Ozarks At Large

Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large

Thursday, June 19, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, a visit to a jeweler's studio where she makes trinkets of beauty with stones, sterling silver and words on metal. Plus, we talk with blogger Mat Campbell of the Blue Hog Report about how the lawyer-turned-journalist uncovers and covers political happenings in the state.
Becca says that much is in store for Rogers Little Theater's Season 29.
Our ten clips saluting sailors and sailing: 1. The theme to Popeye the Sailor Man. 2. Bob Denver and Alan Hale hatch a scheme on Gilligan's Island. 3. Christopher Cross creates the all-time yacht rock song with Sailing. 4. Gregory Peck, as Captain Ahab, ponders his life with Starbuck in Moby Dick. 5. Sloop John B by the Beach Boys. 6. Hercules ignores the orders of Jason in the 1963 version of Jason and the Argonauts. (later, the GREATEST MOVIE SCENE EVER with the sword-weilding skeletons). 7. Jimmy Buffett is Aa Son of a Son of a Sailor. 8. Russell Crowe catches up to a ship in Master and Commander. 9. Bogart and Hepburn on The African Queen. 10. Lyle Lovett sings If I Had a Boat. Apologies to: Horatio Hornblower, Sinbad (the sailor, not the comic) and Errol Flynn. Maybe next time.
at end of show: "Jolene" by Dolly Parton
The Benton County Children's Advocacy Center recently received reaccreditation. Lake Wedington in Washington County and Shores Lake in Franklin County will soon be partially drained to allow the U.S. Forest Service to allow for some winter maintenance. And Bentonville Public Schools begins to think about names and mascots for its second high school that will be built in Centerton.
‘The Orchard” by Fire on Fire
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art will move a Frank Lloyd Wright house to northwest Arkansas.
A stage is transformed to an ice rink this week in Fayetteville.