Title: Izard County Historical and Genealogical Society Meeting April 15
Location: Izard County Senior Citizen Center located south of Brockwell, Arkansas, on Highway #9
Description: Izard County Historical and Genealogical Society Meeting
April 15, 2012
2 P.M.
Izard County Senior Citizen Center located south of Brockwell, Arkansas, on Highway #9
Spring Quarterly Meeting of the Society
W. J. Cooper, Jr., President
870-297-8356
The meeting is open to the public, and refreshments will be served.
Dr. Brooks Blevins will be the speaker for the session to discuss his newly published book titled
Ghost of the Ozarks: Murder and Memory in the Upland South. The book is about the 1929 murder of drifter Connie Franklin and the rape of his teenage fiancée in Stone County, Arkansas. The arrest and trial of five men for these crimes brought national attention to Stone County. Blevins recounts the events of the murder investigation and trial when a man claiming to be the murder victim – the “Ghost” of the Ozarks – appeared to testify. Blevins is the Noel Boyd Associate Professor of Ozarks Studies at Missouri State University in Springfield, Missouri.
Start Time: 140000
Date: 2012-04-15
