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.)
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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.)
Heifers for South Dakota has helped organize donations of cattle from around the country to help South Dakota farmers affected by a blizzard.
Several area non-profit organizations are encouraging residents to donate on the first Tuesday after Thanksgiving.
The Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration releases revenue projections for the 2014 fiscal year ahead of next year's Fiscal Session of the Arkansas General Assembly. Governor Mike Beebe is sued by one of the leaders of the state Republican Party over an alleged violation of the state's Freedom of Information Act. Fort Smith transit officials propose a fare increase to help offset rising overhead costs. And Van Buren officials get a peek at a proposed budget for next year.
On this edition of Ozarks, a united effort to protect the single largest source of drinking water in northwest Arkansas. The Beaver Watershed Alliance wants to use information, muscle and policy to protect the water around us. Plus the Fayetteville Jazz Collective is getting ready for a big holiday concert.
The 18-piece Fayetteville Jazz Collective has some standards and new arrangements for its annual Christmas concert.
The week after Thanksgiving is full of opportunities to hear music, stories and run a 5K in your favorite ugly sweater.
Finding out how the last big shift in climate for the planet affected the people alive then is, not surprisingly, difficult work.
Roby Brock's recap of the past week of business and political news includes a new CEO for Walmart.
Along with the Kings River Watershed Partnership, which formed in 2001, and the Illinois River Watershed Partnership which organized in 2005, the Beaver Watershed Alliance, established three years ago, is also working to improve regional water quality. We meet Board President, Bob Caulk (left) and director, John Pennington, on a very impaired tributary, to talk shop.Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Friday, February 7, 2014
Ahead on Ozarks, we talk to Michael Tilley from The City Wire about Governor Beebe's words for Whirlpool's departure from Ft. Smith and what to expect for the 2014 Legislative Session. Plus the Arkansas-born-and–raised woman who helped Pete Seeger learn songs like "We Shall Overcome."
Vincent Gaffney is the chair in landscape archeology and geomatics at the University of Birmingham in England. Tonight at 6:30, he’ll deliver a lecture about “The Secrets of Stonehenge” on the University of Arkansas campus.
"Take Her to the Sea, Mr. Murdoch" by James Horner (from Titanic)
Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge organizes a week of festivities to raise funds and awareness about big cats. Becca Martin Brown from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers has the details regarding that and much more.
Arkansas’ two race tracks that also offer electronic gambling rake in millions; taxpayers get two extra days to file their taxes; and more on today’s round-up.
“Running on Empty” by David Lindley/Jackson Browne
Since taking office of Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation last fall, Bill John Baker has sold off the tribe’s fancy jet, dedicated a greater percentage of profits from the flourishing casino industry towards healthcare, and has vowed to diversify the Nation’s business sector. We travel to tribal headquarters in Tahlequah, Oklahoma to meet the new chief.
“You’ve Got to Have Freedom” by Pharoah Sanders
Becca Martin Brown from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers is back with her three columns: one is theatre, the second is music and the third is free (or almost free) events.
