lisamorton1Sep 9, 20197 min readPratt-Markham House and Property(Extracted from research done by four U of A students – Alfred Crozier, Robert Hess, Tommy Jameson, David Perry - for their Historic...
lisamorton1Sep 2, 20195 min readFilming of ‘The Blue and the Gray’ in Fayetteville The eight-hour ‘The Blue and the Gray’ is a television miniseries that first aired on CBS in November 1982.
lisamorton1Aug 26, 20193 min read‘Man Outside’ Movie on Markham Hill ‘Man Outside’, originally called ‘Solitary Man’, is a modestly budgeted independent romance-thriller made and set in rural Arkansas.
lisamorton1Aug 12, 20193 min readGay Day Camp on Markham Hill The camp program is based on building a home in the woods, and day campers participate in many activities related to this theme.
lisamorton1Aug 5, 20192 min readMary Hughes’ Life as a Markham Hill Cabin Dweller in the late 1960s(written by Mary Hughes and edited by Lisa Orton) Bud Saunders, one of the first persons I knew who lived on Markham Hill in a cabin and...
lisamorton1Jul 22, 20192 min readSuki Highers’ Life as a Markham Hill Cabin Dweller in the 1990s, written by Suki Highers Listen Here Having grown up in Little Rock, Arkansas, my move to Markham Hill as a college student was a dramatic shift. I moved into the...
lisamorton1Jul 1, 20192 min readJoe Neal’s Memories of Ward Pennington on Markham Hill (by Joe Neal)Back in the 1960s, I met an elderly gentleman named Ward Pennington, who lived alone in a traditional Ozark cabin in the woods atop Markham
lisamorton1Jun 24, 20194 min readPratt Place-Markham CampThe campgrounds covered forty-six acres, with a camp for boys in a western meadow and a camp for girls in an eastern meadow.
lisamorton1Jun 17, 20192 min read"The Hobby She Rides Is Horses"(Copied from a 1941 article in the local newspaper about Joy Pratt Markham and her love of horses.) Listen Here The hobby that Joy Pratt...
lisamorton1Jun 3, 20194 min readHistory of Evangeline’s Cottage on Markham Hill and the people involvedThe 1929 Waterman-Archer House is an intact example of Tudor architecture.
