Comments on: Donald Harington dies at 73

By: Lin Chen

Lin Chen — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 18:16:10 +0000

I will miss him. Requiescat in pace.

By: P-Dub

P-Dub — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:31:08 +0000

Thanks for the article, guys. One thing is for sure, I was ALWAYS on time for those art history classes. His method worked.
For those who haven’t seen it yet, there’s a nice obit about Harington over at the NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/12/arts/12harington.html?_r=3&ref=obituaries

By: Sardon

Sardon — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:07:39 +0000

Don was the greatest Arkansas writer ever, and maybe the best of all everywhere. I’m just glad Don wrote so much, but I wish he were alive to write more. He will be remembered. We were lucky to have him in our lives.

By: Michael Patrick

Michael Patrick — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:09:34 +0000

Dustin, I’m so pleased to read of your admiration of Don as a teacher and writer. One of his most recurrent teaching positions was at the University of Missouri-Rolla as a Visiting Professor and guest lecturer over the years. I used his novels in my Ozark Folklore class when I taught there. Vance Randolph called TAOTAO, a compendium of Ozark Folklore and said, [paraphrasing] “It is all lies, but God’s own truth.” Don continued coming to Rolla over the years after I left there. He had many admirers, friends, and readers in the Missouri Ozarks, including the great Missouri writer, Mitchell Jayne, whose novel the “Fiddler’s Ghost,” won the Governor’s Award of the Missouri Council for the Humantities.

By: anon

anon — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:38:22 +0000

Please see the obituary at http://www.mooresfuneralchapel.com/index.cfm.

He did not actually die “after a battle with cancer,” and in fact had been cancer free since the early 1990s.

He will be missed by many.

By: spell

spell — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:43:42 +0000

Don’s last name is “Harington.”

By: Trim Scramble

Trim Scramble — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:31:53 +0000

I suffered and loved 3 semesters of Donald Harrington’s art history classes. By far these were the hardest classes I took in college, but at the same time the most rewarding. His lectures were funny and inspiring. He tought me things that I will carry with me for the rest of my life. The Don as my friends and I called him will be missed. He was a true Arkansas treasure.