Tag Archives: Magnolia
Giggity Leadership?
I found this sign on the SAU campus today…wow! You might be asking yourself, “What the…?!?” I know I did. This sign points the way to the Leadership Academy associated with the SAU’s Becoming a Mulerider program (BAM!). The BAM! … Continue reading
John Barleycorn Lives, Part 2
Last night…I took visiting friend and researcher Carl Carlson-Drexler to Bayou Bistro after a long day looking at Civil War-related sites in Hempstead and Nevada Counties… and I bought my first legal Magnolia beer! I said I would believe it … Continue reading
John Barleycorn Lives!
“Prohibition officially ends in Magnolia next week”…these words were met with thunderous applause by those present…the words were even more humorous as they were spoken by Ben Johnson, historian and author of John Barleycorn Must Die: The War Against Drink … Continue reading
Mag-Town Music
Magnolia is in a dry county…and therefore has few venues for live music…I am therefore surprised to find a bunch of videos from Magnolia bands and hip-hop groups on YouTube…It has to be a real indicator that the digital age … Continue reading
Rotarians…
Well …Next week I’m becoming a Magnolia Rotarian… I’m sure that a great number of my friends will be floored by that prospect. I know…somehow it seems incongruous–an academic anthropologist joining an organization that evokes images of business…perhaps smokey rooms … Continue reading
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Happy Holidays from Magnolia!
The image in this post is SAU’s signature Bell Tower all “lit up” for the holidays (it usually looks like this). It’s hard to believe that I’ll be finishing my first semester as the AAS-SAU Research Station Archeologist…time goes by … Continue reading
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The Caddo Conference Comes to Magnolia
The 49th Caddo Conference will be held in the new Reynolds Center on the SAU campus here in Magnolia this March (incidentally, March is Arkansas Archeology Month). The Caddo Conference, however, is not just another archeological conference…it has a unique … Continue reading
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Dixie Fears
I just had to post a picture of this tombstone found in the Magnolia Cemetery. Metaphorically, Dixie’s fears can be seen as being born sometime in the middle of the Civil War (both Gettysburg and the Emancipation Proclamation happened in … Continue reading
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The Magnolia Banner-News…My Favorite Paper
Most archeologists have had troubles with the media from time to time–once a project I was involved with got the headline “Founding Fathers Ate Possum off Fine China.” However, so far I’ve had great results from the Magnolia Banner-News–more specifically … Continue reading
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Letters From Magnolia….
I apologize for the infrequent postings lately, but I have been posting a bit over at my other blog: The Ag Report: Letters From Magnolia. The Ag Report is meant to be mostly about Southwest Arkansas and my job at … Continue reading
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