Trail of Tears National Historic Trail superintendent Aaron Mahr met Tuesday with Little Rock Mayor Mark Stodola to discuss Indian Removal interpretation along the Little Rock riverfront. The particular focus was interpretation around what's left of the city's namesake "little rock" at the foot of a railroad bridge being converted into a pedestrian walkway.
Joining Mahr and the mayor at the bridge site were Dan Littlefield of the Sequoyah Research Center; Mark Christ of the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program; Carolyn Kent and Kitty Sloan of the Arkansas TOTA chapter; TOTNHT/NPS staffers Sharon Brown, Frank Norris, and Otis Halfmoon; and mayoral aide Scott Whiteley Carter. Littlefield is a member of the citizens panel working on the Junction Bridge project.
From Little Rock, the NPS staff was to drive to Van Buren to visit with Tom Wing about the possibility of getting the Drennen-Scott House certified as a TOTNHT site and to Springdale to meet with John McLarty and Glenn Jones about Fitzgerald Farmstead for which an official certification request has been submitted.
Posted by Kitty Sloan
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