http://www.rogersarkansas.com/museum/forum This is an XML content feed of; Rogers Historical Museum : Last 10 Posts Wed, 16 May 2012 18:40:30 +0000 Fri, 11 May 2012 11:52:13 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 8.05 30 www.rogersarkansas.com/museum/forum/RSS_topic_feed.asp http://www.rogersarkansas.com/museum/forum/forum_images/web_wiz_forums.gif http://www.rogersarkansas.com/museum/forum http://www.rogersarkansas.com/museum/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=743&PID=876#876 Author: museum
Subject: TGIFoto - Betty Blake Rogers and Mary
Posted: 11 May 2012 at 11:52am

In honor of Mother's Day we are sharing this portrait photo of Betty Blake (Mrs. Will) Rogers and their daughter Mary, probably taken in the late 1910s. Mary was born in Rogers in 1913 while Betty was staying with her mother during one of Will's tours. Just click on the image for a larger view.

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Subject: TGIFoto - RHS freshman at Willola
Posted: 04 May 2012 at 12:21pm

In 1935 the freshman class at Rogers High School enjoyed a spring picnic at the swimming pool at Willola. The lender Maizie Baker Coe Swearingen is at the far right. Just click on the image for a larger view.

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Subject: TGIFoto - Get a load of those hats!
Posted: 20 Apr 2012 at 11:20am

We've got an exhibit on hats and other headgear coming up next fall - and just get a load of the hats on these ladies! Wish we had some examples in our collections of these early 1900s over-the-top hats. The owner of this wagon won a prize for bringing the largest load of women into downtown Rogers to shop - and I bet their first stop was the milliners! Just click on the image for a larger view.

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Subject: Fay Jones - Truman Boling exhibit is up at Bville
Posted: 17 Apr 2012 at 10:58am

The RHM's community exhibit on architect Fay Jones and builder Truman Boling funded by an Arkansas Heritage Month grant is now on display at the Bentonville Public Library. It is along the wall leading back to the genealogy library, so it can be seen whenever the library is open. Stop by and discover the three area houses designed by Jones and built by Boling. One of them is even for sale - for only just over a million dollars! Anybody just win the lottery . . . ? ]]> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 10:58:48 +0000 http://www.rogersarkansas.com/museum/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=737&PID=870#870 http://www.rogersarkansas.com/museum/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=736&PID=869#869 Author: museum
Subject: TGIFoto - Victory Theater stage
Posted: 13 Apr 2012 at 9:41am

Last night I attended the final dress rehearsal of a play at the Rogers Little Theater directed by our own museum guide, Kaye Cotton. That inspired this week's TGIFoto, a 1927 image of the stage at the Victory Theater. Designed by A.O. Clarke, the theater has been restored for use in live performances and is truly an architectural treasure for Northwest Arkansas. Just click on the image for a larger view - and if you live nearby do attend the current production "No Sex Please, We're British" - it's a great British farce and of course, well-directed!

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Subject: TGIFoto - Apple Blossom Festival Float
Posted: 06 Apr 2012 at 10:48am

Back in the 1920s April was the month when the Apple Blossom Festival was held. Throngs of people came to Rogers to see the parade and coronation of the festival Queen. This is the Winslow float in 1926, when that town had an all-woman government. The mayor and council members are in the decorated car. Just click on the image for a larger view.

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Subject: Benton County Crime Stories wins award
Posted: 02 Apr 2012 at 3:41pm

We just learned we won the Arkansas Museums Association 2011 Exhibit of the Year award for an exhibit produced in-house for Benton County Crime Stories. This exibit was produced at a cost of only $5,600, including the cost of restoration of the jail cells along with the purchase of photo murals, text panels, building supplies, digital photo frames and listening station, and a touchscreen monitor for the computer interactive. That so much was done at such a small cost is due to the creativity and teamwork of museum staff and volunteers and to the assistance of other City departments who provided equipment and manpower to move the jail cells, first to the museum shop and then into the gallery.

So far visitor reaction to the exhibit has been very positive. Some visitors have come back more than once, bringing yet another relative or friend to the exhibition. If you haven't seen this exhibit on law and order in our area yet, stop by and let us throw you in our award-winning slammer!
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Subject: History may not change . . . but what we know does
Posted: 29 Mar 2012 at 12:30pm

It never ceases to amaze us that after years of studying local history, there is always something new to discover. Several days ago Glenn Jones stopped by with this photograph that contains one of his ancestors. Neither he nor Rogers history buff Gary Townzen could identify where it was taken - and at first neither could we.

But then Jenn noticed that back in 1896 there was a frame building that contained a tin shop and a hardware store at the corner of First and Elm on one of the old Sanborn Insurance maps. The map noted that it was soon to be replaced by a brick building - what was first called the Burnham Block, but is known to us today as Vinson Square.

So was the frame building in this photograph the one on that map? It made sense - except for the fact that the two buildings to the right of the frame structure didn't look anything like our earliest photos of them.

It was then that John decided to look back through all the notes taken for the Building Rogers exhibit. And there he found a reference to the fronts of those buildings having been rebuilt at the same time that the Burnham Block was constructed.

So - this is a photo from before 1896, our earliest image of the corner of First and Elm as it appeared before the Burnham Block. And it documents how those earlier brick buildings looked before the fronts were redone. How cool is that? Our thanks to Glenn for sharing this rare image of early Rogers.

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Subject: Seen the "Herstory" series?
Posted: 23 Mar 2012 at 12:17pm

Hope those of you who live in the area have been enjoying the series on notable women in Benton and Washington County history that has been running in the Morning News. We have one week left to run in the series - the last story will be on Wednesday, March 28. For those who live away here is a link to the second story in the series - but you will need to become an online subscriber if you are not one already. Hope that the paper is interested in repeating this next year as there are certainly others we could write about. If you know of a notable woman who was not included, it may be because we do not have information in our research files on her. So send info and a photo if available to Gaye know at gbland@rogersark.org.

http://www.nwaonline.com/news/2012/mar/21/notable-women-recognized-honor-history-mo-20120321/

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Subject: TGIFoto - Business Girls of 1926
Posted: 23 Mar 2012 at 10:28am

Another TGIFoto in honor of Women's History Month - the Business Girls Club drum corps in 1926. Within a few years this club had developed into our local chapter of the BPW - Business and Professional Women. In 1931 the BPW hosted a reception honoring Anna Sackett, described as one of the most efficient stenographers in Rogers, pioneer businesswoman and assistant bank cashier Lizzie Page, long-time Bryant Hardware employee Sadie Tribble, and Belle Henderson, who went back to school to train as a teacher after being left a widow with two young children. Just click on the image for a larger view.

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