Ozark Hellbender Festival
Randolph County Founder’s Day
Saturday, May 4, 2013
Schedule of Events
7:00 -11:00 First United Methodist Church Pancake Breakfast – $5 per person
400 Thomasville, Pocahontas
8:30 Hellbender 5K Registration – $15 per person
8:30 – 3:00 2013 Founder’s Day Lecture Series (Old Imperial Theater)
Early Settlement Period: 1812-1819
9:00 Kid’s Zone
9:30 Hellbender 5K
10:00 Zumba!
10:00 – 4:00 Regional Quilt Show (Historic Courthouse)
10:00 Hellbender Boogie Dice Run- $20 per hand (Overlook Park)
10:00 -1:00 Rotary Club raffle drawings
11:00 Ozark Hellbender Program (Museum Annex)
– Presented by Kelly Erwin, AG&FC Herpetologist
12:15 Caboose Dedication (Old Depot)
1:00 & 6:00 Marilyn’s Cloggers Spring Show – $5 per person
3:00 “Quilt of Valor” presentation (Veteran’s Memorial)
Main Stage
9:30 Opening Ceremonies
10:00 Arkansas Cloggers
10:30 Lisa Pierce
11:00 Lauren Richmond & Tyler Ogles
12:15 Caboose Dedication (Old Depot)
1:00 Rotary Cruise winner announcement
1:00 Empty Pockets
2:00 The Jackwagon Ramblers
3:00 Black River Country Band
4:00 Emily Copeland & Zac DeClerk
9:00 Haunted Pocahontas Tour – $5 per person
-departs from the Old Imperial Theater
DEDICATION OF THE CABOOSE
May 4, 2013
Music………………………………………………………Lisa Pierce
Welcome and Introductions……………….Red Pearcy,
President of RandolphCounty Tourism Assn
And Caboose Committee Member
Remarks and Plans for the Future……Honorable Frank Bigger
Mayor, City of Pocahontas
Music…………………………………………………………Lisa Pierce
Presentation to City and County…………Red Pearcy and Bill Carroll
RandolphCounty Tourism Association
Presentation to Special Guests………… Honorable Scott Baltz
Arkansas House of Representatives, District 61
Music………………………………………………………..Lisa Pierce
Thank you for celebrating the Dedication of the Caboose
Caboose Committee: Delbert Alphin, Chair, Bob Olvey, Red Pearcy, Ken Ziegler, Frank Bigger and Linda Bowlin
FOUNDERS DAY/OZARK HELLBENDER FESTIVAL
LECTURE SERIES
SATURDAY, MAY 4 OLD IMPERIAL THEATRE
Early Settlement Period : 1812-1819 (MissouriTerritory)
08:30 Steve Saunders, Powhatan Historic State Park Historian. Will present his research on the Demun brothers–early French settlers here who were instrumental in Davidsonville being the LawrenceCounty seat and who establish the first grist mill in Arkansas at Demun Mills on Mill Creek in south Pocahontas in 1813.
09:30 Krystal Watson, Interpreter at Davidsonville Historic State Park will present information on the 1815 founding of the town of Davidsonville, information about the site, recent findings, and preparations for the 2015 200th Anniversary of the town’s founding.
10:30 Dr. Lisa Perry will present information on the early records held by NEARA (Northeast Arkansas Regional Archive) at Powhatan including early records related to Randolph County (back to 1802).
1pm Lynn Morrow, former Director of the Missouri State Archives at the University of Missouri, Columbia will present research on Daniel Boone and his lifelong association with his African-American slave.
2p, Kelly Irwin, Arkansas’s State Herpetologist, will present information on the endangered Ozark Hellbender of RandolphCounty.
