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.
Ozarks at Large’s Katy Henriksen spoke with Seattle-based singer-songwriter Damien Jurado who’s known for his quiet, lo-fi recordings.
More information is available at www.damienjurado.com.
We hear from political, education and business leaders, concerned about the status of undocumented college students in Arkansas--on what could be considered the early formation of an Arkansas DREAM Act. Illuminating the way is University of Arkansas-Fayetteville Chancellor David Gearhart.
“The Dream” by Ry Cooder
Well…almost! This year’s Hogeye Marathon is on April 15. The marathon has been around since 1977.
More information is available at www.hogeyemarathon.com.
Flash-flood watch continues in our listening area; Arkansas Senator Mark Pryor believes the Keystone Pipeline project will ultimately pass; and more – on today’s edition of Ozarks at Large Half-Time.
“Rainy Day” by Coldplay
Becca Bacon Martin with Northwest Arkansas Newspapers tells us more about this rainy, but quietly interesting day.
