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Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum Hosts World War I Reading Retreat

Barn exterior at the Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum and Educational Center in Piggott
Arkansas State University

One of Arkansas State University’s “Heritage Sites”… the Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum and Educational Center in Piggott… will host the World War One Reading Retreat the weekend of September Seventh and Eighth.

KASU’s Marty Scarbrough spoke with Doctor Adam Long… the director of the facility… getting details about what a “reading retreat” is.  But first, they discussed the overall mission and purpose of the museum and educational center.  Click on the Listen button to hear the interview.  More information on the retreat can be found here.  

Johnathan Reaves is the News Director for KASU Public Radio. As part of an Air Force Family, he moved to Arkansas from Minot, North Dakota in 1986. He was first bitten by the radio bug after he graduated from Gosnell High School in 1992. While working on his undergraduate degree, he worked at KOSE, a small 1,000 watt AM commercial station in Osceola, Arkansas. Upon graduation from Arkansas State University in 1996 with a degree in Radio-Television Broadcast News, he decided that he wanted to stay in radio news. He moved to Stuttgart, Arkansas and worked for East Arkansas Broadcasters as news director and was there for 16 years.