Conway has released a Request for Proposals for individuals or firms to develop a historic preservation plan for the City.
Responses are due on Friday, August 2. Continue reading
Conway to Develop Historic Preservation Plan
Waddy William Moore III
Waddy William Moore III
January 29, 1928 – June 15, 2019
Waddy William Moore III, of Conway passed away on the morning of June 15, 2019 at the age of ninety-one years and six months. He was the only son of Waddy William Moore, Jr. and Floretta Elizabeth Williams Moore, both deceased.
He is survived by Gay, his wife of almost sixty-six years, their two daughters, Bonnie Moore McNeely (Dennis) of Roswell, GA and Elizabeth Moore Peatross (Kenneth) of Little Rock, AR, and five grandchildren, William Charles McNeely, Elizabeth McNeely, Lucy Moore, Rachel Peatross and Shea Peatross. Continue reading
Through the Cabin Window – May, 2019
100 YEARS AGO, 1919
♦ Proprietors of soda fountains and ice cream parlors began collecting a one cent tax on each drink sold for 10 cents or more. Another tax was to be collected on perfumes and various other toilet articles. There was opposition to the tax and complaints about Continue reading
Through the Cabin Window – April, 2019
100 YEARS AGO, 1919
♦ A German helmet would be awarded in a contest between the Alpha and Euzelian societies at Central College. Advertisements written by members of the two societies would be presented newspapermen of the city, and the society whose “ad” urging support of the Liberty Loan Bonds was judged best, would receive the helmet. Continue reading
Cemetery Lecture / Workshop Set for April
Jonathan Appell of Atlas Preservation, Inc. will present a Spring Cemetery Conservation Lecture on common maintenance and preservation of cemeteries on Friday, April 19, at the Mount Vernon Senior Citizen Building/City Hall, 2 Garland Springs Road.
The Arkansas Historic Preservation Program sponsors a cemetery workshop on Saturday, April 20, at the Mount Vernon Cemetery in Mount Vernon. For more information and/or to register contact Holly Hope at holly.hope@arkansas.gov or call 501 324 9148.