Dr. Jamie Brandon, research station archeologist for the Arkansas Archeological Survey and assistant professor of anthropology at Southern Arkansas University in Magnolia, will be the guest speaker at an archeology film and lecture event on Thursday, Feb. 11, beginning at 7 p.m. The program will take place at Winthrop Rockefeller Institute atop Petit Jean Mountain.

The film of the evening, “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman” (1974), stars Cicely Tyson and chronicles the fictional life story of Jane Pittman, a black woman born into slavery in the American South at the end of th...