Around 25 people took out time on Monday to celebrate the 20 year anniversary of the Umphrey Pavilion located on the southmost bank of Lake Sam Rayburn.
The small, rural community of Sweet Home is a majority-Black community in Pulaski County. Of more than two dozen communities in Arkansas named Sweet Home to have obtained a post office (on May 29, 1877), this is the only community to have maintained it to the present.
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Gamble Plantation has drawn criticism for the lack of information about enslaved people who once lived there. One descendant is on a mission to change that.
Lisa Ledin joined KAZU in 2009, bringing with her a treasure trove of knowledge and expertise in local arts and culture. She is a voice of KAZU's underwriting announcements and also hosts Morning Edition every Friday, and Weekend Edition Saturdays. With over thirty years of radio experience, Lisa has specialized as a classical music announcer and producer. After receiving her bachelor's degree in journalism from UC Berkeley, she worked at KSNO in Aspen, Colorado; WGUC in Cincinnati, Ohio; and KBach in Monterey. Highlights of her career include two black history radio documentaries that culminated in the book, Nelson Burton, My Life in Jazz. She also created a weekly children's show on KBach called, Cabbages and Kings, that exposed kids to classical music through original radio theater. She has interviewed such artists as Stan Getz, Julie Harris, Leonard Nimoy and Jean Pierre Rampal.