ENTERTAINMENT: UCA history professor to dissect book about 1923 quashing of strike | Arkansas Democrat Gazette

Legacies & Lunch

Kenneth C. Barnes, professor emeritus of history at the University of Central Arkansas in Conway, discusses his book “Mob Rule in the Ozarks: The M&NA Railroad Strike, 1921-1923” for the Central Arkansas Library System Butler Center for Arkansas Studies’ Legacies & Lunch series, noon Wednesday at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Downtown, 333 President Clinton Ave., Little Rock.

The book focuses on the Jan. 15, 1923, mob quashing by violence of a two-year Missouri & North Arkansas Railroad in Harrison and other towns along the M&NA line in the Ozark Mountains.

Admission is free. Take your own lunch; the library will provide drinks and cookies and validate parking in the nearby CALS Parking Deck, accessible from Rock Street. Register to attend virtually at robertslibrary.org. The program will also be live-streamed to YouTube and the recording will be available immediately afterward.

    Youngsters and adults will create crafts based on the month’s “Museum and Me” theme at the Rogers Historical Museum. (Special to the Democrat-Gazette)
  

‘Museum and Me’

The Rogers Historical Museum, 313 S. Second St. at Cherry Street, hosts a series of monthly programs in conjunction with the Rogers Public Library called “Museum and Me,” for preschoolers ages 3-5. The hour-long, free programs are designed to “foster interest in history, reading and museums,” according to a news release, each featuring a themed story and activities.

The lineup (all sessions 9-10 a.m.):

◼️ Jan. 14: Log Cabins

◼️ Feb. 11: Valentines

◼️ March 11: Rivers, focusing on Northwest Arkansas rivers and streams

◼️ April 8: Arkansas State Butterfly, the Diana Fritillary

◼️ May 13: Quilts

There are 30 spots available for each month’s program. Register at rogershistoricalmuseum.org/museum-and-me. Call (479) 621-1154 for more information.