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"I am impressed with how much of my grandparents' life depended on continuities, contacts, connections, friendships, and blood relationships. Contrary to the myth, the West was not made entirely by pioneers who had thrown everything away but an ax and a gun."
Griffin Jasper Stockley was remembered Wednesday as a "conscience of Arkansas" through his work as an author, historian and attorney.
Bates, Arkansas State Press co-founder, was a mentor to the students who integrated Little Rock Central High School in 1957.
KUAF is proud to partner with Walton Arts Center on the retrospective exhibition 100 photographs by Andrew Kilgore. From his entry in the Encyclopedia of Arkansas, Andrew Wilson Kilgore is a Fayetteville photographer best known for his arresting black-and-white portraits, primarily of fellow Arkansans set against a plain backdrop. By his own estimation, Kilgore photographed more than 30,000 people in Arkansas between early 1971 and late 2011. KUAF has scoured our archives to find the voices and stories of some of the people in Kilgore's photographs. Take a listen below to the voices behin...
A clay sculpture of musician Johnny Cash (left) by Kevin Kresse of Little Rock and a clay sculpture of Daisy Gatson Bates (right) by Benjamin Victor of Boise,