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If you have had the pleasure of reading our February blog post A New Face at the EOA, Alongside Older Ones, you know that I had the honor of taking over for the CALS Encyclopedia of Arkansas’s previous media editor, Michael Keckhaver (a.k.a. Sterno). Sterno left behind a legacy of nearly twenty years of work,

Pablo was a non-alcoholic drink created by Pabst Brewing Company in 1916. The company created the drink at a time when the temperance movement was gaining widespread support in the country. It was only a few years later that the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which outlawed alcoholic beverages, was passed. Prohibition lasted until 1933 when it was repealed via the Twenty-First Amendment to the U.S.

“Did you know that Arkansas is mentioned in the Bible? Yeah, there’s that verse that begins, ‘Noah stepped out of the ark an’ saw…’”

I heard that joke from a Baptist youth pastor back in the mid-1990s—a joke so groan-worthy I still remember it some thirty years later. It sprang to mind one recent summer morning when I was walking the dog.