Ozarks At Large

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Thursday, November 28, 2013
Ahead on this Thanksgiving edition of Ozarks: music, shopping and a holiday cocktail. We find out how local businesses work to attract shoppers in the midst of the Black Friday weekend. For music, we talk to Fort Smith native Josiah Hawley about his career after being a finalist on NBC's The Voice and his homecoming concert this weekend. Plus, Rosanne Cash discusses the work on her father's childhood home in Arkansas and get a preview of Aaron Diehl's upcoming concert at Walton Arts Center. And our cocktail comes from a house in Fayetteville dedicated to creating unique drinks.
Becca Bacon Martin from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers congratulates you on surviving Friday the 13th. Then, she lists all that’s happening this weekend.
Arkansas businesses can benefit by exporting goods; the University of Arkansas’ women’s basketball team loses to Mississippi; and more – on today’s Ozarks at Large Half-Time.
“Friday the 13th” by The Ionious Monk
Bradford Anderson, an actor on General Hospital, is in northwest Arkansas to participate in the 40/29 Northwest Arkansas Women’s Living Expo. More information is available on www.womenslivingexpo.com/NWA2012.
Theme from General Hospital
Dan Craft, special projects reporter from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers, visits KUAF to discuss a story by reporter Misty Gittings who’s following a legislative repayment issue in Bentonville.
Rhonda Vanlue Gray and fifteen others defined lives of generations of minority students to come by being the first African-American students at Alma Public Schools in 1964. She and other former students who helped integrate schools in Fort Smith, Charleston and Alma will be honored at “Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemoration of Unsung Heroes” event at the University of Arkansas-Fort Smith on January 18.
“Spiritual” by Charlie Hayden and Hank Jones