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The Arkansas Post Gazette THE ARKANSAS POST GAZETTE NEWSLETTER OF ARKANSAS POST NATIONAL MEMORIAL, GILLETT, ARKANSAS October 1999 • Volume 1, Issue 1 Ghosts of the Past Tour New Ranger Joins Coming October 23 Arkansas Post Saturday, October 23 will be the date for this year’s Arkansas Post welcomed Brian McCutchen and his popular Ghost of the Past walk through the historic wife Sharon to the park family in May. A native of village site of the Post. The theme for 1999 is Eastern Missouri, Brian comes to us from Shiloh “Arkansas Post – A Journey Through the Ages.” The National Military Park in Tennessee. He brings a program, larger than ever, will cover seven different great deal of enthusiasm and knowledge with him. historic periods and topics ranging from the 1686 He is a graduate of Southeast Missouri State establishment by de Tonti through the 1863 Civil University, earning a Bachelor of Science degree in War battle of Fort Hindman/Arkansas Post. Historic Preservation and a Master of Arts degree in History and Historic Preservation. While serving as “Several notable characters will be portrayed, a Ranger at Shiloh, he led an extensive cultural including naturalist and artist John Audobon,” said resources intern program and conducted workshops Superintendent Ed Wood. “We will address the on monument and cemetery conservation. He has French, Spanish, and Early American periods, as also spoken and published at length on a variety of well as topics concerning ‘free people of color,’ topics with strong a focus on post-Civil War veteran Delta agriculture and the time when cotton was commemoration and monumentation, and served ‘king.’ In addition the site of the Arkansas State as a frequent speaker at Civil War roundtables, Bank will serve as the site of an impromptu Civil associations, and other special interest groups. War hospital, just as it had in 1863.” Brian joins Ranger Shane Lind in the Division of Tours for Ghosts of the Past will be offered beginning Interpretation and Visitor Services. “Working at 6:30, 7:00, 7:30, and 8:00 p.m., respectively. with Brian these past few months has been fun. We Reservations are required and may be made by really work well together and make a great team. calling the park at 870-548-2207. We have some great events and projects planned that we’re sure the public will enjoy.” said Ranger Lind. According to Superintendent Ed Wood, “Brian is a excellent addition to the staff. His knowledge and skills will help strengthen an already strong interpretive program.” Brian will take over culture resource duties as well as taking charge of the park’s curatorial collection. He will also serve as the Eastern National bookstore coordinator and author of the park’s expanding website. He and Lind will share general Continued on Page 2 Page 2 The Post of Arkansas: An Archæologists Dream For the past several years Dr. John House, Archæological Survey Station Archæologist at the University of Pine Bluff, has really “dug” the history of Arkansas Post. Leading excavations at the park’s soon to be acquired Osotouy Unit, better known as the Menard-Hodges Site, House’s research and discoveries have shed new light on several different periods of the site’s history. Ranger Brian McCutchen, new member to the Most often identified with the late seventeenth Arkansas Post family, transferred from the Shiloh century Quapaw village of Osotouy and the early National Military Park in Tennessee. McCutchen Continued locations of the Post of Arkansas (1686-1749), excavations conducted by the Arkansas interpretive duties as well as planning and Archæological Survey and Arkansas Archæological coordinating special events. The two will also be Society in 1997 and 1998 were designed to jointly heading the division and its budget. complement results from almost two centuries of prior scientific investigations at Menard. The “Arkansas Post is a wonderful new challenge. This Survey/Society team excavated in and near the plaza is an amazing site with a wealth of Anglo history and on two outlying site areas, the Northern going as far back as the 15th century; French and Periphery and the Lake Dumond site. Spanish Colonial, early United States, and, of course, Civil War, all these periods wrapped up into Dr. House will be speaking on the archæological one impressive park!” McCutchen said. studies at Arkansas Post on October 16 at 2:00p.m. at the park Visitor Center/Museum auditorium. All In his spare time, Brian is currently working on two are invited to attend this interesting presentation. books, one concerning the early history of the Shiloh battlefield park and its more than 150 monuments, and the other interpreting the architecture and settlement patterns of the Saxon- Lutheran settlements of Southeast Missouri. His wife Sharon is a native of Savannah, Tennessee, working as a mental health counselor in Savannah. Upon completing her graduate degree in elementary education in 2000, Sharon will join Brian in Arkansas. The staff is excited about welcoming Brian and Sharon to the park family and Dr. John House views Lake Dumond, the former hope that their time here will be enjoyable and Arkansas River channel of 1686, from the location rewarding. of the first Post of Arkansas. Page 3 Lights, Camera, Action! Post Expanding on the Arkansas Post To Get New Film World Wide Web The current park film, Arkansas Post Revisited, will In the age of cellular phones, beepers, and soon be a part of history. The nearly twenty year old personal computers, it appears as film will be replaced by a new one. though the ability to communicate or gather information is Film project leader, Ranger Shane limitless. It is now common Lind believes the new interpretive to hear such terminology as film is long overdue, “Since my “beep me,” “drop me email,” arrival two and a half years ago, one or “what’s your URL.” Over of my goals has been to replace the the next several months park film,” Lind said, “the current film is Arkansas Post will take a large outdated and needs some historical and cultural step in this digital direction by corrections.” Plans are already underway to contract providing to the public an extended world wide the production out. “We are in the early stages of web page to serve as a portal to information seekers the project right now but by this time next year the and researchers concerning the Arkansas Post new film should be showing in visitor center National Memorial. auditorium.” In addition to the new film, visitors will also be treated to new audio and visual changes. “I envision the park web site as having everything you wanted to know about the Post and it’s diverse A new ten by seven-foot film screen has been history at only a ‘click’ away,” said Superintendent already added to the auditorium. Visitors will also Ed Wood. “If one were researching Henri de Tonti, be treated to a new surround sound system and film a quick search of our site will provide background projector. “The projector is already installed and the information of the famous explorer and his surround sound will be up and running soon. We contributions to our history.” have converted the current film to video and will show it through the Internet project leader, Ranger Brian McCutchen, new projector with the views the web site as a project of constant growth. surround sound system until “The [web] site material will be added the new film is completed,” incrementally,” McCutchen said, “allowing for new added Lind. The park information and topics to be added or revised as received $100,000 from the National Park Services material becomes available.” The site will also serve Fee Demonstration Program; a program funded as an information and special event bulletin board. from National Parks that collect entrance fees, to “Anyone visiting our web site will be kept abreast of complete the project. Some of the money has special events and lectures, as well as provide the already been used to acquire the audiovisual visitor the opportunity to contact us directly via equipment. email,” McCutchen added. “The staff at Arkansas Post is committed to a As currently designed, the Arkansas Post web page quality and informative interpretive film that will provides introductory information regarding the both educate the visitor, and instill an appreciation park, its history, and local accommodations. The for the site and its resources,” Lind concluded. URL for the page is www.nps.gov/arpo Page 4 New Book Coming Concerning detail, along with the character of its population, Quapaw and European Relations and the economic activities that sustained it during the colonial period. Judge Morris S. Arnold, the The Arkansas Post - Eastern National sales outlet, premier historian on the located in the lobby of the park Visitor Center/ colonial history of Arkansas, Museum, is eager for the spring 2000 publication to and park friend, has recently arrive. The author’s previous books, which are completed yet another book available for purchase at the park, include Unequal that sheds new light upon Laws Unto a Savage Race: European Legal Norms in the relationship between the Arkansas, 1686-1836, and Colonial Arkansas, 1686- native Quapaw civilization and the European 1804: A Social and Cultural History, both published settlers of the seventeenth- and eighteenth- by the University of Arkansas Press. centuries. In this study, The Rumble of a Distant Drum: The Quapaws and Old World Newcomers, 1673-1804, 1999 March for Parks Judge Arnold draws on extensive archival resources A Success! in France and Spain, and on his twenty years of research and writing on colonial Arkansas, to This year’s annual March for Parks event was produce an engaging account of Quapaw and another success.
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