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The Hendrix College Permanent Art Collection has grown by two pieces and an existing part of the collection has returned home this summer, said staff of the Windgate Museum of

Three chartered buses took about 200 Japanese Americans on Thursday to McGehee's old train depot to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the opening of the Japanese American Internment Museum.

Thursday's event featured a speech by George Takei of "Star Trek" fame, who was 5 years old when his family was at the camp in McGehee (named Rohwer). The other camp was in Jerome, Arkansas.

I enjoy driving the rural roads of southeast Arkansas, a historic region that has been losing population for decades. It's quiet here, and I find solace on these flat highways. There are small restaurants in which to eat, plaques to read, and bayous and levees to explore.

During WWII, Japanese American servicemen from Hawaii formed a baseball team that drew local fans nearly everywhere they played. My father was one of them.