A concert and seminar honoring Arkansas’s folk music heroes, Patsy Montana, Jimmy Driftwood and Almeda Riddle, is set for Saturday, July 30. Sponsored by the Arkansas State Archives, the event will be held at their headquarters in Room 4A, One Capital Mall, Little Rock.
Registration is required but admission is free. Check in at 8:30. Light breakfast refreshments will be served to those who register by July 25. Continue reading
The Faulkner County Historical Society held its annual meeting for members and a public program on March 8 at the county library.
New officers were elected at the brief business meeting: Rebekah Bilderback, President; Julie Hill, Vice President; and Judy Corcoran, Secretary Treasurer.
Despite a heavy rain storm, Continue reading
“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
Come celebrate the season at the OPEN HOUSE at the Faulkner County Museum and Dog Trot Cabin on Saturday, November 7, from 10 am to 4 pm on the Conway Courthouse square. The Museum’s main building and railroad exhibit will be open as well.
The cabin will be decorated for the season and volunteers will demonstrate traditional skills such as wood working, rope making, Dutch oven cooking, blacksmithing, etc. Continue reading
We regret the “Spirits of Cadron” was cancelled due to rainy weather! The “Spirits of Cadron,” a popular fall event of past years, returns this year on Friday and Saturday, October 23 and 24.
Sponsored by the Faulkner County Historical Society and the Faulkner County Museum, this entertaining, eerie, and sometimes spooky occasion takes place from 6 to 9 PM each night at the Cadron Blockhouse at Cadron Settlement Park. Cost is only $2 per person or $5 per carload. Continue reading