Springfield, Missouri is preparing to host the inaugural Birthplace of Route 66 Festival this weekend. In honor of the event, this week we’ll talk about some interesting places along the route in Oklahoma, Missouri and Kansas.
Today, we make a stop in Galena, Kansas and meet Melba the Mouth.
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Springfield, Missouri is preparing to host the inaugural Birthplace of Route 66 Festival this weekend. In honor of the event, this week we’ll talk about some interesting places along the route in Oklahoma, Missouri and Kansas.
Today, we visit Eisler Brothers Old Riverton Store on Route 66 in Riverton, Kansas.
This month’s collection of work at the Fayetteville Underground will have us looking up, beneath, or even away.
Hacking collective “Anonymous” posted data stolen from 75 police websites nationwide. The data came from servers owned by Brooks-Jeffrey Marketing, a Mountain Home company. This story comes from our content partner KUAR in Little Rock.
On this edition of Ozarks at Large, how the heat is making life hard for area farmers and ranchers. A tour of the restored Coleman Theater on Main Street in Miami, Oklahoma in our Route 66 series and private gifts to the University of Arkansas see a 40% increase over the previous fiscal year.
Springfield, Missouri is preparing to host the inaugural Birthplace of Route 66 Festival this weekend. In honor of the event, this week we’ll talk about some interesting places along the route in Oklahoma, Missouri and Kansas.
Today, we visit the newly restored Coleman Theater in Miami, Oklahoma.
Springfield, Missouri is preparing to host the inaugural Birthplace of Route 66 Festival this weekend. In honor of the event, this week we’ll talk about some interesting places along the route in Oklahoma, Missouri and Kansas.
Today, we visit the Route 66 Vintage Iron Museum in Miami, Oklahoma. To see some images from downtown Miami, click here.
First Thursday in Fayetteville, Evening Book Club at the Boone County Library in Harrison and Reverend Horton Heat at George’s in Fayetteville tonight.
Ozarks at Large’s Energy Corps correspondent Christina Thomas talks to Shannon Joyce and Becky Roarke, Energy Corps members at the University of Arkansas’ Applied Sustainability Center. She spoke with them at a Community Development Block Grant event at Walker Park where they were tabling.
Upstage Melodrama:The Search for the Secret Book of Atrebor at the Fayetteville Public Library, Dreamweavers at the Boone County Library and multimedia spectacular on Versailles at the University of Arkansas-Fort Smith on Becca's list.
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Friday, April 4, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks: the former president of Heifer International speaks on the University of Arkansas campus. Plus, we take a walk through history that begins in Jasper.
Becca Martin Brown from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers tells us where we should runaway to today.
Mark Landon Smith from Arts Live Theatre offers a preview of the organization's summer camps.
More information is available here.
"Jessica" by: The Allman Brothers
Spring planting is going on all around the Ozarks and the Arkansas River Valley. And seeds are big business in the region, including seeds that may have been out of fashion or near extinction. Roby Brock of www.talkbusiness.net has this report.
The 40 days and 40 nights of Earth Day in Fayetteville and Northwest Arkansas are continuing. On April 21st there will be a night dedicated to the appreciation and conservation of trees. The duo Still on the Hill is organizing the event April 21 at the Global Campus Center on the Fayetteville Square.
Visit www.stillonthehill.com for more information.
Yesterday afternoon, the statue of former United States Senator and Fayetteville native J. William Fulbright was returned to its rightful place at the west entrance to Old Main on the University of Arkansas campus. The event also celebrated the 107th birth anniversary of Fulbright.
“Winter Pageant” by Café del Mar