UAMS will likely grow to a 10-hospital system within a couple of years, Chancellor Lowry Barnes said Tuesday. It’s in discussions to partner with several rural Arkansas hospitals that otherwise might close. My report on his investiture ceremony. talkbusiness.net/2026/09/uams...
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University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Chancellor Dr. C. Lowry Barnes was invested Tuesday (Sept. 29) in the Harry P. Ward Chancellor’s Distinguished Chair during a ceremony that brought together...
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Clarence Wilson, a member of the Rock Island Colored Booster Quartet made the
earliest known written transcription of "Rock Island Line" in 1929. The singing group was made up of employees of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad at the Biddle Shops freight yard in Little Rock, Arkansas.
The lyrics to this version are largely different from the version that later became famous, as explained below.
The first audio recording of the song was made by folklorist and musicologist John A.
Lomax at the Tucker, Arkansas prison farm on September 29, 1934 (sometimes identified as "Kelly Pace and Prisoners"). (2]
Lead Belly accompanied Lomax to the prison. Lomax had discovered Lead Belly in a prison in Louisiana and helped win his release, but the relationship between them was trying. John Lomax's son, Alan Lomax,
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