Arkansas Society of Mayflower Descendants Next Meeting,
Mayflower Lecture Series and Webinars
MARCH 19TH 2025 AT 7pm EST - “WELCOME TO THE GRAVEYARD” WITH BRENDA SULLIVAN
Welcome to the Graveyard!” chronicles cemetery art, history, and symbolism. From colonial New England burial grounds of the 16 & 1700s, through the nation-wide rural cemetery movement of the 19th century and into 21st century locations, the program examines why we have cemeteries and gravestones, why they look like they do and how styles and art have evolved over almost 400 years. The presentation is robust with photographs of original gravestones and burial grounds from cemeteries visited by Gravestone Girls over many years.
Zoom webinar information:
April 3RD 2025 AT 7PM EST - "The Bible: A Global History” - WITH Bruce Gordon
For Christians, the Bible is a book inspired by God. Its eternal words are transmitted across the world by fallible human hands. Following Jesus’s departing instruction to go out into the world, the Bible has been a book in motion from its very beginnings, and every community it has encountered has read, heard, and seen the Bible through its own language and culture.
In “The Bible,” Yale Professor Bruce Gordon tells the astounding story of the Bible’s journey around the globe and across more than two thousand years, showing how it has shaped and been shaped by changing beliefs and believers’ radically different needs.
Breathtakingly global in scope, The Bible tells the story of this sacred book through the stories of its many and diverse human encounters, revealing not a static text but a living, dynamic cultural force.
Zoom webinar information:
Spring 2025 General Meeting
May 3rd
First Security Bank
11:30 AM
Speaker: TBD