It’s the time of year when I consciously review, remember, and recognize significant portions of my life that focus on my neighborhood, my family, and the friends I’ve met along the way. I am a sixth-generation Arkansan on my maternal side. The five generations before me are the reason I exist and the reason I have the courage to be who I am.

People often ask me what I’m working on.

It’s one of those questions like, “What do you do?” You know that you’re supposed to answer it with reference to your job, what pays the bills and all that. But maybe, for a moment, before you spill out all the expected information, you let yourself think about it and realize that,

The CALS Butler Center for Arkansas Studies’ recently processed Abramson family papers showcase the personal and business life of a prominent family from Holly Grove in Monroe County, Arkansas. They owned vast tracts of land in Monroe and Lee Counties, much of which was worked by tenant farmers, and also owned and operated the cotton gin,