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100 years ago

I watched as hundreds of well-dressed people braved the rain on a Saturday night to enter a tent on the grounds of the Historic Arkansas Museum in downtown Little Rock. The HAM Foundation was sponsoring the 2022 Candelight Gala, designed to support HAM's living craft fund, and fundraising records were about to be set.

This is my 1,000th column published since August 2002. I had planned on retiring when I reached 1,000 columns, but I have decided to delay my departure until the end of the year. This column has monopolized my life for more than two decades, but it has been the opportunity of a lifetime for a guy who believes in the importance of state and local history and wants to share it with fellow Arkansans.

This is my 1,000th column published since August 2002. I had planned on retiring when I reached 1,000 columns, but I have decided to delay my departure until the end of the year. This column has monopolized my life for more than two decades, but it has been the opportunity of a lifetime for a guy who believes in the importance of state and local history and wants to share it with fellow Arkansans.

Museum curators obtain objects by purchase, contract, gift, bequest, exchange, field collecting, and other means. Sounds like a routine, by-the-book process, doesn't it? Think again.