The Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture (EOA), a project of the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies at the Central Arkansas Library System, seeks an intern for the summer semester 2018. The EOA is a comprehensive, Web-based resource on all aspects of Arkansas’s history and culture. This internship is open to upper-level undergraduate students and to graduate students and will consist of working closely with the staff historian to research and vet encyclopedia content. Interns are expected to work eight hours per week, primarily at the EOA’s Little Rock office. A $500 stipend will be paid. The names of all interns will be permanently listed on the Encyclopedia of Arkansas website.

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New collections available

Here’s a list of collections we’ve recently processed at the Butler Center. 

MSS.08.52 Ladies Aid Society, Winfield Memorial Church collection

This collection consists of a ledger containing membership and financial records of the Ladies Aid Society of Winfield Memorial Church, Little Rock, Ark.

http://purl.oclc.org/arstudies/bc-mss-0852

MSS.09.03 Womble, Arkansas, collection

This collection contains a small photograph album of scenes from the town of Womble, now Norman, Ark.

http://purl.oclc.org/arstudies/bc-mss-0903

MSS.10.12 Helen Doris Dyer collection

This collection contains letters written by eleven-year-old Helen Doris Dyer to her family at Clarendon, Ark., as well as correspondence and hospital records pertaining to her time as a patient at Shriners' Hospital for Crippled Children, Shreveport, Louisiana.

http://purl.oclc.org/arstudies/bc-mss-10-12

MSS.10.33 Carnall and Wheeler ledgers and letter books
This collection consists of three ledgers and two letter books containing records for the Fort Smith and Sebastian County, Ark., businesses of John Carnall individually, and for two of his real estate partnerships, one with John Foster Wheeler, and one with William W. Wheeler.
http://purl.oclc.org/arstudies/bc-mss-1033

MSS.10.34 William H. Engels account book
This collection consists of a ledger book used by William H. Engels of Farmington, Ark., in his grist and sawmill business and his farm, along with miscellaneous receipts. The book contains mainly business records from 1866 to 1867, with a few pages of entries dated from 1857 to 1864. The first twenty pages of the volume were used by Engels as an arithmetic exercise book while he was a student in Fayetteville.
http://purl.oclc.org/arstudies/bc-mss-1034

MSS.11.73 Charles E. Wade Worthen Bank collection
This collection contains documents, photographs, and memorabilia collected by Charles E. Wade during his tenure with Worthen Bank and Trust Company. The bulk of the collection consists of photographs accumulated during the time of the company's expansion to include first drive-through teller windows and then branch banks. A number of photographs record the involvement of the Central Little Rock Urban Renewal Project in clearing downtown property which was then acquired by Worthen Bank for the construction of a new headquarters building at 200 West Capitol Avenue.
http://purl.oclc.org/arstudies/bc-mss-1173

MSS.12.37 Abraham Block research collection
This collection contains notes and photocopies of material related to the Abraham and Fanny Block family as well as contextual material related to Jewish history.
http://purl.oclc.org/arstudies/bc-mss-1237

MSS.12.49 Griffin-Wylie family collection
This collection contains photographs, genealogical information, and other materials related to the families of Lois Amelia Griffin and Richard Douglas Wylie.
http://purl.oclc.org/arstudies/bc-mss-1249

MSS.13.45 Payton Kolb scrapbook
This scrapbook contains newspaper clippings and other memorabilia related to Kolb's high school and college training and performances as a musician as well as photographs related to his military service.
http://purl.oclc.org/arstudies/bc-mss-1345

MSS.13.58 Thomas J. Rainey High School collection
This collection contains a scrapbook and other material related to the creation of the Thomas J. Raney High School.
http://purl.oclc.org/arstudies/bc-mss-1358

MSS.13.75 Little Rock School District records
This collection primarily consists of meeting minutes from the LRSD Board of Directors covering the period of 1877-1972. There are additional meeting minutes from the Womans [sic.] Teachers Association of LRSD, Parents and Teachers Association of LRSD, and Dunbar Junior College. A scrapbook of newspaper clippings about education in Little Rock from the 1870s to 1890s, as well as yearbooks from Hall High School and Little Rock Central High School are also included in the collection.
http://purl.oclc.org/arstudies/bc-mss-1375

MSS.13.77 J.H. James Civil War letters
This collection contains three letters written by J. H. James of Company D, Sixth Arkansas Cavalry Battalion, to his mother, Sarah B. James, of Lake Providence, Louisiana.
http://purl.oclc.org/arstudies/bc-mss-1377

MSS.14.42 David O. Dodd Extension Homemakers Club collection
The David O. Dodd Extension Homemakers Club collection contains organizational records consisting of scrapbooks and pamphlets. The scrapbooks were created and maintained by club secretaries and cover most years between 1930 and 2013. The bulk of the pamphlets are club yearbooks and secretary's record books and cover the same time period.
http://purl.oclc.org/arstudies/bc-mss-1442

MSS.14.55 Consolidated White River Academy Stockholder’s Association minutes book
This collection consists of a book recording the annual meeting minutes of the stockholders' association which supported and oversaw the work of the Consolidated White River Academy, Brinkley, Ark.
http://purl.oclc.org/arstudies/bc-mss-1455

MSS.14.74 Pleasant Lumpkin Tomlin Civil War letters
This collection contains photocopies and transcriptions of letters written by Pleasant Lumpkin Tomlin of Columbia County, Ark., just before and during his service with Johnson's 15th Arkansas Infantry Regiment.
http://purl.oclc.org/arstudies/bc-mss-1474

MSS.15.07 Hiram H. Chamberlin Civil War letter
This collection consists of a letter written by Hiram Chamberlin while he was serving with Company L of the 2nd Wisconsin Cavalry at Helena, Ark.
http://purl.oclc.org/arstudies/bc-mss-1507

MSS.15.08 W. Lewis Civil War letter
This collection contains a letter written in November 1864 by W. Lewis, then stationed at DeValls, Bluff, Ark. The author is believed to be Walter Lewis of Company F of the 20th Iowa Infantry.
http://purl.oclc.org/arstudies/bc-mss-1508

MSS.15.09 James Hook Civil War report
This collection contains an informal report by James Hook of Terre Haute, Indiana, on the expedition sent by the Indiana Sanitary Commission to provide relief to the troops fighting in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Arkansas in the summer of 1863. The report was written over a period of a few days and reports events both on the steamer and in the towns and camps they visited.
http://purl.oclc.org/arstudies/bc-mss-1509

MSS.17.41 Excelsior, Arkansas, collection
This collection contains documents and correspondence relating to the town of Excelsior established along the route of the Midland Valley Railroad in Sebastian County, Ark., as well as a plat map of the town of Excelsior.
http://purl.oclc.org/arstudies/bc-mss-1741

MSS.17.44 Terrence Roberts papers
The Terrence Roberts papers contain the professional and personal records of psychologist, writer and speaker, and Little Rock Nine member, Terrence Roberts. The bulk of the collection consists of research, notes, correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, and audiovisual material related to the Little Rock Central High School Desegregation Crisis and Crisis commemoration events. Research, writings, correspondence, and records pertaining to Roberts' psychology career are included in the collection as well. Also in the collection is personal correspondence, newspaper clippings, speeches and writings, personal records, photographs, awards, and artwork.
http://purl.oclc.org/arstudies/bc-mss-1744

MSS.17.45 Colony Herald newspapers
This collection contains two editions of The Colony Herald, a newspaper published by the Dyess Colony in Mississippi County, Ark., from May 1936 to November 1937.
http://purl.oclc.org/arstudies/bc-mss-1745

MSS.17.63 Curtis Jones World War I collection addendum
This collection contains correspondence between Curtis Jones and his wife Jessie as well as some correspondence to and from other members of his family and friends during Jones's military service during World War I. It also contains ephemera and a few photographs.
http://purl.oclc.org/arstudies/bc-mss-1763

CP.02.03.02 Bill Clinton Gubernatorial record group; Education series; Gloria Cabe subseries

This collection contains working papers from Gloria Cabe, Senior Advisor on Education and Liaison to National Education Organizations for Governor Bill Clinton from 1988 to 1990, and Chief of Staff to the governor in 1991. It includes documents related to the National Governors Association (NGA)’s Educational Summit, held in September 1989, Arkansas’s Restructuring program in 1990, which sought to improve the organizational structure of schools and school districts, and Cabe’s work in the General Assembly. The collection also holds many documents from organizations that interacted with the governor’s office between 1988 and 1991, including U.S. government agencies, large organizations such as the Education Commission of the States (ECS), and many other national, state, and local entities.
http://purl.oclc.org/arstudies/cp-020302

CP.02.03.03 Bill Clinton Gubernatorial record group; Education series; Paul Root subseries
This collection contains working papers of Paul Root, a special advisor to Governor Bill Clinton on education, aging, and religion from January 1983 to August 1987. It includes correspondence with constituents, inter-office memoranda and reports, and education-related materials received by mail for the governor and his staff.
http://purl.oclc.org/arstudies/cp-020303

CP.02.03.06 Bill Clinton Gubernatorial record group; Education series; Education Team subseries
This collection contains papers and other items from Governor Bill Clinton’s staff. The Education Team was formed in 1989 and continued to function until Clinton was elected president of the United States at the end of 1992. The collection includes briefing papers for Governor Clinton, correspondence with constituents, inter-office memoranda and reports, and education-related materials received by mail for the governor and his staff.
http://purl.oclc.org/arstudies/cp-020306

CP.02.03.07 Bill Clinton Gubernatorial record group; Education series; Ann Kamps subseries
This collection contains the working papers of Ann Kamps, who served on Governor Clinton’s staff as Special Assistant to Arkansas's First Lady and as Special Assistant for Early Childhood Programs from 1985 through 1992. Her work covered special programs and events the First Lady organized and attended and most notably the development of the Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY).
http://purl.oclc.org/arstudies/cp-020307

CP.04.03.01 Bill Clinton Multimedia record group; audio/video series; audio subseries
This subseries contains audio recordings relating to Bill Clinton’s gubernatorial campaigns and career as governor of Arkansas (1978-1992). Also included are recordings from Clinton’s presidential campaign (1991-1992), and early years following his second term as president of the United States (2001-2004).
http://purl.oclc.org/arstudies/cp-040301

VWP.20 Frank V. Meeks Jr. Vietnam War collection
This collection contains an oral history interview with Frank V. Meeks Jr. from October 2017, as well as documents and photographs related to his military service.
http://purl.oclc.org/arstudies/bc-vwp-20

VWP.22 James E. Mitchell Vietnam War collection
This collection contains written and recorded correspondence from Captain James E. Mitchell to his family during his deployment to Vietnam, as well as other personal and family correspondence, and related documents.
http://purl.oclc.org/arstudies/bc-vwp-22


New material added to:

MSS.09.06 Ira McL. Barton collection
This collection contains documents and correspondence related to the service of Lieutenant Ira McL. Barton who was a quartermaster with the Fourth Military District at Pine Bluff, Ark., following the Civil War, as well as additional miscellaneous military documents.
http://purl.oclc.org/arstudies/bc-mss-0906

MSS.11.95 Robert Ward Johnson letters
This collection contains three letters written by Robert Ward Johnson, one while he was in the United States Congress, and two while he represented Arkansas in the Confederate Senate.
http://purl.oclc.org/arstudies/bc-mss-1195

MSS.11.147 G. Thomas Eisele papers

This collection contains documents, pamphlets, journals, and photographs related to G. Thomas Eisele, his career, and family.

http://purl.oclc.org/arstudies/bc-mss-11147

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Radio CALS - December 6, 2017

Radio CALS airs on KABF 88.3 FM in Little Rock from 6-6:30 p.m. every Wednesday. It may be streamed live at www.kabf.org (click "Listen Live") or anytime at www.soundcloud.com/radiocals.

Today's broadcast of Radio CALS (12/6/2017):

Vietnam War veteran Eddie Odle talks to the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies Research Services Division Manager Brian Robertson. Mr. Odle discusses his service as a rifleman in the Marines, including a year spent near the Demilitarized Zone.

Upcoming Events 

Legacies & Lunch

Diane Gleason Discusses Dardanelle and the Bottoms
TODAY Wednesday, December 6 • Noon • Free
CALS Main Library Darragh Center, 100 Rock St.
Based on materials from her recently released book, Dardanelle and the Bottoms: Environment, Agriculture, and Economy in an Arkansas River Community, 1819-1970, Gleason will discuss life in the town of Dardanelle and the adjacent rural area known as the Dardanelle Bottoms. She will show period photographs of residents as well as historical maps of the area. Legacies & Lunch is sponsored in part by the Arkansas Humanities Council. Bring a sack lunch; drinks and dessert are provided.


Butler Center Galleries

On Exhibit:
Arkansas Pastel Society: Reflections in Pastel, West Gallery
The Arkansas Pastel Society creates a supportive community of pastel artists that promotes the pastel medium through workshops and exhibitions. Reflections in Pastel opens November 10, 2017, and runs through February 24, 2018.


Jim Nelson: Abstraction and Color, Underground Gallery
This survey of new and older works by Jim Nelson combines elements of abstract painting and low-relief carving to create colorful and dynamic artworks in a variety of soft and hard woods. Exhibition runs through December 30.

Bret Aaker, Art of Conatus, Loft Gallery
These new assemblages by Bret Aaker explore the idea of conatus, which in early philosophical thinking about psychology and metaphysics meant the innate drive of something to continue to exist and enhance itself. Through January 28, 2018

The Art of Injustice, Concordia Hall
Assembled by guest curator Dr. Sarah Wilkerson Freeman, history professor at Arkansas State University, The Art of Injustice features photographs taken by Paul Faris during his visit to the Rohwer incarceration center in 1945. His captivating black-and-white photographs capture the community created by Japanese Americans during their incarceration in Arkansas during World War II. This project was funded in part by a grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant Program. Exhibition runs through December 30.

2nd Friday Art Night

Friday, December 8 • 5-8 p.m. • Free
Butler Center Galleries
401 President Clinton Ave.
Paint & Take Holiday Edition -- Enjoy a fun, guided art-making experience to paint sensational seasonal symbols. We’ll be picking up our brushes at 5 p.m. and painting a series of winter-themed pieces that will make perfect one-of-a-kind gifts. Materials provided. No experience necessary.

Arkansas Sounds:

The Bob Boyd Sounds
Friday, December 8 • 8-9 p.m. • Doors open at 7 p.m. • Free
CALS Ron Robinson Theater, 100 River Market Avenue
After 2nd Friday Art Night, join us for a free one-hour holiday concert featuring Arkansas band the Bob Boyd Sounds. Four band members will perform a variety of holiday favorites and original compositions from their Sounds Like Christmas album.


For more information about Butler Center programming, contact Glenn Whaley at (501) 320-5741 or gwhaley@cals.org.

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Radio CALS - November 29, 2017

Radio CALS airs on KABF 88.3 FM in Little Rock from 6-6:30 p.m. every Wednesday. It may be streamed live at www.kabf.org (click "Listen Live") or anytime at www.soundcloud.com/radiocals.

Today's broadcast of Radio CALS (11/29/2017):

Eddie Pannell, a Vietnam War veteran who joined the U.S. Marine Corps in 1967, talks to the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies Research Services Division Manager Brian Robertson. Mr. Pannell details his experience as an interpreter who assisted South Vietnamese civilians with medical treatment, infrastructure growth, and other humanitarian missions.

Upcoming Events 

Legacies & Lunch

Diane Gleason Discusses Dardanelle and the Bottoms
Wednesday, December 6 • Noon • Free
CALS Main Library Darragh Center, 100 Rock St.
Based on materials from her recently released book, Dardanelle and the Bottoms: Environment, Agriculture, and Economy in an Arkansas River Community, 1819-1970, Gleason will discuss life in the town of Dardanelle and the adjacent rural area known as the Dardanelle Bottoms. She will show period photographs of residents as well as historical maps of the area. Legacies & Lunch is sponsored in part by the Arkansas Humanities Council. Bring a sack lunch; drinks and dessert are provided.


Butler Center Galleries

On Exhibit:
Arkansas Pastel Society: Reflections in Pastel, West Gallery
The Arkansas Pastel Society creates a supportive community of pastel artists that promotes the pastel medium through workshops and exhibitions. Reflections in Pastel opens November 10, 2017, and runs through February 24, 2018.


Jim Nelson: Abstraction and Color, Underground Gallery
This survey of new and older works by Jim Nelson combines elements of abstract painting and low-relief carving to create colorful and dynamic artworks in a variety of soft and hard woods. Exhibition runs through December 30.

Bret Aaker, Art of Conatus, Loft Gallery
These new assemblages by Bret Aaker explore the idea of conatus, which in early philosophical thinking about psychology and metaphysics meant the innate drive of something to continue to exist and enhance itself. Through January 28, 2018

The Art of Injustice, Concordia Hall
Assembled by guest curator Dr. Sarah Wilkerson Freeman, history professor at Arkansas State University, The Art of Injustice features photographs taken by Paul Faris during his visit to the Rohwer incarceration center in 1945. His captivating black-and-white photographs capture the community created by Japanese Americans during their incarceration in Arkansas during World War II. This project was funded in part by a grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant Program. Exhibition runs through December 30.

2nd Friday Art Night

Friday, December 8 • 5-8 p.m. • Free
Butler Center Galleries
401 President Clinton Ave.
Paint & Take Holiday Edition -- Enjoy a fun, guided art-making experience to paint sensational seasonal symbols. We’ll be picking up our brushes at 5 p.m. and painting a series of winter-themed pieces that will make perfect one-of-a-kind gifts. Materials provided. No experience necessary.

Arkansas Sounds:

The Bob Boyd Sounds
Friday, December 8 • 8-9 p.m. • Doors open at 7 p.m. • Free
CALS Ron Robinson Theater, 100 River Market Avenue
After 2nd Friday Art Night, join us for a free one-hour holiday concert featuring Arkansas band the Bob Boyd Sounds. Four band members will perform a variety of holiday favorites and original compositions from their Sounds Like Christmas album.


For more information about Butler Center programming, contact Glenn Whaley at (501) 320-5741 or gwhaley@cals.org.

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Radio CALS - November 22, 2017

Radio CALS airs on KABF 88.3 FM in Little Rock from 6-6:30 p.m. every Wednesday. It may be streamed live at www.kabf.org (click "Listen Live") or anytime at www.soundcloud.com/radiocals.

Today's broadcast of Radio CALS (11/22/2017):

This week, Traci Berry talks about the upcoming Raid the Rock Adventure Race, which has both 8-hour and 24-hour versions and draws competitors from Central Arkansas and a number of other states. She’s the race director and one of the principal planners of the course. The race has become known as one of the most challenging experiences for adventure racers, and Traci tells how it got started, the skills necessary to complete the race, and some of the quirky things race planners put into the course to keep teams on their toes.


Raid the Rock Adventure Race will take place this year on December 9-10.

Upcoming Events 

Legacies & Lunch

Diane Gleason Discusses Dardanelle and the Bottoms
Wednesday, December 6 • Noon • Free
CALS Main Library Darragh Center, 100 Rock St.
Based on materials from her recently released book, Dardanelle and the Bottoms: Environment, Agriculture, and Economy in an Arkansas River Community, 1819-1970, Gleason will discuss life in the town of Dardanelle and the adjacent rural area known as the Dardanelle Bottoms. She will show period photographs of residents as well as historical maps of the area. Legacies & Lunch is sponsored in part by the Arkansas Humanities Council. Bring a sack lunch; drinks and dessert are provided.

Butler Center Galleries

On Exhibit:
Arkansas Pastel Society: Reflections in Pastel, West Gallery
The Arkansas Pastel Society creates a supportive community of pastel artists that promotes the pastel medium through workshops and exhibitions. Reflections in Pastel opens November 10, 2017, and runs through February 24, 2018.


Jim Nelson: Abstraction and Color, Underground Gallery
This survey of new and older works by Jim Nelson combines elements of abstract painting and low-relief carving to create colorful and dynamic artworks in a variety of soft and hard woods. Exhibition runs through December 30.

Bret Aaker, Art of Conatus, Loft Gallery
These new assemblages by Bret Aaker explore the idea of conatus, which in early philosophical thinking about psychology and metaphysics meant the innate drive of something to continue to exist and enhance itself. Through January 28, 2018

The Art of Injustice, Concordia Hall
Assembled by guest curator Dr. Sarah Wilkerson Freeman, history professor at Arkansas State University, The Art of Injustice features photographs taken by Paul Faris during his visit to the Rohwer incarceration center in 1945. His captivating black-and-white photographs capture the community created by Japanese Americans during their incarceration in Arkansas during World War II. This project was funded in part by a grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant Program. Exhibition runs through December 30.

2nd Friday Art Night

Friday, December 8 • 5-8 p.m. • Free
Butler Center Galleries
401 President Clinton Ave.
Paint & Take Holiday Edition -- Enjoy a fun, guided art-making experience to paint sensational seasonal symbols. We’ll be picking up our brushes at 5 p.m. and painting a series of winter-themed pieces that will make perfect one-of-a-kind gifts. Materials provided. No experience necessary.

Arkansas Sounds:

The Bob Boyd Sounds
Friday, December 8 • 8-9 p.m. • Doors open at 7 p.m. • Free
CALS Ron Robinson Theater, 100 River Market Avenue
After 2nd Friday Art Night, join us for a free one-hour holiday concert featuring Arkansas band the Bob Boyd Sounds. Four band members will perform a variety of holiday favorites and original compositions from their Sounds Like Christmas album.

For more information about Butler Center programming, contact Glenn Whaley at (501) 320-5741 or gwhaley@cals.org.

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Radio CALS November 15, 2017

Radio CALS airs on KABF 88.3 FM in Little Rock from 6-6:30 p.m. every Wednesday. It may be streamed live at www.kabf.org (click "Listen Live") or anytime at www.soundcloud.com/radiocals.

Today's broadcast of Radio CALS (11/15/2017): 

Mark Christ, Outreach Director for the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program, talks with Matt DeCample about the Arkansas World War I Commemoration Committee and how Arkansans dealt with the war effort a hundred years ago.

Upcoming Events 

Butler Center Galleries

On Exhibit:
Arkansas Pastel Society: Reflections in Pastel, West Gallery
The Arkansas Pastel Society creates a supportive community of pastel artists that promotes the pastel medium through workshops and exhibitions. Reflections in Pastel opens November 10, 2017, and runs through February 24, 2018.


Jim Nelson: Abstraction and Color, Underground Gallery
This survey of new and older works by Jim Nelson combines elements of abstract painting and low-relief carving to create colorful and dynamic artworks in a variety of soft and hard woods. Exhibition runs through December 30.

Bret Aaker, Art of Conatus, Loft Gallery
These new assemblages by Bret Aaker explore the idea of conatus, which in early philosophical thinking about psychology and metaphysics meant the innate drive of something to continue to exist and enhance itself. Through January 28, 2018

The Art of Injustice, Concordia Hall
Assembled by guest curator Dr. Sarah Wilkerson Freeman, history professor at Arkansas State University, The Art of Injustice features photographs taken by Paul Faris during his visit to the Rohwer incarceration center in 1945. His captivating black-and-white photographs capture the community created by Japanese Americans during their incarceration in Arkansas during World War II. This project was funded in part by a grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant Program. Exhibition runs through December 30.

Sounds in the Stacks  

Sounds in the Stacks, a program of Arkansas Sounds, is a series of free piano concerts at CALS branches. The program is sponsored in part by Piano Kraft and KATV 7.

Jeff Coleman , solo pop piano & vocal
Thursday, November 16, 6:30 p.m.
CALS Sanders Library, 31 Shelby Dr., Sherwood

Arkansas Sounds:

The Cate Brothers Band
Friday, November 17, 7:00 p.m., $20 (Doors open at 6:00 p.m.)
CALS Ron Robinson Theater, 100 River Market Ave.
Southern soul specialists and Arkansas music legends the Cate Brothers Band reunite to perform hits from their five-decade career. Tickets can be purchased at www.arkansassounds.org.
For more information about Butler Center programming, contact Glenn Whaley at (501) 320-5741 or gwhaley@cals.org.

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Radio Cals 11/8/17 -- Chewing the Fat

Radio CALS airs on KABF 88.3 FM in Little Rock from 6-6:30 p.m. every Wednesday. It may be streamed live at www.kabf.org (click "Listen Live") or anytime at www.soundcloud.com/radiocals.


Today's broadcast of Radio CALS (11/8/2017):  Chewing the Fat 

In this episode of Chewing the Fat with Rex & Paul, the boys talk about Paul’s funeral duty and the pleasures of Piggott, Arkansas. 

Upcoming Events 

2nd Friday Art Night
Friday, November 10, 5:00-8:00 p.m., Free
CALS Butler Center Galleries, 401 President Clinton Ave.
Join the Butler Center for a night of art with entertainment provided by DJ Mike Poe, a diverse vinyl remix DJ.

New Exhibitions: 

Arkansas Pastel Society: Reflections in Pastel, West Gallery
The Arkansas Pastel Society creates a supportive community of pastel artists that promotes the pastel medium through workshops and exhibitions. Reflections in Pastel opens November 10, 2017, and runs through February 24, 2018.
Also on Exhibit:

Jim Nelson: Abstraction and Color, Underground Gallery
This survey of new and older works by Jim Nelson combines elements of abstract painting and low-relief carving to create colorful and dynamic artworks in a variety of soft and hard woods. Exhibition runs through December 30.
 
The Art of Injustice, Concordia Hall
Assembled by guest curator Dr. Sarah Wilkerson Freeman, history professor at Arkansas State University, The Art of Injustice features photographs taken by Paul Faris during his visit to the Rohwer incarceration center in 1945. His captivating black-and-white photographs capture the community created by Japanese Americans during their incarceration in Arkansas during World War II. This project was funded in part by a grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant Program. Exhibition runs through December 30.

Sounds in the Stacks  

Sounds in the Stacks, a program of Arkansas Sounds, is a series of free piano concerts at CALS branches. The program is sponsored in part by Piano Kraft and KATV 7.

Jeff Coleman , solo pop piano &vocal
Thursday, November 16, 6:30 p.m.
CALS Sanders Library, 31 Shelby Dr., Sherwood

Arkansas Sounds:
The Cate Brothers Band
Friday, November 17, 7:00 p.m., $20 (Doors open at 6:00 p.m.)
CALS Ron Robinson Theater, 100 River Market Ave.
Southern soul specialists and Arkansas music legends the Cate Brothers Band reunite to perform hits from their five-decade career. Tickets can be purchased at www.arkansassounds.org.
For more information about Butler Center programming, contact Shelle Stormoe at (501) 918-3033 or sstormoe@cals.org.

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Radio CALS - 11/1/2017

Radio CALS airs on KABF 88.3 FM in Little Rock from 6-6:30 p.m. every Wednesday. It may be streamed live at www.kabf.org (click "Listen Live") or anytime at www.soundcloud.com/radiocals.

Today's broadcast of Radio CALS (11/1/2017): 

Mark Christ, Outreach Director for the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program, talks with Matt DeCample about the Arkansas World War I Commemoration Committee and how Arkansans dealt with the war effort a hundred years ago.

Upcoming Events 

Legacies & Lunch: Arkansas Archaeology

Wednesday, November 1, Noon, Free

CALS Main Library Darragh Center, 100 Rock St.

Bluff shelters, also called rock shelters, are natural dwellings that were used by people in both prehistoric and historic times. Dr. Jamie Brandon and Lydia Rees, writers for the Arkansas Archeological Survey’s website, “Bluff Shelters of the Arkansas Ozarks” (archeology.uark.edu/ozarkbluffshelters/), will discuss bluff shelters and caves located in the Arkansas Ozarks and what can be learned about Arkansas’s distant past. Bring a sack lunch; drinks and cookies provided. 

2nd Friday Art Night

Friday, November 10, 5:00-8:00 p.m., Free

CALS Butler Center Galleries, 401 President Clinton Ave.

Join the Butler Center for a night of art with entertainment provided by DJ Mike Poe, a diverse vinyl remix DJ.

New Exhibitions: 

Arkansas Pastel Society: Reflections in Pastel, West Gallery

The Arkansas Pastel Society creates a supportive community of pastel artists that promotes the pastel medium through workshops and exhibitions. Reflections in Pastel opens November 10, 2017, and runs through February 24, 2018.

Also on Exhibit: 

Jim Nelson: Abstraction and Color, Underground Gallery

This survey of new and older works by Jim Nelson combines elements of abstract painting and low-relief carving to create colorful and dynamic artworks in a variety of soft and hard woods. Exhibition runs through December 30.

  

The Art of Injustice, Concordia Hall

Assembled by guest curator Dr. Sarah Wilkerson Freeman, history professor at Arkansas State University, The Art of Injustice features photographs taken by Paul Faris during his visit to the Rohwer incarceration center in 1945. His captivating black-and-white photographs capture the community created by Japanese Americans during their incarceration in Arkansas during World War II. This project was funded in part by a grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant Program. Exhibition runs through December 30.

Sounds in the Stacks  

Sounds in the Stacks, a program of Arkansas Sounds, is a series of free piano concerts at CALS branches. The program is sponsored in part by Piano Kraft and KATV 7. 

Jeff Coleman , solo pop piano & vocal

Thursday, November 16, 6:30 p.m.

CALS Sanders Library, 31 Shelby Dr., Sherwood

Arkansas Sounds:

The Cate Brothers Band

Friday, November 17, 7:00 p.m., $20 (Doors open at 6:00 p.m.)

CALS Ron Robinson Theater, 100 River Market Ave. 

Southern soul specialists and Arkansas music legends the Cate Brothers Band reunite to perform hits from their five-decade career. Tickets can be purchased at www.arkansassounds.org.

For more information about Butler Center programming, contact Shelle Stormoe at (501) 918-3033 or sstormoe@cals.org.

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Radio CALS-- 10-25-2017

Radio CALS airs on KABF 88.3 FM in Little Rock from 6-6:30 p.m. every Wednesday. It may be streamed live at www.kabf.org (click "Listen Live") or anytime at www.soundcloud.com/radiocals.

Today's broadcast of Radio CALS (10/25/2017):  James Mitchell, a Vietnam veteran who joined the U.S. Navy in 1967, talks to the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies Research Services Division Manager Brian Robertson. Mr. Mitchell details his experience as a Navy corpsman.   

You can find out more about the Butler Center's Arkansas Vietnam War Project at:  https://www.butlercenter.org/arkansas-vietnam-war-project/

Upcoming Events: 

A Prized Evening

Thursday, October 26, 6:30 p.m., Free

CALS Main Library Darragh Center, 100 Rock St.

Join us as we honor the winners of the most prestigious literary awards in Arkansas: Kenneth C. Barnes, the winner of the Booker Worthen Prize, and Padma Viswanathan, winner of the Porter Prize. Reception immediately following. For more information or to RSVP, constact Shelle Stormoe at sstormoe@cals.org or 501-918-3033.

Top of the Rock Chorus and Acapella Rising

Friday, October 27, 7:00 p.m., Free (Doors open at 6:00 p.m.)

CALS Ron Robinson Theater, 100 River Market Ave.

This free concert features two award-winning choirs from Little Rock: Top of the Rock Chorus, an all-women’s chorus, and Acapella Rising, an all-men's chorus.

Legacies & Lunch: Arkansas Archeology

Wednesday, November 1, Noon, Free

CALS Main Library Darragh Center, 100 Rock St.

Bluff shelters, also called rock shelters, are natural dwellings that were used by people in both prehistoric and historic times. Dr. Jamie Brandon and Lydia Rees, writers for the Arkansas Archeological Survey’s website, “Bluff Shelters of the Arkansas Ozarks” (archeology.uark.edu/ozarkbluffshelters/), will discuss bluff shelters and caves located in the Arkansas Ozarks and what can be learned about Arkansas’s distant past. Bring a sack lunch; drinks and cookies provided. 

 

2nd Friday Art Night

Friday, November 10, 5:00-8:00 p.m., Free

CALS Butler Center Galleries, 401 President Clinton Ave.

Join the Butler Center for a night of art with entertainment provided by DJ Mike Poe, a diverse vinyl remix DJ.

 

New Exhibition: 

Arkansas Pastel Society: Reflections in Pastel, West Gallery

The Arkansas Pastel Society creates a supportive community of pastel artists that promotes the pastel medium through workshops and exhibitions. Reflections in Pastel opens November 10, 2017, and runs through February 24, 2018.

 

Also on Exhibit: 

Jim Nelson: Abstraction and Color, Underground Gallery

This survey of new and older works by Jim Nelson combines elements of abstract painting and low-relief carving to create colorful and dynamic artworks in a variety of soft and hard woods. Exhibition runs through December 30.

  

The Art of Injustice, Concordia Hall

Assembled by guest curator Dr. Sarah Wilkerson Freeman, history professor at Arkansas State University, The Art of Injustice features photographs taken by Paul Faris during his visit to the Rohwer incarceration center in 1945. His captivating black-and-white photographs capture the community created by Japanese Americans during their incarceration in Arkansas during World War II. This project was funded in part by a grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant Program. Exhibition runs through December 30.

 

Sounds in the Stacks  

Sounds in the Stacks, a program of Arkansas Sounds, is a series of free piano concerts at CALS branches. The program is sponsored in part by Piano Kraft and KATV 7. 

Jeff Coleman , solo pop piano & vocal

Thursday, November 16, 6:30 p.m.

CALS Sanders Library, 31 Shelby Dr., Sherwood

 

Arkansas Sounds:

The Cate Brothers Band

Friday, November 17, 7:00 p.m., $20 (Doors open at 6:00 p.m.)

CALS Ron Robinson Theater, 100 River Market Ave. 

Southern soul specialists and Arkansas music legends the Cate Brothers Band reunite to perform hits from their five-decade career. Tickets can be purchased at www.arkansassounds.org.

 

For more information about Butler Center programming, contact Shelle Stormoe at (501) 918-3033 or sstormoe@cals.org.

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Radio CALS 10-17-2017

Radio CALS airs on KABF 88.3 FM in Little Rock from 6-6:30 p.m. every Wednesday. It may be streamed live at www.kabf.org (click "Listen Live") or anytime at www.soundcloud.com/radiocals.

Today's broadcast of Radio CALS (10/17/2017) features Charles Stewart, founder of the Arkansas Black Hall of Fame and editor of the Butler Center Books newest publication Seeds of Genius: 25 Years of the Arkansas Black Hall of Fame: 

Charles Stewart sits with Matt Decample to talk about how growing up in a large family help shaped his character, how he started the Arkansas Black Hall of Fame, and how they are celebrating the Hall's 25th anniversary.

Upcoming Events: 

Sounds in the Stacks

The Navy Band Southeast Fair Winds Woodwind

Tuesday, October 17, 6:30 p.m.

CALS Nixon Library, 703 W. Main St., Jacksonville

Free

Brenda and Ellis, a wife and husband pop piano and vocal duo 

Thursday, Oct. 19

6:30pm Terry Library

2015 Napa Valley Dr, Little Rock, AR 72212

FREE

For more info, contact: John Miller, jmiller@cals.org, 501-320-5728

A Prized Evening

Thursday, October 26, 6:30 p.m., Free

CALS Main Library Darragh Center, 100 Rock St.

Join us as we honor the winners of the most prestigious literary awards in Arkansas: Kenneth C. Barnes, the winner of the Booker Worthen Prize, and Padma Viswanathan, winner of the Porter Prize. Reception immediately following. For more information or to RSVP, constact Shelle Stormoe at sstormoe@cals.org or 501-918-3033.

Top of the Rock Chorus and Acapella Rising

Friday, October 27, 7:00 p.m., Free (Doors open at 6:00 p.m.)

CALS Ron Robinson Theater, 100 River Market Ave.

This free concert features two award-winning choirs from Little Rock: Top of the Rock Chorus, an all-women’s chorus, and Acapella Rising, an all-men's chorus.

Read more...

Radio CALS -- 10-11-2017

Radio CALS airs on KABF 88.3 FM in Little Rock from 6-6:30 p.m. every Wednesday. It may be streamed live at www.kabf.org (click "Listen Live") or anytime at www.soundcloud.com/radiocals.

Today's broadcast of Radio CALS (10/11/2017) features Chewing the Fat with Rex & Paul:

This week, Rex and Paul chew the fat about Paul’s Rotary Club talk at the Church of Christ in Wynne and how he had to change his talk when he realized it was going to be at the church, Paul’s mother’s elderberry jelly, the difficulties of picking elderberries, the need to go to the Mayhaw Festival in El Dorado and Chocolate Roll Festival in Searcy County, Rex’s opinion that the Old South Restaurant in Russellville has the best chicken-fried steak in Arkansas, Rex and Paul’s recent Civil War foray based on the Camden Expedition, the fascinating and often obscure terminology regarding Civil War fights.

Want more? Check out the Chewing the Fat podcast at: https://soundcloud.com/radiocals


Upcoming Events: 

Second Friday Art Night 
October 13, 2017; 5-8PM
Butler Center Galleries, 401 President Clinton Ave.
Exhibition Opening: Bret Aaker: Conatus
Exhibition location: Loft Gallery

These new assemblages by Bret Aaker explore the idea of conatus, which means, in early philosophical thinking about psychology and metaphysics, the innate drive of something to continue to exist and enhance itself.

Featured Musician: Matt Treadway (solo jazz guitar)

Sounds in the Stacks
The Navy Band Southeast Fair Winds Woodwind
Tuesday, October 17, 6:30 p.m.
CALS Nixon Library, 703 W. Main St., Jacksonville
Free

Brenda & Ellis, a wife and husband pop piano and vocal duo 
Thursday, Oct. 19
6:30pm Terry Library
2015 Napa Valley Dr, Little Rock, AR 72212
FREE

For more info, contact: John Miller, jmiller@cals.org, 501-320-5728

A Prized Evening
Thursday, October 26, 6:30 p.m., Free
CALS Main Library Darragh Center, 100 Rock St.
Join us as we honor the winners of the most prestigious literary awards in Arkansas: Kenneth C. Barnes, the winner of the Booker Worthen Prize, and Padma Viswanathan, winner of the Porter Prize. Reception immediately following. For more information or to RSVP, constact Shelle Stormoe at sstormoe@cals.org or 501-918-3033.

Top of the Rock Chorus and Acapella Rising
Friday, October 27, 7:00 p.m., Free (Doors open at 6:00 p.m.)
CALS Ron Robinson Theater, 100 River Market Ave.
This free concert features two award-winning choirs from Little Rock: Top of the Rock Chorus, an all-women’s chorus, and Acapella Rising, an all-men's chorus.

Read more...

Radio CALS 10-4-2017

Radio CALS airs on KABF 88.3 FM in Little Rock from 6-6:30 p.m. every Wednesday. It may be streamed live at www.kabf.org (click "Listen Live") or anytime at www.soundcloud.com/radiocals.

Today's broadcast of Radio CALS (10/4/2017) features Primary Sources and an interview with Robin Woods Louck. 

Students from Central High Memory Project and City of Little Rock youth radio interns interview Robin Woods Loucks about her experience offering to share her Algebra textbook with Terrence Roberts,  on the Little Rock Nine’s first day to attend classes at Central in September 1957.  The Memory Project Team, sponsored by CALS Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, is a student-produced effort to collect, preserve, and share oral history about civil rights and human rights experiences.

Upcoming Events: 

Legacies & Lunch 

Arkansas Public Media and 60 Years of KASU-Jonesboro

October 4, 2017  

12PM (Noon)   

Darragh Center, Main Library 100 S. Rock Street

Free

2017 marks the 50th anniversary of the creation of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and 60th Anniversary of KASU in Jonesboro, Arkansas's oldest public radio station. This event will feature a panel of well-known public media personalities in Arkansas, including Bobby Ampezzan, Managing Editor of Arkansas Public Media and Mike Doyle, Station Manager at KASU, Regina Dean, an early KUAR General Manager and current general manager at WUOT, and representatives from AETN, among others.  Sponsored by the Arkansas Humanities Council.

For more info, contact: Shelle Stormoe   sstormoe@cals.org   501-918-3033

Second Friday Art Night  

October 13, 2017; 5-8PM 

Butler Center Galleries, 401 President Clinton Ave.

Exhibition Opening: Bret Aaker: Conatus 

Exhibition location: Loft Gallery 

These new assemblages by Bret Aaker explore the idea of conatus, which means, in early philosophical thinking about psychology and metaphysics, the innate drive of something to continue to exist and enhance itself.  

Featured Musician: Matt Treadway (solo jazz guitar)

Sounds in the Stacks

The Navy Band Southeast Fair Winds Woodwind

Tuesday, October 17, 6:30 p.m.

CALS Nixon Library, 703 W. Main St., Jacksonville

Free

Brenda & Ellis, a wife and husband pop piano and vocal duo.

Thursday, Oct. 19 

6:30pm Terry Library

2015 Napa Valley Dr, Little Rock, AR 72212

FREE 

For more info, contact: John Miller, jmiller@cals.org, 501-320-5728

A Prized Evening

Thursday, October 26, 6:30 p.m., Free

CALS Main Library Darragh Center, 100 Rock St.

Join us as we honor the winners of the most prestigious literary awards in Arkansas: Kenneth C. Barnes, the winner of the Booker Worthen Prize, and Padma Viswanathan, winner of the Porter Prize. Reception immediately following. 

Top of the Rock Chorus and Acapella Rising

Friday, October 27, 7:00 p.m., Free (Doors open at 6:00 p.m.)

CALS Ron Robinson Theater, 100 River Market Ave. 

This free concert features two award-winning choirs from Little Rock: Top of the Rock Chorus, an all-women’s chorus, and Acapella Rising, an all-men's chorus. 

Read more...

Radio CALS -- 9/27/2017

Radio CALS airs on KABF 88.3 FM in Little Rock from 6-6:30 p.m. every Wednesday. It may be streamed live at www.kabf.org (click "Listen Live") or anytime at www.soundcloud.com/radiocals.

Today's broadcast of Radio CALS (9/13/2017) features Primary Sources and an interview with Delphine Hirasuna.

This week on Primary Sources, we’ve dug through our archives to present an interview with curator, author, and historian Delphine Hirasuna. She is the author of The Art of Gaman: Arts and Crafts from the Japanese American Internment Camps 1942-1946.  She curated a traveling exhibition of the same name in 2010, which toured throughout the United States and Japan. This interview was conducted in 2011 for the Butler Center’s exhibition The Art of Living, which displayed works of art created by Japanese Americans incarcerated at Rohwer Relocation Center in Rohwer, Arkansas during World War II. 

Upcoming Events: 

Hot Club of Cowtown
Friday, September 29, 7:00 p.m., $20 (Doors open at 6:00 p.m.)
CALS Ron Robinson Theater, 100 River Market Ave.
Arkansas Sounds presents the Western swing-gypsy jazz trio that has been lauded for its “down-home melodies and exuberant improvisation” (The Times, London). Buy tickets here.

Legacies & Lunch 
Arkansas Public Media and 60 Years of KASU-Jonesboro
October 4, 2017
12PM (Noon)
Darragh Center, Main Library 100 S. Rock Street
Free

2017 marks the 50th anniversary of the creation of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and 60th Anniversary of KASU in Jonesboro, Arkansas's oldest public radio station. This event will feature a panel of well-known public media personalities in Arkansas, including Bobby Ampezzan, Managing Editor of Arkansas Public Media and Mike Doyle, Station Manager at KASU, Regina Dean, an early KUAR General Manager and current general manager at WUOT, and representatives from AETN, among others.  Sponsored by the Arkansas Humanities Council.

For more info, contact: Shelle Stormoe   sstormoe@cals.org   501-918-3033

Second Friday Art Night  
October 13, 2017; 5-8PM
Butler Center Galleries, 401 President Clinton Ave.
Exhibition Opening: Bret Aaker: Conatus
Exhibition location: Loft Gallery

These new assemblages by Bret Aaker explore the idea of conatus, which means, in early philosophical thinking about psychology and metaphysics, the innate drive of something to continue to exist and enhance itself.

Featured Musician: Matt Treadway (solo jazz guitar)

Sounds in the Stacks
The Navy Band Southeast Fair Winds Woodwind
Tuesday, October 17, 6:30 p.m.
CALS Nixon Library, 703 W. Main St., Jacksonville
Free

Brenda & Ellis, a wife and husband pop piano and vocal duo.

Thursday, Oct. 19

6:30pm Terry Library

2015 Napa Valley Dr, Little Rock, AR 72212

FREE

For more info, contact: John Miller, jmiller@cals.org, 501-320-5728

A Prized Evening

Thursday, October 26, 6:30 p.m., Free

CALS Main Library Darragh Center, 100 Rock St.

Join us as we honor the winners of the most prestigious literary awards in Arkansas: Kenneth C. Barnes, the winner of the Booker Worthen Prize, and Padma Viswanathan, winner of the Porter Prize. Reception immediately following. Send an email to sstormoe@cals.org or call (501) 918-3033 to RSVP by October 9.

Top of the Rock Chorus and Acapella Rising

Friday, October 27, 7:00 p.m., Free (Doors open at 6:00 p.m.)

CALS Ron Robinson Theater, 100 River Market Ave. 

This free concert features two award-winning choirs from Little Rock: Top of the Rock Chorus, an all-women’s chorus, and Acapella Rising, an all-men's chorus.

Read more...

Radio CALS: 9-20-17

Radio CALS airs on KABF 88.3 FM in Little Rock from 6-6:30 p.m. every Wednesday. It may be streamed live at www.kabf.org (click "Listen Live") or anytime at www.soundcloud.com/radiocals.

Today's broadcast of Radio CALS (9/13/2017) features Primary Sources and an interview with Jeff Nichols:

Matt Decample talks with director Jeff Nichols about growing up in Little Rock, his entrance into the film industry, and the Arkansas Cinema Society.  

Upcoming Events:  

Betsey Wright Distinguished Lecture Series: “Hattie Caraway's Long Shadow: Women in the U.S. Senate”
Thursday, September 21, 7:00 p.m., Free (Doors open at 6:00 p.m.)
CALS Ron Robinson Theater, 100 River Market Ave.
Dr. Donald A. Ritchie, Historian Emeritus of the United States Senate, will discuss the influence of women on Capitol Hill since Arkansas voters elected Hattie Caraway in 1932—making her the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate. Ritchie will be introduced by former U.S. Senator Blanche Lincoln, the most recent woman to represent Arkansas in the Senate.

Sounds in the Stacks
Tuesday, September 26, 6:30 p.m., Free
CALS Fletcher Library, 823 N. Buchannan St.
Sounds in the Stacks, a program of Arkansas Sounds, is a series of free piano concerts at CALS branches. The September artists are vocalists who play piano and saxophone, father-and-son duo Robert "Frisbee" Coleman & Franko Nilsson Coleman. The program is sponsored, in part, by Piano Kraft, Kawai, and KATV 7.

Children of the Little Rock 9
Sunday September 24, 2017, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm (free)
CALS Ron Robinson Theater, 100 River Market Ave.

On the day before the 60th anniversary of the integration of Little Rock Central High School, children of the Little Rock Nine will discuss their parents’ role in the history-making crisis and how it has impacted their own lives. This panel discussion will look at what it is like when you are growing up as the child of a Civil Rights icon. Several of the children of the Little Rock Nine will share the experiences they have had as youths and adults. They will also discuss how having a parent as a Civil Rights pioneer has shaped their own life. In partnership with the Clinton School for Public Service.

Hot Club of Cowtown
Friday, September 29, 7:00 p.m., $20 (Doors open at 6:00 p.m.)
CALS Ron Robinson Theater, 100 River Market Ave.
Arkansas Sounds presents the Western swing-gypsy jazz trio that has been lauded for its “down-home melodies and exuberant improvisation” (The Times, London). Buy tickets here.

Read more...

Radio CALS 9-13-2017

Radio CALS airs on KABF 88.3 FM in Little Rock from 6-6:30 p.m. every Wednesday. It may be streamed live at www.kabf.org (click "Listen Live") or anytime at www.soundcloud.com/radiocals.

Today's broadcast of Radio CALS (9/13/2017) features Primary Sources and an interview with Judge Reinhold:   

Judge Reinhold chats with Matt DeCample about starting his acting career to impress a girl and how a warehouse dinner theater in Florida prepared him for Hollywood.

Upcoming Events:  

Preview of The Vietnam War, a film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick
Saturday, September 16, 2:00 p.m., Free
CALS Ron Robinson Theater, 100 River Market Ave.
The Butler Center, in partnership with AETN, will present select clips from the ten-part, 18-hour documentary series that tells the epic story of one of the most consequential, divisive, and controversial events in American history as it has never before been told on film. Visceral and immersive, the series explores the human dimensions of the war through revelatory testimony of nearly 80 witnesses from all sides—Americans who fought in the war and others who opposed it, as well as combatants and civilians from North and South Vietnam. A lecture about the Arkansas Vietnam War Project will follow the screening. The event is sponsored by the Arkansas Humanities Council and the Clinton School of Public Service. The series will air on AETN beginning September 17 at 7:00 p.m.

Betsey Wright Distinguished Lecture Series: “Hattie Caraway's Long Shadow: Women in the U.S. Senate”
Thursday, September 21, 7:00 p.m., Free (Doors open at 6:00 p.m.)
CALS Ron Robinson Theater, 100 River Market Ave.
Dr. Donald A. Ritchie, Historian Emeritus of the United States Senate, will discuss the influence of women on Capitol Hill since Arkansas voters elected Hattie Caraway in 1932—making her the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate. Ritchie will be introduced by former U.S. Senator Blanche Lincoln, the most recent woman to represent Arkansas in the Senate.

Sounds in the Stacks
Tuesday, September 26, 6:30 p.m., Free
CALS Fletcher Library, 823 N. Buchannan St.
Sounds in the Stacks, a program of Arkansas Sounds, is a series of free piano concerts at CALS branches. The September artists are vocalists who play piano and saxophone, father-and-son duo Robert "Frisbee" Coleman & Franko Nilsson Coleman. The program is sponsored, in part, by Piano Kraft, Kawai, and KATV 7.

Children of the Little Rock 9  
Sunday September 24, 2017, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm (free)
CALS Ron Robinson Theater, 100 River Market Ave.

On the day before the 60th anniversary of the integration of Little Rock Central High School, children of the Little Rock Nine will discuss their parents’ role in the history-making crisis and how it has impacted their own lives. This panel discussion will look at what it is like when you are growing up as the child of a Civil Rights icon. Several of the children of the Little Rock Nine will share the experiences they have had as youths and adults. They will also discuss how having a parent as a Civil Rights pioneer has shaped their own life. In partnership with the Clinton School for Public Service.

Hot Club of Cowtown
Friday, September 29, 7:00 p.m., $20 (Doors open at 6:00 p.m.)
CALS Ron Robinson Theater, 100 River Market Ave.
Arkansas Sounds presents the Western swing-gypsy jazz trio that has been lauded for its “down-home melodies and exuberant improvisation” (The Times, London).

Read more...

Radio CALS -- 9-6-2017

Radio CALS airs on KABF 88.3 FM in Little Rock from 6-6:30 p.m. every Wednesday. It may be streamed live at www.kabf.org (click "Listen Live") or anytime at www.soundcloud.com/radiocals.

Today's broadcast of Radio CALS (9/6/2017) features Chewing the Fat with Rex and Paul:

This week, Rex and Paul chew the fat about the fact that Paul is from Imdoden, setting a new Chewing the Fat record—nine seconds—for earliest mention, the Hope Watermelon Festival, the Hempstead County sheriff’s otherworldly victory in the watermelon-eating contest, how the boys turned down the offer of a free 150-pounder, despite the generous offer of a burlap sack to carry it with, about the biscuits at Keeney’s in Malvern, how Historic Washington has as good a lunch as one could get at any state park in the United States, how Paul likes well-cooked vegetables—no crispy green beans, please!—the greatness of catalpa worms for fishing but the grossness of the green goo that comes out when you step on one, Paul’s sneaky book-buying methods, discovering Glen Campbell’s grave site three days after his funeral, Rex and Paul’s funeral fixation, the death of Frank Broyles, how Broyles and Campbell and Johnny Cash gave Arkansas things to be proud of in the 1960s and helped the state live down some of the national embarrassment after the 1957 crisis, Nashville versus Crowley’s Ridge peaches, the Fish Net at DeGray Lake, great Arkansas football stadiums, and Jeff Root (the Football Doctor).

Upcoming Events:  

Legacies and Lunch: 20 Years and Family Films
Wednesday, September 6, Noon, Free
CALS Ron Robinson Theater

CALS is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Main Library campus, located in Little Rock's River Market District, and the founding of the Butler Center with a series of family films and a special 20th anniversary video. Family films will highlight the center’s remarkable collection of amateur films and provide an abridged history of the Terry family, including Arkansas civil rights activist Adolphine Fletcher Terry and her brother, Pulitzer prize-winning poet, John Gould Fletcher. CALS Terry and Fletcher libraries are namesakes of the siblings. Legacies and Lunch is sponsored in part by the Arkansas Humanities Council. Attendees are invited to bring a sack lunch; drinks and dessert will be provided.

Rwake and Neurosis Concert Film Double Feature
Friday, September 8, 7:00 p.m., Free (Doors open at 6:00 p.m.)
CALS Ron Robinson Theater, 100 River Market Ave.
Arkansas Sounds will present two concert films: Rwake: A Stone, A Leaf, An Unfound Door by Arkansas metal band Rwake and A Sun That Never Sets by Bay Area heavy music masters Neurosis.

2nd Friday Art Night
Friday, September 8, 5:00-8:00 p.m., Free
CALS Butler Center Galleries, 401 President Clinton Ave.
Join the Butler Center for a night of art and live music by ukulele and cornet and vocal duo Kit and Kaboodle.

•Art Teachers of Arkansas, Butler Center Galleries, Loft Gallery
A display of Butler Center artists who are also art teachers. Exhibition open through September 30.

•Modern Ink, Butler Center Galleries, West Gallery
Modern Ink explores new artworks created in the medium of ink by artists Carmen Alexandria, Robert Bean, Daniel Broening, Diane Harper, Neal Harrington, and Steve Rockwell. Exhibition open through October 28.

•The Art of Injustice, Butler Center Galleries, Concordia Hall
Assembled by guest curator Dr. Sarah Wilkerson Freeman, history professor at Arkansas State University, The Art of Injustice features photographs taken by Paul Faris during his visit to the Rohwer incarceration center in 1945. His captivating black-and-white photographs capture the community created by Japanese Americans during their incarceration in Arkansas during World War II. Exhibition open through December 30. This project was funded, in part, by a grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant Program.

Preview of The Vietnam War, a film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick
Saturday, September 16, 2:00 p.m., Free
CALS Ron Robinson Theater, 100 River Market Ave.
The Butler Center, in partnership with AETN, will present select clips from the ten-part, 18-hour documentary series that tells the epic story of one of the most consequential, divisive, and controversial events in American history as it has never before been told on film. Visceral and immersive, the series explores the human dimensions of the war through revelatory testimony of nearly 80 witnesses from all sides—Americans who fought in the war and others who opposed it, as well as combatants and civilians from North and South Vietnam. A lecture about the Arkansas Vietnam War Project will follow the screening. The event is sponsored by the Arkansas Humanities Council and the Clinton School of Public Service. The series will air on AETN beginning September 17 at 7:00 p.m.

Betsey Wright Distinguished Lecture Series: “Hattie Caraway's Long Shadow: Women in the U.S. Senate”
Thursday, September 21, 7:00 p.m., Free (Doors open at 6:00 p.m.)
CALS Ron Robinson Theater, 100 River Market Ave.
Dr. Donald A. Ritchie, Historian Emeritus of the United States Senate, will discuss the influence of women on Capitol Hill since Arkansas voters elected Hattie Caraway in 1932—making her the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate. Ritchie will be introduced by former U.S. Senator Blanche Lincoln, the most recent woman to represent Arkansas in the Senate.

Sounds in the Stacks
Tuesday, September 26, 6:30 p.m., Free
CALS Fletcher Library, 823 N. Buchannan St.
Sounds in the Stacks, a program of Arkansas Sounds, is a series of free piano concerts at CALS branches. The September artists are vocalists who play piano and saxophone, father-and-son duo Robert "Frisbee" Coleman & Franko Nilsson Coleman. The program is sponsored, in part, by Piano Kraft, Kawai, and KATV 7.

Children of the Little Rock 9   
Sunday September 24, 2017, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm (free)
CALS Ron Robinson Theater, 100 River Market Ave.

On the day before the 60th anniversary of the integration of Little Rock Central High School, children of the Little Rock Nine will discuss their parents’ role in the history-making crisis and how it has impacted their own lives. This panel discussion will look at what it is like when you are growing up as the child of a Civil Rights icon. Several of the children of the Little Rock Nine will share the experiences they have had as youths and adults. They will also discuss how having a parent as a Civil Rights pioneer has shaped their own life. In partnership with the Clinton School for Public Service.

Hot Club of Cowtown
Friday, September 29, 7:00 p.m., $20 (Doors open at 6:00 p.m.)
CALS Ron Robinson Theater, 100 River Market Ave.
Arkansas Sounds presents the Western swing-gypsy jazz trio that has been lauded for its “down-home melodies and exuberant improvisation” (The Times, London).

Read more...

Radio CALS -- August 30, 2017

Radio CALS airs on KABF 88.3 FM in Little Rock from 6-6:30 p.m. every Wednesday. It may be streamed live at www.kabf.org (click "Listen Live") or anytime at www.soundcloud.com/radiocals.

Today's broadcast of Radio CALS (8/302017) features:

The Memory Project at Little Rock Central High is a student-led effort to preserve, and share oral history of civil and human rights. For the 60th anniversary of the 1957 Central High Desegregation Crisis, the Memory Project students have produced an audio walking tour recounting the events of September 4th, 1957: the historic first attempt by the Little Rock Nine to attend their classes at Central.  This episode of Primary Sources highlights a conversation with the Memory Project students about their work.

Upcoming Events:  

Legacies and Lunch: 20 Years and Family Films
Wednesday, September 6, Noon, Free
CALS Ron Robinson Theater

CALS is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Main Library campus, located in Little Rock's River Market District, and the founding of the Butler Center with a series of family films and a special 20th anniversary video. Family films will highlight the center’s remarkable collection of amateur films and provide an abridged history of the Terry family, including Arkansas civil rights activist Adolphine Fletcher Terry and her brother, Pulitzer prize-winning poet, John Gould Fletcher. CALS Terry and Fletcher libraries are namesakes of the siblings. Legacies and Lunch is sponsored in part by the Arkansas Humanities Council. Attendees are invited to bring a sack lunch; drinks and dessert will be provided.

Rwake and Neurosis Concert Film Double Feature
Friday, September 8, 7:00 p.m., Free (Doors open at 6:00 p.m.)
CALS Ron Robinson Theater, 100 River Market Ave.
Arkansas Sounds will present two concert films: Rwake: A Stone, A Leaf, An Unfound Door by Arkansas metal band Rwake and A Sun That Never Sets by Bay Area heavy music masters Neurosis.

2nd Friday Art Night
Friday, September 8, 5:00-8:00 p.m., Free
CALS Butler Center Galleries, 401 President Clinton Ave.
Join the Butler Center for a night of art and live music by ukulele and cornet and vocal duo Kit and Kaboodle.

•Art Teachers of Arkansas, Butler Center Galleries, Loft Gallery
A display of Butler Center artists who are also art teachers. Exhibition open through September 30.

•Modern Ink, Butler Center Galleries, West Gallery
Modern Ink explores new artworks created in the medium of ink by artists Carmen Alexandria, Robert Bean, Daniel Broening, Diane Harper, Neal Harrington, and Steve Rockwell. Exhibition open through October 28.

•The Art of Injustice, Butler Center Galleries, Concordia Hall
Assembled by guest curator Dr. Sarah Wilkerson Freeman, history professor at Arkansas State University, The Art of Injustice features photographs taken by Paul Faris during his visit to the Rohwer incarceration center in 1945. His captivating black-and-white photographs capture the community created by Japanese Americans during their incarceration in Arkansas during World War II. Exhibition open through December 30. This project was funded, in part, by a grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant Program.

The Vietnam War, a film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick
Saturday, September 16, 2:00 p.m., Free
CALS Ron Robinson Theater, 100 River Market Ave.
The Butler Center, in partnership with AETN, will present select clips from the ten-part, 18-hour documentary series that tells the epic story of one of the most consequential, divisive, and controversial events in American history as it has never before been told on film. Visceral and immersive, the series explores the human dimensions of the war through revelatory testimony of nearly 80 witnesses from all sides—Americans who fought in the war and others who opposed it, as well as combatants and civilians from North and South Vietnam. A lecture about the Arkansas Vietnam War Project will follow the screening. The event is sponsored by the Arkansas Humanities Council and the Clinton School of Public Service. The series will air on AETN beginning September 17 at 7:00 p.m.

Betsey Wright Distinguished Lecture Series: “Hattie Caraway's Long Shadow: Women in the U.S. Senate”
Thursday, September 21, 7:00 p.m., Free (Doors open at 6:00 p.m.)
CALS Ron Robinson Theater, 100 River Market Ave.
Dr. Donald A. Ritchie, Historian Emeritus of the United States Senate, will discuss the influence of women on Capitol Hill since Arkansas voters elected Hattie Caraway in 1932—making her the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate. Ritchie will be introduced by former U.S. Senator Blanche Lincoln, the most recent woman to represent Arkansas in the Senate.

Sounds in the Stacks  
Tuesday, September 26, 6:30 p.m., Free
CALS Fletcher Library, 823 N. Buchannan St.
Sounds in the Stacks, a program of Arkansas Sounds, is a series of free piano concerts at CALS branches. The September artists are vocalists who play piano and saxophone, father-and-son duo Robert "Frisbee" Coleman & Franko Nilsson Coleman. The program is sponsored, in part, by Piano Kraft, Kawai, and KATV 7.

Hot Club of Cowtown
Friday, September 29, 7:00 p.m., $20 (Doors open at 6:00 p.m.)
CALS Ron Robinson Theater, 100 River Market Ave.
Arkansas Sounds presents the Western swing-gypsy jazz trio that has been lauded for its “down-home melodies and exuberant improvisation” (The Times, London).

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Radio CALS -- August 23, 2017

Radio CALS airs on KABF 88.3 FM in Little Rock from 6-6:30 p.m. every Wednesday. It may be streamed live at www.kabf.org (click "Listen Live") or anytime at www.soundcloud.com/radiocals.

Today's broadcast of Radio CALS (8/23/2017) features:

Arkansas State University History Professor Sarah Wilkerson Freeman sits with Matt DeCample to talk about The Art of Injustice, a show she is curating at the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies through the end of the year. Injustice focuses on the WWII Japanese internment camps in Southeast Arkansas and the art that shared the experiences of those who lived there.

Upcoming Events:  

Legacies & Lunch: 20 Years and Family Films

Wednesday, September 6, Noon, Free

CALS Ron Robinson Theater

CALS is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Main Library campus, located in Little Rock's River Market District, and the founding of the Butler Center with a series of family films and a special 20th anniversary video. Family films will highlight the center’s remarkable collection of amateur films and provide an abridged history of the Terry family, including Arkansas civil rights activist Adolphine Fletcher Terry and her brother, Pulitzer prize-winning poet, John Gould Fletcher. CALS Terry and Fletcher libraries are namesakes of the siblings. Legacies & Lunch is sponsored in part by the Arkansas Humanities Council. Attendees are invited to bring a sack lunch; drinks and dessert will be provided.

Rwake & Neurosis Concert Film Double Feature

Friday, September 8, 7:00 p.m., Free (Doors open at 6:00 p.m.)

CALS Ron Robinson Theater, 100 River Market Ave.

Arkansas Sounds will present two concert films: Rwake: A Stone, A Leaf, An Unfound Door by Arkansas metal band Rwake and A Sun That Never Sets by Bay Area heavy music masters Neurosis.

2nd Friday Art Night

Friday, September 8, 5:00-8:00 p.m., Free

CALS Butler Center Galleries, 401 President Clinton Ave.

Join the Butler Center for a night of art and live music by ukulele and cornet and vocal duo Kit & Kaboodle.

•Art Teachers of Arkansas, Butler Center Galleries, Loft Gallery  

A display of Butler Center artists who are also art teachers. Exhibition open through September 30. 

•Modern Ink, Butler Center Galleries, West Gallery

Modern Ink explores new artworks created in the medium of ink by artists Carmen Alexandria, Robert Bean, Daniel Broening, Diane Harper, Neal Harrington, and Steve Rockwell. Exhibition open through October 28.

•The Art of Injustice, Butler Center Galleries, Concordia Hall

Assembled by guest curator Dr. Sarah Wilkerson Freeman, history professor at Arkansas State University, The Art of Injustice features photographs taken by Paul Faris during his visit to the Rohwer incarceration center in 1945. His captivating black-and-white photographs capture the community created by Japanese Americans during their incarceration in Arkansas during World War II. Exhibition open through December 30. This project was funded, in part, by a grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant Program. 

The Vietnam War, a film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick

Saturday, September 16, 2:00 p.m., Free

CALS Ron Robinson Theater, 100 River Market Ave.

The Butler Center, in partnership with AETN, will present select clips from the ten-part, 18-hour documentary series that tells the epic story of one of the most consequential, divisive, and controversial events in American history as it has never before been told on film. Visceral and immersive, the series explores the human dimensions of the war through revelatory testimony of nearly 80 witnesses from all sides—Americans who fought in the war and others who opposed it, as well as combatants and civilians from North and South Vietnam. A lecture about the Arkansas Vietnam War Project will follow the screening. The event is sponsored by the Arkansas Humanities Council and the Clinton School of Public Service. The series will air on AETN beginning September 17 at 7:00 p.m.

Betsey Wright Distinguished Lecture Series: “Hattie Caraway's Long Shadow: Women in the U.S. Senate”

Thursday, September 21, 7:00 p.m., Free (Doors open at 6:00 p.m.)

CALS Ron Robinson Theater, 100 River Market Ave.   

Dr. Donald A. Ritchie, Historian Emeritus of the United States Senate, will discuss the influence of women on Capitol Hill since Arkansas voters elected Hattie Caraway in 1932—making her the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate. Ritchie will be introduced by former U.S. Senator Blanche Lincoln, the most recent woman to represent Arkansas in the Senate.

Sounds in the Stacks  

Tuesday, September 26, 6:30 p.m., Free

CALS Fletcher Library, 823 N. Buchannan St.

Sounds in the Stacks, a program of Arkansas Sounds, is a series of free piano concerts at CALS branches. The September artists are vocalists who play piano and saxophone, father-and-son duo Robert "Frisbee" Coleman & Franko Nilsson Coleman. The program is sponsored, in part, by Piano Kraft, Kawai, and KATV 7.

Hot Club of Cowtown

Friday, September 29, 7:00 p.m., $20 (Doors open at 6:00 p.m.)

CALS Ron Robinson Theater, 100 River Market Ave. 

Arkansas Sounds presents the Western swing-gypsy jazz trio that has been lauded for its “down-home melodies and exuberant improvisation” (The Times, London). 

Read more...