OPINION | OLD NEWS: Ukrainian National Chorus thrilled Arkansans
A century ago this week, the Ukrainian National Chorus performed two concerts in Little Rock.
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A century ago this week, the Ukrainian National Chorus performed two concerts in Little Rock.
The long saga of efforts to restore and preserve Pine Bluff's melancholy Saenger Theater is well known, and so it won't amaze Friend Reader to read that today's still glorious ruin is not the original Saenger.
Your troubadour has a not especially historic reason for selecting today's Old News — an automotive item from the Sept. 17, 1922, Arkansas Gazette.
Labor Day 1922 was fraught.
If ever I am assigned to cover the rare flowering of a fine elderly citizen's Queen of the Night, somebody please stand beside me during the watch party and every so often lean in to whisper, "Be careful."