Springfield, Missouri is preparing to host the inaugural Birthplace of Route 66 Festival this weekend. In honor of the event, this week we’ll talk about some interesting places along the route in Oklahoma, Missouri and Kansas.
Today, we visit the Route 66 Vintage Iron Museum in Miami, Oklahoma. To see some images from downtown Miami, click here.Ozarks At Large
Springfield, Missouri is preparing to host the inaugural Birthplace of Route 66 Festival this weekend. In honor of the event, this week we’ll talk about some interesting places along the route in Oklahoma, Missouri and Kansas.
Today, we visit the Route 66 Vintage Iron Museum in Miami, Oklahoma. To see some images from downtown Miami, click here.
On this edition of Ozarks at Large, Roby Brock on what the new redistricting boundaries may mean in next year’s election cycle and the Frisco Festival Dog Show hopes to benefit Rogers Animal Shelter. Jacqueline Froelich talks to seismologist Seth Stein about the New Madrid Seismic Zone and a conversation with Ben Harris, the musical director of this year’s KUAF Summer Jazz Concert series.The inaugural Frisco Festival Dog Show will benefit the City of Rogers Animal Shelter.
More information is available at www.friscofestival.com.
On this edition of Ozarks at Large, local teachers use Fayetteville’s Dickson Street as the site of a writing marathon and a Christian music festival hopes to help tornado recovery efforts in Joplin. We revisit Franklin and Johnson counties to check on the status of FEMA assistance and some advice on how to keep your life and mind clutter-free.Christian bands participate in a summer music festival to support the recovery efforts in Joplin, Missouri. For more information: www.restorefest.com.
Becca Bacon Martin talks about the Arkansas Air and the Clinton House Museums in Fayetteville, Arkansas Country Doctor Museum in Lincoln and the Daisy Air Gun Museum in Rogers in her six-part series on museums in the area. Plus a music festival opens tonight in Eureka Springs.
On this edition of Ozarks, Arkansas-born poet CD Wright talks about her friend Margaret McHugh who marched across the state for civil rights and the Fayetteville Roots Festival expands from one day to an entire weekend of musical acts. An annual tomato-tasting event will be held this weekend at the Botanical Garden of the Ozarks, and a new satellite clinic is set to open later this summer in Springdale for the migrant Marshallese and immigrant Hispanic population in the region.Last year’s one-day event expands to a whole weekend of musical performances.
Music inside this story, in order, included: “Country Boy/City Boy” by Chatham County Line…”Black Diamond Strings” by Guy Clark”…”Home in the County” by Mark Bilyeau…”Margarita” by Rebecca Loebe and, after the piece, “Amaranth” by The Honey Dewdrops.
Links: www.fayettevilleroots.com and www.feedfayetteville.org.
Click here to hear more about the festival.
On this edition of Ozarks at Large, fiddler Babette Allen talks about the upcoming fiddle camp at Ozark Folkways and a little something before Saturday night’s opening concert of the 13th Annual KUAF Summer Jazz Festival. Senator John Boozman talks about the debt-ceiling discussions. Also, are Ozarks lakes at risk of being contaminated with a blue green algae toxin? We find out.To celebrate the role Springfield, Missouri played in the Route 66 era, the West Central Neighborhood Alliance is celebrating the inaugural Birthplace of Route 66 festival.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Tuesday, June 17, 2014
Ahead on Ozarks, a business degree from the University of Arkansas without ever seeing Old Main or setting foot on senior walk: an online degree is now a reality. Plus, we get an update on updating Cane Hill, one of the oldest communities in the region.
The Northwest Arkansas Polo Club's season is underway in Bentonville.
Dr. Estes from Mercy's Bella Vista clinic discusses how to protect yourself against heat, ticks, and more.
A new theatre group brings a new take on Romeo and Juliet at the Gulley Park Gazebo and it promises to be good fun.
Snake Eyes and the Bug Band will perform this afternoon at 2:00 at the Fayetteville Public Library. Here, the band performs “Sew What You Reap”
Here are our ten clips celebrating horse for our Sunday Montage:
1. The Rolling Stones cannot be dragged away by Wild Horses.
2. Elizabeth Taylor in National Velvet.
3. Michael Martin Murphy climbed the charts with Wildfire.
4. Alan Young can't seem to figure out it is Mr. Ed's birthday.
5. Cliff Nobles & Company perform the instrumental EVERY high school band in north Arkansas played at halftime in the 1970s, The Horse.
6. The Marx Brothers crack wise in the funniest horse racing movie ever made, A Day at the Races.
7. Lyle Lovett praises Trigger in If I Had a Boat.
8. The masked man rides Silver at the beginning of The Lone Ranger.
9. Hailee Steinfeld and Dakin Matthews negotiate in the latest film version of Charles Portis' True Grit. (A blast of Arkansas)
10, And we end with a double-blast of Arkansas as Arkie native Johnny Cash sings Tennessee Stud, written by Arkie native Jimmy Driftwood.
Apologies to: U2, Patti Smith, Seabiscuit, the band America, Black Beauty, Echo and the Bunnymen, War Horse and that big fake horse rolled into Troy. Maybe next time.
