What's Up - Your guide to what's happening in Fayetteville, AR this week!
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OCTOBER 30-NOVEMBER 5, 2022 WHAT'S UP! 9 "We hope everyone can take a tour with Mr. Bogle," Sanderson enthuses. "Hearing him give a tour gives a newfound perspective to every age group or background! Generally, during Native American Heritage Month, we have everyone from family groups to large-scale corporations call and ask how to get involved and learn more, and this is a great place to start." Bogle began building his dream in 2002, when he bought a large arrowhead collection from John Fryer, a former Bentonville school administrator and later the city's mayor. Fryer was Bogle's scoutmaster when he was a boy, and the two families were longtime friends, Sanderson explains. Over the next few years, Bogle's collection grew so much that the museum's first public display was in 2004, in a converted home near Bogle's residence on North Main Street. In the spring of 2007, when the museum outgrew that space, Bogle bought the current facility on Southwest O Street. The museum officially opened in June 2008. Since then, Bogle has renovated the property three times to its current footprint of about 13,500 square feet. "As of today, MONAH has been featured three years in a row in the Top Ten History Museums within the United States and has become a key destination when you visit Northwest Arkansas," Buchanan-Yale says proudly. Tours will be available on select days throughout November. To schedule, visit monah.org or call 273-2456. "I hope people leave MONAH with a greater knowledge of the diversity of Indigenous peoples but also a hunger to learn more about the past, present and future," Sanderson says. "One fact I like to blow people away with is there are 574 federally recognized tribes within the United States alone, so there is a lot to learn about!"