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.
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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.
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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.
Becca Martin Brown, from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers, says if you’re willing to fill up the tank, there are some big acts continuing their summer tours within a day’s drive.
The Fayetteville Roots Festival has roots music…but also another kind of roots: food. We talk to some of the farmers involved in the annual event.
"Butterfly's Day Out" by Mark O'Connor
Two special elections will be held tomorrow, one to fill a vacant city council seat in Springdale, and one regarding a 1 percent sales tax for water and sewer improvements in Paris. And, the Rogers School District, like many others in the area, will start the new school year with more bandwidth, to allow for a more connected classroom.
"Coconut Boogaloo" by Medeski Martin and Wood
A plan to create a campus in Fort Smith to help people move out of homelessness received some help this summer.
Roby Brock, from Talk Business Arkansas, has the details on a busier-than-usual August week in Arkansas politics and business.