What do diamonds, Brown ‘N Serve Rolls, and “A Boy Named Sue” have in common?
These three very dissimilar items have one important commonality – they are part of your history, of Arkansas’s history. • America’s only diamond mine; • Meyer’s Bakery, a Little Rock-based business which took the Brown ‘N Serve process to a nationwide market; • country singer Johnny Cash All have their roots in Arkansas. The Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture, being developed by the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, will bring these and thousands of other Arkansas stories together into one reference work. It will be the first such broad-based resource about Arkansas and its heritage, adding our state to the list of 35 states with such works either published or in the process of development. The Encyclopedia of Arkansas will be published in 2005 as an online resource, with CD/DVD and print versions to follow later. The mission of the Encyclopedia is to collect and disseminate information on all aspects of the state’s history and culture and to provide a comprehensive referenc
