Tag: Butler Banner Summer 2024

Seemingly small decisions can have momentous consequences. The recent publication of an entry on Parker Westbrook on the CALS Encyclopedia of Arkansas, coupled with the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies’ Lucille and Parker Westbrook Collection, illuminates this principle.

Arkansas native Parker Lucas Westbrook was born in Nashville (Howard County) on January 4,

Little Rock businessman and former Razorback football player Muskie Harris has donated a collection of original drawings by cartoonists George Fisher and Vic Harville to the permanent art collection of the Central Arkansas Library System (CALS).

CALS Art Administrator Colin Thompson recounted, “I was approached by Muskie Harris at an event honoring George Fisher.

Help us improve your library experience! We’re working on the 2025-2028 Strategic Plan and we need your input.

The Central Arkansas Library System is seeking input from the public via an online survey. The survey (available in both English and Spanish) is accessible via Survey Monkey and will be open through August 5.

The other day, I was in my backyard, where I’m carving out a new garden plot, digging some trenches for the metal edging I was laying down. I started at 8:00 in the morning, but by only an hour in, I had already soaked through my shirt. The temperature had not yet reached 90 degrees,

I was flipping through some old Butler Center paperwork when the top line of one message caught my eye. It said, “I appreciate you forwarding the pages about Taylor Swift’s return from Liberia…” My first thought was that I had never heard that world-renowned musician Taylor Swift had ever been in Liberia, or in any part of Africa.

The area in Little Rock historically called “the south end” is framed by Interstate 30 on the east side, Roosevelt Road on the north side, the Arkansas State Fairgrounds on the west side, and Fourche Creek on the south side. This appears to be the first extension of the original city boundaries of Little Rock.

May 17, 2024, marked the seventieth anniversary of the milestone decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas by the U.S. Supreme Court, which overturned Plessy v. Ferguson. The 1954 Brown decision unanimously ruled that racial segregation in public schools violated the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S.

In a 1987 interview, ninety-one-year-old Julia Irene McGaughey DeJanis credited her spirit of adventure and romance with her decision to enlist in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps. Many years later, this service with the Allied Expeditionary Forces during World War I qualified her to join the American Legion. In her adopted city of North Little Rock,

This summer offers many opportunities to view and experience art at the Central Arkansas Library System through exhibitions, events, and workshops!

Exhibitions

Catch this one before it closes! Jay Youngdahl’s exhibition What Did You Learn in School Today? opened in April in the CALS Roberts Library Underground Gallery and closes on June 29.

When assigned a family tree project in elementary school, I was more focused on the poster board formatting challenges presented in the assignment than on the actual people I was to include. Family trees seemed like a lot of work, and I knew who my family was. I saw them at all the major holidays,