“This is a sensory exhibit. We want the people to walk in and go, ‘Wow!’” While Barton may be remembered most for its classic rock, acts from all genres made stops in Little Rock including Kool & the Gang, Ohio Players and Prince.
God! This is a gold mine.’ [The Arkansas Department of Parks, Tourism and Heritage] had a new facility to archive the state police items. I knew we needed to take action then so they could hermetically seal our older documents.” There was a small museum in Barton Coliseum, but nothing like what is being displayed at the Old State House. “We’ve been working on this since the spring of 2019,” White said. “I can still see the state cars coming down Howard Street, and the Old State House folks coming and grabbing whatever they could grab. There were months and months and months of them coming to get things and then recording them all. “I remember jokingly telling Jo, ‘If you find the Lynyrd Skynyrd tickets, we will consider this a success.’” Ahh … that band … those tickets. Lynyrd Skynyrd was arguably the top Southern rock band in the land, and the group had played twice at Barton, in 1975 and 1976. (I was at the latter show; the Charlie Daniels Band opened.) Skynyrd was set to play again the next year at Barton, Oct. 22, 1977, to be exact. But two