Folklife and Oral History at ATU
Lillie Burdine with her knitting at the Boone County Fair, photo by her granddaughter, student Lacey Vanderpool.
Once a year we teach a class at Arkansas Tech University entitled Folkife and Oral History. This class engaged students in participatory folklife research in their communities. Contact Meredith Martin-Moats for more information. Click here to contact.
To learn more about students past projects read selections from the Seed and the Story column by clicking here.
McElroy House 
Would you be interested in interviewing my 93 year old grandmother?
Her name is Violet Morgan. She is a direct decendant of the settling families of the valley. Was raised in the Valley and has never moved farther away than 2nd street in Dardanelle. Her father a Morgan, her mother a Harris and thier parents were Harkey & Morgan.
She can tell you all of the history by memory as well as who lays beneath just about every stone in both Harkey Valley & Chickalah Methodist Cemetaries as well as others in Yell County. She decorates from Hector to Dover(Tackett, Sims and Bulluck relatives) to Harkey to Cardon Bottoms(Harkey, Morgan, Sims & Wiggins relatives)
If you are interested, you can reach me via e-mail or by phone at 501-837-2268.
Best,
Greg Jones