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Fulbright's Ice Cream was produced in Fayetteville through the Fayetteville Ice House and was one of several businesses operated by Roberta Fulbright, a leading business woman of the era. Her son, J. William "Bill" Fulbright, was a U.S. Senator for Arkansas for almost 30 years and founded the Fulbright Program, an international exchange program for college students. The Mooney-Barker Drugstore had a full service soda fountain, managed by Helen Mooney Barker. Her husband, Arthur P. Barker, was the store druggist, jeweler and pawn broker for those who needed a little help in tough times. (Courtesy Photos/Shiloh Museum) amazeum.org 1009 Museum Way | Bentonville, AR When you're ready to swing back into playfully interactive activities, we'll be here. 4 WHAT'S UP! MAY 3-9, 2020 Pettigrew Continued From Page 3 "It was an incredible opportunity," Besom said in a Springdale News story in 1988. "It's very unusual to get this kind of ephemeral stuff that wasn't saved by a lot of people." Beyond the store's contents, Martin had box after box of historic photos, receipts, records, catalogs, newspaper clippings and a head full of information. And he knew there was much more in the attics and back bedrooms of the Madison County Ozarks. Pettigrew Day, a joint effort among Martin, his wife, June, the museum and the Pettigrew community, was established in 1987 to encourage neighbors to share what they had. "I heard Bob say it many times, and I believe it, that Pettigrew may be the best documented little town in the state of Arkansas," Young says. Over the years, printed records and photographs were joined by oral histories that Young says would "put Pettigrew up with any place in the state." This year's Pettigrew Day, usually held in April, was postponed to 2021 by coronavirus concerns. But Carolyn Reno, the Shiloh Museum's collections manager, rounded up some treasures from the community to share at our What's Up! virtual event. "Pettigrew Day has been, and continues to be, a great example of a community honoring itself," Young says. "Not some historian from someplace else coming in and interpreting it, but the people of the community deciding to remember." Although the community now hosts Pettigrew Day instead of the museum, Young and Reno are still soliciting photos and ephemera from Madison County. "Plus we still have a huge, untapped resource of Pettigrew information," Young says, "and we haven't even begun to really mine it. I don't think we'll ever get to the end of it." Personally, Young says she'll never stop missing Martin, who died in 2010. "He was not only one of the best friends of my life but one of my touchstones for Ozark history," she says. "He always knew the answers you can't find in a book: How did you skid that log? How did you get the mules to work in the woods? What kind of soda pop was in Granny's store? How did they baptize people? "There are still so many elders out there with memories we mustn't let go." SPRINGDALE This cigarette sign from the 1930s made a comeback in a retro advertising campaign this century. The colors used on this Hershey's box date it to years between 1956 and 1961, according to Tammy L. Hamilton, archivist for the Hershey Community Archives, Hershey, Pa. Customers would have been able to get their chocolate fix at the Mooney-Barker Drug Store candy counter. Soda bottles from the 1940s and '50s are among the items collected by the Shiloh Museum from the Mooney- Barker Drug Store. Botl-O was offered through the Grapette Company in Camden; Whistle bottle from the Vess Bottling Company, Fayetteville; Kist soda made by Citrus Products Company, Chicago; and Tops was bottled by the Seven-Up Bottling Company in Joplin, Mo.