Yesterday’s Architeaser featured a section of the roof of the Cathedral of St. Andrew.
Here is today’s Architeaser, which is related to an event connected to today’s date.
Monthly Archives: April 2012
Shakespeare on Trial at Clinton School
The Quality of Mercy Is Not Strained – The Merchant of Venice
For centuries, controversy has raged over whether William Shakespeare is the true author of the plays attributed to him. Was it Shakespeare himself, or some nobleman such as the Earl of Oxford, merely using Shakespeare as his front man?
The Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre in conjunction with Clinton School for Public Service explores this controversy in an imaginative and entertaining format in a program at Sturgis Hall tonight at 6pm.
Tonight’s program sets out to answer these questions by giving Shakespeare himself an opportunity to bring suit in front of U.S. Judge Joe Volpe, with the help of top Arkansas attorneys serving as the prosecution and defense.
Other Elizabethan luminaries may make appearances as witnesses to add their two cents as AST celebrates Shakespeare’s (traditionally held) birthday in the courtroom. Birthday cake will be provided, whether or not Shakespeare wins his case.
Reserve your seats by emailing publicprograms@clintonschool.uasys.edu, or calling 501-683-5239.
Architeaser – April 22
Yesterday’s Architeaser featured one of the two-headed griffins which stand guard outside of the Albert Pike Masonic Temple.
Today’s Architeaser shows that shingles can be used for artistic expression.
Sculpture Vulture: Mount Holly Cameos
Today’s Sculpture Vulture returns to Mt. Holly Cemetery. There are quite a few sculptures of angels and religious figures throughout the cemetery. There are a few very unique sculptural ornamentations in the cemetery. These are carvings to represent the faces of the deceased which are mounted on grave markers. Though this does not purport to be an exhaustive list of the carvings, it does showcase the ones the Culture Vulture noticed on a recent visit to Mt. Holly.
Hornibrook
James H. Hornibrook was born on July 8, 1840 and died on May 24, 1890. He came to Little Rock from Toronto following the Civil War and ran a very successful saloon business. He died of an “apoplectic stroke” just shy of his 50th birthday. His house is now the Empress of Little Rock Bed & Breakfast located near the Governor’s Mansion. He had feared his death and had commissioned a death mask to be made.
Johnson
Sydney J. Johnson was born February 12, 1866 and died on March 17, 1899. He was a banker, Little Rock City Treasurer, and Pulaski County Deputy Circuit Clerk. He died from complications of a broken leg, an injury sustained while sledding.
Fones
Daniel Gilbert Fones was born on August 19, 1837 and died on May 28, 1912. He was a hardware merchant who served as president of the German National Bank, the Arkansas Building & Loan Association, and the Equitable Building & Loan Association. He served on the Little Rock School Board from 1883 to 1893. Together with his brother James, he founded the Fones Brothers Hardware Company. The final location of their warehouse, 100 Rock Street, opened in 1921. In 1997, after extensive renovation and repurposing the building reopened as the main branch of the Central Arkansas Library System.
LeFevre
Leon LeFevre was a farmer who owned a great deal of land north of the Arkansas River. He was born on April 19, 1808 and died on February 26, 1892. The house that he built in 1842 existed in what later became North Little Rock until 1966. He was born on his family’s property prior to the establishment of Little Rock over a decade later. As Little Rock became formalized and grew to include both sides of the Arkansas River, he became a civic leader.
Peyton
Dr. Craven Peyton was born on November 30, 1823 and died on November 7, 1872. He was a physician in Little Rock. During the Civil War, he held the rank of Colonel and was commander of the 13th Regiment, Arkansas Militia. He was Kentucky native who moved to Little Rock after graduating from Medical School. During the Mexican War he was commissioned as a surgeon in the Arkansas Regiment of Volunteers. He was one of the founders of Arkansas’s Medical School.
Architeaser – April 21
Yesterday’s Architeaser was a lion which is on top of the old Arkansas Gazette building and now home to the eSTEM lower school.
Here is today’s Architeaser, rounding out animal week. From the real to the mythical….
UALR Springs into Dance and Dances into Spring
Photo on poster by Benjamin Krain
UALR’s Department of Theatre Arts and Dance will present “Body Works,” the Spring Dance Concert. It started on Thursday and continues tonight at at 8 p.m. and Sunday, April 22, at 3 p.m. in University Theatre in the UALR Center for Performing Arts.
Tickets are $7 for general admission and $5 for students and seniors. For more information, contact 501-569-3456.
“Body Works”’ is an eclectic dance concert that will present works based in the human experience and the human body. It features an array of different choreographic ideas and styles will be showcased including homage to modern dance icons, an experimental work based upon dancers being physically connected with fabric, as well as an Asian-influenced contemporary fan piece, a neoclassical ballet, and a rousing disco piece reminiscent of Studio 54. The dance faculty includes Stephanie Thibeault, Rhythm McCarthy and Stephen K. Stone.
Also on Saturday, UALR is hosting the Spring Dance Festival for dance students aged 14 and older.
Architeaser – April 20
Yesterday’s Architeaser featured two of the eagles which ring the top of the first story on the old Gold’s department store building in downtown Little Rock.
Switching back to cats from birds — here is today’s Architeaser. These are the smallest in downtown.
Little Rock Culture Vulture 