Ahead on this edition of Ozarks: remembering the Ozark Folk Fair from forty years ago. The headliners included some of the top names in blues, rock, folk and bluegrass, but the event is all but forgotten now. Plus northwest Arkansas ranchers rally to help out farmers in South Dakota who lost cattle because of bad weather and local non-profits embrace Giving Tuesday.
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Ahead on this edition of Ozarks: remembering the Ozark Folk Fair from forty years ago. The headliners included some of the top names in blues, rock, folk and bluegrass, but the event is all but forgotten now. Plus northwest Arkansas ranchers rally to help out farmers in South Dakota who lost cattle because of bad weather and local non-profits embrace Giving Tuesday.
Four years after Woodstock, a circle of friends living in Eureka Springs decide to stage an Ozark heritage family folk festival on a remote and rugged Carroll County wilderness. But instead of parents with children, an estimated hundred fifty thousand hippies showed up. Jacqueline Froelich takes us to visit the site, on the fortieth anniversary. (Photo: April and Dustin Griffith, landholders, hold up an artifact found on a festival campsite.)
Heifers for South Dakota has helped organize donations of cattle from around the country to help South Dakota farmers affected by a blizzard.
Several area non-profit organizations are encouraging residents to donate on the first Tuesday after Thanksgiving.
The Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration releases revenue projections for the 2014 fiscal year ahead of next year's Fiscal Session of the Arkansas General Assembly. Governor Mike Beebe is sued by one of the leaders of the state Republican Party over an alleged violation of the state's Freedom of Information Act. Fort Smith transit officials propose a fare increase to help offset rising overhead costs. And Van Buren officials get a peek at a proposed budget for next year.
On this edition of Ozarks, a united effort to protect the single largest source of drinking water in northwest Arkansas. The Beaver Watershed Alliance wants to use information, muscle and policy to protect the water around us. Plus the Fayetteville Jazz Collective is getting ready for a big holiday concert.
The 18-piece Fayetteville Jazz Collective has some standards and new arrangements for its annual Christmas concert.
The week after Thanksgiving is full of opportunities to hear music, stories and run a 5K in your favorite ugly sweater.
Finding out how the last big shift in climate for the planet affected the people alive then is, not surprisingly, difficult work.
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Thursday, March 13, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks at Large, though the next presidential election is more than two years away, some are already ready for HIlary. And as the Bentonville School District grows, so too does its course offerings. We visit a junior high school as students prepare for mountain biking. Plus, we learn about a Bentonville before Sam Walton.
Becca Martin Brown from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers has a list of not one, not two, but several end-of-the-world activities.
"The Final Countdown" by Europe
Tonight’s concert at Rogers Little Theater includes Earl and Them. Earl Cate recently visited our studio to talk about his career with the Cates Brother Band and more.
Our history doctor, Bill Smith, is back for another edition of We’re History. Today he examines the lengthy relationship between aviation, daredevils and advertising. And, yes, he has a northwest Arkansas connection.
"Waiting For The End of the World" by Elvis Costello
Two of Ozarks at Large’s own go into the Firmin Garner Performance Studio to send us into the weekend with holiday cheer.
"There's Always Tomorrow" by Burl Ives
Although 2012 was a tough year for agriculture in Arkansas, farmers are getting better prepared for next year. Also, the city of Fayetteville is renovating a pair of tennis courts at Wilson Park in an attempt to attract more young athletes to the sport. And Senator John Boozman speaks out against the Defense Authorization Act and the uncertain future for the 188th Fighter Wing in Fort Smith.
"Little Drummer Boy" by The Hoodoo Gurus
