
Ozarks At Large


Michael K. Honey's new book Sharecropper's Troubadour gives us details of the life of John L. Handcox.



The state Department of Workforce Services releases March unemployment numbers for Arkansas, though they remain slightly above the national rate. Plus, the state's constitutional ban on same-sex marriage will either be reaffirmed or struck down in the coming weeks.


As you Like It will be performed by the University of Arkansas, and an Earth Day Celebration is just around the corner. Becca Martin Brown has What’s Up.
Here are the ten clips used in our salute to jumping:
- “Jump Around” House of Pain
- White Men Can’t Jump
- “Jumpin Jive” Joe Jackson
- Dirty Harry
- “Jumpin Jack Flash” Rolling Stones
- 21 Jump Street
- “Jump in Line” from Beetlejuice
- Divergent
- “Jump” Van Halen
- Tony Danza on Sesame Street
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Thursday, May 15, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks: in an effort to facilitate further business success in Arkansas, the Arkansas Economic Development Commission has launched a new website, ArkansasFavorsTheBold.com. We'll have a conversation with Grant Tennille, that organization's executive director. Plus, the Fourth Congressional District, geographically the largest in the state is in the midst of a heated Republican race this primary season. We have part one in a series of conversations with each candidate.
Bill Smith, our history doctor, returns to discuss how history is served (and not served) by that gigantic digital encyclopedia.
Billy Bragg, It's a Wonderful Life and more in our history capsule for December 20.
Schools are out soon (or out now) and Becca has some suggestions for the week before Christmas.
"White Christmas" by The Ventures
The annual Oxford American music issue is out. This year the magazine is devoted to music from Alabama.
Meredith Priestly is the modern day version of Scrooge. In the original work, "Christmas Carol High School", she is visited by ghosts, just like her literary ancestor. The play was written by Mark Landon Smith and directed by Jules Taylor. Part one of the play, recorded in the Firmin-Garner Performance Studio at KUAF, is here.
"O Christmas Tree" by Bill Evans