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Ozarks At Large
The Fayetteville Farmer's Market heads into the home stretch and the Ozark Slow Food fundraiser approaches.
October is American Archives Month. This will be noted tomorrow afternoon at three inside Mullins Library. Keynote speakers for this event devoted to history will be a pair of teenage historians. Sarah and Emma Bailin attend Central High in Little Rock and have been making short documentaries since they were eleven years old. They'll screen their film "Return to Sender" about the 1980 Cuban refugee crisis at Fort Chaffee and how that event changed Arkansas' political landscape.
On this edition of Ozarks at Large we report on how you can see your ballot before Election Day, why bumble bees make such fascinating research subjects, what to expect from this week's gathering at the University of Arkansas devoted to breast cancer research and more.It is hard to imagine Eugene Sargent's mind or his hands ever rest. He is a sculptor and works with wood, metals, cement, and other materials. He creates furniture that is art and art that is furniture. He paints and draws. He writes. He makes computer cases out of aluminum and flashlights out of old tent poles. So it makes sense that his studio near Lincoln in Washington County is a pretty astonishing creation, too.
The final poll conducted by talkbusiness.net and Hendrix College before next week's election has been completed. Roby gives us the results.
On today's fundraising edition of Ozarks at Large, we learn about rural fire associations and how they operate. Also, Arts Live Theatre adapts "Night of the Living Dead" for younger audiences, Becca previews an exhibition by a Hurricane Katrina survivor and more. Mark Landon Smith and Jules Taylor stop by the Anthony and Susan Hui News Studio to preview Arts Live Theatre's upcoming production of “Night of the Living Dead.”
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Friday, December 13, 2013
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, singer/songwriter Joe Pug stops by the Firmin-Garner Performance Studio. Plus, Becca Martin Brown gets us caught up on what's been rescheduled for this weekend.
Summer's here and so are the peaches in Johnson County. We pay a visit to Peach Pickin' Paradise.
Broken Promise by Claire
Supporters of proposals involving Arkansas' minimum wage and regulation of alcohol sales say they have enough signatures to make it to the ballot in November.
Wall Street by Craig Ventresca
Some of the tens of thousands of unaccompanied Central American children seeking asylum are making their way to Arkansas. Jacqueline Froelich met with a teenager newly arrived from El Salvador who describes her journey and Springdale attorney, Laura Ferner-Moudy (photo), who is representing her.
A Fayetteville Police Department representative recently explained how seized items ended up at city auction at Callaway Auctions in Springdale.
Real Good Woman by Johnnie Johnson
Our Ozarks at Large insect expert takes us back to Clear Creek to find our nymphs from March all grown up.
