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Legacies and Lunch: Roy Reed

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The first Wednesday of each month, the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies presents “Legacies and Lunch.”  This month features legendary newsman Roy Reed.

A native Arkansan who became a reporter for the New York Times, Reed begins his memoir with tales of his formative years growing up in Arkansas and the start of his writing career at the legendary Arkansas Gazette. The book Beware of Limbo Dancers will be for sale at the event, and the author will sign copies after the lecture.

The program will take place from 12noon to 1pm at the Darragh Center on the main campus of the Central Arkansas Library System.

The monthly Legacies & Lunch program is sponsored in part by the Arkansas Humanities Council. Bring a sack lunch; drinks and dessert are provided.

Butler Center’s Legacies & Lunch: The Thousand-Year Flood

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The Central Arkansas Library System’s Butler Center for Arkansas Studies sponsors the “Legacies & Lunch” conversation each month.  November’s program features David Welky discussing his new book, The Thousand-Year Flood: The Ohio-Mississippi Disaster of 1937.

In this book, Dr. Welky, an associate professor of history at the University of Central Arkansas, discusses the 1937 deluge which was one of the biggest natural disasters in American history.

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David Welky, associate professor of history at the University of Central Arkansas, specializes in 1930s America and has written several other books, including Everything Was Better in America: Print Culture in the Great Depression and The Moguls and the Dictators: Hollywood and the Coming of World War II.

Legacies & Lunch is sponsored in part by the Arkansas Humanities Council. Bring a sack lunch; drinks and dessert are provided. This event is free and open to the public