RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. (April 9, 2008)---The Arkansas Tech University Museum of Prehistory and History will debut an exhibit entitled “Sense of Place: Reconstructing Community Through Oral History and Archeology” with an opening event on Saturday, April 12.
The exhibit uses family stories, photographs, oral histories and archeological research to give visitors a sense of what it was like to live in Ozark Mountain communities like Treat and Big Lick in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
The general public will get its first opportunity to view the exhibit from 1-4 p.m. on Saturday. The exhibit will remain on display 9 a.m.-4 p.m. each Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday through Sept. 30 at the Tech Museum, which is located inside the Techionery at the corner of North El Paso Avenue and Martin Luther King Jr. Drive.
Mary Brennan, guest curator for the exhibit, will give a lecture at 1 p.m. Saturday at the W.O. Young Building Ballroom. Brennan is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Arkansas.
For more information, contact the Tech Museum at (479) 964-0826.
