On this edition of Ozarks at Large: we mark the first day of classes at the University of Arkansas by inviting Chancellor David Gearhart to our studio, a report on the latest step in bringing water to rural Carroll County and a student's garden in the middle of the city.
Ozarks At Large
On this edition of Ozarks at Large: we mark the first day of classes at the University of Arkansas by inviting Chancellor David Gearhart to our studio, a report on the latest step in bringing water to rural Carroll County and a student's garden in the middle of the city.
Becca Bacon Martin, editor of What's Up, says the week is only just starting, but there are plenty of things to do right now.
On this edition of Ozarks at Large we begin a new series with the Pryor Center for Oral and Visual History at the University of Arkansas. Over the course of the next several months,and beyond, we'll hear some of the most iconic Arkansas voices talking about their lives. Plus the University of Arkansas Fort Smith plans for the future, the art of judging coffee and more.Thursday night the chancellor of UA-Fort Smith revealed the school's five-year plan.
Ozarks at Large and the staff at the David and Barbara Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History at the University of Arkansas have struck a partnership. The center has agreed to provide us recordings of certain iconic Arkansans sharing their life stories---stories we will share with you once a month. In turn, listeners will be guided to the center's collection of 750 audio interviews and a hundred video interviews.
To learn more visit pryorcenter.uark.edu
On this edition of Ozarks at Large: Arkansas' economy, Kathy Deck, director, Center for Business and Economic Research in Walton College at the University of Arkansas talks to us about the present and future of the state's economic status. Plus Arkansas banks buying other banks, keeping alive the name of an old bank in Eureka Springs, and one story in eight languages in Bentonville.PJ returns to our studio to give us a preview of tomorrow's Film Score Friday. Today: Doctor Zhivago.
Kathy Deck, director, Center for Business and Economic Research in Walton College at the University of Arkansas talks to us after the latest Arkansas Economic Issues Breakfast event.
For more information about the series of economic discussions and to see materials from this week's event, visit www.arkeconbreakfast.com.
For more information about the series of economic discussions and to see materials from this week's event, visit www.arkeconbreakfast.com.
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Wednesday, November 27, 2013
On this edition of Ozarks, a conversation with the CEO of Arkansas Children's Hospital. And we experiment with a new app that selects a color palette based on a song.
Spring break day trips closer to home - Branson's Butterfly Palace and Rainforest Adventure in the north and Fort Smith Museum of History in the south.
John Kander, the first electric razor and more in our history capsule for March 18.
Roby Brock from www.talkbusiness.net reports on the semi-annual Great American Cleanup in Arkansas held March through May.
Michael Tilley from www.thecitywire.com lets us know what Fort Smith's been talking about.
A documentary film by Emmy Award-winning filmmaker duo Larry Foley and Dale Carpenter, based on stories centered around the War Eagle Creek, will be screened today at the Fort Smith Public Library at 7 p.m.
