Events/Activities

Events and Activities

Active In Our Community
Eddie Mae Herron Center — A Community Partner

Election "Watch"
American Cancer Society Relay For Life

Five Rivers Heritage Month
County Fair

Scholarship Program
Meet the Candidate

Black History Month: February 2008

Activities

Date/Time

Demonstration/Activity

Saturday February 9

9:00 a.m.
(with Noon potluck meal at the Herron Center)

Friendship Cemetery Work Day. Volunteers are asked to bring rakes and brush/limb clippers. The cemetery is located behind the radio station on Highway 67 North, just past Baltz Lake. For more information, contact Pat Johnson, Jean Oaks, Cindy Robinett or County Judge David Jansen.

Monday February 11 and Wednesday February 13

10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Demonstration of homemade hominy by Mack Hackworth, Helen McCarroll, Agnes Young and Barbara Wyatt

Saturday February 16

9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Annual Hog Butchering...everything but the squeal. Demonstration of old-time hog butchering, cooking of "cracklins", rendering of lard, sausage making.

Antique Tractor Show

Potluck Lunch begins at 11:30 a.m.

Auction: Tool set donated by Baltz Ace Hardware

6:00 - 10:00 p.m.

Gospel Singing at the Randolph Music Theater (Old Imperial)

Auction: Handmade quilt crafted by "the Herron Center quilting ladies"

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday, February 18, 19, 20, & 22

10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Tour of Eddie Mae Herron Center/Museum, apron show and demonstration of many uses of aprons.

6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Movie

Monday, Wednesday and Friday, February 25, 27, & 29

10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Stories of old times

Friday February 29

10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Stories of old times

6:30 p.m.

Community Potluck Dinner at Herron Center. Lecture by Bill Carroll on local black heritage in the Civil War. Lecture by Cindy Robinette on African American Cemeteries.

African American Preservation Alliance

The African American Preservation Alliance, Inc., a national organization dedicated to identifying and preserving historic African American sites and culture, will be meeting at the Eddie Mae Herron Center on Thursday, August 30 from 10 to 2 to discuss local African American sites for identification and preservation. Their emphasis this year is on cemeteries, especially those where slaves were buried. Anyone who's interested is invited to attend.

Goals of the African American Preservation Alliance are:

To raise public awareness of the value of African American cultural heritage and historic places throughout the United States and Greater Caribbean.
To provide leadership, education and advocacy to revitalize historic African American communities.
To encourage the organization of statewide networks and individual membership to increase minority participation in preservation.

Herron Center Active In This Year's Pocahontas Heritage Festival

The Herron Center had a concession stand at Pocahontas' Riverfront Park Saturday June 30 as part of the National Canoe Races being held on the Black and Current Rivers. Barbeque sandwiches, hamburgers, Polish sausage with sautéed onions and green peppers. Yum!

We had an open house and quilting demonstration September 29, 2007 as part of the Pocahontas Heritage Festival.

2007 "Hog Killin'" Photos

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Black History Month: February 2007
Co-Sponsored by Eddie Mae Herron Center and Black River Technical College

Activities

Date/Time

Demonstration/Activity

Friday February 2

7:00 p.m.

The movies "Hoxie" The First Stand" and "Education in Craighead County from 1900-1967 - A Way Out For African-Americans" will be shown at the Herron Center.

Monday February 5
Wednesday February 7

9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Quilt Show at the Herron Center. Quilts will be displayed and local quilters Mrs. Helen McCarroll, Mrs. Agnes Young and Mrs. Anna Cook will be present to demonstrate quilting. Mrs. Cook will also be available to discuss her recently self published book, The Point, and to sign copies.

Monday February 12
Tuesday February 13
Wednesday February 14

9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Friday February 16

7:00 p.m.

The movies "A Time For Justice - America's Civil Rights Movement", "Mighty Times - The Legacy of Rosa Parks" and "Mighty Times - The Children's March" will be shown at the Herron Center.

Saturday February 17

9:00 a.m. - afternoon

Annual Herron Center "Hog Killin'"...everything but the squeal. Demonstration of old-time hog butchering, cooking of "cracklins", rendering of lard, sausage making. Pot luck lunch at noon.

7:00 p.m.

Gospel Singing at The Randolph Music Theater (old Imperial Theater downtown) as a fund raiser for the Herron Center to help retire the loan on our recently purchased parking lot property. Admission is $5.00 with children under 6 free. Groups will include:

Wagon Train Gang
Homeward Bound
Studio for the Arts Show Choir
West Central Acappella Choir (from St. Louis)
Jamboree Band
Kevin Thomas
Newport Community Choir

Monday February 19
Wednesday February 21

9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Thursday February 22

6:30 p.m.

Community Pot Luck dinner at the Herron Center, honoring Mr. Jim Armstead, who will perform the following day (see below). Everyone is invited to bring a dish and come enjoy good food and fellowship.

Friday February 23

7:00 p.m.

At Black River Development Center: A special presentation by Mr. Jim Armstead, a lawyer with a PhD. and a nationally recognized historian and actor. His one man show, presented in period costume, will relive the life of a black Texas Cowboy who was on the trail drive that first developed the Chuck Wagon.
Admission is free.

Monday February 26
Wednesday February 28

9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

School groups are welcome! To schedule a visit, just call the Center.

Anna Cook Book Signing January 27

The Eddie Mae Herron Center is honored to host a book signing for Mrs. Anna Cook at the Center on January 27, 2007 from 2:00 to 4:00 P.M.

Mrs. Cook loves to write and she has recently self published "The Point," a history of the Fairview and New Friendship communities and their rich history and the families who lived there in the past and their descendants who live there today.

Mrs. Cook states the reason she wrote "The Point" was because she felt the history of those communities were slipping away and it needed to be captured. Mrs. Cook said she is so appreciative of all the help and support she received from the Fairview and New Friendship residents. She stated that her association with these communities goes back to 1957 when she drove down the road to visit her boyfriend, Ralph Cook, Jr.. They married in 1960.

This is the 3rd book on history Mrs. Cook has written. Her first book was published in 1990 and was entitled "Feed Sacks". Mrs. Cook graduated from the Imboden schools and then went onto graduate from Arkansas State University. She taught 3rd grade for 13 years at Black Rock.

We invite everyone to join us for a memorable afternoon. Refreshments will be served.

Veterans Day 2006

The Herron Center honored Randolph County military veterans November 11 with a hot meal, a program, and time for fellowship.

Bill Carroll and Carol Carroll, both of whom are veterans of military service and Herron Center supporters, told of the history of black Americans in U.S. military history from the pre-revolutionary Boston Massacre up to the present, followed by a reading of a lengthy list of African Americans from Randolph County who have served in the military, including Rodney McCarroll and Cory Ruffin who currently server their country in Iraq.

Randolph County Fair

Stop by the Eddie Mae Herron Center concession stand at the upcoming Randolph County Fair. You know you can count on the Herron Center for great food! For starters, we'll have plate meals with pork barbeque or a turkey leg, slaw, and baked beans!

Annual 4th On The Black

The Herron Center is preparing for our annual participation in the local "4th On The Black" celebration of Independence Day. Be sure to visit the Herron Center booth at Riverside Park July 4 for delicious food and refreshments!

Herron Center Political Speaking and Pie Auction

The Herron Center Candidate Speaking and Pie Auction will be held Friday night, April 28, 2006.

"Finger Food Social" will be from 6:00 - 7:00 p.m. Candidate speaking starts at 7:00. Politicians will be given about 3 minutes each, and pies will be auctioned between speeches.

Black History Month: February 2006
Co-Sponsored by Eddie Mae Herron Center and Black River Technical College

Activities

Date/Time

Demonstration/Activity

February 2 and 3

9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Soap Making Demonstration
presented by Jerry Hall

February 6, 8 and 10

9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

The Story of Rosa Parks
presented by Debbie Beck.

February 13, 15, 17

9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Quilt Making

9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Herron Center Tours

February 20, 22

9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Quilt Making

9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Herron Center Tours

February 23

6:30 p.m.

Community Potluck
Documentary on Education in Craighead County 1900 - 1967
Panel discussion on documentary three people who attended the school: Laura McCarroll Williford, Margaret McCarroll and Sherley Johnson

February 24

6:30 p.m.

The Mule Train: A Journey of Hope Remembered
A presentation by Roland Freeman of Washington, D.C.
to be held at Black River Technical College

March 4

Beginning at 7:00 a.m.

Community Hog Killing and Lunch
After lunch we'll have story telling, singing and dance performance by ACTS III: The Ensemble (pictured to the right =>)

School groups are welcome! To schedule a visit, just call the Center.

January 16, 2006: Martin Luther King Day March

From the Pocahontas Star Herald
Photos by Dalton Sullivan

Numerous Randolph County residents and Pocahontas school children took part Monday morning in a peaceful march to honor the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Some of the marchers held signs, and many sang spiritual songs as they walked from the old Wal*Mart on Hwy. 62, to the Eddie Mae Herron Center. At the center, a celebration of Dr. King's life was held with speeches, songs and prayer.

January 2005: Herron Center Sponsors Visit to National Civil Rights Museum

The Herron Center chartered a bus last spring to carry about 35 local people to Memphis to visit the National Civil Rights Museum. The group, ranging in age from school children to over age 90, toured the museum built around the Lorraine Motel, where Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated in 1968.