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.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.
The Red Cross has a new app for pet owners to help in emergencies.
The state's Private Option saga continues, the state Supreme Court hears arguments in a case involving a major pharmaceutical company, and an Arkansas-based company announces the latest in a string of layoffs. Those stories and more in this morning's Week in Review.
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.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Tuesday, April 8, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, why hundreds of people will be in Rogers this weekend to trade frags, or sections of coral. Plus, we speak to the former First Minister of Scotland about contemporary education.
At the conclusion of last week’s business, Roby Brock from our content partner Talk Business Arkansas sat down with David Sanders, a Republican member of the Senate from Little Rock, and Warwick Sabin, a Democratic member of the House, also from Little Rock. The conversation included talk about Medicaid expansion, the death penalty, taxes and ethics. Roby began the discussion by asking Senator Sanders what might be different for this legislative agenda since the GOP is in control at the capitol.
Monday the Community Clinic in Rogers marked a milestone, celebrating the 100,000th patient served in the fifteen years of service by the clinic.
A cooking lesson at the Bella Vista Public Library is on the menu for Becca's Wednesday entertainment picks.
“The Lucky One (James Yuill Remix)” by Au Revoir Simone
Discount stores are proliferating, with patrons demanding rock bottom prices. Lots of resale stores are opening up. We check out the local Goodwill, one of a half dozen new Goodwill stores in Northwest Arkansas staked out in busy shopping districts. And we also visit a popular independent thrift store in south Fayetteville to assess the trend.
Dr. Rosilee Walker Russell, executive director of the University of Arkansas-Fort Smith Academy of the Arts, says with the holiday season over, the UAFS Academy of the Arts is returning to business as usual with spring class registration and an upcoming piano concert.
