Becca tells us that even though some events have been postponed because of the ice and snow, there are still some certainties ahead on the events calendar.
Ozarks At Large
From Thanksgiving to Super Bowl Sunday, area police officers are on high alert for those that might be driving while intoxicated. We talk to officials about why Fayetteville has more DWI's than any other Arkansas city.
The new(ish) restaurant 28 Springs, in downtown Siloam Springs, uses a mix of food, atmosphere and science to explore culinary ingredients.
Students from Elkins High School spent time inside a local Walmart, learning about retail basics.
Four years after Woodstock, a circle of friends living in Eureka Springs decide to stage an Ozark heritage family folk festival on a remote and rugged Carroll County wilderness. But instead of parents with children, an estimated hundred fifty thousand hippies showed up. Jacqueline Froelich takes us to visit the site, on the fortieth anniversary. (Photo: April and Dustin Griffith, landholders, hold up an artifact found on a festival campsite.)
Ahead on this snow day edition of Ozarks at Large, our weekly conversation with Michael Tilley of The City Wire; plus the violent explusion of an African American settlement in southeastern Crawford County comes to light, ninety years after the fact.
Pianist Ashley Eriksson recently was in Northwest Arkansas for a performance at the Fayetteville Underground. While she was in town, she stopped by the Firmin-Garner Performance Studio to play a few songs.
Ninety years ago, an African American colony which had settled in Catcher in southeastern Crawford County was driven out by a throng of angry whites. The truth behind the violent expulsion is finally coming to light.
After months of preparation, the event's organizers say that the weekend's craft fair will still go on, regardless of the weather.
Michael Tilley of The City Wire says that a meeting will take place next week to best decide how to move forward on the water park project for Fort Smith and Sebastian County.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks: In 1980, thousands left Castro's Cuba on a boatlift to the United States. Many of them were given housing at Fort Chaffee. Jacqueline Froelich examines what happened then, what's happened since…and why historians are spending time getting the facts correct. Plus, a new adult education library for Northwest Arkansas Community College.
Sabrina Billings, an Assistant Professor with the department of African and African American Studies at the University of Arkansas, has spent years researching her new book Language and Globalization in the Making of a Tanzanian beauty Queen.
"Itete Angoma" by Kikosi Cha Ngoma Taifa, and at end of show: "Long List of Numbers" by Don't Stop Please
A campaign advertisement begins airing on state TV, an effort gets underway to potentially raise the Arkansas minimum wage, and calls for a public official to resign were all stories we take a look at in this morning's Week in Review.
"Open" by Rhye
Millions of newly insured Americans will be seeking medical care, under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act starting this month. And with a projected shortage of primary care physicians to serve them, new research indicates that nurse practitioners may help fill the gap. We hear from a national association board member as well as Dr. Anna Jarrett, an acute care nurse practitioner and professor of nursing at UA-Fayetteville.
The Arts Center of the Ozarks fixes the roof, plans for 2014.
Though fresh squeezed juice has been around for a while, the recent growth in popularity takes juicing to a whole new level. We visit with Wilson Wood co-owner and head juicer of Native Nectar Juice.
"Love Me 'Til Sunday" by Nicola Conte
