Ozarks At Large

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Sunday, March 30, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Weekend Ozarks, the Museum of Native American History in Bentonville may be a secret for now, but it won't be for long. We'll explain why, and we find out how distance education will have a larger footprint in the University of Arkansas School of Law next fall.
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.
To hear today's EarthSky, visit their website here.
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.