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2 Duggar daughters set a show

This image released by TLC shows, from left, Ben Seewald, Jessa Seewald, Jill Dillard holding her baby, Israel Dillard, and Derik Dillard.
This image released by TLC shows, from left, Ben Seewald, Jessa Seewald, Jill Dillard holding her baby, Israel Dillard, and Derik Dillard.

TAKE THREE! The Duggar family has recently been spotted filming with a camera crew near their home in Springdale, reports ET Online. What's up? Two daughters, Jill and Jessa, who recently had a three-part special on TLC, have landed a full season of their new show Jill and Jessa: Counting On, which debuts at 8 p.m. March 15. And more of their relatives, mainly older siblings, are expected to appear, reports UPI. The family saw their long-running TLC show, 19 Kids and Counting, canceled last July after it was revealed that Michelle and Jim Bob's oldest son, Josh, had molested five underage girls, including four sisters, when he was a teenager. Josh later confessed that he'd been unfaithful to his wife, Anna, and was addicted to pornography. Anna -- but not Josh -- is expected to appear on the show, UPI reports.

HIS SWAN SONG: Thomas Stringfellow, the 17-year-old high school student from Bentonville who made it as far as the top 14 finalists of Fox's final season of American Idol, was eliminated from the show Thursday.

SHARING HER STORY: The Central Arkansas Library System is working to create an oral history, by way of a set of taped interviews, on the life of Sue Cowan Williams. A black teacher who began teaching at Dunbar High in Little Rock in 1935, Williams became the plaintiff in a class-action suit seeking a balance of salaries between black and white teachers in the still-segregated South. She lost the suit and her job but won an appeal in 1945 and was rehired in 1952. She taught at Dunbar until retiring in 1974 and died in 1994. In 1997, the Central Arkansas Library System's 10th library at 1800 Chester St., next door to Dunbar, was named for her.

March 14-19, the library will interview those who knew Williams. Those wishing to talk should contact Latina Sheard at (501) 376-4282.

NEIGHBORLY GATHERING: Cantrell Gallery in Little Rock is holding an event from 6-8 p.m. March 18, a Friday, for The President Next Door: Poems, Songs, and Journalism, a book by this newspaper's critic and columnist, Philip Martin. Martin will read and play songs from the book, which is published by Et Alia Press and retails for $14.95. The book will be for sale at the event, as well as on amazon.com and etaliapresscom.powweb.com. The book's title refers to Martin's experience of living two doors down from Hillary Clinton's mother, Dorothy Rodham, where Bill, while president, often stayed while in town.

EXCELLENCE ON DISPLAY: Mid-America Science Museum in Hot Springs has been chosen by the Institute of Museum and Library Service as one of 30 finalists for its 2016 National Medal for Museum and Library Service. The award is the nation's highest honor given to museums and libraries for service to the community.

Visitors to the museum who have stories to share can do so at facebook.com/USIMLS. Winning museums will be chosen later this spring.

Contact Linda S. Haymes at (501) 399-3636 or lhaymes@arkansasonline.com

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