RINGING THE BELL: Denise Ennett rings the bell in Mount Holly Cemetery on Tuesday, April 14, commemorating the 150th anniversary of Arkansas’s ratification of the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution outlawing slavery. President Abraham Lincoln pushed for the 13th Amendment; later on the night of April 14, 1865, he was assassinated at Ford’s Theater in Washington. Also this month at Mount Holly: Garden Series on Saturday, April 18, at 9 a.m. and the Mount Holly Picnic on Sunday, April 26, at 5 p.m.

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