Michele Norris, co-host of All Things Considered, discusses her new book, "The Grace of Silence." It is a memoir about family, race and America.
Ozarks At Large
Every month, Jacqueline Froelich takes a look into the drawers of the Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History and pulls out a featured history. This time it's Al Witte, noted University of Arkansas Law professor, World War II veteran and former president of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. For more details and more information visit pryorcenter.uark.edu.
On this edition of Ozarks at Large, a mural at the historic Washington County Courthouse shines brighter, we spend time in the kitchen with one of the cooks from the Chefs in the Garden, hear more from the debate between Congressman John Boozman and Senator Blanche Lincoln and more.
A mural completed nearly ninety years ago looks a bit brighter after a
restoration. Tuesday the art and the artist were celebrated with an official rededication.
On this edition of Ozarks at Large, taking care of the first home fay Jones designed and built. Plus the theremin as you may never have heard it before and Haas Hall Academy prepares for a giant book sale.
Haas Hall Academy in Fayetteville, a public charter school, is planning to sell books, thousands of them, this weekend.
Becca says Monday night is a good night for book lovers in the area.
This week's Saturday Market in Fayetteville has art, local food, live music and a new cookbook.
On this edition of Ozarks at Large, we remember Jefferson Thomas, one of the Little Rock Nine, who died this weekend. Plus a young chef offers healthy cooking classes for young people, the trumpeter swan is released in the Ozarks and along the Arkansas River Valley and more.
Roby Brock of Talk Business takes a look back at the past week in Arkansas business news. For more about Arkansas business and politics, www.talkbusiness.net
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Sunday, March 16, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Weekend Ozarks, a complaint has been filed against a charter school corporation for teaching creationism in Arkansas. Plus, one local couple has made an investment in the futures of underrepresented college students, and we take a look at what's in a name in Benton County.
Here is our salute to Seattle and Washington (Bronco fans, we did Denver last week).
1. Nirvana performs Come As You Are.
2. War Games, set in Seattle, begins.
3. Jimi Hendrix, Seattle native, plays Purple Haze.
4. Agent Cooper gives high praise in (and on) Twin Peaks, Washington.
5. Seattle native Bing Crosby sings You Are My Sunshine.
6. Frasier Crane plans to get even with Bulldog on Frasier.
7. Heart, another Seattle band, plays Crazy on You.
8. Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson discuss a possible romantic meeting in Sleepless in Seattle.
9. Detectives Holder and Linden, from the fictional Seattle police department, order lunch in an episode of The Killing.
10. Seattle native Sir Mix-A-Lot and Baby Got back.
Apologies to: Eddie Vedder, Modest Mouse, Macklemore and...oh, about five hundred other bands and musicians. Maybe next time.
Becca says that area residents will have an opportunity to learn about Muhammed Ali and other notable African Americans at an exhibit in Fort Smith.
Here, the quartet from Siloam Springs performs their song "Rosa Lee."
The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality has a new program designed to help landowners clean up hazardous substances without being fined. Senator John Boozman offers his thoughts on the Farm Bill that passed the House and is now on its way to the Senate. And the state's attorney general is being asked to clarify the state's new voter ID law.
"Extreme Ways" by Moby
Michael Tilley, from The City Wire, discusses financial numbers for Arkansas real estate, Tyson Foods, Walmart and the city of Fort Smith.