Reprinted here by special permission of the author, Cindy Beckman, a retired Conway High School history teacher who writes local history.
Caring for the sick was often a community responsibility in the years before hospitals. Family or neighbors would “set up” with the sick person, tending to their needs and giving them their medicine. Others would tend their animals, Continue reading
The Village Genealogy Society of Hot Springs Village, Arkansas, presents the 2016 Fall Family History Workshop Saturday, September 17, featuring Cari Taplin, a certified genealogist and researcher. It will be held at the Coronado Center, 150 Ponderosa Lane, in Hot Springs Village.
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Reprinted here by special permission of the author, Cindy Beckman, a retired Conway High School history teacher who writes local history.
After the success of recruiting International Shoe Company to Conway, business leaders sought to recruit more industry to the growing city. Over the next three decades, the Faulkner County Industrial Development Corporation (FCIDC), the Conway Development Corporation (CDC) and the Chamber of Commerce would bring in more large industries and even create the first Industrial Park. Continue reading
Reprinted here by special permission of the author, Cindy Beckman, a retired Conway High School history teacher who writes local history.
One of the first major steps to bring new industry to Conway occurred at the end of World War II when the Conway Chamber of Commerce realized that a large number of people in Conway and the surrounding area would need employment. The war was ending Continue reading
Arkansas historical author Nancy Dane’s novel Sarah Campbell, Tale of a Civil War Orphan, won the 2016 DeBlack Award giving for Arkansas’ best in historical fiction for children.
The award will be presented at the banquet at the Arkansas Historical Association‘s 75th Annual Conference on April 21-23 in Little Rock.
Nancy Dane is an author and lecturer with an expertise on the American Civil War in Arkansas. Continue reading