Tag: Butler Banner Fall 2021

As I write this, the calendar has just officially turned to fall, which always wins my personal “Favorite Season” contest. Schools have started and we are finally feeling that nip in the air that we’ve been waiting for. CALS’s summer reading program has finished another successful year, UA Little Rock students are coming to fall semester classes in the Roberts Library,

Escape Velocity: A Charles Portis Miscellany (Revised Edition)
Edited by Jay Jennings
New afterword by Donna Tartt
978-1-945624-26-1 (cloth), $34.95, pub. date: August 31, 2021

For those who care about literature or simply love a good laugh (or both),

As we head into the cooler days of fall, the Galleries & Bookstore at Library Square, located on the first floor of the CALS Bobby L. Roberts Library of Arkansas History & Art, is loaded with treasures and treats for your eyes. We have art from amazingly talented Arkansas artists, as well as fun and engaging books written by Arkansas authors.

A series of articles on Arkansas’s Black role models appeared in the Arkansas Democrat in February 1989. Thomas Sissom, with the paper’s Pine Bluff bureau, wrote his article about William Harold Flowers. The first line is: “Family is most important to Harold Flowers, and his includes anyone who can share his philosophy of caring for others.”

William Harold Flowers is known for his legal and ministerial career.

To fill up the last few days of my time as an archival assistant for the CALS Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, Research Services Division manager Brian Robertson gave me a handful of small collections, each consisting of just one letter from the Civil War era. Whether a collection is small or large, processing it requires researching the background and producing a finding aid that will introduce the collection to researchers.

The Clinton School of Public Service is a graduate branch of the University of Arkansas System and is the nation’s first to offer a Master of Public Service (MPS) degree.

Established on January 29, 2004, the Clinton School is located on the grounds of the William J. Clinton Presidential Center and Park in Little Rock,

The bronze sculpture Connections was commissioned from artist Michael Warrick for the opening of the Maumelle Library in 1996. Over the years, the sculpture was moved from the front of the building to the back. Now, it sits inside the library next to the large front-facing windows.

Connections has a new patina and solid limestone base.

The Landing at the Galleries & Bookstore at Library Square, CALS Roberts Library

July 9–September 25, 2021

This exhibition highlights artwork by a new artist in Little Rock’s gallery scene. These pen-and-ink drawings, both serene and macabre, resonate with an emotional honesty rendered with a strong technique.

Artist statement from Clara Mitchell:

When I was a child,

On Saturday, July 24, the CALS Butler Center for Arkansas Studies hosted a virtual workshop on genetic genealogy. The program was presented by Shannon Christmas, an experienced genealogist specializing in genetic, colonial American, and African American genealogy in Virginia and the Carolinas. He serves as a 23andMe Ancestry Ambassador,

Self-perception is distorted when we treat such things—principally ourselves—as models for reality, making separability and independence, not reciprocity, our moral ideal. Weather is the better paradigm for inquiries regarding the categorical features of things, because weather is systemic. Every system evolving within the atmosphere has a merely temporary integrity, and a character determined as much by its conditions as by its internal states.