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Friday, January 17, 2014
On this edition of Ozarks, the efforts continue to place a statue of General William O. Darby on the edge of Fort Smith. And the work is just beginning to move a Frank Lloyd Wright house from New Jersey to Bentonville. We’ll hear how that task will be done. And Pearl Brick sings inside the Firmin-Garner Performance Studio…and talks about leaving college to travel to Key West, losing her voice and her recent return to performing.
Energy Corps correspondent Christina Thomas reports on the pros and cons of biodiesel produced from used cooking oil from university cafeterias.
"Taxmen" by Little Junior Parker
President Bill Clinton's childhood home in Hope, Arkansas was dedicated as a national park facility over the weekend.
After all that tax filing, head to Dickson Street for some metal music.
"Straight No Chaser" by Miles Davis
Singer/songwriter Joe Purdy is currently on a three-month tour, but earlier this month, he played an acoustic set at the University of Arkansas. While he was in town, he visited the Firmin-Garner Performance Studio. For more information on Joe, visit www.joepurdy.com. To see video of Joe performing a song not heard on air, click here.
A micro-enterprise workshop to help mom-and-pop business assert their presence on the web will be hosted in Eureka Springs next week.
"Goodbye Porkpie Hat" by Art Farmer