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The town of Rector in Clay County is named after one of the state s colorful characters, former Gov. Henry Massie Rector. Rector also just happens to be the hometown of an equally colorful modern character, Bill Carter.
In a cover story for last Sunday s Perspective section, I wrote about Ed Cromwell, a Princeton graduate who came to Arkansas as an architect for the federal Resettlement Administration and stayed here until his death in 2001. Cromwell, as talented an architect as this state has ever known, was famous for his historic preservation work.