Notes

[1]For a short summary of the early days of the WCHS, see Matthew Kirkpatrick, “The Washington County Historical Society: The Beginnings,” Flashback, Volume 54, Number 4, Autumn 2004, pp.171-174.

[2]Flashback, Number 1, March 1951, p. 1.

[3]Ibid., Volume XVIII, No. 4, November, 1968, p. 1.

[4]Ibid., Number 1, March 1951, p. 1.

[5]Ibid.

[6]Ibid.

[7]Ibid.

[8]Ibid., Vol. II, No. 1, February, 1952, pp. 1-2.

[9]Ibid., p. 1.

[10]Kirkpatrick, p. 173.

[11]Flashback, Number 1, March 1951, p. 4.

[12]See also “Walter J. Lemke and the Revitalization of the Washington County Historical Society,” Michael J. Dabrishus, Flashback, Volume 39, Number 2, May 1989, pp. 26-31.

[13]“Historical Society to Preserve All Lore of City and County,” Flashback, Volume 34, Number 1, February 1984, p. 40 and Fayetteville Daily Democrat, February 11, 1927, p. 1.

[14]Ibid.

[15]Ibid.

[16]Northwest Arkansas Times, June 22, 1938, p. 4.

[17]Flashback, Volume 28, Number 2, May 1978, p. 2 and Northwest Arkansas Times, Sesquicentennial Edition, July 16, 1978, p. 31.

[18]Julanne S. Allison, “Walter John Lemke,” online entry, The Encyclopedia or Arkansas History and Culture, http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=2923, accessed April 6, 2019.

[19]Northwest Arkansas Times, April 13, 1946, p. 1.

[20]Ibid., December 4, 1968, p. 1.

[21]Walter John Lemke Papers (MC L541), University of Arkansas Libraries, Special Collections, https://libraries.uark.edu/specialcollections/findingaids/Lemke/, accessed April 6, 2019.

[22]All four issues of the 2001 Flashback, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the WCHS, were devoted to excerpts from the journal during the Walter J. Lemke years (1951-1968). Flashback went to its smaller, more compact size with the May 1972 issue.

[23]For more details about and a full list of Flashback editors, see J. B. Hogan, “Flashback Editors Through the Years,” Flashback, Volume 69, No. 1, Spring 2019, pp. 36-43.

[24]Flashback, Number 2, April 1951, p. 4.                                   

[25]Ibid., Vol. VI, No. 6, November 1956, p. 2.

[26]Ibid., Vol. X, No. 2, April 1960, p. 6.

[27]Ibid., Volume 22, Number 2, May, 1972, pp. 43-46.

[28]Ibid., Vol.  XI, Number 1, February 1961, p. 1.

[29]Ibid., Vol. XIX, No. 1, February 1968, p. 33.

[30]Ibid., Volume 29, Number 1, February 1979, p. 2.

[31]Ibid., Volume 44, Number 4, November 1994, p. 46.

[32]Flashforward, newsletter of the Washington County Historical Society, Volume 3, Issue 1, February 1998, p. 4.

[33]Flashback, Vol. VII, No. 4, July 1957, p. 36.

[34]Ibid., Volume XVIII, No. 2, May, 1968, p. 36.

[35]Ibid., Volume XXI, No. 1, February 1971, p. 1.

[36]Ibid., Volume 34, Number 4, November 1984, p. 33.

[37]In recent years, the Headquarters House Museum Manager was Tess Kidd.

[38]Fayetteville Restoration, Inc. was a non-profit organization formed in late 1975. Their stated purpose was “to acquire, improve, maintain and operate historical properties in Fayetteville, Arkansas.” Its first directors and incorporators included R. Dale Christy, Curtis Shipley, Carolyn Newbern and Pat Donat. Articles of Incorporation, Washington County Archives, Book 2, pp. 653-656.

[39]Maintenance of WCHS properties is the responsibility of the Property Management committee, in recent years headed by John Paul Davis and former WCHS President Kim Smith.

[40]Flashback, Volume XIII, No. 2, May 1963, pp. 39-42.

[41]Flashforward, Number 74, June 2013, p. 4.

[42]Flashback, Volume 22, Number 4, November 1972, p. 47.

[43]Ibid.

[44]Ibid., Vol. II, No. 1, February 1952, p. 1.

[45] Flashforward, Number 26, September 2003, p. 4.

[46]Ibid., Number 35, June 2005, p. 4.

[47]Ibid., Number 67, November 2011, p. 6.

[48]Ibid., Number 72, November 2012, p. 6.

[49]“Twenty Years of History: Headquarters House Gardens, Washington County Master Gardeners, 1997-2017,” presentation by Jan Lefler, June 1, 2017.

[50]“HQH Year-by-Year Garden Notes from WCMG Leadership (1997 – 2018),” Washington County Master Gardeners document, 2018.

[51]Ibid.

[52]Carl Totemeir died in 2004. A garden just to the west of Headquarters House is named for him. “Twenty Years of History: Headquarters House Gardens, Washington County Master Gardeners, 1997-2017.”