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GRAND REOPENING: Ashby s Fort Museum plans busy summer
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FORT ASHBY - Ashby’s Fort Museum is preparing for a grand re-opening in May following a year of being closed because of COVID restrictions.
Behind the scenes, the Friends of Ashby’s Fort have been active, preparing exciting new exhibits that will tell the story of the fort’s involvement in the regional history that lead the American Revolution and the formation of the United States.
The museum’s re-opening season includes an archaeological dig from May 7-21, Monday through Friday, searching for evidence of the 1755 fort’s northwest defensive bastion. The three other corner bastions have been discovered 18” below the ground surface
Times Record Staff
Two men from Fort Smith who took part in World War II died this past week. One fought in Japan and the other worked on the nuclear bomb that would ultimately end the fighting.
Alva “Gene” Beckham, immortalized on the OK Foods grain silo in the 2016 Unexpected Project after working there for 70 years, died Dec. 7 at the age of 94. He was buried in the Fort Smith National Cemetery on Thursday, Dec. 10. He was an Army veteran who had been stationed in Japan and Korea.
James Claude Alexander Jr., a 1939 graduate of Fort Smith Senior High School who went on to Princeton engineering school before working on the Manhattan Project, died Dec. 6 at the age of 98 in Naples, Florida. He had been a director of Sparks Regional Medical Center for 25 years and Fort Smith Boys and Girls Club for 58 years.