Author Wiley Cash Receives Award from Academy of Lyon

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novelist honored

new york times bestseller novelist willie cash His work will be read Thursday at 7pm in the Bevins Music Room, Brown Chapel, Lyons College, 2300 Highland Road, Batesville. After the reading, the Academy will award him the Heasley Prize for Fiction, an honor given annually to a prominent author. Free admission.e-mail [email protected]

Many of Cash’s novels are set in his native North Carolina, including A Land Kinder Than Home (2012), A Dark Road to Mercy (2014), The Last Ballad ( 2017) and “When the Ghost Comes Home” (2021).

“Not just a medal”

The Sequoyah National Research Center at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock will screen “Not just a medal,” Wednesdays at 6:30 p.m. in Stellaboyle Smith Hall, Fine Arts Building, UALR, 2801 S. University Ave., Little Rock highlights work honoring a handful of WWI service members.

This documentary focuses on the stories of two World War I veterans — one black, one Asian American — and the work of the Medal of Valor Review Task Force, which is reviewing black, Asian, Hispanic Military records of American Indian, Jewish and American Indian service members are posthumous.

The screening is conducted in collaboration with the World War I Medal of Valor Review and the George S. Robb Center for the Study of the Great War. Free admission.Call (501) 916-3336 or Email [email protected]

“Behind the Big House”

Keep Arkansas Offers “Behind the Big House” Two-day program featuring live historical interpretation and lectures to highlight the contribution of African Americans to Arkansas history, the importance of enslaved living spaces and their role in heritage tourism, December 2-3 in Arkansas University of Monticello held Taylor House, 184 Plantation Lane, Tiral.

The nonprofit is working with the Arkansas Humanities Council, the Arkansas Archaeological Survey, the University of Arkansas at Monticello, the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff and the Preservation of African American Burial Grounds on the project to explore existing slave dwellings And explain the experiences of people who live in it. The Taylor home on Hollywood Plantation (later known as Valley Plantation) once encompassed more than 10,000 acres across Desha, Drew, and Lincoln counties.

Admission is free; no registration required, but those planning to stay at the property on Friday night should RSVP by [email protected] For more information and a full schedule, visit preservearkansas.org website.