Rock Van Winkle

19 Aug 2025

the Van Winkle Family with Barbara Carr.

Barbara Carr, 5th generation descendant of master builder and formerly enslaved Aaron Anderson “Rock” Van Winkle, shares her family’s story of resilience, erasure, and reclamation, closing the season on Northwest Arkansas’s history with truth, memory, and repair.

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12 Aug 2025

the Van Winkle Family with Jerry Moore.

Sociologist Jerry Moore helps uncover the life of Aaron Anderson “Rock” Van Winkle — one of the first enslaved people brought to Northwest Arkansas, whose life and labor left a lasting impact on the region’s development.

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