one of the most interesting people in the book is bernie babcock. she was born in ohio but her parents moved to arkansas when she was a little girl but she grew up about the rest of her life here in arkansas and was involved in political act the same for literally. temperance movement, women's suffrage. although she didn't finish in a new degree. she was interested in writing. she started doing research of various things. she was fascinated with abraham lincoln. at one point she was considered one of the country's best authorities on lincoln. she got upset when people make fun of our prints the pew at the humorous made all sorts of jokes about arkansas. she wanted to prove arkansas was at an adolescent culture. so bernie started in ecm. it was a museum at natural history and had indian artifacts and various kinds of things that were found around the state. animals on display, stuffed animals of course. whatever she could get donated, whatever she could get money raised by. it started out a little storefront here in little rock and then ended up in c