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Monday, April 8, 2013: Ozark Folk Center popular group Harmony. The program will begin at 6:30 pm. Come and enjoy an evening of hand clapping and feet stomping Ozark folk music from Mountain View, Arkansas. The program will be held at the Bob Herzfeld Memorial Library, 1800 Smithers Drive in Benton, Arkansas. You may call the Genealogy and Local History Department at 778-4766 for more information.
Harmony
Monday, May 13, 2013: An Arkansas Heritage Month Event: Saline County's Historic Houses and Buildings. The program will begin at 6:30 pm. Steve Perdue, head of genealogy and local history will discuss Saline County's national register properties and other historic houses and buildings in the county. The program will be held at the Bob Herzfeld Memorial Library, 1800 Smithers Drive in Benton, Arkansas. You may call the Genealogy and Local History Department at 778-4766 for more information.
Andrew Hunter Home
Thursday, May 16, 2013: An Arkansas Heritage Month Event: Caddo Mounds along the Saline River. The program will begin at 6:30 pm at the Bob Herzfeld Memorial Library, 1800 Smithers Drive in Benton, Arkansas. The program will be presented by the Ouachita Chapter of the Arkansas Archeology Society. You may call the Genealogy and Local History Department at 778-4766 for more information.
Caddo Canoe discovered in the Saline River
Thursday, June 13, 2013: Arkansas Confederate Currency & Script. The program will begin at 6:30 pm at the Bob Herzfeld Memorial Library, 1800 Smithers Drive, Benton, Arkansas. Mr. Ray Phillips of Russellville, Arkansas will present the program on Arkansas civil war currency, bonds, and script. Mr. Phillips has been collecting for over 60 years. Call the library at 778-4766 for more information. This is an Arkansas Civil War Sesquicentennial Event.
Monday, June 17, 2013: Doing Oral Histories The program will begin at 6:30 pm at the Bob Herzfeld Memorial Library, 1800 Smithers Drive, Benton, Arkansas. Mr. David Elmore of AETN in Conway will present an hour long program on how to do oral histories. Call the library at 778-4766 for more information.
David Elmore
Saturday, June 22, 2013: Oral History Workshop The workshop will be held at the Mabel Boswell Memorial Library, 201 Prickett Road, Bryant, Arkansas. The workshop will be held from 10:00 am to 12:30 pm. Mr. David Elmore of AETN will present the workshop. The workshop is free, but you must either call the Bryant Library at (501) 847-2166 or the Benton Library at (501) 778-4766 to register. The class is limited to 15 only.
David Elmore
Monday, July 8, 2013: Civil War in Saline County in 1863. This program will be presented at the Bob Herzfeld Memorial Library, 1800 Smithers Drive, Benton, Arkansas at 6:30 pm. Mr. Anthony Rushing, a teacher at Bethel Middle School in Bryant will present the third in a series on the Civil War in Saline County, Arkansas. Call the library at 778-4766 for more information about this program. This program is sanctioned by the Arkansas Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission.
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