Sweetheart's Ball - Love Conquers All

The Washington County Historical Society's Heritage School will present a Civil War Sesquicentennial Program, Sweetheart's Ball - Love Conquers All in the Walker Community Room at the Fayetteville Public Library on Saturday, February 11 at 10:30am.

The Heritage School, founded by Dee Dee Lamb, will use music, dance, living history and narration to depict actual events in Fayetteville, Arkansas one hundred and fifty years ago!

The theme, written and produced for sesquicentennial programs, is a Fayetteville love story between Unionist Elizer Harrison and Confederate Sallie Yeater. It is derived from letters, journals, and other research and told by Raz Stirman one of the town's first Confederate volunteers. It explores how Fayetteville citizens of a divided town responded to the Civil War in Northwest Arkansas. The audience will enjoy learning about Fayetteville's history through story, dance and music and may join in the Grand March which will travel throughout the library. Heritage School Dancers and Jackson Brandt will perform the tune of the Fayetteville Polka, a piece written by a Fayetteville, Arkansas composer Ferdinand Zellner.

The Sweetheart's Ball is part of the Beyond Battlefields: Making Sense of the American Civil War series the library is hosting in commemoration of the Civil War Sesquicentennial. This series is made available with funding through the American Library Association, the Arkansas Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities. This program has been sanctioned by the Arkansas Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission (ACWSC).

The event is free and open to the public.