Bluff Shelter Website Gets Award

Congratulations to Lydia Rees and the rest of us who helped her ...

Beyond the Bluff Dweller

Check out the Summer issue of the Arkansas Historical Quarterly published by ...

Transitions…

Today is a little bit of a sad day for me. Today ...

Bluff Shelter Website Gets Award

Congratulations to Lydia Rees and the rest of us who helped her put together the Bluff Shelters of the Arkansas Ozarks website.  This website summarizes current knowledge about bluff shelters in a visually appealing and approachable format.  This year our site was chosen to receive the “Outstanding Achievement in Preservation Education” award at the 2017 […]

Beyond the Bluff Dweller

Check out the Summer issue of the Arkansas Historical Quarterly published by the Arkansas Historical Association…Lydia Rees and I have an article in this issue entitled “Beyond the Bluff Dweller: Excavating the History of an Ozark Myth”…This is our first peer-review collaboration.  I hope it is the beginning of a long-running partnership.  

Transitions…

Today is a little bit of a sad day for me. Today is Lydia Rees’ last day working at the Arkansas Archeological Survey. Two years ago Lydia (my wife) quit her CRM crew chief position and stepped into a grant-funded position at the last minute when I could not swing a tuition waiver for a […]

Bluff Shelters of the Arkansas Ozarks

One of the most interesting aspects of archeology in the Arkansas Ozarks is many dry bluff shelters and caves that have been intermittently occupied for 10,000 years.  The dry conditions created in these caves and shelters provide a rare glimpse of the kinds of artifacts that usually rot in the wet climate of the Southeastern […]

Research, Preservation, Communication: Honoring Tom Green

I am proud to have a contribution in the newest publication in the Arkansas Archeological Survey Research Series—Research, Preservation, Communication: Honoring Thomas J. Green on His Retirement from the Arkansas Archeological Survey, edited by Mary Beth Trubitt. ARAS Research Series No. 67. My contribution is entitled “Regnat Populus: The Intersection of Historical Archeology Research and […]

Hidden Diversity

I’m happy to report that Historical Archaeology of Arkansas: A Hidden Diversity has just been published by the University of Tennessee Press.  This volume is edited by my friend, former student & colleague Dr. Carl Drexler and I could not be prouder.  The volume had its origins in a pair of conference symposia–one at the […]

Parker Westbrook, 1926-2015

Yesterday afternoon, Thursday, November 19, 2015, Parker Westbrook passed away. If you ever met Parker Westbrook you know that he was an Arkansan through and through with roots deep in southwest Arkansas. His home in Nashville and Washington, Arkansas was very dear to him. Robert McCord said in the Arkansas Times that he had “worked […]

Chair of the Arkansas State Review Board

Yesterday I was elected as the new Chair of the State Review Board for Historic Preservation.  The SRB (that’s what we call it for short) is an advisory board to the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program.  The SRB is charged with the review of National Register of Historical Places (NRHP) nominations and nomination appeals and to […]

Preserve Arkansas

I’m half-way through my term as President of the Historic Preservation Alliance of Arkansas and one of the biggest transitions for the organization has just happened…pretty quietly.  The Historic Preservation Alliance of Arkansas is now known as simply Preserve Arkansas.  This is a branding change that has been underway for two years–since we did our […]

Vernon R. Perry, 1933-2015

Vernon R. Perry, 82, of Magnolia, Arkansas, died Wednesday, July 29, 2015 at the John R Williamson Hospice House in El Dorado. Vernon was born June 9, 1933 in Walkerville in Columbia County. He was an amateur radio operator for 60 years (Call Sign: K5MEB) and a Columbia County reserve deputy for 25 years. Vernon […]