Legacy & Lunch
Kenneth C. Barnes, professor emeritus of history at the University of Central Arkansas in Conway, discusses his book “Mob Rule in the Ozarks: The M&NA Railroad Strike, 1921-1923” for the Central Arkansas Library System Butler Center for Arkansas Studies’ Legacies & Lunch series, noon Wednesday at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Downtown, 333 President Clinton Ave., Little Rock.
The book focuses on the mob that violently suppressed a Missouri and Northern Arkansas railroad on January 15, 1923, in Harrison and other towns along the M&NA line in the mountains Ozark.
Entrance is free. Take your own lunch; the library will provide drinks and cookies and validate parking in the nearby CALS lot, accessible from Rock Street. Register to attend virtually at robertslibrary.org. The program will also be streamed live on YouTube and the recording will be available immediately afterwards.
Youth and adults will create crafts based on this month’s theme “The Museum and Me” at the Rogers Historical Museum. (Special to the Democrat-Gazette)
“The museum and me”
The Rogers Historical Museum313 S. Second St. at Cherry Street, hosts a series of monthly programs in collaboration with the Rogers Public Library called “The Museum and Me”, for preschool children aged 3 to 5 years old. The free hour-long programs are designed to “develop interest in history, reading and museums,” according to a press release, each featuring a story and themed activities.
The program (all sessions from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m.):
◼️ January 14: Log cabins
◼️ February 11: Valentine’s Day
◼️ March 11: Rivers, focusing on rivers and streams in northwest Arkansas
◼️ April 8: Arkansas State Butterfly, the Diana Fritillary
◼️May 13: Quilts
There are 30 places available for each month’s program. Register at rogershistoricalmuseum.org/museum-and-me. Call (479) 621-1154 for more information.