Shiloh Museum May Events

MAY at the MUSEUM Events


History Day Camp

Registration begins May 3 for the Shiloh Museum ’s 1800s History Day Camp for children ages 6-9. Two week-long sessions will be offered: June 21-25 and July 19-23, from 9:00 a.m. to noon each day. Campers will enjoy games, crafts, and food from the 1800s. Each day will feature a different theme, including Native Americans, pioneers, the Civil War, railroads, and Victorian fun. Cost for the camp is $45 for museum members and $50 for non-members. Space is limited, preregistration and payment is required. Statesmen, Scoundrels, and Eccentrics

Tom Dillard, author of Statesmen, Scoundrels, and Eccentrics: A Gallery of Amazing Arkansans, will discuss his book during a program and booksigning Saturday, May 8 at 2:00 p.m. The book includes 74 biographical sketches from Dillard’s “Remembering Arkansas” columns published in the Arkansas Gazette. Dillard is head of Special Collections at the University of Arkansas Libraries and founding editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of Arkansas History& Culture. Books will be available for purchase. The Making of Sundance Winner Winter’s Bone

The making of Winter’s Bone, winner of the 2010 Sundance Film Festival’s grand jury prize for drama, will be discussed during a program Sunday, May 16 at

2:00 p.m. Based on a novel by Daniel Woodrell, Winter’s Bone is the story of a poor teen (played by Jennifer Lawrence) who searches for her missing, meth-making father in the wooded Missouri Ozarks. The cast of Winter’s Bone includes Fayetteville native Lauren Sweetser along with several actors from the Ozarks. Director Debra Granik, Sweetser, and others will discuss the film, and a number of the film’s musicians and singers will perform, including singers Marideth Sisco and Linda Stoffel, bass player Tedi May, fiddler Billy Ward, guitar player Dennis Crider, banjo player Van Colbert, and mandolin player Bo Brown. The film’s production company first learned of the Shiloh Museum through its podcast series. Executive producer Jonathan Scheuer discovered the podcasts when he was doing research for the film, which was shot in Christian and Taney counties, Missouri . Several of the film’s non-Ozark-native cast members found some of the museum’s podcasts helpful in their voice preparation. Funeral Customs of the Ozarks

“Gone to the Grave,” a program on funeral customs of the Ozarks from 1850 to 1950, will be presented by independent researcher and author Abby Burnett Wednesday, May 19 at noon. Burnett was recently featured in Silent Storytellers, a documentary produced by the Arkansas Educational Television Network about the history and culture of Arkansas cemeteries. While Burnett is interested in documenting the early days of the professional undertaker, the main focus of her research has been to study all of the ways in which people once helped one another when there was a death. Her talk will cover the role of the community in nursing the sick, laying out the body, building the casket, sitting up with the body, digging the grave and holding the burial. Current Exhibits

Through January 22, 2011. All Dressed Up, an exhibit of men's, women's, and children's finery. Through September 18. Answering the Call, an exhibit on the history of the Springdale Fire Department. Through August 21. Carl Smith’s Fayetteville, a photo exhibit featuring images from the 1910s through the 1950s. New Podcasts

• Amateur Archeology by Arkansas state archeologist emerita Hester Davis • Our Natural Heritage, Vol. 1, by members of LifeWriters • Caring for Heirloom Textiles by museum collections manager Carolyn Reno



Find these and more on our podcast page. Monthly Meetings at the Museum

Arkansas Boston Mountain Chapter, National Railway Historical Society

3rd Thursday, 7 p.m. Life Writers

1st and 3rd Mondays, 10 a.m. Northwest Arkansas Civil War Roundtable

4th Thursday, 7 p.m. Ozark Wireless Society

4th Saturday, 10 a.m. Shiloh Sacred Harp Singers

4th Sunday, 1:30 p.m. Sons of Confederate Veterans

3rd Tuesday, 7 p.m. Tellers of Tales

3rd Saturday, 10:30 a.m. (every other month)