March 1, 1902

Henry Karr Shannon was born at Lunenburg in Izard County. Henry Shannon was dubbed “the sage of Lunenburg” for the daily column he wrote for the Arkansas Democrat. The column, called “Run of the News,” ran from 1944 to 1971, and through it, Shannon “developed the largest following of any columnist in Arkansas,” according to a 1973 comment by Robert S. McCord, then associate editor of the Democrat.

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