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The Seed and the Story: CAAH and Arkansas Seed Swaps
2011 Russellville Seed Swap. Photo by author The Seed and the Story is a bi-weekly column exploring folklife, sustainability, oral history, human rights,and community in Yell County, Arkansas. The...
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The Seed and the Story: ARVAC and VISTA, Folk Arts and the War on Poverty in...
Click on the photo to connect to ordering info via Amazon. The Seed and the Story is a weekly column exploring folklife, sustainability, oral history, human rights,and community in Yell County,...
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The Seed and the Story: Locally Grown in Pope County
The Seed and the Story is a weekly column exploring folklife, sustainability, oral history, human rights,and community in Yell County (and surrounding areas), Arkansas. We focus on the local but the...
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The Seed and the Story: Bullfrog Valley Gang.
New York Times article about Bullfrog Valley Gang. The Seed and the Story is a weekly column published in the Post Dispatch, and syndicated in the Courier, exploring folklife, sustainability, oral...
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The Seed and the Story: Photography and the Creation of the Ozark St-Francis...
Harvesting oats with homemade cradle along Big Piney Creek. Photo No. 18903A, by Ralph Huey, 1914. In 1981 the United States Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Forest Service published a book by...
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The Seed and the Story: WPA Guide to 1930s Arkansas
Created in 1935, the Federal Writers’ Project, a branch of the Works Progress Administration, provided employment for out-of-work historians, teachers, librarians, and a host of other writers and...
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The Seed and the Story: A Changing Landscape and the Creation of Lake Dardanelle
Ariel view of the Dardanelle Lock and Dam on the Arkansas River. Taken in 1991. The Seed and the Story is a weekly column exploring folklife, oral history, and community in central Arkansas,...
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Meeting the Chickens, an update on the McElroy House Garden Book Project
Image from Kristen Simmons. Later on in the week we’ll have photos from Saira Khan-Hendrix’s visit with Kristen and the chickens. The Seed and the Story is a weekly column exploring folklife, oral...
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Reflecting on Dwight Mission
Sketch of Dwight Mission at Russellville (Pope County), the first formal Protestant effort directed at the education and conversion of Native Americans in Arkansas; 1824.From Historic Arkansas,...
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Living Out the Land Ethic: The Campbells in Pope County
This week’s Seed and the Story column is part of the McElroy House: Organization for Folklife, Oral History, and Community Action’s ongoing series featuring the stories of local growers in the Yell and...
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