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Two artifacts found after six years at Phillips Elementary School by Peggy Bloomfield, librarian at Phillips Elementary School. A scrapbook containing sketches of the libraryâs mural and George Hoveyâs journal.
Students turned into detectives at Phillips Elementary School when they took a 100-year-old journal and tracked down the owner’s family friend.
Peggy Bloomfield, librarian at Phillips Elementary School, found a box while cleaning six years ago containing the old journal. The artifact remained in storage until recently.
“We were reading Encyclopedia Brown. We would read the story and try to solve it and say, what were the clues, and it just kind of hit me one day. We could be detectives,” Bloomfield said.
Washington County Historical Society
Local Black community support, survivability topic of online panel
“Institutions and Organizations That Have Supported the Survivability of the Black Community in Fayetteville, Including the University of Arkansas Campus” will be the topic of a virtual program sponsored by the Washington County Historical Society. The society’s Diverse Settlers Committee will present the online program from 2:30-4:30 p.m. Sunday, April 18. Participants may register through a Zoom link at https://bit.ly/2Q6Vi7b.
The panel, moderated by Dr. Calvin White, UA associate professor of history. includes Jessie B. Bryant, Henry Lee Childress, Dr. John L. Colbert, Dinah Gant, Dr. Jeffrey Murdock, Thelma Thomason and Dr. Lonnie Williams, Panelists have been selected to reflect churches, an elementary school, lodges, Greek chapters and entertainment. There will be performances by the UA Inspirational Chorale, the St. James Missionary Baptist Church Choir and Ocie F
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The grave marker for Henrietta Muncy is on the priority list to be replaced, as it is broken and disintegrating. Photos by Michele Newbanks
The grave marker for Henrietta Muncy is on the priority list to be replaced, as it is broken and disintegrating. Mike Ryan rubs chalk over the names on a grave marker to make the words easier to read. The chalk helps the letters stand out, but doesnât harm the stones.
Last summer, Washington County Historical Society Treasurer Mike Ryan decided to tap into a fund specifically for the Mound Cemetery for an ambition project.
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Event Description
Accomplishments of the University of Arkansas Press in its 40 years of book publishing will be reviewed by an online panel sponsored by the Washington County Historical Society. The panel will be presented from 1 to 2 p.m. Saturday, April 3, through a Zoom link at https://bit.ly/2P9dltu.
Mike Bieker, director of the UA Press, will discuss the publisher’s history with two UA faculty members: Robert Cochran, professor of English, and Jeannie Whayne, university professor of history.
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