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The Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum and Educational Center has passed the American Alliance of Museums’ Core Document Verification, an important milestone in its ongoing efforts to demonstrate excellence and meet standards and best practices.

Earning Core Documents Verification means the national professional organization for the museum industry has verified–through a thorough expert review–that the museum has an educational mission and ethics, planning, emergency, and collections stewardship policies in place that reflect standard practices of professional museums.  These elements were evaluated because they are deemed essential for every institution that identifies itself as a professional member of the museum field.

One reason we undertook this outside review was to show our public that the museum has in place the policies and plans that are essential to good museum management and which provide our staff and governing authority the structure, ethical grounding, and accountability needed to make informed and consistent decisions for the good of our public and in support of our mission and sustainability.

In the trucktrend.com travel article, Arkansas’ Mississippi River Delta, the Truck Trend staff write about their Mississippi River Delta tourism excursion, taken via a Chevy Silverado, which included stops at the Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum, the boyhood home of Johnny Cash, the Rohwer Relocation Center, and the Lakeport Plantation, among others. The travel article is accompanied by an extensive Travel Photo Gallery which contains photos of all the sites they visited. To view the article, please click here.

The New York Times article, Restoring the Tradition of Quail Hunting, discusses the ecological issues preventing quail populations from returning to healthy numbers. Ernest Hemingway’s love of quail hunting is also mentioned. While in Piggott visiting the Pfeiffers with his wife Pauline, Hemingway picked up the hobby and is said to have enjoyed it immensely. To view the article, please click here.

In recognition of the 80th anniversary of A Farewell to Arms, the Today.com article, No ‘Farewell’: Hemingway Lives on in Ark. Town, explores the role that the Pfeiffers and their home in Piggott played in the writing of A Farewell to Arms and in Hemingway’s career in general. To view the article, please click here.