Garland County Historical Society

Program at GC Library – Rex Nelson: Coming Back Home: A Look at How Hot Springs Has Decided to Return to its Roots
2024-05-21 12:00 - 13:30 (America/Chicago) | Garland County Library, 1427 Malvern Ave, Hot Springs, AR, 71901, United States
Rex Nelson looks at how Hot Springs has decided to return to its roots. Rex Nelson is one of the most high-profile writers and speakers in the state. As senior editor of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, he writes three columns a week and essays for the cover of the newspaper’s Sunday Perspective section.
This program series is sponsored by the Garland County Historical Society in collaboration with the Garland County Library.

Program at GC Library – The Fight to Legalize Prizefighting in Arkansas
2024-09-17 12:00 - 13:30 | Garland County Library, 1427 Malvern Ave, Hot Springs, AR, 71901, United States
September 17, 2024 at noon. Garland County Library
Brian Irby (Arkansas State Archives) presents “The Fight to Legalize Prizefighting in Arkansas”.

Hidden Hot Springs Home Tours
2024-09-29 14:00 - 16:00 | AR
Tours of Two Park Avenue Area Homes!
Sunday, September 29, 2pm – 4pm
Tickets cost $75 per person and all proceeds benefit GCHS.
Only 100 tickets will be sold
Tickets: Available for purchase online or by phone at 501-321-2159. Tickets can also be purchased in person or by mail:
328 Quapaw, Hot Springs, AR 71901
Tickets will be mailed by mid-September. GCHS hours are 9am – 1pm, Monday – Friday.
(Homes not handicap accessible)

“The Arlington Hotel: Birth and Rebirth 1864 -1924”
2024-10-22 12:00 - 13:30 | Arlington Resort Hotel & Spa, 239 Central Ave, Hot Springs, 71901, United States
Special Free Event!
“The Arlington Hotel: Birth and Rebirth 1864 -1924”
Celebrate the 100th anniversary of the opening of the Arlington Hotel!
Where? Arlington Hotel (Cinema 2 on second floor)
When? Noon, Tuesday, October 22
Sponsored by Garland County Historical Society
Hot Springs Documentary Film Institute
Garland County Library

"A Day in the Life" a program by photographer and writer Corbet Deary
2024-11-19 12:00 - 13:30 | Garland County Library, 1427 Malvern Ave, Hot Springs, AR, 71901, United States
“A Day in the Life” a program by photographer and writer Corbet Deary
Noon, November 19, 2024 at The Garland County Library

Treating the Masses: Hot Springs and a History of Public Bathing in America
2025-02-18 12:00 - 13:30 | Garland County Library, 1427 Malvern Ave, Hot Springs, AR, 71901, United States
Presented by Dr. Cane West, an academic historian and park ranger at Hot Springs National Park. Dr. West’s program will show how Hot Springs emerged as the leading public health resort in US. It features the history of the government free bathhouses, which operated for a three-quarters of a century.

Rex Nelson: Gangsters, Gambling, Rockefellow
2025-10-15 12:00 - 13:30 | Arlington Resort Hotel & Spa, 239 Central Ave, Hot Springs, 71901, United States

Carolyn Staley: My Sixty-Year Friendship with Bill Clinton
2025-10-21 12:00 - 13:30 | Garland County Library, 1427 Malvern Ave, Hot Springs, AR, 71901, United States

Dr. Cane West: Public Health and Hot Springs National Park
2025-11-18 12:00 - 13:30 | Garland County Library, 1427 Malvern Ave, Hot Springs, AR, 71901, United States
