Museum Day is an annual celebration of boundless curiosity hosted by Smithsonian magazine. Participating museums and cultural institutions across the country provide free entry to anyone presenting a Museum Day ticket. The Museum Day ticket provides free admission for two people on Saturday, September 22, 2018.
Toys and games for kids and gift shop discounts.
Thursday, August 23
Refreshments & Conversation @ 5:30 pm
Program @ 6:00 pm
Dr. David War, Arkansas Capitol Historian, is the author of It’s Official!: The Real Stories behind Arkansas’s State Symbols, now in its 2nd edition.
Arkansas’s Capitol Historian, Dr. David Ware, will discuss the utility of symbols, the significance of Arkansas’s earliest adopted symbols and will conclude with some observations on the potential for using the state symbols in interpreting the state’s history, geography and even its economic profile. And tell a couple of sea stories along the way.
Copies of It’s Official!: The Real Stories behind Arkansas’s State Symbols will be available for purchase for $24 each.
(by phone, email or online)
870.265.6031 ·
601 Hwy 142 · Lake Village, AR 71653
Lakeport Legacies · August 23 · Fixed and Fleeting: Some Arkansas State Symbols and Why they Matter · Dr. David Ware (Capitol Historian at Arkansas Secretary of State)
Arkansas’s Capitol Historian, Dr. David Ware, will discuss the utility of symbols, the significance of Arkansas’s earliest adopted symbols and will conclude with some observations o
Copies of It’s Official!: The Real Stories behind Arkansas’s State Symbols will be available for purchase for $24 each.
n the potential for using the state symbols in interpreting the state’s history, geography and even its economic profile. And tell a couple of sea stories along the way.
Dr. David War, Arkansas Capitol Historian, is the author of It’s Official!: The Real Stories behind Arkansas’s State Symbols, now in its 2nd edition.
Encore Lakeport Legacies · July 26 · Old Houses of Blanton Park: Greenville’s Lost Downtown Neighborhood · Princella Nowell (Washington County, MS)
The town of “New Greenville,” founded behind Island 83 on the Mississippi River in 1865, was located on the plantation of Harriet (Blanton) Theobald. Theobald’s home place was outside of the new town. After her death, her surviving son, Orville M. Blanton, subdivided her personal property into Blanton Park, est. in 1886. Blanton Park became a residential subdivision with homes of family members, professionals, and politicians. On its corners and edges were churches, businesses, clubs, and the Greenville Sanitarium. The story is explained of how the “Park” was subdivided, who lived there, and what eventually happened to the homes and churches as they were abandoned to fire, flood, and neglect.
Ann Rayburn Paper Americana Collection, Special Collections, University of Mississippi Libraries
Thursday, July 19 — Encore Presentation on Thursday, July 26
Refreshments & Conversation @ 5:30 pm
Program @ 6:00 pm
Blanton Park, Greenville, Miss. looking North, ca 1911. Image courtesy of Ann Rayburn Paper Americana Collection, Special Collections, University of Mississippi Libraries
Blanton Park emerged as a downtown neighborhood in 1886 from Harriet (Blanton) Theobald’s old homeplace. In 1865, Theobald donated part of her plantation for the town of “New Greenville” just behind Island No. 83 on the Mississippi River. After her death, her surviving son, Orville M. Blanton, subdivided her personal property into Blanton Park. Blanton Park became a residential subdivision with homes of family members, professionals, and politicians. On its corners and edges were churches, businesses, clubs, and the Greenville Sanitarium. Washington County Historian Princella Nowell will explain how the “Park” was subdivided, who lived there, and what eventually happened to the homes and churches as they were abandoned to fire, flood, and neglect.
Register for this FREE Event (Registration is closed for July 19) Register for July 26
(by phone, email or online)
870.265.6031 ·
601 Hwy 142 · Lake Village, AR 71653
Lakeport Legacies · July 19 · Old Houses of Blanton Park: Greenville’s Lost Downtown Neighborhood · Princella Nowell (Washington County, MS)
The town of “New Greenville,” founded behind Island 83 on the Mississippi River in 1865, was located on the plantation of Harriet (Blanton) Theobald. Theobald’s home place was outside of the new town. After her death, her surviving son, Orville M. Blanton, subdivided her personal property into Blanton Park, est. in 1886. Blanton Park became a residential subdivision with homes of family members, professionals, and politicians. On its corners and edges were churches, businesses, clubs, and the Greenville Sanitarium. The story is explained of how the “Park” was subdivided, who lived there, and what eventually happened to the homes and churches as they were abandoned to fire, flood, and neglect.
Ann Rayburn Paper Americana Collection, Special Collections, University of Mississippi Libraries
Thursday, June 21
Refreshments & Conversation @ 5:30 pm
Program @ 6:00 pm
Winslow Homer’s A Visit from Mistress (1876) exemplifies the tensions between former slaveholders and their former slaves in the years after the Civil War. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of William T. Evans, 1909.7.28
Lakeport Legacies for June 21 will feature Dr. Gary T. Edwards. Edwards, associate professor of history at Arkansas State University, will examine the life of Amanda Trulock (1811-1891). Born and raised in Connecticut, Trulock was widowed in 1849 and found herself the mistress to 62 enslaved laborers on a plantation in Jefferson County. Letters and plantation records reveal a complicated relationship with slaves as she managed her plantation near Pine Bluff. Edwards’ chapter on Trulock was recently published in Arkansas Women: Their Lives and Times (University of Georgia Press, 2018). A limited number of copies will be available for purchase.
Arkansas Women: Their Lives and Times — $35
Register for this FREE Event
(by phone, email or online)
870.265.6031 ·
601 Hwy 142 · Lake Village, AR 71653
Lakeport Legacies · June 21 · Yankee Mistress of the Old South: Plantation Life in the Arkansas Delta, 1847-1866 · Dr. Gary Edwards (Arkansas State University-Jonesboro)
Trulock Family Papers, Correspondence, 1837-1869 are held by the University of Arkansas Special Collections
Lakeport Legacies & Book Signing
Yankee Mistress of the Old South: Plantation Life in the Arkansas Delta, 1847-1866
Dr. Gary Edwards (Arkansas State University-Jonesboro)
Lakeport Plantation, 601 Hwy 142, Lake Village, AR
Thursday, June 21 at 6:00 p.m.
Amanda Beardsley Trulock (1811-1891) is a rare example of a northern woman, born and raised in Bridgeport, Connecticut, who married a Georgia cotton planter; later migrated to Arkansas; and eventually became a plantation proprietor and sole mistress of 62 slaves near Pine Bluff. Like many slaveowning widows of the Old South, Trulock was a very competent financial manager. But she delegated many other responsibilities, in fact a surprising amount, to an enslaved man, Reuben. And through her relationship with him she reveals a distinctive example of antebellum enslavement, which combined an unusual mixture of white leniency and black autonomy. Trulock also shares some things in common with the tiny handful of New England women who married into slavery at the time. Most informative of these commonalities (or perhaps the most surprising, depending on one’s preconceptions) was her immediate acceptance and selective advocacy of slavery during her twenty-nine years of residency in the South during both war and peace.
A limited number of copies of Arkansas Women: Their Lives and Times, edited by Cherisse Jones-Branch and Gary T. Edwards will be available for purchase. The book includes Dr. Edwards’ chapter on Trulock. $35
Thursday, May 24
Refreshments & Conversation @ 5:30 pm
Program @ 6:00 pm
Robert Fulford, in addition to writing, photographs places and things that remind him of his childhood on Yellow Bayou in the 1950s and 1960s
Lakeport Legacies for May 24 features Mr. Robert Fulford of Dermott with “Growing Up on Yellow Bayou Plantation: A Conversation with Mr. Robert Fulford.” Fulford grew up on Yellow Bayou Plantation, just north of Lake Village, in the 1950s and 1960s. He has written three self-published books about his childhood and experiences on the plantation
Both of Mr. Fulford’s books will be available for purchase (cash or check only):
A Collection of Anecdotes During my Childhood While Living on Yellow Bayou Plantation: Book 1 — $12
A Collection of Anecdotes During my Childhood While Living on Yellow Bayou Plantation: Book 2 — $12
Dark Days of the South: Before & After Segregation — $12
Register for this FREE Event
(by phone, email or online)
870.265.6031 ·
601 Hwy 142 · Lake Village, AR 71653
