Shiloh Museum of Ozark History

09/05/2026

👉 And we're open today (Saturday) as well! Come see us. It's cool inside!

09/04/2026

🔍 Calling all History Detectives for ! 📸

Can you help us solve a mystery? We need help identifying the people in this 1964 photograph taken at a Jaycees convention in Dallas. Shown here are members of the Arkansas Jaycees alongside "Miss Arkansas Chic."

There's a chance they might be from Springdale, but we don't know for sure. Take a close look—do you recognize any of these faces?

💡 Important: If you share this post with your friends or community groups, please make your share PUBLIC so we can read all the comments and clues!

Leave your guesses and IDs in the comments below. Thank you for helping us preserve local history!

Photo is from the Shiloh Museum’s Janice Zulpo Collection (S-2026-20-20).

09/02/2026

🧵 Celebrate local tradition and community craftsmanship at the 48th Annual Ozark Quilt Fair! Join us on Saturday, September 12, from 10 AM to 2 PM on the Shiloh Museum grounds in Springdale for a day packed with history, music, family fun, and incredible quilts.

Admission is FREE to the public! Bring the whole family to enjoy:
🎶 Live music from the Shiloh Old Time Pickers and Mountain Alice
🎶 Live music from the Shiloh Old Time Pickers and Mountain Alice
🍋 Lemonade, hot dogs, and nachos available from Icy Kids NWA
🎨 Free quilt-themed art activities and a museum scavenger hunt
📚 A special presentation by museum historian Rachel Whitaker

Event Schedule:
• 10:30 AM: Shiloh Old Time Pickers (Outdoors)
• 11:30 AM: "Quilting in the Ozarks: If You Don't Catch Your Toenails in the Stitches, You'll Be All Right" by Rachel Whitaker (Meeting Room)
• 12:00 PM: Mountain Alice (Outdoors)
• 2:00 PM: Viewer's Choice Awards (New & Antique categories)

Want to exhibit your own quilt? Exhibitor registration is $15 and includes a boxed lunch!
Note: There is no rain date. In case of weather updates, check our social media or call 479-750-8165. Visit our website for details and exhibitor sign-ups!

09/01/2026

Preserve Your Ozark History: Free Digital Scanning Events in Gentry and Gravette! 📸📜

The Shiloh Museum of Ozark History is hitting the road to help you digitize and safeguard your family stories, historical photos, letters, and regional documents for future generations.

Our team will scan your items on-site—you keep all original physical materials along with a free digital copy. With your permission, copies will also be preserved in the Shiloh Museum archives to help protect our region’s rich history and culture!

Upcoming Event Schedule
📍 Gentry Public Library
• When: Tuesday, September 22 | 10 AM – 12 PM
• Special Presentation: Historian Rachel Whitaker kicks off the event with an opening talk: "Moonshine in the Ozarks."

📍 Billy V. Hall Senior Activity & Wellness Center (Gravette)
• When: Wednesday, September 23 | 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Event Highlights
• 📁 Free Archival Scanning: Bring regional photos, historical documents, letters, and family stories.
• 💾 Keep Your Originals: Receive digital files on the spot while keeping all your physical items.
• 🏛️ Community Preservation: Help build the Shiloh Museum’s permanent regional collection.

Don't let your family history fade—bring your items by and let us help you preserve them!

08/26/2026

😢 Rest in peace, Dolly.

As remembrances pour in for the late, great musician and humanitarian Dolly Parton, we will add this Arkansas connection to the mix.

Pictured here is Arkansas folk singer/songwriter Jimmy Driftwood with Jane Fonda and Dolly Parton at the Driftwood Barn in Mountain View (Stone County); May 21, 1980. Driftwood had arranged for Fonda to stay with local couple Lucy and Waco Johnson so she could study the characteristics of a “mountain woman” for her role in The Doll Maker, which was released in 1984 as a made-for-TV movie on ABC. Parton (a mountain woman herself), who had just starred in the 1980 movie 9 to 5 with Fonda, was there at the barn too. Arkansas's Levon Helm would appear in The Doll Maker with Fonda.

Read more about Driftwood here: https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/jimmy-driftwood-2187/ and Helm here: https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/levon-helm-628/

08/21/2026

What on earth is this? 🤔

We don’t have the physical object in our collection—just this mystery photograph from the First National Bank in Springdale!

Our best guess is that it’s a vintage desk stamp (with the rubber stamp on the bottom), but could it be something else? An antique change saver with a built-in calendar? A miniature time machine…? ⏳

Does anyone recognize an item like this or know what it was used for? Let us know your thoughts in the comments!

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Have a wonderful weekend!

Photo is from the Shiloh Museum’s First National Bank of Springdale Collection (S-2004-97-47).