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Saturday, March 24, 2018

Little Rock's Last Reconstruction Mayor

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I have attached a link to the recently completed draft of the third paper in a trilogy related to the early political and governance career...
Tuesday, December 19, 2017

Vienna in 1873 as Seen by a Visitor from Little Rock, Arkansas

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The November 2, 1873 edition of the Daily Arkansas Gazette contained the following letter describing what a visitor from Little Rock saw w...
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Friday, October 20, 2017

Little Rock's Two Kramer Schools

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One of the better known public buildings in Little Rock during the first seven decades of the 20 th Century was the school house on Sherma...
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Tuesday, September 5, 2017

September 5, 1967: Leaving On a Jet Plane -- The Institute of European Studies Adventure Begins

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I know what I was doing fifty years ago today, and I cannot think of anything else I would rather have been doing. Thanks to my good fortun...
Wednesday, August 30, 2017

Mayor A.K. Hartman and the Brindle-tails Usurp Little Rock’s 1870 Election, To No Avail

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In November 1870, aldermen Frederick Kramer of the first ward and Asa Richmond of the third ward ran for re-election to the Little Rock cit...
Sunday, February 19, 2017

The Crazy Day in 1871 When Little Rock’s City Council Voted 701 Times to Elect Its President

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Twelve clangs from the clock on the east wall of Little Rock’s city council chamber interrupted the aldermen as they were about to cast a...
Thursday, December 22, 2016

Calling All Idgits

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So I was searching the newspapers of genealogybank.com for the name “Hammerand” because a woman from St. Louis by the name of Emilie Hammer...
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Friday, December 16, 2016

Come Hither Keats to Praise the Beauty of European Hotel Breakfasts

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If I were a poet, I would write an ode to the European breakfast. Well, more specifically, to the complementary breakfasts served by modera...