Old Independence Regional Museum – Sports and Media Program June 4th (Posted by Ginger Smith)
Mark Lamberth and Paul Glover are Batesville media all-stars who will share their experience in the sports field during a panel discussion at 2 p.m. on Sunday, June 4 at Old Independence Regional Museum, located at 9th and Oak Streets in Batesville. This program is the fifth one in the “Our Teams – Our Pride” museum series in support of the Hometown Teams: How Sports Shape America, the Smithsonian Institution’s traveling exhibit that will be installed later this year in the museum.
Mark Lamberth has been the radio voice of Pioneer football for 21 years and was the logical choice to serve the same role for the Scots when Lyon College restarted football two years ago. Mark has also done play-by-play announcing for Pioneer and Scot basketball and baseball over the years. He is active in thoroughbred horse racing, and served as chairman of the Arkansas Racing Commission International in 2015-2016. Mark is president of Atlas Asphalt, Inc. and is engaged in other business interests in the Batesville community. He earned a bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Arkansas. He and his wife Dianne have two children and seven grandchildren.
Paul Glover has written every important sports story for the Batesville Guard for over 30 years. He has covered sports events for all the local school districts and for Lyon College. A native of Conway, Paul is a 1980 graduate of UA-Little Rock who moved to Batesville in 1984 to work for the Guard newspaper. He and his wife Pamela have two children and three grandchildren.
Lamberth and Glover will tell about particular tricks of the trade that they have learned along the way, and the most memorable events that they have covered. Among other topics will be valuable lessons that they have learned over the years that have strengthened their ability to communicate effectively. They will also be challenged to recall significant errors they may have made that have helped them grow in their sports reporting. Another challenging subject that they will address is what changes in the world of sports has been pivotal to today’s reporting of those events.
Bruce Johnston, museum program chairman, encourages all those interested in local sports to attend this program, and bring their own questions for Glover and Lamberth to answer.
The program will be free and open to the public. Normal museum hours are: Tuesday-Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is $3.00 for adults, $2.00 for seniors and $1.00 for children. The museum is located at 380 South 9th street, between Boswell and Vine Streets in Batesville.
Old Independence is a regional museum serving a 12-county area: Baxter, Cleburne, Fulton, Independence, Izard, Jackson, Marion, Poinsett, Sharp, Stone, White, and Woodruff. Parts of these present-day counties comprised the original Independence County in 1820’s Arkansas territory.
