Life of Searcy County Woman
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Life of Searcy County Woman
Brooks Blevins, professor of Ozarks studies at Missouri State University, will present a program entitled, "The Ordinary Life of Extraordinary Minnie: A Searcy County Woman Greets the Modern World," Wednesday, October 21, at noon at the Shiloh Museum of Ozark History. Blevins will discuss the life of Minnie Atteberry, a Searcy County farm woman who kept a daily diary from the 1930s into the 1960s. The Atteberry diaries were donated to the Special Collections Department of Mullins Library at the University of Arkansas by Searcy County historian James Johnston in 1993.
The Shiloh Museum is located at 118 W. Johnson Avenue in downtown Springdale. For more information, call 750-8165 or visit shilohmuseum.org.