Happy Pride Month! Little Rock native Melissa Scott is a lesbian sci-fi novelist who has won Lambda Literary Awards for gay/lesbian science fiction three time. Read more about her life and career here: encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/meli...
New entry: The Last Ride is a 2011 independent film directed by Harry Thomason about the last days of country music legend Hank Williams. The movie stars numerous Arkansas actors and was filmed at a variety of iconic locations in Central Arkansas. encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/the-...
New entry: Forrest Rozzell served in the Arkansas House of Representatives, sponsoring bills to expand the benefits of public school teachers. He later worked as field secretary and then executive secretary of the Arkansas Education Association (AEA). encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/forr...
New entry: Finding Love in Mountain View is a 2020 Hallmark Channel romantic movie filmed and set in Mountain View. Read more at: encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/find...
New entry: Filmed in northwestern Arkansas, God’s Country Song is a 2023 Christian movie about a man working to be a country music star suddenly having to care for the four-year-old son he did not previously know about. Read more at: encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/gods...
100 years ago today, bluesman CeDell Davis was born in Helena. He contracted polio at age nine and had to relearn guitar, playing with his left hand dominant, in nonstandard tunings, and fretting the strings with a table knife used as a slide. Read more at: encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/elli...
The documentary "Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills" premiered 30 years ago today. Along with reporting by the Arkansas Times and other outlets, it would spur a movement to free the West Memphis Three. Read more at: encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/para...
The Alum For Reservoir, more popularly known as Lake Winona, was added to the National Register of Historic Places last month. Read more about this source of Central Arkansas's drinking water here: encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/lake...
New entry: Jesse James was a Confederate soldier, outlaw, and folk hero from Missouri. While he never lived in Arkansas, he did commit high-profile crimes in the state. Read more at encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/jess...
It's Pride Month! How much do you know about the state's LGBTQ+ history? Do you know about Ralph Hyman, the first openly gay candidate for the Arkansas General Assembly? encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/ralp...
A scholar who followed her father, a prominent lawyer, from Little Rock Central High School to the academic citadels of the east, Melissa Scott turned to ...
Jesse James was a Confederate soldier, outlaw, and folk hero from Missouri. While he never lived in Arkansas, he did commit high-profile crimes in the ...
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The Last Ride is a 2011 independent film directed by Harry Thomason about the last days of country music legend Hank Williams, who died on January 1, ...
Ellis CeDell Davis was a blues musician and recording artist who helped bring blues from its rural Southern roots into the twenty-first century. He ...
Lake Winona (a.k.a. the Alum Fork Reservoir) is a manmade lake located thirty-five miles west of Little Rock (Pulaski County) in the Ouachita National ...
Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (1996) is a documentary filmed for HBO (but later released into theaters) by Joe Berlinger and Bruce ...
Ralph Allen Hyman, an activist on behalf of LGBTQ+ rights, as well as for those with AIDS, was the first openly gay candidate for the Arkansas General ...
Finding Love in Mountain View is a 2020 Hallmark Channel romantic movie filmed and set in Mountain View (Stone County). The movie was inspired by the 2010 ...
Forrest Rozzell served three terms in the Arkansas House of Representatives, where he sponsored and pushed bills raising the salaries and expanding the ...
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God’s Country Song is a 2023 Christian film about a man working to be a country music star suddenly having to care for the four-year-old son he did not ...
