calsfoundation@cals.org
July 5, 1983
The city of Fayetteville (Washington County) established a park named in honor of writer Charles Joseph Finger not far from his homestead of Gayeta. Finger settled in Fayetteville after an early life of travel and adventure, and one of his many adventure books won the Newbery Prize for children’s literature. From 1936 through 1938, he was employed as an editor of the Federal Writers’ Project guidebook, Arkansas: A Guide to the State.