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C. D. Wright, a poet, a recipient of the Citation of Distinguished Alumni of the University of Arkansas, and a member of the Department of English, Brown University, donated a copy of her Lost Roads Project to the University Libraries on November 12, 1998.

The Lost Roads Project was organized by Wright to "provide Arkansas and its visitors with a prideful sense of what has been written" by Arkansas people. Subtitled "A Walk-in Book of Arkansas," the project was a traveling exhibit, 1994-1996, featuring 21 post-World War II Arkansas writers.  It consisted of photographs and printed excerpts of poetry and prose, with music, video, and crafts. Wright received a grant from the Reader's Digest - Lila Wallace Foundation in 1992 to finance the project, which was sponsored by the Center for Arkansas and Regional Studies at the University.

Processed by Ethel C. Simpson, Special Collections Division, University of Arkansas Libraries, 
Fayetteville, Arkansas, in November 1998.
 

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CONTENTS OF THE COLLECTION (1 box)

Box 1

The Lost Roads Project: A Walk-in Book of Arkansas. Providence : Lost Roads Project, Brown University, 1994.  "Printed by Walter Feldman for the Lost Roads Project in an edition of [18] numbered and signed copies of which this is number [15]"

The collection consists of 1 copy of the portfolio (21 broadsides), containing the following texts.  Each sheet (56 x 48 cm.)  is printed in black, red, and/or blue on cream paper, with the same illustration printed in various colors.

Womenfolks / Shirley Abbott
I know why the caged bird sings / Maya Angelou
Born in the Delta / Margaret Jones Bolsterli
Heaved from the earth / Besmilr Brigham
Bury my heart at Wounded Knee / Dee Brown
Pigs / Andrea Hollander Budy
Living in Little Rock with Miss Little Rock / Jack Butler
Skillet-sizzled buttermilk cornbread / Crescent Dragonwagon
Goodbye Sweetwater / Henry Dumas
Some other place. The right place / Donald Harington
The stump / Jo McDougall
Deep blues / Robert Palmer
The great riding / Lily Peter
Alley / Pat Phillips
Hunting the old iron / Vance Randolph
Going  back home / Son Seals
What about this / Frank Stanford
About a year after he got married he would sit alone in an abandoned shack in a cotton field enjoying   himself / James Whitehead
Walking after supper / Miller Williams
Eyesight to the blind / Sonny Boy Williamson
The Old World's new world  / C. Vann Woodward.