Monthly Archives: September 2025

Old Fashioned Hog Kill’n Traditionally, hog butchering had to be done in cold weather so the meat wouldn’t spoil. Every February, the Eddie Mae Herron Center in Pocahontas, Arkansas, holds its annual Hog Butchering Demonstration for the community.  Smithsonian Folklife Festival visited us for the event in 2023 and wrote this blog post about it. […]

Why We Celebrate Martin Luther King Jr’s Birthday Eddie Mae Herron Center celebrates MKL day on the official holiday, when schools are closed, and the community comes out to march with us. The holiday highlights the life and achievements of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. King was born on January 15, 1929 in Atlanta; […]