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“Old Time Music & Dance” Set for March 8

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“Old Time Music & Dance” will be the theme of the Faulkner County Historical Society’s annual program for the public on March 8 at 6:00 PM at the Faulkner County Library.

David and Donna Peterson will play traditional, ragtime and old popular music on lap dulcimer, hammered dulcimer, and guitar, augmented with a demonstration of various period dances: clogging, polka, waltz, ragtime, square, and Cajun.

Some forty years ago David and Donna, after learning to play the dulcimer and to clog dance, Continue reading →

Through the Cabin Window – February, 2016

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75 YEARS AGO, February 3, 1941

♦  Funeral services were held for Thomas Madison Moore, 78, a native of Faulkner County and a member of one of its oldest families. A resident of Conway, Mr. Moore was born Dec. 19, 1862, a son of Madison Elliot and Margaret Ragsdale Moore, pioneer settlers of the county. He was a charter member of the Greenbrier Masonic lodge and the Conway First Presbyterian Church.

100 YEARS AGO, February 4, 1916

♦  In Enola, B.S. Shock, our retired merchant, is going to the North Arkansas Railroad on a prospecting tour in the near future. Continue reading →

Titan II Missiles: “Looking Back”

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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.

When the Soviets detonated their first atomic weapon after World War II, the United States had to develop ways of protecting Americans from nuclear attack. While much effort was spent building backyard bomb shelters and conducting civil defense drills, Continue reading →

The Hotel Bachelor: “Looking Back”

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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.

On New Year’s Eve, 1962, the Hotel Bachelor became engulfed in flames. The fire continued through the night and into the next day. Young and old were ringing in the new year all around Conway but by the end of the night, they were all entranced Continue reading →