![Composite image of early photo of J. Chester Johnson and still frame from Pryor Center video interview © Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History, University of Arkansas](makeThumbcustom.php?width=550&height=310&img=projects/Arkansas Memories/JOHNSON-J-Chester/slideshow//000-JOHNSON-Chester-ON.jpg)
#1: Composite image of early photo of J. Chester Johnson and still frame from Pryor Center video interview
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![Chester Johnson's great-grandfather, Samuel Decatur Hanna, who fought for the North in the Civil War, pictured here in his uniform; Hanna died at age 90 on November 16, 1924, in Caddo Gap, Arkansas
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#2: Chester Johnson's great-grandfather, Samuel Decatur Hanna, who fought for the North in the Civil War, pictured here in his uniform; Hanna died at age 90 on November 16, 1924, in Caddo Gap, Arkansas
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![Portrait of Chester Johnson's mother, Opal Birch Johnson, at age 21, ca. 1931 © Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History, University of Arkansas](makeThumbcustom.php?width=550&height=310&img=projects/Arkansas Memories/JOHNSON-J-Chester/slideshow//002-JOHNSON-Chester-Mother.jpg)
#3: Portrait of Chester Johnson's mother, Opal Birch Johnson, at age 21, ca. 1931
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![Portrait of Chester Johnson at 6 months; Galveston, Texas, 1945 © Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History, University of Arkansas](makeThumbcustom.php?width=550&height=310&img=projects/Arkansas Memories/JOHNSON-J-Chester/slideshow//003-JOHNSON-Chester-6-Mo-Old.jpg)
#4: Portrait of Chester Johnson at 6 months; Galveston, Texas, 1945
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![Chester Johnson with his father, John Johnson (right); his brother, John Maxie Johnson (center); his uncle, Paul Johnson; cousin, Sam Paul Johnson © Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History, University of Arkansas](makeThumbcustom.php?width=550&height=310&img=projects/Arkansas Memories/JOHNSON-J-Chester/slideshow//004-JOHNSON-Chester-Uncle-Cousin-Father-Brother.jpg)
#5: Chester Johnson with his father, John Johnson (right); his brother, John Maxie Johnson (center); his uncle, Paul Johnson; cousin, Sam Paul Johnson
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![Chester Johnson as a baby with his mother, Opal Birch Johnson, and his brother, John Maxie Johnson, ca. 1945 © Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History, University of Arkansas](makeThumbcustom.php?width=550&height=310&img=projects/Arkansas Memories/JOHNSON-J-Chester/slideshow//005-JOHNSON-Chester-Mother-Brother-Chester.jpg)
#6: Chester Johnson as a baby with his mother, Opal Birch Johnson, and his brother, John Maxie Johnson, ca. 1945
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![Chester Johnson (lower right) with his paternal grandparents and other family members; Wilmar, Arkansas, ca. 1946 © Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History, University of Arkansas](makeThumbcustom.php?width=550&height=310&img=projects/Arkansas Memories/JOHNSON-J-Chester/slideshow//006-JOHNSON-Chester-Paternal-Grandparents-family.jpg)
#7: Chester Johnson (lower right) with his paternal grandparents and other family members; Wilmar, Arkansas, ca. 1946
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![Chester Johnson standing in front of his brother, John Maxie Johnson, with their aunt, Kathleen Johnson, and cousins, Paula and Sam Paul Johnson; Monticello, Arkansas © Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History, University of Arkansas](makeThumbcustom.php?width=550&height=310&img=projects/Arkansas Memories/JOHNSON-J-Chester/slideshow//007-JOHNSON-Chester-Monticello-Family.jpg)
#8: Chester Johnson standing in front of his brother, John Maxie Johnson, with their aunt, Kathleen Johnson, and cousins, Paula and Sam Paul Johnson; Monticello, Arkansas
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![Chester Johnson (left) and his brother, John Maxie Johnson, posing with their Easter baskets; Little Rock, Arkansas, ca. 1948
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#9: Chester Johnson (left) and his brother, John Maxie Johnson, posing with their Easter baskets; Little Rock, Arkansas, ca. 1948
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![Chester Johnson in the first grade at age 6 © Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History, University of Arkansas](makeThumbcustom.php?width=550&height=310&img=projects/Arkansas Memories/JOHNSON-J-Chester/slideshow//009-JOHNSON-Chester-1st-Grade.jpg)
#10: Chester Johnson in the first grade at age 6
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![Chester Johnson (2nd row from top, 2nd from right) with his second-grade class and teacher, Ms. Edna Carmichel; Easter, 1952 © Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History, University of Arkansas](makeThumbcustom.php?width=550&height=310&img=projects/Arkansas Memories/JOHNSON-J-Chester/slideshow//010-JOHNSON-Chester-Easter-2nd-Grade.jpg)
#11: Chester Johnson (2nd row from top, 2nd from right) with his second-grade class and teacher, Ms. Edna Carmichel; Easter, 1952
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![Chester Johnson in his Little League uniform, 1953 © Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History, University of Arkansas](makeThumbcustom.php?width=550&height=310&img=projects/Arkansas Memories/JOHNSON-J-Chester/slideshow//011-JOHNSON-Chester-Little-League.jpg)
#12: Chester Johnson in his Little League uniform, 1953
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![Chester Johnson at age 10 in the backyard of their home; Monticello, Arkansas, 1954 © Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History, University of Arkansas](makeThumbcustom.php?width=550&height=310&img=projects/Arkansas Memories/JOHNSON-J-Chester/slideshow//012-JOHNSON-Chester-In-Backyard.jpg)
#13: Chester Johnson at age 10 in the backyard of their home; Monticello, Arkansas, 1954
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![Chester Johnson (left) with his brother, John Maxie Johnson, and mother, Opal Birch Johnson, in his paternal grandmother's backyard; Monticello, Arkansas, ca. 1957 © Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History, University of Arkansas](makeThumbcustom.php?width=550&height=310&img=projects/Arkansas Memories/JOHNSON-J-Chester/slideshow//013-JOHNSON-Chester-Mother-Brother-Chester-Grandmothers-Home.jpg)
#14: Chester Johnson (left) with his brother, John Maxie Johnson, and mother, Opal Birch Johnson, in his paternal grandmother's backyard; Monticello, Arkansas, ca. 1957
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![Portrait of J. Chester Johnson at age 14 while serving as a US Congressional page; 1957-1958 © Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History, University of Arkansas](makeThumbcustom.php?width=550&height=310&img=projects/Arkansas Memories/JOHNSON-J-Chester/slideshow//014-JOHNSON-Chester-14-Years-Old.jpg)
#15: Portrait of J. Chester Johnson at age 14 while serving as a US Congressional page; 1957-1958
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![Chester Johnson (seated, 2nd from right), celebrating in a rooming house with other pages while serving as a US Congressional page; Washington, DC, 1958 © Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History, University of Arkansas](makeThumbcustom.php?width=550&height=310&img=projects/Arkansas Memories/JOHNSON-J-Chester/slideshow//015-JOHNSON-Chester-Page-Rooming-House.jpg)
#16: Chester Johnson (seated, 2nd from right), celebrating in a rooming house with other pages while serving as a US Congressional page; Washington, DC, 1958
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![Chester Johnson as a student at the University of Arkansas © Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History, University of Arkansas](makeThumbcustom.php?width=550&height=310&img=projects/Arkansas Memories/JOHNSON-J-Chester/slideshow//016-JOHNSON-Chester-In-College.jpg)
#17: Chester Johnson as a student at the University of Arkansas
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!["St. Paul's Chapel" by J. Chester Johnson from St. Paul's Chapel & Selected Shorter Poems; published by St. Johann Press
© Copyright 2006 by J. Chester Johnson; Second printing 2010](makeThumbcustom.php?width=550&height=310&img=projects/Arkansas Memories/JOHNSON-J-Chester/slideshow//017-JOHNSON-Chester-Volunteer-Poem-St-Pauls-Chapel-BACKcut.jpg)
#18: "St. Paul's Chapel" by J. Chester Johnson from St. Paul's Chapel & Selected Shorter Poems; published by St. Johann Press
© Copyright 2006 by J. Chester Johnson; Second printing 2010
![J. Chester Johnson; Poetry reading at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville; October 28, 2011 © Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History, University of Arkansas](makeThumbcustom.php?width=550&height=310&img=projects/Arkansas Memories/JOHNSON-J-Chester/slideshow//018-JOHNSON-Chester-Poetry-Reading-20101028-WIDE.jpg)
#19: J. Chester Johnson; Poetry reading at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville; October 28, 2011
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![Still frame from Pryor Center video interview with J. Chester Johnson at the Pryor Center on the University of Arkansas campus; Fayetteville, Arkansas, 2010 © Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History, University of Arkansas](makeThumbcustom.php?width=550&height=310&img=projects/Arkansas Memories/JOHNSON-J-Chester/slideshow//019-JOHNSON-Chester-20101028cu.jpg)
#20: Still frame from Pryor Center video interview with J. Chester Johnson at the Pryor Center on the University of Arkansas campus; Fayetteville, Arkansas, 2010
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![Still frame from Pryor Center video interview with J. Chester Johnson at the Pryor Center on the University of Arkansas campus; Fayetteville, Arkansas, 2010 © Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History, University of Arkansas](makeThumbcustom.php?width=550&height=310&img=projects/Arkansas Memories/JOHNSON-J-Chester/slideshow//019-JOHNSON-Chester-5259-Crop.jpg)
#21: Still frame from Pryor Center video interview with J. Chester Johnson at the Pryor Center on the University of Arkansas campus; Fayetteville, Arkansas, 2010
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