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Collecting, Preserving and Publishing Local History Since 1951

Publishers of the Quarterly Pulaski County Historical Review

http://www.pulaskicountyarkhistory.org

Give a gift subscription for Christmas!

Basic annual membership is $20 (including a subscription to the Review). Please send your check to the above address. Single issues of the Review are available for $5.00. Back issues from Volumes 33 - 54 (1985 - 2006) are available for purchase. A Review Index , Volumes 1 - 45, 1953 -1997, is available for $28.00 postage paid. Please send requests to the Society's Treasurer, P. O. Box 251903, Little Rock, AR 72225.

Just off the presses! "CAPITAL COUNTY: Historical Studies of Pulaski County, Arkansas", written by Martha Rimmer and including twelve articles from the Pulaski County Historical Review. Send a check for $29.50 to the Society Treasurer, payable to the PCHS, at the above address.

Address inquiries about the Review and proposed contributions to: rleslie@cals.lib.ar.us

General inquiries about Arkansas History and Arkansas Genealogy should be addressed to the Butler Center (butlercenter.org), which is located in the downtown library, 100 Rock Street. The e-mail contact address for the Butler Center is calsinfo@cals.lib.ar.us.

The Fall schedule of the PCHS began on September 14, 2008. The meeting took place in the College of Public Health Building, with Speaker Edwina Walls Mann giving a presentation on Trinity Hospital, a pioneering attempt to answer the need for accessible
and affordable medical care in the Little Rock community.

NEXT PCHS MEETING

The next program is scheduled for the second Sunday in November, 11/9/08. This meeting will be at the Historic Arkansas Museum in downtown Little Rock, near the River Market. Bill Worthen, Director of the HAM, will present his historical research on "Learning from Archaeological Digs

at Historic Arkansas Museum.

REFRESHMENT TIME starts at 2:00 PM PROGRAM starts at 2:30 PM


On Sunday, April 13th, Stephan McAteer, Executive Director of the MacArthur Museum of Military History, spoke to the PCHS about the first seven years of the MacArthur Museum.

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The PCHS 2007-2008 program started on September 9th with Professor Bill J. Gurley of the College of Pharmacy, UAMS, speaking on "Dr. William McPheeters: A Confederate Medical Officer in Civil War Little Rock". Copies of the book may be purchased from Professor Gurley at 501-686-6279 or from the University of Arkansas Press.

On February 10th, Dr. Blake Wintory, Director of Research & Interpretation for the Mosaic Templars Cultural Center, spoke on the subject "African-American Fraternal Organizations, Cemeteries and Headstones in Pulaski County and Arkansas: 1900-1930", as part of Black History Month.

On Sunday, April 13th, Stephan McAteer, Executive Director of the MacArthur Museum of Military History, spoke to the PCHS about "The First Seven Years of the MacArthur Museum".


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