Reprinted here by special permission of the author, Cindy Beckman, a retired Conway High School history teacher who writes local history.

The Boy Scouts organization has been active in Faulkner County for nearly 100 years. J. W. James, who owned and operated the James Business College on the second floor of the George W. Donaghey Building at the southwest corner of Parkway and Caldwell streets, organized the first troop in Continue reading →