Kent Goff and Tom Yancey

1. Dr. Hunter and Mr. Dunbar
2. Other early Arkansas characters

Visit www.mvep.org to learn more about available programs for your school, museum, or community event.

Don Simons, Interpreter at Mt. Magazine State Park
1. Trapper/trader of early 1800's
2. Character/slide presentation "Traveling with Audubon"

Contact - 501-963-9282

Early Arkansas Reenactors Association
Dr. Ed Williams
1 Amherst Cove
Little Rock, AR 72205
w) 501) 447-3386
h) 501) 666-4304
ed_laurine@juno.com
Listserve arkansaw@yahoogroups.com
website: www.arkie.net/~eara/

Dr. George Lankford
1.Charles Kelley, early settler of Independence County

Selection of programs available, ranging from 10-30 minutes: keelboating, bear oil manufacture, claiming land in territorial times, the demise of Davidsonville, early Batesville business, and building a county seat. Accompanying school trunk focusing on land survey and transfer available April 2003.

Programs can be held at:
Old Independence Regional Museum
380 South Ninth
Batesville, AR 72501
(870) 793-2121
Cost: regular museum rates

Or Dr. Lankford will travel. Fees for mileage and off-site expenses.
Contact (870) 698-1061 or email: lankford@cei.net

Steve Dunlap, Interpreter at Petit Jean State Park
1. Bernard de la Harpe - French explorer and cartographer who went up the     Arkansas River in 1722
2. Jean - French Colonial highwayman who is a fiddling pirate

Contact - 501-727-6510

James Wilborn, Interpreter at Lake Ouachita
1. Character based on one of the men in the Dunbar/Hunter expedition up the      Ouachita River

Contact - 501-767-9366

Pam Beasley, Curator at AR Museum of Natural Resources
1. Dinah Dunbar - wife of William Dunbar

Contact - 870-725-2877