In its second year, the Sustainable Cities Program of the UA's Applied Sustainability Center expanded to include seven more diverse Arkansas cities.
Ozarks At Large
Ahead on this edition of Weekend Ozarks, we meet a cartographer on the Ozark Highlands Trail, just in time for Spring hiking season. Plus, we take a Sunday drive to the roadside cafe, The Valley Inn, for a slice of their famous pie.
We make a stop at the roadside café, the Valley Inn, in Hindsville to learn the history of the restaurant in the small town.
Jacqueline Froelich takes us on the Ozark Highlands Recreational Trail to meet a cartographer who maps our bioregion on foot and by water
Here are the references we used in our montage honoring the birthday of Dr. Seuss.
- Seussical the Musical
- Horton Hears a Who
- "Get Together Weather" 5000 fingers of Dr. T
- "Oh the Places You'll Go" read by John Lithgow
- How the Grinch Stole Christmas
- The Lorax
- The Cat in the Hat
- "Grinch 2000" Busta Rhymes ft. Jim Carey
During the University of Arkansas Libraries panel discussion on Daisy Bates and the Civil Rights Movement, Gerald Jordan and Janis Kearney, two graduates of the university, talked about attending the then-predominantly white campus.
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks: it has been 60 years since the largest-ever nuclear weapons test by the United States took place on the Marshall Islands' Bikini Atoll. Today, many Marshallese, including several northwest Arkansas residents, are marking the anniversary of the Castle Bravo Blast. Plus, Becca Martin Brown from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers gets us ready for the weekend, Michael Tilley from The City Wire helps us analyze the week's news, and more.
Dave Baer made the drive from near Ponca to the Carver Center for Public Radio for his first visit to Ozarks at Large. He talks about writing songs and plays a couple as well.
Becca Martin Brown, with Northwest Arkansas Newspapers, has the plans for Mardi Gras in northwest Arkansas all mapped out.
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Monday, April 28, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, how lasers have gone from a phenomenon on The Jetsons to a part of daily life. We speak with a Stanford University professor who has been teaching about the light-emitting device since 1969. Plus, annual hospitality awards in the Arkansas River Valley honor those who serve and take care of the public.
Thirteen thousand Arkansas high school graduates are getting lottery-funded scholarships for the coming school year; the Schmieding Center for Senior Health and Education in Springdale receives $3.5 million federal grant; and more – on today’s Segment A.
“At the End of Spring” by Zun
A proposed initiative could curtail gifts and campaign contributions to state legislators. To find out what legislators think of the idea, Roby Brock from our content partner Talk-Business-Dot-Net spoke with Republican Ann Clemmer and Democratic State Senator Joyce Elliott.
Last week Project Vote based in Washington DC notified the Arkansas Secretary of State’s office claiming non-compliance with the National Voter Registration Act of 1993. We get the details from a Project Vote program director.
Becca Martin Brown from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers has puppets, owls, classical music and a civil-war reenactment on her to-do list today.
UofA freshman Andrew Irwin will compete for a spot on the U.S. team next week at the USA Track and Field Olympic Trials in Eugene, Oregon.
For a schedule of events visit:
http://tracktown12.gotracktownusa.com/olympic-trials-schedule
