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$25,000 gift to help ASU Museum preserve history A $25,000 donation to the Arkansas State University museum will help take care of museum collections at the Jonesboro museum. (Source: Source; ASU Museum Facebook page) By Region 8 Newsdesk | January 8, 2021 at 6:26 PM CST - Updated January 8 at 6:26 PM
JONESBORO, Ark. (KAIT) - An anonymous $25,000 gift given on Friday will help the Arkansas State University Museum maintain its history.
According to a media release from the university, the donation will be used for the care, management, and conservation of museum collections plus encourage people to help support the museum in Jonesboro.
An official with the museum said the gift will help in many ways.
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JONESBORO – A generous donor who requested to remain anonymous is making a $25,000 gift commitment to a special endowment in support of Arkansas State University Museum.
The donor specifically directed that the proceeds from the endowment will be designated for the care, management and conservation of the museum collections, and encourages others who are interested in supporting the museum and its mission to add to the endowment fund.
“This gift is as insightful as it is generous. Collections care is crucial to a museum’s existence, yet it is carried out behind the scenes without fanfare and is unnoticed by the public,” noted Dr. Marti Allen, director of the museum. “That the donor chose to remain anonymous is beautifully consistent with the recognition that collections care, a core function of museums, quietly enables every other function.”
Arkansas Review Completes Two New Issues
12/09/2020
JONESBORO – Working around the ongoing pandemic that has derailed lots of schedules, the staff and volunteers have published two new issues of
Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies.
The April issue was published in June, and despite a delay, the print publication of this issue is now available.
The issue (volume 51, number 1) includes an essay by Jon David Cash exploring the implications of several different historical accounts of Frontier Arkansas.
The creative works featured in this issue, many set in Memphis, take on a variety of forms, from poetry by Jonathan Rowe, Elizabeth Buttimer and CL Bledsoe, to fiction by Thomas Price, Lou Mindar and Miriam Cohen, as well as a memoir by Abraham Aamidor.