The 21st Cancer Challenge is just one of many ways to support nonprofits in the area this month.
Ozarks At Large
A recent study suggests that Arkansas' two racetrack and gaming complexes have a sizable impact on the state's economy. Fayetteville Public Schools prepares to offer free meals to city youths through the summer, and an effort to raise the state's minimum wage gets a groundswell of support.
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, Republican Attorney General runoff candidates discuss medical marijuana and the death penalty. Also, we take a look back at the desegregation of public swimming pools.
In this month’s food segment, we visit the Arkansas Food Innovation Center where the Roberts family makes Gina’s Salsa. 
Later this month, Siloam Springs will be home to a Whitewater Recreation Park, the first of its kind in the state.
Memorial Day marks the opening of public swimming pool season across America. And this summer, an article about pools and race will be published in the Arkansas Historical Quarterly, titled “Going off the Deep End: The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Desegregation of Little Rock’s Public Swimming Pools.” Jacqueline Froelich spoke with author and historian John Kirk.Officials with the U.S. Marshals Museum yesterday approved its 2015 budget, which includes allocations for architectural, exhibit and operational costs. President Clinton speaks to the role presidential libraries serve in providing historical context, and state revenue numbers for May came in below what economists expected.
Ahead on Ozarks, workforce officials try to improve job training to meet industry demands. And, we look at the University of Arkansas' autism intervention program.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Monday, June 23, 2014
Ahead on Ozarks, coverage from a groundbreaking ceremony for Bentonville's new high school. Plus, a conversation with the author of “The Indicted South: Public Criticism, Southern Inferiority, and the Politics of Whiteness.”
Jacqueline Froelich once again delves into the stacks of the Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History and pulls out an interview with the late Arkansas "Rockabilly" musician Dale Hawkins. The digitally taped interviews was conducted at Hawk's Nest Recording Studio in North Little Rock, January 16th, 2008 by Bob Cochran.
More information is available at pryorcenter.uark.edu.
A pretty little lake on the Ozark St.-Francis National Forest west of Fayetteville is getting a big makeover this winter. Jacqueline Froelich takes us there for a look.
This spring four days will be set aside in Harrison for visitors and residents to walk or run all or part of a 100 kilometer goal.
More information is available at www.harrison100k.org.
"Feliz Navidad" by Los Straitjackets
Michael Tilley from www.thecitywire.com talks about the latest economic and cultural news from Fort Smith and western Arkansas.
Irvin Mayfield, the Delta Heritage Trail and more in our history capsule for December 23.
