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.
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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.
Becca Martin Brown has some (but not all) of the suggestions for warm-weather music here.
The winning slogan will be included in a logo and outreach materials. Slogans must be five words or less and include a form of the word recycle. Entry forms and more information on the contest can be found on ADEQ’s website, under the Hot Topics section on the homepage.
John Brown University will host a series of art workshops this summer.
The Arkansas Department of Workforce Services points to a handful of reasons as to why employment and unemployment numbers in the state keep improving. The Arkansas Supreme Court grants a stay on a Pulaski County Circuit Court ruling that allowed same-sex marriages to occur in the state last week, and Arkansas Tech's board of trustees approves tuition increases for the coming academic year.
"The Machine" by Garage A Trois
A study released by Arkansas Advocates for Children & Families says that the state’s juvenile detention system is broken. But as Jacqueline Froelich discovered, two Northwest Arkansas detention centers have found a fix.
