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Ozarks At Large
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In this installment of What's in a Name, we look at the history of Benton, the county and the ville.
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The state legislature finished business before getting ready to adjourn this year's fiscal session, and Peco Foods announces expansion in Arkansas. Those stories and more in this morning's week in review.
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Becca Martin Brown, from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers, has a long list of St. Patrick's Day activities.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Friday, April 18, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, we learn about traditional Native American ecological and cultural practices. Plus, we hear a roundtable discussion about recent political polling data for this year's statewide elections.
Richard White says a careful examination of our past can help us better understand the present.
"Cattle Call" by Johnny Cash
Arkansas has more than 160 freshwater lakes, most of them artificial, like Lake Sequoyah in southeast Fayetteville. But the 50-year old reservoir is shrinking due to excess upstream sedimentation. So the city has started to clean it out using innovative technology.
The Fayetteville Natural Heritage Association recently adopted more than 30 acres of prairie near Lake Fayetteville and restored the brushy wooded area back to its native grassland state.
After two years, the film Up From the Hills will premier this week at the Fayetteville Public Library.
Katy Henriksen tells us about the two works, both Symphony Number 2 from Phillip Glass and Alexander Bourdin.