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Friday, January 17, 2014
On this edition of Ozarks, the efforts continue to place a statue of General William O. Darby on the edge of Fort Smith. And the work is just beginning to move a Frank Lloyd Wright house from New Jersey to Bentonville. We’ll hear how that task will be done. And Pearl Brick sings inside the Firmin-Garner Performance Studio…and talks about leaving college to travel to Key West, losing her voice and her recent return to performing.
The Arkansas legislature passed a long-sought-for bill to protect the interests of land owners on a large natural gas play in north central Arkansas, where more than 4,000 unconventional gas wells have been drilled. The measure was pushed by Arkansans for Responsible Gas Development.
Roby Brock from our content partner Talk Business Arkansas talks with Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel about the latest from Mayflower.
Becca Martin brown says that Weird Al Yankovic,well-known creator of musician parodies, is coming near us.
"Vicksburg Blues" by Skip James
This week marks the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Fayetteville. The Washington County Historical Society is preparing three days of commemoration.
"The Siege of the Vicksburg" by Johnny Horton
Today marks the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's "Letter From a Birmingham Jail." This morning, a reading of the letter was held at the Fayetteville Public Library