Last month we had an organizational meeting of the “Grand Prairie Civil War Roundtable”. Our plan is to have a featured speaker one month who will discuss the Civil War with an emphasis on Arkansas and a business meeting the alternate meeting. Hope you can attend the meeting Tuesday, April 13th at the Lonoke County Museum in downtown Lonoke heading east on Hwy #70 (Front Street) . We will gather at 7:00 P.M.
Mark Christ, Community Outreach Director for the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program, will be our featured speaker. A frequent speaker at Roundtables, his talk Tuesday will be about the Battle of Helena, which occurred on July 4, 1863. Discussion will focus on what the Union did right and what the Confederates did wrong.
A native of Indiana , Christ graduated from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in 1982. After working as a journalist with the Commercial Appeal in Memphis and the Arkansas Gazette, Christ returned to college and earned his Master’s Degree from the University of Oklahoma in 2000. His thesis was on the Little Rock Campaign of 1863. Christ lives in Little Rock with his wife and two children. Since 1990 Christ has worked for the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program.
Everyone is invited and welcome to attend, so please come.