Arkansas History Notecard: Hogskin Holidays
It's not just Fayetteville. Calhoun County honors hog legacy this week.
Calhoun County celebrates Hogskin Holidays, a festival that began in 1992 to honor the South Arkansas county's heritage and hard times.
Rural South Arkansas faced intense struggles during the Great Depression and it took some areas into the late 1950s decades to recover. The psychological scars of the Depression never left people like my grandmother who…
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