Month: May 2022

Some of the most recent additions have come from Cabot’s Museum of American History and from the CALS Butler Center for Arkansas Studies.

The Museum of American History, formerly known as The Museum/Cabot High, is the only student-founded and -operated museum of history in Arkansas. The award-winning museum, which is owned by the Cabot School District,

The CALS Butler Center for Arkansas Studies assisted the Arkansas Repertory Theatre with creating an exhibit in their lobby for their Designing Women show in January and February 2022. Given that the television series prominently featured the Villa Marre, the decision was made to make the historic home the focus of the exhibit.

The ripple effect of change starts at a single point. The point could be an object, place, event, or person. Names are sometimes lost to history, but many survive with little notice. The name of Sam Ella Jones Ward still resonates in a community where she lived nearly one hundred years ago. Born in Prescott,

“I am sixteen, going on seventeen…” sings the CALS Encyclopedia of Arkansas in its best Rodgers and Hammerstein Sound of Music teenager voice.

Watch out on the roads—we’re old enough to DRIVE!

Born (as in launched to the public as a work in progress—aren’t we all works in progress?) on May 2,