ON THE MAP: Remember Beatle George Harrison's sister Louise? She lives in Branson and manages Liverpool Legends, a Beatles tribute band. In early October 2004, she was in Little Rock to lend the almost-opened Clinton Presidential Center a Meet the Beatles! album signed by all four band members when they came to America in 1964 to perform on The Ed Sullivan Show. She parked her car in downtown Little Rock on Louisiana near Second Street, and it was broken into. Her purse and luggage (but not the LP) were stolen.
Harrison has recently published a book, My Kid Brother's Band a.k.a. The Beatles! In a chapter titled, "Close Encounters," she recounts how she parked her car on a downtown street that Sunday morning and took the album with her to a meeting with library employees, only to return an hour later to find her window smashed and her belongings missing.
HORSE SHOW: A new locally produced TV show, Southern Tales and Trails, will soon air in portions of Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana -- including on Nexstar's KARZ-TV, Channel 42 -- this fall. So far, 13 episodes have been filmed, said executive producer Leonard Chamblee.
"It's kind of like a magazine show," he said of the show geared toward horse lovers. Subjects will include farms, stables, ranches, horse camps and state-of-the-art facilities. Activities highlighted on the show will include chuck wagon racing, roping, barrel racing and competitive trail riding. For more info, visit southerntalesandtrails.com.
LIVING HISTORY: At 9 a.m. today, a living history presentation will be given at Oakland Jewish Cemetery at 2101 Barber St. behind Booker Arts Magnet School in downtown Little Rock. The sixth annual "Standing on Their Shoulders," scheduled to end at 11:30 a.m., will honor achievements of some of those buried there. Featured will be scrap metal business founder Sol Alman playing the clarinet from his years with a big band; the song Flo Franklin sang for Walt Disney during an audition for the voice of Snow White in the original feature film; and the bravery and determination Rabbi Zeke Palnick displayed as he fought to desegregate the state Capitol's cafeteria. The event also will include Rabbi Barry Block of Temple B'nai Israel blessing those buried there.
HISTORICALLY MODERN: The Quapaw Quarter Association, founded in 1968 and originally focused on promoting and preserving historic structures in downtown Little Rock, will make history soon as the private, nonprofit group hosts the first tour of midcentury modern architecture in Little Rock. The tour will begin at 1 p.m. on Oct. 12 at the Tower Building at 323 Center St. Attendees will ride trolleys to 10 downtown examples of the architecture from the 1950s and 1960s and will tour three interiors. Tickets are $15 each. For more info or to make reservations, call (501) 371-0075 or visit quapaw.com.
Contact Linda S. Haymes at (501) 399-3636 or lhaymes@arkansasonline.com
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