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From: "Iras Smith" <>
Subject: Re: [AR-SAWMILLS] City of Visitors: The Story of Hot Springs
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 22:33:09 -0500
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Diana, you thanked Ms Righter in this email. I am researching Nicholas
Rightor/Righter and wonder if she is one of his descendants? If she
receives this I would appreciate hearing from her. He married Minerva
Putnam Craig in Natchez in 1822 and they had 8 children. He died in 1841.
Minerva lived until 1878. He was a government surveyor and one of the
founders of Helena, AR.
Thanks,
Iras Smith
Mobile, AL

----- Original Message -----
From: "Diana Boothe" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 9:18 PM
Subject: [AR-SAWMILLS] City of Visitors: The Story of Hot Springs


> Hello everyone!
> This evening I have something most wonderful to share! I have always been
a
> supporter of AETN/PBS because of their wonderful programming. And, having
> grown up in Hot Springs, I thought I knew quite a bit about the town, and
> it's history.
> OH, how wrong I was! AETN is now airing the most wonderful program
entitled
> "City of Visitors: The Story of Hot Springs", and I do believe it is the
> best show I have watched in many years! (Only to be rivaled by their show
> they did here a while back on Hoxie, (Lawrence County) Arkansas "Hoxie:
the
> first stand" Hoxie, being my husbands hometown.)
> "City of Visitors: The Story of Hot Springs" is "the story of how Hot
> Springs developed as a town with a split personality. It's the story of
the
> people who made the city one of the most glamorous health treatment
centers
> in the country, as well as the largest illegal gambling operation in the
> U.S. And it's the story of the people who forced the city to change." And,
> for the 2 hours that it aired, I was "star-struck"! lol
> This film is produced/written/and edited by DALE CARPENTER a documentary
> filmmaker and Associate Professor of Journalism at the University of
> Arkansas, and features stories told by the wonderful likes of folks such
as
> Wendy Richter, Bobbie McLane, Orval Allbritton, and a host of many others.
> For those of you who live here in Arkansas, I would suggest seeing it (in
> Central Arkansas, it airs again this Saturday (Aug. 13, 2005) at 2:30 p.m.
> and 11:30 p.m. CDT For you out-of-staters, hopefully, it will air sometime
> on your local PBS, or it is available from the AETN.org website here
> http://www.aetn.org/hotsprings/index.html
> Ms. Righter, Ms. McLane, and all others, I have always admired you for
all
> you have done for Arkansas' local history......now, I humbly bow, thanking
> you all, for a job well done!
>
> Take Care,
>
> Diana
>
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