Ahead on Ozarks, grasshoppers can be pesky, and in the dog days of summer, we often see them jumping in and out of grass and on our windshields. Today, we go grasshopper hunting with our insect expert. Plus, a new award was given out over the weekend, the latest edition of Arkansongs and more.Ozarks At Large
Ahead on Ozarks, grasshoppers can be pesky, and in the dog days of summer, we often see them jumping in and out of grass and on our windshields. Today, we go grasshopper hunting with our insect expert. Plus, a new award was given out over the weekend, the latest edition of Arkansongs and more.
As classes begin at the University of Arkansas, Raymond Walters enters doctoral programs in physics and mathematics, all before his 20th birthday.
A guns-rights group organized a rally to illustrate an Arkansas law that went into effect August 16.
On this special edition of Weekend Ozarks, we revisit Jacqueline Froelich’s five-part series, which has been airing over the summer, examining how the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will affect individuals, small business, non-profit health clinics, Medicaid expansion, and the insurance industry in Arkansas.
In our series on the start up of the Affordable Healthcare Act in Arkansas, we look at how small businesses will be affected.If you are a small business owner and want to know how the Affordable Care Act will affect you, visit http://sba.gov/healthcare
Here are our ten clips of ten classic southern tales, each set in a different southern state. Extra points if you know the actor featured (if not actually heard) in two of our clips this week.
1. Vivian Leigh, as Scarlet, makes a vow at the end of the first half of Gone With the Wind. (Goeriga)
2. Richard Widmark, as Col. Bowie, questions the wisdom of defending the Alamo. (Texas)
3. Sally Field is encouraged to hit Shirley MacLaine in Steel Magnolias. (Louisiana)
4. Sidney Poitier as Virgil Tibbs in In The Heat of the Night. (Mississippi)
5. John Wayne takes gets ready to take out four bandits in the 1969 film adaptation of Charles Portis' True Grit. (Arkansas)
6. Gary Cooper is a true shot even before he joins the military in Sgt. York. (Tennessee)
7. The five seconds we can air from Al Pacino in Scarface. (Florida)
8. Jeff Goldblum makes the case for a rationalization in the Big Chill. (South Carolina. Yes, South Carolina...who knew?)
9. Cape Fear. Scary. Robert DeNiro, of course. (North Carolina)
10. Boo Radley saves the day in To Kill a Mockingbird. (Alabama)
Apologies to: Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky and Maryland.
1. Vivian Leigh, as Scarlet, makes a vow at the end of the first half of Gone With the Wind. (Goeriga)
2. Richard Widmark, as Col. Bowie, questions the wisdom of defending the Alamo. (Texas)
3. Sally Field is encouraged to hit Shirley MacLaine in Steel Magnolias. (Louisiana)
4. Sidney Poitier as Virgil Tibbs in In The Heat of the Night. (Mississippi)
5. John Wayne takes gets ready to take out four bandits in the 1969 film adaptation of Charles Portis' True Grit. (Arkansas)
6. Gary Cooper is a true shot even before he joins the military in Sgt. York. (Tennessee)
7. The five seconds we can air from Al Pacino in Scarface. (Florida)
8. Jeff Goldblum makes the case for a rationalization in the Big Chill. (South Carolina. Yes, South Carolina...who knew?)
9. Cape Fear. Scary. Robert DeNiro, of course. (North Carolina)
10. Boo Radley saves the day in To Kill a Mockingbird. (Alabama)
Apologies to: Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky and Maryland.
On this special Roots Festival Edition of Ozarks from the Fayetteville Public Library, the Del McCourry Band, Iris DeMent and Joe Crookston play some tunes for our live studio audience. And we learn about the burgeoning craft brewery scene in NWA and more.
Ahead on Ozarks: from the archives, excerpts from an interview with the recently deceased Mariam McPartland, recorded in Fayetteville in 1990. Plus, the Cooperative Emergency Outreach moves into a new building after temporarily closing last fall. And, an update on White Nose Syndrome; the fungus that causes the disease has been found in Arkansas.
A mother-daughter duo turned a hobby into a business, then turned a need into an economic incubator. Christina Thomas has more on the locally made clothing line From Jane.On this edition of Ozarks, Reach Out Northwest Arkansas is to keep kids from dropping out of school. Plus, exploring the new green roof atop the newly renovated Vol Walker Hall on the UA campus.Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Friday, May 2, 2014
Ahead on Ozarks, a local tech company receives a multi-million dollar contract from the Air Force and the Jones Center receives a $1 million pledge.
The Arkansas Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission is commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Civil War in Arkansas. The Civil War Sesquicentennial will be celebrated between 2011 and 2015.
Some background information behind some of the airports we frequent from XNA and Fort Smith.
Music: “Dark was the Night” by Kronos Wuartet
Search and rescue dog handler Vynn Stuart and her two German Shepherds travel thousands of miles annually from their home in Ashdown, Arkansas to help locate missing persons.
Some believe a private waste water system--one of 38 like it in the state--operated by the Great Passion Play on a mountain top just east of Eureka Springs, may be contaminating area creeks, wells and historic springs.
The Northwest Arkansas Water Ski Show Team, also known as the Aquabacks, is preparing to host a show by the year's end. Visit www.aquabacks.com for more information on the club.
For video of the Aquabacks' practice, click here.
