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Thompson tribute
The Butler Center for Arkansas Studies and the Clinton School of Public Service will mark the 35th anniversary of the Central High School graduation of the late Roosevelt Thompson, who died in an automobile accident in 1984, at the center's monthly "Legacies & Lunch" program, noon Wednesday at Ron Robinson Theater, 100 River Market Ave., Little Rock.
Thompson, student body president, all-star football player and a National Merit Scholar while at Central, attended Yale University and was selected as a Rhodes Scholar.
The program will include video footage featuring Thompson, Bill and Hillary Clinton and others, and a panel discussion with Elaine Dumas, one of his teachers and mentors; Lee Thompson, his brother; and Beth Felton, a Central High classmate, now a staff member at the Central Arkansas Library System's Roosevelt Thompson Branch Library. A question-and-answer and memory-sharing session will follow.
The session is sponsored in part by the Arkansas Humanities Council. Admission is free; take a sack lunch and the Butler Center will provide drinks and dessert. Call (501) 918-3033 or (501) 683-5239 or email [email protected].
Browne in town
Tickets -- $31-$71, plus applicable fees -- go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday for a 7:30 p.m. Oct. 17 concert by singer-songwriter Jackson Browne with "special guests" Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams at the Walmart Arkansas Music Pavilion, 5079 W. Northgate Road, Rogers. Call (479) 443-5600 or visit arkansasmusicpavilion.com.
Joining Browne will be longtime band mates, including Bob Glaub, bass; Mauricio Lewak, drums; Jeff Young, Hammond organ, piano; Chavonne Stewart and Alethea Mills, vocals; and Greg Leisz, guitar, lap steel, pedal steel, plus multi-instrumentalist-singer Larry Campbell and singer-guitarist Teresa Williams.
Style on 06/02/2015