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08/27/2026

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As remembrances pour in for the late, great musician and humanitarian Dolly Parton, we will add this Arkansas connection to the mix.

Pictured here is Arkansas folk singer/songwriter Jimmy Driftwood with Jane Fonda and Dolly Parton at the Driftwood Barn in Mountain View (Stone County); May 21, 1980. Driftwood had arranged for Fonda to stay with local couple Lucy and Waco Johnson so she could study the characteristics of a “mountain woman” for her role in The Doll Maker, which was released in 1984 as a made-for-TV movie on ABC. Parton (a mountain woman herself), who had just starred in the 1980 movie 9 to 5 with Fonda, was there at the barn too. Arkansas's Levon Helm would appear in The Doll Maker with Fonda.

Read more about Driftwood here: https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/jimmy-driftwood-2187/ and Helm here: https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/levon-helm-628/

08/26/2026

Mark your calendars for this free event at Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts on 9/2 featuring a dynamic conversation bringing together artists, scholars, and community leaders including From Almeda to Zilphia author Arkansongs: Rediscovering Arkansas’s Musical Legacy. Register and find out more:

Explore Arkansas’s role as a cultural crossroads and examine how memory is preserved with a panel of scholars and artists.

08/21/2026

All set up at for Argenta Art Walk with Lee Lee Arts + Design (Ashlee Nobel) and Bang-Up Betty! Come on out, we’re upstairs over Blackberry Market AR.

08/09/2026

Play on, Violet Brumley Hensley 🕊️ 🎶

Wishing peace to the family and friends of Montgomery County, Ark. native Violet Brumley Hensley, fiddler and luthier, age 109. 🎻 🕊️

(Portrait by Katherine Strause from the book "From Almeda To Zilphia: Arkansas Women Who Transformed American Popular Song," published by Et Alia Press)

08/06/2026

Hope you can hit the children’s library for story walk before back to school!

Come check out our storywalk this month, featuring Arkansas Author and Artist Cathy Melvin's Cypress Knees and Tupelo Trees! Et Alia Press

08/02/2026

Head to The Momentary to check out the new Lucy Sparrow exhibit and sn**ch up your copy of From A to Z in the super awesome gift shop that has something for everyone!

08/02/2026

A beautiful evening at The Momentary for From Almeda to Zilphia: Arkansas Women Who Transformed American Popular Song!

07/26/2026

Et Alia lost an incredible author, Norman Lavers, who died in June. I hope you’ll take a few minutes to read this careful, thoughtful tribute to his curious life by Philip Martin in today’s Arkansas Democrat-Gazette / ArkansasOnline.com. And may we all step outside with inquisitiveness today in Norman’s honor.

There is a tempta­tion to herd writers into lit­er­ary ghet­tos: south­ern, west­ern, nature, his­tor­ical, regional. These labels are meant to be descript­ive, but often become pre­script­ive, as though geo­graphy marks the lim­its of ima­gin­a­tion...

07/25/2026

Get your tickets now! Hope to see you Friday at The Momentary!

(EDIT: ticket info in comments)
It's Louis Jordan Month! Looking forward to playing some obscure LJ next week, along with songs by Sippie Wallace, Washboard Sam, and more at this amazing event in Bentonville with Erin Enderlin headlining this celebration of Arkansas women in American music! Get your tickets from The Momentary!
+Look for us on Arkansas Style tomorrow at 2 pm discussing these two nights of goodness ☺️

+Order our book "From Almeda To Zilphia: Arkansas Women Who Transformed American Popular Song" from Et Alia Press (with gorgeous portraits by Katherine Strause 🎨)