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Commerce Arkansas Expo at Statehouse Convention Center
Date(s): 11/3/2009Start Time: 9:00 am
End Time: 4:00 pm
URL: http://www.littlerockchamberweb.com/commercearkansas2009/index.html
Price: Free if you register online in advance ($20 at the door)
Location: Statehouse Convention Center
City: Little Rock
Small-business owners, manufacturers, business leaders, technology-based entrepreneurs and innovators and others can benefit from the free expertise offered by seasoned consultants and experts at the second-annual Commerce Arkansas business expo at the governor's halls of the Statehouse Convention Center.
Commerce Arkansas will include four pavilions dedicated to the following themes: Small Business Strategies, Business Trends and The Economy, Technology and Innovation, and Manufacturing. Keynote speakers include Jon Harrison, general manager of Caterpillar Inc.'s North Little Rock plant, University of Arkansas economist Kathy Deck, Linda Nelson of the U.S. Small Business Administration, and Greg Henderson with Arkansas manufacturing Solutions.
Boom Town: How Wal-Mart Transformed an All-American Town into an International Community
Date(s): 11/3/2009Start Time: 6:00 pm
End Time: 8:00 pm
URL: http://
Price: Free
Location: Fayetteville Public Library
Street: 401. W. Mountain St.
City: Fayetteville
Zip: 72701
Contact: Steve Voorhies
Contact Email: voorhies@uark.edu
Contact Phone: 479.575.3583
Marjorie Rosen, a writer and journalism professor from New York, will talk about her book, "Boom Town: How Wal-Mart Transformed an All-American Town into an International Community," in the Multicultural Center of the Arkansas Union at the University of Arkansas.
Her visit is being coordinated through the Walter J. Lemke Department of Journalism and the program in Latin American and Latino studies, both in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences.
Boom Town is Rosen's account of how, since Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton arrived in Bentonville in 1950, the region has changed from an area of mostly white Christians to include African-Americans, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Marshall Islanders and the fastest-growing Latino population in the country.
Rosen explores the social, political and cultural character of the United States through the microcosm of northwest Arkansas and the personal stories of its people.
