Award winning poet, Faye Williams Jones, read from & signed her book Erasing People in the Hemingway Barn-Studio on Friday, November 6, 2009, from 2-4 p.m.  Faye writes many types of poetry, including parallel poetry.  This book is poetry based on living with chronic cancer.  For more information contact Deanna Dismukes at ddismukes@astate.edu

Drive the Arkansas Delta Byway beginning at the Arkansas State Line in St. Francis, AR, through Piggott, Paragould and points south, ending at Helena.

August 31, 2009, Newsletter is now on-line.

HPMEC is celebrating its ten-year anniversary, July 1999 to July 2009, with a new Hemingway exhibit in the Hemingway Barn-Studio.The Piggott Connection:  A Timeline of Ernest and Pauline Hemingways' Visits to the Pfeiffer Home. 

The Fall Hemingway-Pfeiffer Creative Writers' Retreat was held November 2-6, 2009. Enrollment is limited to 15.  This was HPMEC's second retreat of 2009 and the twelfth retreat for adults since the Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum & Educational Center opened July 4, 1999.   Writers attended from Piggott, North Little Rock, Searcy, Rector, Benton, & Hot Springs Village, AR, and from Bernie & Springfield, MO.  The Nov. mentor was Roland Mann of Oxford, MS. HPMEC is one of three Arkansas State University Heritage Sites.  The next Writers' Retreat will be June 7-11, 2010., with mentor Dr. Robert Lamm, ASU.  Contact Deanna Dismukes, Education Coordinator, ddismukes@astate.edu or 870-598-3487 for information.

Contact Deanna Dismukes at HPMEC to reserve the Educational Center for a private retreat for your group.  No instructor is required.  Lunches may be arranged.

After touring HPMEC, visit the Matilda & Karl Pfeiffer Museum & Study Center next door to view a very special mineral and geode collection as well as a Native American collection from the local area.  Reservations for parties of 10 or more requested.  Please call 870-598-3228.  No admission fee is charged at the Matilda & Karl Pfeiffer Museum & Study Center.

Deanna Dismukes, Education Coordinator 

ddismukes@astate.edu 

Phone:   870-598-3487   Ext.225                                                         

Fax:         870-598-1037   

Mobile:  870-634-7011

Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum and Educational Center

1021 West Cherry Street, Piggott, Arkansas 72454

Telephone:  870-598-3487; Fax 870-598-1037

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