Encyclopedia of AR
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People often ask me what I’m working on. It’s one of those questions like, “What do you do?” You know…
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People across the country watched the Oscars on Sunday to celebrate all the big movies of last year. In this…
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Nicolas Cage was in Little Rock last month. I learned this fact from a recent short piece in AY Magazine…
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As the CALS Encyclopedia of Arkansas heads into our twentieth anniversary year (the EOA debuted online in May 2006), we…
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As I type these words, there is a button for the Microsoft Copilot, the company’s AI “assistant,” lurking in the…
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On the night of November 11, 2025, Veterans’ Day, an out-of-state friend dropped me a line to say that I…
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On September 3, 2025, a man named Vernon Patton was attacked by a black bear in Franklin County, an…
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If you have had the pleasure of reading our February blog post A New Face at the EOA, Alongside Older…
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“Did you know that Arkansas is mentioned in the Bible? Yeah, there’s that verse that begins, ‘Noah stepped out of…
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I always knew that June was Pride Month for the LGBTQ+ community, but I didn’t know until recently that July…
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The muscadine is a kind of wild grape native to North America. It’s not the kind prized by connoisseurs, but…
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The day after the March 31, 2023, tornado was as beautiful a day as has ever graced central Arkansas. My…
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The CALS Encyclopedia of Arkansas (EOA) posted our annual April Fools’ Day entry today, this time about a little-known Andrew…
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It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul,— Let me not name it to you, you chaste stars!—…
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You probably don’t regularly check the Staff or Contact Us pages on the CALS Encyclopedia of Arkansas (EOA) website, but…