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Cody Bessette

Cody Bessette

Historian at the Arkansas Department of Transportation (ARDOT) and certified archivist.

Sep 9, 2026

32:41
Do you have goals for this role? And, and two-part question, how do you feel like the public is gonna benefit from h- RDOT having a historian like this?
32:51
Yes.
32:51
So, uh, long term, uh, I'd like to see, like, a centralized archive of, uh, historical records, but then also, um...
33:02
And that can include, like, these, uh, these old project files, uh, maps, photographs, documents, uh, kind of the physical things that we see from the past that we're not necessarily making so much now.
33:13
Uh, but those definitely have historical value.
33:16
But then also, um, what we're making now, and not all of those records are gonna be what would be deemed historically, you know, significant in the future, but some of them are, and just thinking about how we can, um, organize those and, uh, store those and make them accessible and useful, uh, for people in the future.
33:36
And, um, uh, like a centralized archive that, that has a lot of uses.
37:24
80,000 pound?

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