! We didn’t move. We’re right where timeline in half a block of store frontage. 100 Rock St. Little Rock, AR 72201 we’ve been for a decade. It’s just that the After years of planning, the construction Physical address signs are up attesting to the building’s process took another three years. (Bobby Bobby L. Roberts Library of new name. Check out the photos on page once referred to it as a three-year root ca- Arkansas History & Art 10. We dedicated what was then the Ar- nal.) A lot of bumps and bruises popped Library Square 401 President Clinton Ave. kansas Studies Institute in March 2009, up along the way, but architect Reese Little Rock, AR 72201 and just a smidge over ten years later we Rowland and his colleagues at Polk Stan- 501.320.5700 • [email protected] will rededicate it in recognition of re- ley Wilcox, along with Van Tilbury and www.butlercenter.org naming it after Bobby. his predecessors and colleagues at East- Ali Welky: Editor It’s probably not necessary to introduce Harding Construction and armies of sub- Mike Keckhaver: Designer Bobby to regular readers of this publica- contractors and everybody else, kept at it, tion and this column, but I will say that faced every problem that appeared, and it’s a fitting honor to name the building— came out on the other side with a mul- Winter 2019 which is actually a three-building com- tiple-award-winning result. But Bobby was the inspiration, the could have been a tedious chore was in chief idea spawner, the one fact an exhilarating experience. Seldom who conceived of the bond have I been in the presence of so much initiative needed to finance energy and goodwill, prompted in part the project, and the one by the high regard people already have who put together a package for CALS but also by the great expecta- the residents of Little Rock tions they have for us. This is an inter- would support, which they esting time to work for a library system. did in overwhelming num- We’re not getting out of the paper busi- bers. I’ve said from time ness anytime soon, but we’re deeply in- to time that I’m not sure I vested in digital outreach, to which you could get eighty-two per- can attest merely because you’re reading cent of my family to vote these words on a screen instead of on a for me! But that’s the per- The side facing the CALS surface parking lot of what piece of paper. And we’re hard at work centage of voters who said would become the ASI, and then the Roberts Library, on innovative ways to serve the people they thought this was a during renovations; ca. 2008. who are counting on us to help them good thing to do. So, way navigate these interesting times. It was a plex—after him. He saw the potential for to go, Bobby! very exciting day! doing something pretty spectacular in a Recently, sixty or so folks took part in So come see us. You can admire the couple of rundown buildings and putting an all-day session at the Main Library new signage celebrating the remarkable a new one beside them, when a lot of peo- as part of a strategic-planning process record of productivity of our friend and ple were saying we should just tear down CALS is going through. We gave up what former boss, and you can take part in the 1882 Probst and Hilb building (which turned out to be a pretty nice Saturday to all the things we’ve been doing in this we call Porbeck and Bowman) and the stay inside and talk about what the library building for ten years and find out what’s 1914 Geyer and Adams building and start means to people and what they want it to coming up in the next ten and the next completely from nothing. But when the do and be as we go into the future. What ten after that. n

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The Butler eBanner Page 3 flash... Butler Center Events in the Spotlight

December’s Legacies & Lunch speakers Mel and Joan Gordon are shown here signing copies of their novel about General Casimir Pulaski, for whom Pulaski County Lark in the Morning performed at December’s is named. Second Friday Art Night.

Arkansas Sounds, November, presented the Charlie Hunter Trio.

At November’s Legacies & Lunch, Patricia Blick discussed the history of the Quapaw Quarter Association; she is pictured here with Brian Robertson, the Butler Center’s senior archivist and manager of the Research Services Division.

Legacies & Lunch, January, featured S. Charles Bolton talking about the early history of Arkansas.

Page 4 The Butler eBanner In December, Alysanne Crymes and Danielle Butler of the Butler Center’s Special Services/Research Services attended a training at the Main Library led by Susan Chafin from Youth Services. They learned how to rebind books, repair page tears and pencil damage to books, reinforce loose bindings, Sounds in the Stacks for November welcomed Stuart and place protective covers. Butler (left) is reconstructing Baer to the CALS Sanders Library. a broken binding with sewed binding tape and archival pH neutral glue; Crymes (right) is repairing a loose binding with archival glue.

January Sounds in the Stacks featured the ASO Rockefeller Quartet at the CALS Dee Brown Library.

Sounds in the Stacks for December featured Charlotte Taylor at the CALS Nixon Library.

Arkansas Sounds featured contemporary Corrido/ Norteño group Quinto Poder for a holiday-themed show at Ron Robinson Theater in December.

The Butler eBanner Page 5 New Arkansas Titles for Spring

his spring, Butler Center Books things done. Through the eyes of a jour- Arkansans and anyone else interested in will publish four new titles: The nalist, this book collects untold stories, one of America’s most fascinating states. TEducation of Ernie Dumas, by often deeply personal, that reveal the in- Joe David Rice, born in Paragould and journalist Ernest Dumas; Arkansas Back- ner struggles and sometimes the tribula- reared in Jonesboro, is a well-known and stories: Quirks, Characters, and Curiosi- tions of many of the state’s leaders. respected resource on all things Arkan- ties of the Natural State (Volume Two), For thirty-two years, Dumas was a po- sas. An accomplished promoter of the by former state tourism director Joe Da- litical and state government reporter and state as a “must-see-and-experience” vid Rice; The Art of Living: Japanese an associate editor, editorial writer, and destination, Rice served as Arkansas’s American Incarceration Artwork in the columnist for the Arkansas Gazette, until tourism director for thirty years, work- Collection of the CALS Butler Center it closed in 1991. He writes for a num- ing under five governors. (April 2019, for Arkansas Studies, edited by Kim- ber of state and national outlets and was $39.95 hardcover) berly McDaniel Sanders; and Raised to also an author or collaborator on several Serve, Selected to Lead: Lessons for New books. (May 2019, $29.95 hardcover) Military and Civilian Leaders, by retired U.S. Army surgeon and health insurance executive Robert F. Griffin.

During World War II, when the United States was at war with the Empire of Ja- pan, the Japanese American community suffered an incredible injustice. Made to leave their homes to be confined in fa- cilities across the United States, Ameri- Like its companion book, this sec- cans of Japanese descent were vilified by ond volume of Arkansas Backstories American society and denied their rights will amaze even the most serious stu- as citizens by the U.S. government. dents of the state with more surprising Despite this, these Americans demon- insights. How many people are aware strated loyalty to their country by coop- that a world-class yodeler from Zinc erating with the government’s actions. Beginning with the defeat of Governor ran against John F. Kennedy in 1960 for Even as they were confined in shoddy Francis Cherry by Orval Faubus, the son the top spot on the national Democratic prison camps behind barbed wire—sepa- of a hillbilly socialist, at the end of the ticket, or that an African American born rated from their former communities and McCarthy era, Ernest Dumas traces the in Little Rock campaigned for the presi- denied their livelihoods—most chose to development of a modern political cast dency of the United States nearly seventy seek happiness rather than dwell on the that eventually produced Arkansas’s first years before Shirley Chisholm became, unfairness of the situation. president of the United States—also ex- in 1968, the first black woman elected to The Art of Living explores the role of ploring what brought about the second- the U.S. Congress? Or how many know art in the lives of these incarcerated Japa- ever impeachment of a president. that bands of blood-thirsty pirates once nese Americans during World War II at Dumas has written about politics for lurked in the bayous and backwaters of the Rohwer and Jerome Relocation Cen- more than sixty years, since 1954, the eastern Arkansas, preying on unsuspect- ters in southeastern Arkansas through se- year that the stolid Cherry fell to Faubus. ing Mississippi River travelers? lected works held by the Butler Center. The book is also a political memoir that Written in an informal, conversational The collection features paintings, draw- describes not only Dumas’s education in style and nicely illustrated, Arkansas ings, woodwork, and other objects of the ways of politicians but also the poli- Backstories, Volume Two, covering top- art created by children and adults during ticians’ own education and miseducation ics starting with the letters M–Z, will be their time in the two incarceration camps. in how to win voters and then how to get a wonderful addition to the libraries of This richly illustrated catalogue high-

Page 6 The Butler eBanner lights over 150 of these items. This proj- sas Blue Cross and Blue Shield. (Febru- ect was funded, in part, by a grant from ary 2019, $24.95 hardcover) the U.S. Department of the Interior, Na- *** tional Park Service, Japanese American Butler Center Books, which publishes Confinement Sites Grant Program. around six books a year, is funded solely Editor Kimberly McDaniel Sanders, through sales of its books and donations with an education focused on non-West- from the public. Donations may be made ern art history, has served as the But- through www.cals.org by clicking on ler Center’s special-exhibition curator. the CALS Foundation tab. Butler Cen- (March 2019, $29.95 paper) ter Books has more than sixty titles in print and available to order. For a com- plete list, click here. Books are available in bookstores, including the Bookstore at Library Square in Little Rock at (501) 918-3093; in the Galleries at Library Square at (501) 320-5790; from major online retailers; and from our distribu- tor at (800) 621-2736. Your purchases as well as your donations will help ensure ary, this ambitious anthology establishes that we continue to bring you the best in a canon as nuanced and varied as the re- Arkansas history. For purchasing infor- gion’s writers themselves. mation, click here.

The University of Arkansas Press will also present several notable Arkansas- related titles this spring, including The Literature of the Ozarks: An Anthology, edited by Phillip Douglas Howerton, and Hipbillies: Deep Revolution in the Ar- After successful careers in both the kansas Ozarks, by Jared M. Phillips with military and the corporate world, Robert a foreword by Crescent Dragonwagon. F. Griffin shares his formula for build- Butler Center Books and the University ing effective leadership. Griffin, a retired of Arkansas Press share the mission of U.S. Army surgeon and former executive publishing works on the history and cul- officer at Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue ture of Arkansas and the South. Shield, writes that the characteristics The job of regional literature is two- promoted in this book are those that the fold: to explore and confront the culture author derived from the leadership tech- from within, and to help define that cul- niques or styles of the admirable leaders ture for outsiders. Taken together, the with whom he served. Griffin also relates two centuries of Ozarks literature col- Counterculture flourished in the 1960s his preparation for a lifetime of service lected in The Literature of the Ozarks do and 1970s, and while the hippies of through his experiences as a youth grow- just that. The fiction, nonfiction, poetry, Haight–Ashbury occupied the public ing up in a military family. and drama presented complicate assump- eye, a faction of back-to-the-landers were Griffin is a former U.S. Army general tions about backwoods ignorance, de- creating a haven off the beaten path in the surgeon who retired as a brigadier gen- bunk the pastoral myth, expand on the Arkansas Ozarks. In Hipbillies (out in eral commanding all army medical facili- meaning of wilderness, and position the April), Jared Phillips combines oral his- ties in the southeast corner of the United Ozarks as a crossroads of human expe- tories and archival resources to weave the States and in Puerto Rico. After retire- rience with meaningful ties to national story of the Ozarks and its country beat- ment from the army, he served as senior literary movements. Among the authors niks into the national narrative, showing medical director for Blue Cross and Blue presented here are an Osage priest, an how the back-to-the-landers engaged in Shield of Vermont, chairman of the Blue early explorer from New York, a native- “deep revolution” by sharing their ideas Cross and Blue Shield Association’s Na- born farm wife, African American writ- on rural development, small farm econ- tional Council of Physician and Pharma- ers who protested attacks on their com- omy, and education with the locals—and cy Executives, and senior vice president munities, a Pulitzer Prize–winning poet, how they became a fascinating part of a and chief medical officer for Arkansas and an art history professor who created traditional region’s coming to terms with Blue Cross and Blue Shield. Publication a fictional town and a postmodern parody the modern world in the process. of the book was made possible by Arkan- of the region’s stereotypes. Out in Febru- For more information, visit UA Press. n

The Butler eBanner Page 7 Cont. from Events, p. 1 Civilian Leaders (Butler Center Books, Friday, April 12, 8:00 p.m. 2019). CALS Ron Robinson Theater Legacies & Lunch After successful careers in both the military Dara Tucker—$10 Wed., Feb. 6, noon to 1:00 p.m. and the corporate world, Robert F. Griffin, Nashville-based vocalist and composer Dara Main Library Darragh Center MD, wrote a book to tell the story of his life Tucker, whose latest album is Oklahoma Benji de la Piedra—“The Two Herbert and share his formula for building effective Rain, presents her unique blend of soul, Dentons: A Principal and a Journalist, leadership. Americana, gospel, and jazz. from Black Little Rock to Black DC and ARKANSAS Beyond” SOUNDS Sounds in the Stacks Oral historian and writer Benji de la MUSIC Free shows at CALS branches Piedra will discuss the life and career of SERIES Tuesday, Feb. 12, 6:30–7:30 p.m. Little Rock native Herbert Denton Jr., a CALS Williams Library, Little Rock pioneering African American journalist Arkansas Sounds Arkansas Symphony Orchestra’s Quapaw at the Washington Post, as well as the Friday, Feb. 22, 7:00 p.m. Quartet (instrumental string quartet with career of Herbert Denton Sr., who was a “The Legacy of the Legendary KOKY”—FREE Meredith Maddox Hicks–violin, Charlotte lifelong public educator in Little Rock and CALS Ron Robinson Theater Crosmer–violin, Ryan Mooney–viola, David a pillar of the city’s black community. We honor the legacy of KOKY, Arkansas’s Gerstein–cello) Wed., March 6, noon to 1:00 p.m. first radio station devoted to all-black Thursday, March 14, 6:30–7:30 p.m. Main Library Darragh Center programming aimed toward an African CALS Thompson Library, Little Rock Michael Pierce—“Revenge of the Business American audience, with photos, audio Jason Lee Hale (solo pop guitar & vocals) Class: The Origins of Little Rock’s clips, and a panel discussion featuring Governmental Structure, 1955–1957” KOKY on-air personalities such as Sonta Tuesday, April 16, 6:30–7:30 p.m. Historian Michael Pierce will explain how Jean “The KOKY Queen,” Mark “Chillin’” CALS Milam Library, Perryville the implementation of the city manager Dylan, and Billy St. James, with moderator Rodger King (solo country guitar & vocals) system for Little Rock in 1956 curtailed Broadway Joe Booker. a biracial working-class insurgency Friday, March 22, 8:00 p.m. Finding Family Facts and ensured that real political power CALS Ron Robinson Theater Feb. 11, March 11, April 8—3:30–5:00 p.m. remained firmly in the hands of the Jumpstart your family research with this free economic elite, exacerbating racial Big Piph’s one-man show The Glow—$10 Stanford-educated emcee Epiphany “Big genealogy course tensions on the eve of the Central High Roberts Library, Library Square, Room 204 crisis. Piph” Morrow, front man for the seven- piece jazz- and funk-infused hip-hop Wed., April 3, 2:00 p.m. ensemble Big Piph & Tomorrow Maybe, Legacies & Lunch and Book Launch entertains through the lenses of purpose, (note the unusual time for L&L) humor, creativity, and race—all with a global CALS Ron Robinson Theater perspective. Tickets are $10 through March Vic Snyder interviews Robert F. Griffin, 11 and $15 March 12–22 and at the door author of Raised to Serve, Selected (if available). to Lead: Lessons for New Military and

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Page 8 The Butler eBanner Kicking Off Year 5 of Arkansas Declaration of Learning pplications are open until Feb- are encouraged to apply and, if selected, and lessons throughout the 2019– ruary 10 for the prestigious Ar- can collaborate. Educators who work 2020 school year; A kansas Declaration of Learning with students or communities that rep- • oversee a student civic engagement (ADOL) program. The Butler Center is resent Arkansas’s diverse, underserved, activity; collaborating with several national and or underrepresented populations (based • meet with regional team in person state partners to develop this curriculum on racial, ethnic, religious, sexual orien- twice during the school year and initiative, including the U.S. Department tation, socio-economic, regional, rural/ participate in several conference of State’s Diplomatic Reception Rooms urban, or special learning needs) are en- calls; program, the William J. Clinton Presi- couraged to apply. • submit revised copies of the unit dential Library, the Clinton Presiden- Arkansas was the first state selected overview and daily lessons by the tial Center, Crystal Bridges Museum of to participate in the national Declara- end of the spring semester; American Art, and the Arkansas Depart- tion of Learning and will serve as a • submit final copies of the unit/daily ment of Education. model for the rest of the nation. Selected plans by the end of the school year; Forty Arkansas teachers and school li- educators will receive training on using • attend and share results at the year- brarians will create innovative lessons historic objects and art from the ADOL end celebration; and and educational activities that bring his- partners’ collections. Participants must • share work with other educators tory, art, and English language arts to be able to attend a four-and-a-half-day throughout the country. life using historic objects and art from summit in Little Rock, June 10–14, 2019, the Declaration of Learning partners. and make a year-long commitment to: All participants will receive 30 hours of The goal of these lessons is to engage professional development for completion students in projects that teach the impor- • develop a unit overview with daily of the summer training. A stipend will tance of civic engagement and responsi- lesson plans using objects from the be provided in installments as required bility in civic life at the national, state, ADOL partners; work is completed. This project requires and local levels. • integrate the ADOL lesson plans a commitment of time throughout the To qualify, educators must, one, work with subject matter themes and summer and school year; please only ap- with fourth- through twelfth-grade stu- course curriculum; ply if you are willing to complete the en- dents as school librarians or as teachers • submit the unit overview and daily tire project. of social studies, the visual or performing lessons before beginning the school Apply at this link. Applications close at arts or English language arts; and, two, year; 11:59 p.m. Central Time on February 10; commit to developing a teaching unit and • submit revised copies of the unit applicants will be notified of their selec- civic engagement activity integrating his- overview and daily lessons by the tion by March 22. For more information, toric objects and art. Educators from dif- end of the fall semester; contact Butler Center education coordi- ferent disciplines within the same school • continue to test and refine the unit nator George West. n

than a week when he pitched to me the of material to choose from. You can read A Minute with the EOA idea of an “Encyclopedia of Arkansas any of our entries online or listen to Mark By EOA editor Guy Lancaster Minute” for the radio. Christ had been Christ’s dulcet voice here. n any times, I’ve mentioned to producing radio spots commemorating someone new that I edit the the centennial of World War I, and he MEncyclopedia of Arkansas, wanted to do a new series highlighting, and they say, “Oh, yeah! I’ve heard you each month, some thematically related guys on the radio!” Well, no, they haven’t EOA content, to be aired on KUAR, heard us—more than likely, they are KASU, and KUAF. More importantly, thinking of Steve Stephens’s “Biography he happily agreed to do all the work—all Arkansas” series airing on KUAR public I had to do was pick out three entries a radio, which does end with a little stinger month. directing the curious to our website. But My first three picks, for December, the series is so popular that many people were: Big Lake Wars, Tutt-Everett War, think I work in radio. and Labor Day Bombings of 1959. Always I’m afraid that misconception won’t start with something exciting, I thought. die soon. Mark Christ, formerly of the But for January, we then lined up for ra- Arkansas Historic Preservation Program, dio presentation some of the wilder, off- has recently taken the position of adult beat content of the EOA: Baby of Arts Cheryl Lynn Cramer was a Baby of programming coordinator for the Central Degree, Eureka Springs Baby, and The Arts Degree recipient when she was ten Arkansas Library System, our parent in- White River Kid [Movie]. At now more months old. She was the daughter of Mr. stitution. He had been on the job for less than 5,500 entries online, we have plenty and Mrs. John Ed Cramer; 1949.

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ast year, the Central Arkansas Li- leries that feature Arkansas-related art. On Friday, April 5, former president brary System (CALS) renamed The building is also home to classrooms Bill Clinton will speak as part of the re- Lthe Arkansas Studies Institute and offices for the Clinton School of dedication of the building and renaming (ASI) the Bobby L. Roberts Library of Public Service. it in honor of Bobby Roberts. President Arkansas History & Art in honor of Bob- Roberts’s interest and expertise in Ar- Clinton spoke at the dedication of what by Roberts, the former CALS executive kansas history and art helped inspire the was then called the Arkansas Studies In- director who served in the position for conception of the building, which also stitute almost ten years ago, and he will over two decades before retiring in 2016. houses the offices and archival materials pay tribute to his former staff member Opened in 2009, the structure houses the of the UA Little Rock Center for Arkan- and the former CALS director, whose ef- offices and archives of the Butler Center sas History and Culture. Butler Center forts did so much to bring about the cre- for Arkansas Studies, as well as five gal- director David Stricklin said, “It was a ation of the building that now bears his perfectly natural thing to (re)name this name. Ticket information will be avail- building after Bobby Roberts. He made able in coming weeks. n his mark on CALS in many ways during more than 25 years of service, especial- ly in leading efforts to create first-class buildings throughout the system. But it is certainly the case that this building wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for Bobby. I’m very happy that the CALS Board of Trustees chose to honor him by putting his name on it.” The Roberts Library is one of the cor- nerstones of Library Square, which in- cludes the Main Library; the Arcade Building, which houses the CALS Ron Robinson Theater and archival staff work space for both Butler Center and UA Little Rock employees; and the Cox Cre- ative Center, which houses the Bookstore at Library Square. A multi-story park- ing deck was added to Library Square in 2016.

Page 10 The Butler eBanner Summer Seminar for Arkansas Teachers Addresses Difficult History: The 1919 Elaine Race Massacre he Butler Center takes on a chal- counties, occurring in over sixty differ- and 9-12, correlated to ADE state stan- lenging but crucial task for its ent communities across the state. And dards. Special attention will be given to Tsixth annual Summer Seminar this number does not include blacks who developing a model for open but struc- for Arkansas Teachers, titled Tools for were killed in the mob violence at Elaine. tured peer-to-peer dialogue in Arkansas Teaching and Learning Difficult History: “Difficult histories” are often contested classrooms using these documents. In A Curriculum Model and Teacher Train- and can evoke emotional, often pain- early spring, the advance team will test ing Seminar. ful responses in the present. At the same the document sets and dialogue model The days of September 30–October 2 time, historians and educators argue that in their own classrooms, working with mark the centennial of the Elaine Race “teaching and learning these histories is humanities scholars or other community Massacre. As stated in the Encyclopedia contentious yet necessary for increased partners. The team will return for a one- of Arkansas entry on the massacre, “The dialogue within conflict-ridden societies, day session to evaluate and revise the Elaine Massacre was by far the deadliest for reconciliation in post-conflict soci- model. racial confrontation in Arkansas history eties, and for greater social cohesion in On Thursday, June 27, the Butler Cen- and possibly the bloodiest racial conflict long-standing democracies” (Terrie Ep- ter will host a one-day, free professional in the history of the United States.” A stein and Carla L. Peck, eds. Teaching development workshop open to all Ar- shooting incident that occurred at an or- and Learning Difficult Histories in Inter- kansas teachers. The workshop will be ganizing meeting for tenant farmers at a national Contexts. New York: Routledge, led by the scholars and the advance team rural church escalated into two days and 2017.) of teachers and will include student fa- nights of mob violence against African With a grant from the Arkansas Hu- cilitators from the pilot schools. Par- Americans. Estimates of the number of manities Council, the Butler Center is ticipants will be led through a hands-on African Americans killed (men, women, conducting a three-stage project that will demonstration of the dialogue model and and children) by white vigilantes range produce document-based lesson plans, will receive sets of the primary docu- into the hundreds, while five whites were a model for structured peer-to-peer dia- ments and other resources to take back killed. logue, and a training seminar for teaching to their classrooms. Teachers and their Tragically, this eruption of racial hatred history of racial violence in Arkansas. students will also have an opportunity to and collapse of equal protection under In early winter, an advance team of four partner with the Arkansas Peace and Jus- the law is surrounded by more than a cen- scholars and eight teachers will identify tice Memorial Movement to help create tury of lynching history in Arkansas. As key documents from recent research on digital memorials for victims of lynch noted in the EOA entry on lynchings in the Elaine Massacre, as well on the histo- mob violence in their own county or the state, more than 230 black Arkansans ry of lynching in Arkansas between 1860 community. For more information, con- have been victims of documented lynch- and 1940. The team will create a set of tact Butler Center education coordinator ings in fifty of Arkansas’s seventy-five document-based lessons for grades 6-8 George West. n

Art Galleries open Jewelry Mon. - Sat. 9-6 Crafts The Galleries at Library Square Follow us on 100 Rock Street Facebook and Little Rock Instagram for news (501) 320-5790 and updates. arkansas Gifts The Butler eBanner Page 11 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.): Donald (Don) Hutson (1913–1997) Tutt-Everett War Aesthetic Club James Kimbrough Jones (1839–1908) Robert Minor Wallace (1856–1942) Freda Hogan Ameringer (1892–1988) Kelleyite Churches of Christ Win “Skinny” Whipple (1915–1937) Anthony House James Buel Lile (1933–1991) White Revolution Jack Appleby (1907–1974) Eugene Aloysius (Gene) Lyons (1943–) Arkansas State Bank Malvern Brickfest If you have photos or other media, please Arkansas State Crime Laboratory John McDonnell (1938–) contact Mike Keckhaver at mkeckhaver@ Arkansas State Library Menard-Hodges Site encyclopediaofarkansas.net Willie Emmett Atkinson (1874–1962) Lillian Estes Eichenberger Mickel (1909–1986) Entries Needing Authors: August House Asbury Mansfield Miller (1893–1982) All the Birds Have Flown South [Movie] Joseph Bachman (1853–1928) Henry Morehart (1841–1911) Arkansas Champion Tree Program O. C. Bailey (1894–1967) Speer Morgan (1946–) Arkansas Heart Hospital E. M. Bartlett (1883–1941) Winfield Scott Morgan (1851–1928) Bank OZK (a.k.a. Bank of the Ozarks) Jerome Bill Becker (1924–1997) Robert Neill (1838–1907) Margaret Jones Bolsterli Marlon Matthew Blackwell (1956–) Rebecca Newth (1940–) Civitan International Frank Bonner (1942–) Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport (XNA) Doe’s Eat Place William Harvey Bowen (1923–2014) William Allan Oldfield (1874–1928) E. C. Barton & Company Malcolm Cleaburne Bowman (1926–1993) Mary Lee Orsini (1947–2003) Jack Farris Thomas H. Bradley (1808–1864) Ozark Golden Wedding Jubilee Ferncliff Camp and Conference Center J. L. Brown (1853–1938) Neil Hamill Park (1904–1986) Heber Springs Water Panther Sidney Burris (1953–) John Albert Pearson (1845–1865) Bob Lancaster Sarah Caldwell (1924–2006) Political Animals Club The Last Ride [Movie] Catfish Industry Ray Winder Field Liberating Paris [Book] William Allen Clark (1844–1920) Hester Buck Robinson (1896–1963) Little Rock Crate & Basket Drew County Museum and Archives Irene Robertson (1893–1959) Norris Church Mailer England Food Riot of 1931 Robert Fudge Shannon (1933–1992) Ponca Bible Camp Fiddlin’ Bob Larkan & His Music Makers Henry Karr Shannon (1902–1971) Rose Publishing Company Jim Ferguson Sr. (1885–1978) Silver Mining Barbara Scott Don Juan Filhiol (1740–1821) South Arkansas Arboretum State Park Sovereign Citizens Movement William Lee Gerig (1866–1944) Special Olympics Arkansas Speed Traps Janice Holt Giles (1905–1979) Frank Stanford (1948–1978) Tucker Prison Break of 1931 Grannis Vigil Henry Morton Stanley (1841–1904) Twenty Slave Law Geleve Grice (1922–2004) William Stevenson (1768–1857) Padma Viswanathan Joan Edmiston Hess (1949–2017) Frederick Ernest Swedlun (1877–1959) If you would like to write one of these entries, Thomas Lionel Hill (1949–) Thea Foundation please contact Guy Lancaster at Dan Hogan (1871–1935) Tulip Female Collegiate Seminary [email protected]

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Monetary Donations George West Materials Donations Alan Loeb Bridge Fund of the Arkansas Community Glenn Whaley Chris Allen Michael Martone Foundation, in support of the EOA In support of the Arkansas Photography Jenny Boshears Bruce McMath Danielle Butler Exhibit Fund: Ronald Burch Martha Miller Charles Crow, in support of “Helaine and the Moya Benjamin Anne Carriere, Memphis, TN Sandra Perry Little War,” by Charley Sandage Tom & Mary Dillard John Cheatham Pocahontas Women’s Club Alysanne Crymes In support of Arkansas Sounds: Joseph Clements Edgar K. Riddick III Edelweiss Study Club Arkansas Record-CD Exchange Connie Cloinger Reid Robinson, in memory of Charles and Chris Feild Mark Christ Sheila Cotton Ron Robinson Carl Miller Mickey & Kate Matthews Ann Dillard Laurie Rosenwasser, Waller, TX Frances Morgan John H. Miller Charlotte Gadberry Nathania Sawyer Bobby & Kathy Roberts, in support of the Jim Donavan Suitt John Graves Sarah & Donnie Sewell Pledger Fund and the Mahlon Martin Fund In support of the Butler Center Art Fund: Cindy Harkey Conevery Valencius, Boston, MA Shirley Schuette Louis A. Graham Hendrix College Sarah Vestal David Stricklin & Sally Browder, in support of Jennifer Perren Walter Hussman Doyle Webb the Tom Dillard EOA Endowment In support of Butler Center Books: Guy Lancaster George West & Starr Mitchell Taylor Foundation, in support of educational Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield Nancy Langley outreach Joe David Rice Lewis Leslie Page 12 The Butler eBanner This feature of our Butler eBanner invites readers to click their way into our many and varied digital resources. Featured this time are photos from the Pulaski County Streetscapes Photograph Collection (BC.PHO.2.A.7) that have been digitized. Spanning the 1860s to the 1980s, these photos and postcards—some donated, some purchased—show various sites in Pulaski County as they used to be. They are available for use in research, teaching, and private study; other uses require permission from the Butler Center.

500 Block, Main Street, Little Rock, ca. 1940.

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