On today’s Ozarks at Large Half-Time -- Arkansas has the second highest percentage of people testing positive for the use of methamphetamines at work, and the River Valley Regional Food Bank in Fort Smith is in dire need of protein products.
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The Brick Fields Duo will take part in the Ozarks Blues Society Challenge tonight at George’s Majestic Lounge on Dickson Street in Fayetteville.
For more information, visit www.brickfieldsmusic.com.
Dr. Jesse Casana, a University of Arkansas archaeologist, recently discovered evidence for the continuity of civilization at a time when all other ancient civilizations were collapsing. He talks to Ozarks at Large’s Iti Agnihotri-Mudholkar about the details.
For more on what could’ve caused some of these ancient civilizations to collapse, click here.
For more on what could’ve caused some of these ancient civilizations to collapse, click here.
But a significant portion of the long-vacant Mallalieu Church in Fort Smith is being preserved from demolition so it can be used as an entrance for a new community academic center.Becca discusses the Prairie Grove Clothesline Fair, Beaver Lake Cruises, and the 2011 Student Selects: A Young Filmmakers Showcase on AETN.
A couple of Ozarks at Large team members visited First Thursday/Fest of All yesterday. There was art, belly-dancing, “Paw-casso,” music and so much going on.
This month in the Fayetteville Underground complex of galleries on the downtown square you will discover burnt, brushed and scratched art of every hue--and emotion.Beginning this weekend, the Bentonville Fire Department will be able to use a new traffic signal system that’ll allow emergency responders inside the vehicle to change the traffic lights to pass through intersections in a safe and timely manner.
On this edition of Ozarks at Large, author Jo McDougall discusses her memoir “Daddy’s Money,” and the Bikes, Blues and Barbecue Motorcycle Rally plans to expand beyond Fayetteville. Also on today’s show, the University of Arkansas-Fort Smith launches its 2011-12 Season of Entertainment with “Aqua Vita.”Author Jo McDougall talks to Kyle Kellams about her memoir “Daddy’s Money” and growing up in southern Arkansas.
To listen to more of the conversation, click here.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Friday, December 20, 2013
Ahead on Ozarks, a company that began on the University of Arkansas campus is on a list of 2013's top technological inventors. Plus the founders of the Early Morning Bourbon Girls…Rebecca Champagne and Meredith Martin Moats…talk about the band's upcoming reunion show at Maxine's Tap Room and play a couple of songs inside the Firmin Garner Performance Studio.
Last June, a flash flood along the Little Missouri River swept through a remote portion of the Alpert Pike Recreational Area on the Ouachita National Forest, west of Hot Springs. Twenty campers were killed. The USDA Forest Service ordered an inquiry. As Jacqueline Froelich reports, what emerged was a nationwide plan to better protect visitors on national park recreation sites.
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.
What are American political third parties? Our history doctor, Bill Smith, explains.
"Royal Garden Blues" by Don Byron
Mahalia Jackson, the OK Corral and more in our history capsule for October 26.
