The Little Rock Advertising and Promotion Commission voted to refer a 2% hotel tax to the City Board of Directors to eventually be put before the voters.
This tax would be used for capital upgrades at the two MacArthur Park museums. It is expected to go before the City Board in December for an election in February.
More information on this process and the individual proposals from both museums will be featured on the Culture Vulture blog in coming weeks.
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Jeane Hamilton, who has been actively involved with the Arkansas Arts Center since its beginning in 1957 and has an extensive collection of history and memorabilia, will join Dean Skip Rutherford to talk about the Arts Center, the founding leadership roles played by both the Junior League of Little Rock and Governor Winthrop Rockefeller, its development for almost 60 years, and her vision for its future in light of an ongoing community dialogue. Mrs. Hamilton’s commitment began when she was named Junior League Arts Chairman by then President Carrie Dickinson.
The conversation will take place at noon today at the Clinton School.
Marc Manack (L) and Frank Jacobus (R)
ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN NETWORK presents
Photos from the collection of the Butler Center
Adolphine Fletcher Terry was born on November 3, 1882 to former Little Rock Mayor John Gould Fletcher and his wife Adolphine Krause Fletcher.
Raised in Little Rock, in 1889 she moved into the Albert Pike House on East 7th Street, when her aunt transferred the title to her father. That house would be her primary residence the rest of her life. Her sister Mary Fletcher Drennan never lived in Arkansas as an adult after marriage. Her brother John Gould Fletcher spent much of his adulthood in Europe before returning to Little Rock and establishing his own house, Johnswood.
At age 15, Adolphine attended Vassar. She later credited that experience as broadening her views on many issues. After graduating at age 19, she returned to Little Rock. Her parents both died prior to her 1910 wedding to David D. Terry, which took place at what was then known as the Pike-Fletcher House (and today is known as the Pike-Fletcher-Terry House).
She is perhaps best known today for establishing the Women’s Emergency Committee in 1958 and for her subsequent deeding of the family house to the City for use by the Arkansas Arts Center. But her entire life was based on civic engagement.
She was instrumental in establishing the first juvenile court system in Arkansas and helped form the first school improvement association in the state. She was long an advocate for libraries, serving 40 years on the Little Rock public library board. Through her leadership, the library opened its doors to African Americans in the early 1950s. Today a branch of the Central Arkansas Library System (the successor the Little Rock public library) is named after her. Another branch is named after her Pulitzer Prize winning brother.
Adolphine formed the Little Rock chapter of the American Association of University Women, the Pulaski County tuberculosis association and the Community Chest.
In 1958, when the Little Rock public high schools were closed instead of allowing them to be desegregated again, she called Harry Ashmore the editor of the Gazette and exclaimed, “the men have failed us…it’s time to call out the women.” With this, she formed the Women’s Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools. This group played a major role in getting the four high schools open the following year.
From 1933 to 1942, David Terry served in the U.S. Congress. During that time, Adolphine alternated her time between Washington DC and Little Rock. But she spent much time in Little Rock raising her five children.
After her husband’s death in 1963, she continued to remain active in civic affairs. In the 1960’s, she and her sister deeded the Pike-Fletcher-Terry House to the City of Little Rock for use by the Arkansas Arts Center upon both their deaths. Following Adolphine Fletcher Terry’s death in 1976, Mary turned over the title to the City.
Adolphine Fletcher Terry is buried in Mount Holly Cemetery alongside her husband. Three of her children are also buried in that plot. Her parents and brother are buried in a nearby plot.
Her son William Terry and his wife Betty continue to be active in Little Rock. Their daughters and their families also carry on Adolphine Fletcher Terry’s commitment to making Little Rock better.
What better way to spend All Hallow’s Eve Eve?
Make plans for a great evening in the beautiful and historic MacArthur Park!
Enjoy…
Hot Air Balloons
Pumpkin Carving and Painting
Food Trucks & Local Breweries
Live Music
FREE admission to the Arkansas Arts Center (open until 9 p.m.)
This will truly be fun for all ages!
Come hungry and feast on one of the many delicious options from our local food trucks! Guests ages 21 and over can experience several local craft beers!
Sign up to paint a pumpkin!
$5 tethered balloon rides for the kids
Schedule (subject to change)
6:00 Festival begins – Eat, drink and be merry. Watch some talented local artists create pumpkin masterpieces!
7:00 Balloon Glow
9:00 Event concludes
Saturday morning at 7:30, come back and send off the balloons in style…come bid them farewell and have a delicious breakfast with too!
Sponsored by the Little Rock Convention & Visitors Bureau, the annual Big Boo!-seum Bash will take place at multiple downtown attractions Thursday, October 29, 2015 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM.
Big Boo!-seum Bash is free to the public, and it provides event goers the opportunity to visit many of Little Rock’s museums and cultural attractions for a night of safe trick-or-treating and family fun and games. Visitors are encouraged to dress in Halloween costumes.
Visitors may pick up game cards at any participating Boo!-seum location. Cards must be stamped at each attended location to be eligible for prize drawings. Stamped cards will include prize entry instructions. Prize entrants must be 18 years of age or younger. Prize structure is as follows:
2015 Big Boo!-seum Participants include:
Washington Irving’s classic tale comes to life as the Arkansas Arts Center Children’s Theatre continues its 2015/2016 Main Stage season with The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, October 23-November 8.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is an American Halloween classic. Gremlins, ghosts and galloping headless horsemen will haunt audiences Fridays at 7 p.m., Saturdays and Sundays at 2 p.m., October 23 through November 8. It is recommended for third grade and up.
Ichabod Crane is the newly-hired schoolmaster of Sleepy Hollow, a superstitious little community in New York’s Hudson Valley, 1790. He persistently professes his disbelief in all things supernatural—until the night of Katrina Van Tassel’s Halloween Frolic, that is. Riding home that evening, Ichabod comes face to face—so to speak—with Sleepy Hollow’s most feared and famous ghost.
The cast includes:
Adapted by Frederick Gaines from the story by Washington Irving, it is directed by John Isner. Bradley Anderson is the artistic director. Costumes are designed by Erin Larkin, technical direction by Drew Posey, lighting design by Mike Stacks, properties design by Miranda Young and Sarah Gasser is the stage manager.
Show times: Fridays at 7 p.m., Saturdays and Sundays at 2 p.m.
Ticket prices: $12.50 General admission, $10 for Arkansas Arts Center members, $10 per person for groups of 10 or more (Children 2 years of age and under are free, however the child must remain in an adult’s lap at all times.)
Best enjoyed by third grade and up.
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