The Buffalo National River Partners and Boone Co. Library presents “If Walls Could Talk: Telling the Story of Hicks Site in Rush, Arkansas,” by Kimball Erdman from the University of Arkansas Tuesday from 5:30 to 6:30.
The presentation will be over the forgotten landscape of Rush, a once a prominent zinc mining boom town in Marion County that is now a historic memory. He will discuss the history behind the landscape of Rush and describe the efforts made in 2016 by a university class and research team to document and interpret the property.
A teacher in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the UofA, Erdman specializes in sub- disciplines of landscape history and historic landscape preservation. He has degrees from Utah State University and the University of Oregon and has ten years of professional experience in Vermont. Erdman has worked on many significant landscapes, such as, the former Japanese-American internment camp at Rohwer Arkansas; Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest near Lynchburg, Virginia; Niagara Falls State Park in New York; and Dumbarton Oaks in Washington DC.
Erdman will have his research assistants Jordan Pitts Addison Warren will be accompany him for the presentation.
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