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Sow the Seeds of Victory: Women and Victory Gardens
Join us in the greenhouse to learn about women’s home front work to sow victory gardens in Arkansas during wartime from community outreach archivist Danielle Afsordeh, and learn how to create a victory garden of your own in celebration of Women’s History Month.
Danielle Afsordeh, Community Outreach Archivist at the CALS Roberts Library/Butler Center for Arkansas Studies,
Unfinished Business: The Fight for the ERA in Arkansas
Learn about the fight for the creation and ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment in Arkansas from community outreach archivist Danielle Afsordeh, and create reproductions of vintage women’s movement campaign buttons from the CALS Butler Center collection in celebration of Women’s History Month.
Danielle Afsordeh, Community Outreach Archivist at the CALS Roberts Library/Butler Center for Arkansas Studies,
Personal Archiving and Mobile Memory Lab
Learn some tips and tricks for managing your family’s historic photographs and documents and scan a few using CALS Roberts Library’s Mobile Memory Lab with CALS Roberts Library staff members Heather Register Zbinden and Danielle Afsordeh.
Danielle Afsordeh, Community Outreach Archivist at the CALS Roberts Library/Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, will conduct this program with CALS Roberts Library Website &
Brian Thompson: “Saving the Buffalo River—Again”
CALS Butler Center for Arkansas Studies Presents LEGACIES & LUNCH
Speaker: Brian Thompson
In 2013, a large industrial hog farm was quietly granted a permit to be built along the banks of Big Creek, a major tributary of the Buffalo National River. Due to the sensitivity of the location and the lack of public notification,
Getting to Know Your Historic Home
Did you know that preserving historic structures is an eco-friendly choice?
Nearly half of the carbon in the atmosphere is created by the demolition, construction, and operation of buildings. Help preserve historic buildings and reduce your carbon footprint by learning the story your home has to tell with community outreach archivist Danielle Afsordeh.
Finding Family Facts (April 10)
The Butler Center offers a beginner’s genealogy class the second Monday of every month, taught by Rhonda Stewart, the Butler Center’s local history and genealogy expert. Participants will learn how to use online databases and city directories, as well as how to archive family documents. Jump-start your genealogy research with this fun and creative way to learn about the past.
Crucial Conversations: Race in America Book Club
Book – Markham Street: The Haunting Truth Behind the Murder of My Brother, Marvin Leonard Williams by Ronnie Williams
WHAT?
This six-month book club will explore issues around the history of race relations and our collective memory of the South in partnership with the Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site.
2nd Friday Art Night (April 2023)
Featured Author: Judy Tiesel-Jensen, author of Invitation to Intimacy: What the Marriage of Two Couples Therapists Reveals About Risk, Transformation, and the Astonishing Healing Power of Intimacy, https://www.etaliapress.com/authors#/judy-tieseljensen/
Featured Artist: Marlene Gremillion, http://www.cals.org/galleries/marlene-gremillion
Featured Music: TBA
CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
Rohwer and Jerome: Japanese American WWII Incarceration Camps in Arkansas
Underground Gallery,
Personal Archiving and Prepping to Digitize Your Personal Papers, Photos, and Other Stuff (April 20)
Learn how to organize your personal papers, photos, scrapbooks, and other items to digitize and store them for future generations. And find out more about CALS DIY Memory Lab and how to use it to preserve your family history.
Crucial Conversations: Race in America Book Club
Book – American Atrocity: The Types of Violence in Lynching by Guy Lancaster
WHAT?
This six-month book club will explore issues around the history of race relations and our collective memory of the South in partnership with the Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site.
Crucial Conversations: Race in America Book Club
Book – Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain
WHAT?
This six-month book club will explore issues around the history of race relations and our collective memory of the South in partnership with the Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site.