"Images of Hot Springs National Park" will be presented by Mary Bell Hill at the meeting of the Garland County Historical Society at noon Tuesday at Garland County Library. Hill will talk about the history of the park using historic images from the park archives. The photos range from the earliest days of the park formation through today. The public is welcome.
Hill has worked in museums for the past 23 years, caring for a variety of collections ranging from vintage military aircraft to exotic bird species. Her work has taken her all over the country, where she has worked in the collections at Hot Springs National Park, Hill Aerospace Museum, the Octave Chanute Aerospace Museum, the Botany Division of the Nebraska State Museum of Natural History, and Fort Worth Zoo. She has a Master's of Science in Museum Studies from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, a Bachelor of Science in History from Weber State University, and Bachelor of Science in Biology from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
Hill is a volunteer museum technician at Hot Springs National Park. Her book "Hot Springs National Park," from Arcadia Publishing's Images of America Series, is a collection of archival photos from the park highlighting the changes through time of this extraordinary place.
Society on 02/19/2017