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From: "Jeanette Mcclure" <>
Subject: Re: [MOOREGON] Protecting local records/URGENT MESSAGE TO ALL
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 14:44:02 -0400
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Hello, Have not these courthouse records been previously filmed by the
Latter Day Saints?? Jeanette.

Jeanette McClure, CG

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Subject: [MOOREGON] Protecting local records/URGENT MESSAGE TO ALL


> This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list.
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> http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/CMB.2ACE/585
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> From: Lloyd Clark at
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> MS Smith, Thank you for your email/letter. I am President of the Lawrence
County Historical Society. I (and we the society) share your concern and
outrage. We have worked with the parks department to try to get a better
solution and one may be in the offing.
> First, the records will be preserved. The questions are when and where?
Right now they are safely ensconced in the archives department at the ASU
library in Jonesboro. The university has been very generous in letting us
store them there till we could move back into the newly refurbished
courthouse. But, the Parks folks don't seem to want us there any more even
though we are the reason they exist at all. They spent 1.2 million on the
refurbishment and not a dime on dehumidifiers or proper shelving for the
vaults. They never intended for the records to be returned it seems. At the
last moment they offered the little white wooden church building but the
immediate and loud protests by the society and folks such as yourself have
caused them to rethink their position.
> They have now offered to build a suitable, fire and storm proof vault next
to the church to house the records. Catch is- we have to cede control and
ownership of the records to the Arkansas History Commission which will
allegedly pay an archivist to do the job Mrs. Flippo did so well for so many
years. We are promised a binding legal agreement which will guarantee the
records stay in Lawrence County. And they say they can't get funding till
next year, if then, so nothing will be built in the next 2 or 3 years and
the records will stay in Jonesboro till then.
> I recommend you send a copy of your letter to our Governor, to Mr. Richard
Davies Director of the Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism, One Capitol
Mall, Little Rock, AR 72201, to Mr. Rex Friedman, Chief Planner, Planning &
Development Section -- same address and to state legislators. Get your
friends to do so as well. A few letters to the editor of the Arkansas
Democrat/Gazette and the Arkansas Times wouldn't hurt either. The Parks
people respond to public pressure and negative publicity. Email to:
or .
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> They want the space we had for a visitor center, gift shop and offices for
their staff. The little white church would be ideal for that purpose. They
can't seem to understand that the records were the draw for the park.
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> The LCHS will host a public meeting this Thursday, 7 p.m. at the Powhatan
Community Center to inform the public of these latest developments and
discuss options. Our primary goal is to preserve the documents properly and
make them available for public use as soon as possible. I have discussed a
plan with the ASU archivist to make the records more open to the public. He
will likely be at the meeting. Parks and History Commission will be invited
to attend as well. Many of the records are already on microfilm and
available for review at the Telephone Exchange Building at the park. You
will have to make an appointment with the park staff for a time though.
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> PLEASE, everyone get involved or the records will eventually be destroyed
for lack of climate and 2 and 4 legged vagrant control!! Contact the
Governor at:
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> http://www.state.ar.us/governor/staff/index.html#General
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> PLEASE!!! ALL get involved in this or our records will eventually be lost!
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> Lanita
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