A legislative panel Thursday endorsed rules designed to implement a new state law aimed at protecting historic monuments, taking a step closer to ending more than a year of waiting by some cities considering whether to remove or relocate monuments.
A legislative panel Thursday endorsed rules designed to implement a new state law aimed at protecting historic monuments, taking a step closer to ending more than a year of waiting by some cities considering whether to remove or relocate monuments.
In 1947, Little Rock businessman Raymond Rebsamen donated 80 acres on the east side of Hayes Street for a new campus for Little Rock Junior College. The undeveloped land in far south Little Rock was covered in pine, hickory and oak trees.
When Peter MacKeith came to Arkansas in 2014 as dean of the University of Arkansas' Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design, he began reading extensively about the state and its history.
Peter MacKeith, dean of the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design at the University of Arkansas, is animated as we eat lunch outside at Garvan Woodland Gardens in Hot Springs.