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Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum and Educational Center

A program of Arkansas State, the center is the family home of Ernest Hemingway’s second wife, Pauline Pfeiffer. Also located on the grounds is a barn-studio where Hemingway penned portions of one of his most famous novels, “A Farewell to Arms.”

The Matilda and Karl Pfeiffer Foundation Museum opened in May 2004 across the street from Hemingway-Pfeiffer. Although related historically, it is not an Arkansas State University program.

Heritage Sites, Arkansas State

The Arkansas State University Heritage Sites Office develops and operates historic properties of regional and national significance in the Arkansas Delta. These sites provide educational resources for formal and informal learning, including serving as living laboratories for students in the university’s Heritage Studies Ph.D. program. In addition, they serve as economic catalysts in communities where they are located by attracting heritage tourists from around the country. 

A-State Heritage Sites also serves as an administrative agent for Arkansas Delta Byways, the official non-profit regional tourism promotion association serving 15 counties in the Arkansas Delta. These include Arkansas, Chicot, Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Desha, Drew, Greene, Lee, Mississippi, Monroe, Phillips, Poinsett and St. Francis counties.

A-State Heritage Sites has been instrumental in developing and promoting two National Scenic Byways that traverse this region: the Crowley’s Ridge Parkway and the Arkansas segment of the 10-state Great River Road, which runs along both sides of the Mississippi River, from its headwaters at Lake Itasca, Minnesota, to the Gulf of Mexico.

See separate entries for the following:

• Historic Dyess Colony and Boyhood Home of Johnny Cash at Dyess, Mississippi County
• Historic V.C. Kays House
• Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum and Educational Center at Piggott, Clay County
• Lakeport Plantation near Lake Village, Chicot County
• Rohwer Japanese American Relocation Center, at Rohwer, Desha County
• Southern Tenant Farmers Museum at Tyronza, Poinsett County

Heritage Studies Ph.D. Program (proper name) 

Historic Dyess Colony:  Boyhood Home of Johnny Cash (A-State Heritage Site)

A program of A-State’s Arkansas Heritage Sites since 2009, the Historic Dyess Colony:  Boyhood Home of Johnny Cash is under restoration at present. The complex includes the Dyess Administration Building, a Theatre/Community Shell and the Johnny Cash Boyhood Home. Working with the community, Arkansas Heritage Sites' goal is to make this site an international tourism destination. (Note: Note: the town’s name is pronounced “dice” not “dye-ess.”)

Historic V.C. Kays House (A-State Heritage Site)

1930s-era Tudor-style residence of the president of Arkansas State College (pre-university), V.C. Kays and his wife Bertie.  The three-level house, now listed in the National Register of Historic Places, is being renovated for purposes associated with the Governor Mike Beebe Economic Development & Education Institute and A-State Heritage Sites.

Honors College

Student selected to participate in the Honors College enjoy a place to live, a place to learn, and a place to belong, with emphasis on exceptional opportunities for academic and social enrichment.

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See "Mascot" entry.