If the crowd that showed up Jan. 17 at the Historic Arkansas Museum is any indication, the new lecture series Pen to Podium: Arkansas Historical Writers' Lecture Series will be a success.
More than 100 people attended a lecture on the book Anti-Catholicism in Arkansas: How Politicians, the Press, the Klan, and Religious Leaders Imagined an Enemy, 1910-1960. The lecture was given by the book's author Ken Barnes, a history professor at the University of Central Arkansas in Conway. This is his third book on Arkansas history.
A reception, sponsored by Friends of the Arkansas State Archives, began the evening. Guests included the Rev. Anthony B. Taylor, bishop of the Diocese of Little Rock, and Brother Irenaeus Petree, Brother James Lindsay and the Rev. Patrick Boland, all of Subiaco Abbey.
The quarterly series i̶s̶ ̶s̶p̶o̶n̶s̶o̶r̶e̶d̶ ̶b̶y̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶m̶u̶s̶e̶u̶m̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ was created by* the Arkansas State Archives. Other lectures will feature Arkansas authors Elizabeth Hill, Brooks Blevins and Erik Wright.
-- Story and photos by Cary Jenkins
High Profile on 01/29/2017
*CORRECTION: The Pen to Podium lecture series was created by the Arkansas State Archives. The institution that started the program was incorrect in a previous version of this story.