by Do South | Nov 1, 2023 | Featured, People
Fort Smith author Joyce Faulkner sits across from writer and UAFS Assistant Professor of History Tom Wing at the Fort Smith Library on Rogers Avenue. The two talk easily, sometimes finishing each other’s sentences. “We work really well together,” Joyce says, and Tom...
by Do South | Jan 1, 2019 | People
[title subtitle=”words: Tom Wing, Historian and Author images: courtesy Sharon Griffin, daughter of Earl Dodd”][/title] New Year’s Day, 1936 marked the 100th year of statehood for Arkansas. Three years before, Means Wilkinson purchased the Greenwood...
by Do South | Nov 1, 2018 | People
[title subtitle=”words: Tom Wing, Historian and Author images: courtesy Fort Smith Museum of History “][/title] During WWII, the most widespread war in history, approximately 16 million Americans served in the military. It is crucial we hear the stories of...
by Do South | Oct 1, 2018 | People
[title subtitle=”words: Tom Wing, Historian and Author images: courtesy Fort Smith Museum of History “][/title] What do a street in Las Vegas, a Pleistocene-era lake, a dam, a GM automobile, a crater on Mars, a WWII Liberty ship, and a Triumph motorcycle...
by Do South | Sep 1, 2018 | Food + Drink
[title subtitle=”words: Tom Wing, Historian and Author images: courtesy Chuck Raney “][/title] My purpose in writing this story is to recall just a few of the places my friends, family, and I frequented in my younger years, perhaps to give others an idea...
