Last month, the Remembering Rogers column was about the year 1956, the Diamond Jubilee of the birth of Rogers. This column jumps ahead 25 years to the year 1981 the centennial year of Rogers. It is interesting to look back and notice some of the major changes in Rogers and its citizens over that period.
As you drive up South Second Street in downtown Rogers rerouted, perhaps, by road work look to your left in the 300 block and imagine the bustle of back-to-school preparations in the turn-of-the-20th-century brick Hawkins House. Inside, a Rogers Historical Museum exhibit invites you to step back in time and take a themed tour that answers questions about what what clothes students would have worn, what they might have taken for lunch and what subjects they would have studied.
As you drive up South Second Street in downtown Rogers rerouted, perhaps, by road work look to your left in the 300 block and imagine the bustle of back-to-school preparations in the turn-of-the-20th-century brick Hawkins House. Inside, a Rogers Historical Museum exhibit invites you to step back in time and take a themed tour that answers questions about what what clothes students would have worn, what they might have taken for lunch and what subjects they would have studied.