An Arkansas Encyclopedia?
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
A group of archivists, folklorists, writers
and others with a fascination for Arkansas history plan to write
the book.
The Butler Center for Arkansas Studies is heading the project to
produce the state`s first Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and
Culture.
Telling the story of Arkansas -- its Delta blues and Ozark
Mountains, Wal-Mart stores and rice fields, Bill Clinton and Orval
Faubus, Scott Joplin and Johnny Cash -- might take eight years,
almost two (m) million dollars and a book of about 13-hundred
pages.
Tim Dillard, the Butler Center`s director, says there is NO good
reference book on Arkansas history. He says an encyclopedia would
be useful in everything from education to tourism.
Thirty-five states already have or are completing encyclopedias
of their own.
Posted by Mike Hellgren
