In this final episode of season two, host Mike Rusch reflects on the story of Northwest Arkansas from Indigenous removal and slavery to immigration, labor, and power today.
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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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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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