Summer History Camp for Kids
Registration begins May 3 for the Shiloh Museum ’s “1800s History Day Camp” for children ages 6-9. Two week-long sessions will be offered: June 21-25 and July 19-23, from 9:00 a.m. to noon each day. Campers will enjoy games, crafts, and food from the 1800s. Each day will feature a different theme, including Native Americans, pioneers, the Civil War, railroads, and Victorian fun.
Cost for the camp is $45 for Shiloh Museum members and $50 for non-members. Space is limited, preregistration and payment is required. The Shiloh Museum is located at the corner of Johnson and Main in downtown Springdale . For more information, call 750-8165.
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Statesmen, Scoundrels, and Eccentrics
Tom Dillard, author of Statesmen, Scoundrels, and Eccentrics: A Gallery of Amazing Arkansans, will discuss his book during a program and booksigning Saturday, May 8 at 2:00 p.m. at the Shiloh Museum of Ozark History in Springdale . The book includes 74 biographical sketches from Dillard’s “Remembering Arkansas” columns published in the Arkansas Gazette. Dillard is head of Special Collections at the University of Arkansas Libraries and founding editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of Arkansas. Books will be available for purchase.
The Shiloh Museum is located at the corner of Johnson and Main in downtown Springdale . For more information, call 750-8165.
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The Making of Sundance Winner Winter’s Bone
The making of Winter’s Bone, winner of the 2010 Sundance Film Festival’s grand jury prize for drama, will be discussed during a program Sunday, May 16 at 2:00 p.m. at the Shiloh Museum of Ozark History in Springdale . Based on a novel by Daniel Woodrell, Winter’s Bone is the story of a poor teenager (played by Jennifer Lawrence) who searches for her missing, meth-making father in the wooded Missouri Ozarks. The cast ofWinter’s Bone includes Fayetteville native Lauren Sweetser along with several actors from the Ozarks.
Director Debra Granik, Sweetser, and others will discuss the film, and a number of the film’s musicians and singers will perform, including singers Marideth Sisco and Linda Stoffel, bass player Tedi May, fiddler Billy Ward, guitar player Dennis Crider, banjo player Van Colbert, and mandolin player Bo Brown.
“The film’s production company first learned of the Shiloh Museum through its podcast series,” said Allyn Lord, museum director. “Executive producer Jonathan Scheuer discovered the on-line podcasts when he was doing research for the film, which was shot last winter in Christian and Taney counties, Missouri . Several of the film’s non-Ozark-native cast members found some of the museum’s podcasts helpful in their voice preparation,” Lord continued.
The Shiloh Museum is located at the corner of Johnson and Main in downtown Springdale . For more information, call 750-8165.
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Funeral Customs of the Ozarks
“Gone to the Grave,” a program on funeral customs of the Ozarks from 1850 to 1950, will be presented by independent researcher and author Abby Burnett Wednesday, May 19 at noon at the Shiloh Museum of Ozark History in Springdale . Burnett was recently featured in Silent Storytellers, a documentary produced by the Arkansas Educational Television Network about the history and culture of Arkansas cemeteries.
“While I’m interested in documenting the early days of the professional undertaker, the main focus of my research has been to study all of the ways in which people once helped one another when there was a death,” explained Burnett. “My talk will cover the role of the community in nursing the sick, laying out the body, building the casket, sitting up with the body, digging the grave and holding the burial,” Burnett said.
The Shiloh Museum is located at the corner of Johnson and Main in downtown Springdale . For more information, call 750-8165.
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MONTHLY MEETINGS AT THE SHILOH MUSEUM
Writing Group
LifeWriters, a group for people interested in writing the stories of their own lives or those of family and friends, will meet Monday, May 3 and Monday, May 17 at 10:00 a.m. at the Shiloh Museum of Ozark History. The museum is located at the corner of Johnson and Main in downtown Springdale . For more information, call June Jefferson at 790-2588.
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Railway Society
The Boston Mountain Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society will meet Thursday, May 20 at 7:00 p.m. at the Shiloh Museum of Ozark History . The museum is located at the corner of Johnson and Main in downtown Springdale . For more information, call 750-8165.
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Tellers of Tales
The Tellers of Tales group for storytellers will meet Saturday, May 15 at 10:30 a.m. at the Shiloh Museum of Ozark History. All tellers and listeners are invited to attend. The museum is located at the corner of Johnson and Main in downtown Springdale . For more information, call 750-8165.
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Civil War Roundtable
The Northwest Arkansas Civil War Roundtable will meet Thursday, May 27 at 7:00 p.m. at the Shiloh Museum of Ozark History. The museum is located at the corner of Johnson and Main in downtown Springdale . For more information, call 750-8165.
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Wireless Society
The Ozark Wireless Society will meet Saturday, May 22 at 10:00 a.m. at the Shiloh Museum of Ozark History. The museum is located at the corner of Johnson and Main in downtown Springdale . For more information, call 750-8165.
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Sacred Harp Singers
The Northwest Arkansas Sacred Harp Singers will meet Sunday, May 23 at 1:30 p.m. at the Shiloh Museum of Ozark History. The museum is located at the corner of Johnson and Main in downtown Springdale . For more information, call 750-8165.
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Susan Young
Outreach Coordinator
Shiloh Museum of Ozark History
118 W. Johnson Avenue
Springdale, AR 72764
479-750-8165
www.springdalear.gov/shiloh