STAR POWER: Kim Campbell, wife of Delight native and Country Music Hall of Fame member Glen Campbell, will join in next month's opening of Memory Care of Little Rock on the Good Shepherd campus. The 74-bed Alzheimer's and dementia-care facility will be dedicated at 11 a.m. Dec. 17.
Campbell will talk about her husband's Alzheimer's and how it has affected their family. She also will discuss the role that art -- both musical and visual -- has played throughout his illness.
The dedication will include the facility's Glen Campbell Art Gallery, and feature the unveiling of a special piece of art that will be the gallery's center point. The gallery will feature artwork by residents and Arkansas artists who work with the center's art therapy program.
CHASING THE STORY: Remember the recent mention here of that 1983 Truman Capote manuscript appraised during Antiques Roadshow's recent visit to Little Rock? Paper Trails wondered if the former magazine editor who had it was Little Rock resident Bill Whitworth, formerly an editor at The New Yorker and The Atlantic Monthly. He was stumped at first but later solved the mystery.
The editor is James Morgan, one of Whitworth's best friends.
"It turns out I'm not a very good source when the answer to a question is right under my nose," says Whitworth. "I was thrown off by the reference to a 'former editor.' Jim is not 'former.'"
Morgan, of Little Rock, is a book editor, collaborator and consultant. He was nonfiction editor for Playboy from 1978-86.
"I often referred to myself as the rationale editor, since everybody says they buy it for the articles," he tells Paper Trails.
"In 1983, I assigned Capote to write a kind of memoir/essay about his long friendship with Tennessee Williams, who had just died," he says. "After some difficulties, the piece ["Remembering Tennessee"] ran as the lead nonfiction for the magazine's 30th anniversary issue in January 1984." Capote died of liver cancer the following August.
Morgan moved to Little Rock in 1986 to work as editorial director of Southern magazine. Since then, he's written, co-written or collaborated on six books, including one bestseller and two New York Times Notable Books of the Year.
HOMETOWN HERO: Friday was the 45th anniversary of the heroic attempt by 56 U.S. Army Green Berets to rescue Americans from Son Tay prisoner-of-war camp in North Vietnam on Nov. 20, 1970.
One of the 56 was Paul F. Poole of Cabot, who died at 67 in 2010. In his later years, he enjoyed training and riding horses.
During the midnight raid, Poole and the other Green Berets were joined by airmen who flew the team to the camp 23 miles west of Hanoi. However, the POWs had been moved and only guards remained. Poole received a Silver Star.
His modest obituary in this paper stated only that he "was a retired Master Sergeant in the U.S. Army serving with the Special Forces and a Vietnam veteran."
Contact Linda S. Haymes at (501) 399-3636 or lhaymes@arkansasonline.com
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