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“David spoke with compassion about whatever suffering and confusion that man

must have been through to do something like this.” The Rev. Lowell E. Grisham, about parishioner David

Lewis’ reaction to the death of his 6-year-old grandson in the school shooting in Newtown, Conn.

Article, 1BToday’s meetings Fayetteville orientation for new aldermen, 8:15 a.m.

Springdale Advertising and Promotion Commission, 4 p.m. Walton Arts Center Council, 4 p.m.

Rogers Planning Commission, 4:30 p.m.

Bentonville Planning Commission, 5 p.m.

Washington County Finance Committee, 5:30 p.m.

Elkins School Board, 6 p.m.

Fayetteville City Council, 6 p.m.

Rogers School Board, 6 p.m.

Lowell City Council, 6:30 p.m.

Rogers Library Board of Trustees, 6:30 p.m.

Siloam Springs Board of Directors, 6:30 p.m.

Bethel Heights City Council, 7 p.m.

Pea Ridge City Council, 7 p.m.

Today’s happenings

Atari to Xbox - Retro Gamers Night, 4-7 p.m., Fayetteville Public Library

Academy of the Arts Orchestra, Prelude String Orchestra and Youth Honor Symphony Orchestra concert, 7 p.m., Echols Conference Center, University of Arkansas at Fort Smith

Ozark Poetry Slam presents Jam Slam!, 8 p.m., Rogue Pizza, FayettevilleCreole Christmas comes to WAC

The Walton Arts Center will host a Creole Christmas concert by Preservation Hall Jazz Band at 8 p.m. Thursday.

The band was founded 50 years ago by Allan and Sandra Jaffe, whose son Ben now directs the group. The band has performed their Creole Christmas show since 2005, adding New Orleans flavor to traditional songs like “Blue Christmas,” “Bells Will Be Ringin’” and “The Dreydel Song.”

Tickets cost $20-$36. More information is available by calling (479) 443-5600 or online at waltonartscenter.org.

  • ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTEAmerican Indian exhibit planned

An exhibit of work by photographer Edward S. Curtis will be on display through the end of December at Mullins Library on the University of Arkansas campus in Fayetteville. Curtis is best-known for his contributions to photography and anthropology and for his seminal, 20-volume series The North American Indian.

The series, published in 1930, represents Curtis’ experiences documenting nearly 100 tribes in the United States and Alaska. The images on display at Mullins Library are reproduced from the photographer’s portfolio.

Born in 1868, Curtis was a self-taught photographer who built his first camera. After climbing Mount Rainier with noted anthropologists George Bird Grinnell and Clinton Hart Merriam, he was invited to photograph the Harriman Alaska Expedition, where he learned fundamental ethnography.

In addition to photographs, Curtis made more than 10,000 wax cylinder recordings of American Indian language and music. He recorded tribal mythology and history and descriptions of food, dwellings, clothing and everyday life in tribal villages.

A complete set of Curtis’ The North American Indian can be found in the UA Special Collections department in the Rare Books collection.

More information is available by calling (479) 575-8443 or (479) 575-7311.

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Northwest Arkansas, Pages 9 on 12/18/2012

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