Pfeiffer Dollars Program

   HPMEC and community merchants are working together on a promotional plan during October to increase visitors’ dollars spent in Piggott. 

  The Pfeiffer Dollars idea came from the story that, during the Great Depression, Paul M. Pfeiffer assisted those down on their luck by providing coupons that had to be spent exclusively in Piggott businesses.  In this same spirit, today’s visitors to Piggott can benefit from the Pfeiffer Dollars promotional plan in one of two ways. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Janes Collection Gift

  Through a generous gift from Rosemary Janes and funds from the Arkansas Natural and Cultural Resources Council, we are pleased to announce that most of the Janes Collection has been added to the Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum permanent collection.

  The Janes Collection of more than  200 items original to the Pfeiffer-Janes House and barn-studio was placed on long-term loan in 1998.   The collection of furnishings, accessories and books was acquired in 1950 by the Tom and Beatrice Janes family with the purchase of the house and barn after the death of Mary Pfeiffer.

  We are very grateful to the Janes Family, including the late Mrs. Beatrice Janes whose interest in the property being authentically restored led her daughter, Rosemary, to place the collection in the care of HPMEC. 

    It is quite unusual for an historic house to have original furnishings, and we extend our thanks and appreciation to Rosemary Janes for making it possible to add the Janes Collection to the permanent collection in the Pfeiffer-Janes House and Hemingway Barn-Studio.

 

 

1930s Pfeiffer Cotton

  Mr. Don  Richardson, Pfeiffer farm manager, in cotton test plot exhibiting the difference in cotton with 100 lbs. fertilizer per acre. (Photo courtesy of Jim and Roma Richardson, Piggott.)

Teachers Visit

  Advanced Placement Summer Institute (APSI) visited in July.  APSI, hosted by ASU College of Education and sanctioned by College Board, provides training to teachers from Arkansas high schools to teach advanced placement courses.   John Sawyer, ASU College of Education, served as director of the summer program.     

Memorial Established

   The 19% Club, a group of writers in Jonesboro, established the Jon Warren Coleman Memorial with a gift of $100 and 56 paperback books. 

   “Escapism being a theme of most Southern writing, Jon Warren Coleman explored the morality and struggle of men and women who chose to exist in the fields and gravel and muddy creeks of the South that were more easily forgotten, or, at best, an afterthought, in the contemporary references of the South drawn from popular fiction and motion pictures.  Mr. Coleman, while rooted in the Delta, recognized that geography and the human condition are intertwined, regardless of location.” (The 19% Club)

  The late Mr. Jon Warren Coleman, Jonesboro, Arkansas, was a participant in the 2007 Hemingway-Pfeiffer Creative Writers’ Retreat for Adults.

  Financial contributions to the Jon Warren Coleman Memorial or HPMEC can be made by mailing your check to HPMEC, 1021 West Cherry Street, Piggott, AR  72454.

 

October 2008                                                      Website: hemingway.astate.edu                         Phone: 870-598-3487                                     

  First Option:  Visitors to the museum will receive one Pfeiffer Dollar for each dollar of paid admission.  They can apply one Pfeiffer Dollar toward each $10 worth of purchases from participating businesses listed on the back of the dollar.

  Second Option:  Those who shop in downtown stores prior to coming to the museum can show receipts from participating Piggott merchants and receive a $1 credit off their admission for each $10 worth of purchases. 

  A Pfeiffer Dollar window decal identifies the twenty-six participating merchants, and a complimentary Piggott City Map shows all Piggott businesses.

  We are hopeful that this plan will stay in place for some time.  HPMEC and Piggott merchants will review participation to consider continuing the Pfeiffer Dollar promotion.

Three-Author Book Signing

  Saturday, November 15, 2-4 p.m., three authors will be at the Hemingway Barn-Studio for a book signing.  Elizabeth Foster, Host Springs Village, will sign her book, Southern Winds A Changin’.  Sandra Gram, Paragould, will sign her books, Amos Jakey and Nicolina.  Dr. Connie Hiers, Jonesboro, with pen name of Louise Fritz, will sign her book, Living With Big Dogs.  (Photo courtesy of Susan O’Conor, Jonesboro Occasions, August 2008.)

  Books will be available on-site to purchase for signing.

Creative Writers’ Retreat for Adults  

  The fall session, November 13-15, of  Creative Writers’ Retreat for Adults has reached maximum enrollment with a waiting list.  This is the third 2008 Retreat for Adults and the tenth since HPMEC opened July 4, 1999.  Each session has enjoyed maximum enrollment.

 

Museum Store Gift Cards

  A large selection of books by and about Ernest Hemingway, Hemingway audio books, children's books, Arkansas books, paper weights, stationery, note cards, HPMEC T shirts, sweatshirts, pewter pins and tie tacks, mugs, pens and pencils, tote bags, money clips, key chains, Christmas ornaments, 1930s music CDs, local honey,  breakfast tea, quilt items, old Piggott photos, Red Hat items, costume jewelry, games, toys, hand puppets, Africa products, soapstone items, 1930s Betty Boop and Popeye items, ASU pennants and more can be purchased with the HP Museum Store Gift Card.

Visit Other ASU Heritage Sites

Southern Tenant Farmers Museum, Tyronza, Arkansas, http://stfm.astate.edu, 870-487-2909.

Lakeport Plantation, Lake Village, Arkansas, http://lakeport.astate.edu,  870-265-6031.

Arkansas State University Museum, Jonesboro, Arkansas, http://museum.astate.edu, 870-972-2074.

 

Museum Hours Reminder 

  Tours are on the hour, Monday-Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.; Saturday, 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.; closed Sundays and major holidays.  Groups of 10 or more are requested to call in advance.