Ongoing
Save the Flags Preservation Project
Fundraising Project
Little Rock
http://www.oldstatehouse.com/support-the-museum/flags-campaign.aspx

Beginning in 2011, the Old State House Museum will mark the American Civil War Sesquicentennial with five years of exciting exhibits and programs. The museum’s goal is to conserve two newly-acquired Arkansas Confederate battle flags by 2012, in time for our second Sesquicentennial exhibit. You can help the Old State House Museum protect these flags, ensuring their survival for future generations. To find out more about the Save the Flags project, see the link above.

Ongoing
Old School Days: Facebook Interactive
For Facebook Fans of the Old State House Museum
Little Rock
http://www.Facebook.com/OldStateHouseMuseum

Are you planning a fieldtrip with your students to the Old State House Museum? Will your family tour the Old State House Museum soon? Or did you visit the Old State House Museum long ago? This is your chance to make Old State House Museum history! Post photographs of your visit to the Old State House Museum and let us know when you came to see us.

Through September 13, 2010
Exhibit 100 Years of Scouting: Celebrating the Adventure & Continuing the Journey
Museum Hours: Mon-Sat 9 a.m.-5 p.m. & Sun 1-5 p.m.
Little Rock

The Old State House Museum celebrates 100 years of scouting in Arkansas with this traveling exhibit from the Boy Scouts of America, Arkansas Chapter.

Through March 6, 2011
Exhibit Badges, Bandits and Bars: Arkansas Law & Justice
Museum Hours: Mon-Sat 9 a.m.-5 p.m. & Sun 1-5 p.m
Little Rock

Badges, Bandits and Bars: Arkansas Law & Justice explores the state’s history of crime, law enforcement, courts, and prisons from pre-territorial days to the mid-1980s. The exhibit includes compelling artifacts and photographs donated by the Arkansas State Police and the Arkansas Department of Correction, as well as objects loaned by other institutions and individuals, and those from the Old State House Museum’s own collections.

Through March 4, 2012
Exhibit Arkansas/Arkansaw: A State and Its Reputation
Museum Hours: Mon-Sat 9 a.m.-5 p.m. & Sun 1-5 p.m.
Little Rock

The Old State House Museum's exhibit, Arkansas/Arkansaw: A State and Its Reputation, sheds light on the evolution of Arkansas’s hillbilly image. The exhibit reveals the early development of a dual image, with Arkansawyers being portrayed as coarse, illiterate, and violent backwoodsmen on one hand, while also lifted up as noble frontiersmen—independent, honest and humble. Brooks Blevins, curator of the exhibit, is the Noel Boyd Associate Professor of Ozarks Studies at Missouri State University. He is the author of Arkansas/Arkansaw: How Bear Hunters, Hillbillies and Good Ol’ Boys Defined a State and Hill Folks: A History of Arkansas Ozarkers and Their Image.

Friday, August 6, 2010
Brown Bag Lunch Lecture - Slavery and Law in Arkansas
Noon - 1:00 p.m.
Little Rock

This presentation will consider the law as a force that shaped the history of slavery in Arkansas as well as a valuable source for understanding how Arkansas’s masters and slaves experienced the institution. Kelly Jones offers a look at the way in which the legislators and courts of Arkansas struggled to define humans as property despite the many ways in which daily realities and the actions of the slaves themselves complicated that effort. A native of Conway County, Arkansas, Kelly Jones received a Bachelor’s degree in history at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in 2006, and a Master’s in history from the University of North Texas in 2008. She is now a PhD student in history at the University of Arkansas, under the direction of Dr. Jeannie Whayne. Her research focus is the topic of slavery in Arkansas. Admission to each program is free. Participants are encouraged to bring a sack lunch; beverages are provided.

Friday, September 17, 2010
Brown Bag Lunch Lecture - Fent and Pete: Arkansas’s Southwestern Humor
Noon - 1 p.m.
Little Rock

Arkansas schoolchildren know C. F. M. Noland as the guy who carried the 1836 state constitution to Washington, and adults know him as the man who killed the governor’s nephew in a duel. Not many people today, though, remember him as one of the nation’s best known writers for a few antebellum years. Noland was famous, though briefly, for his humorous writing and his creation of an Ozarks character who commented freely on life in Arkansas and beyond.

After finishing high school in El Dorado, Arkansas, George Lankford received degrees from LSU, Princeton Theological Seminary, and Indiana University, where he was awarded a Ph.D. in folklore in 1975. He returned to Arkansas, where he taught for twenty-five years at Arkansas College (now Lyon College) in Batesville. In his teaching career he taught courses in anthropology, religion, Bible, local history (Ozarks), and folklore. Lankford retired in 2001 from Lyon, where he was the Pauline M. and Brooks Bradley Professor in the Social Sciences and chair of the Social Science Division. He has published a number of books and articles on Indian topics and on Arkansas history and culture.

Admission to each program is free. Participants are encouraged to bring a sack lunch; beverages are provided.