During a tour last week, guests were given a preview of what the completed museum will look like.
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On this edition of Ozarks, preserving stream sides in Northwest Arkansas and a preview of the Artosphere Festival Orchestra. Plus, a look at if e-books really better for the environment.
While fewer trees may be cut as physical books turn into digital ones, Ozarks at Large's Energy Corps correspondent Christina Thomas reports that the effect of e-books on the environment may not be as beneficial as you might imagine.Dr. John Perry of Stanford University and University of California, Riverside, spoke at the University of Arkansas earlier this week.
Ozark Poets and Writers Collective meet at Nightbird Books, UA Fort Smith Chorale Ensembles performances at the Fort Smith Convention Center and The Whigs at George's.
On this edition of Ozarks, heavy rains and thunderstorms keep much of Arkansas soaked and ATTRA (Appropriate Technology Transfer for Rural Areas) loses $3 million in funds allocation. Springdale School District looks at renewable energy to cut costs, local company develops software to improve exercise efficiency and a photography symposium awaits Eureka Springs.
On this edition of Ozarks, horses teach elementary school students to read and Arkansas Philharmonic Orchestra wraps up its 2010-2011 season. Washington County officials look into implementing a county-wide emergency mass alert system and Arkansas State Hospital is charged with patient abuse. Also on today's show, poet Matthew Henriksen's conversation about his book Ordinary Sun.Poet Matthew Henriksen visits KUAF's Anthony and Susan Hui News Studio to talk about his book Ordinary Sun.
Washington County officials have been looking into implementing a county-wide emergency mass notification system. But as Jacqueline Froelich reports, it has to be the perfect fit.
On this edition of Ozarks at Large, a University of Arkansas student helps initiate a campus-wide composting project and Roby Brock takes a final look at the 88th General Assembly. The screening of a documentary on Newton County farmers concerned about the use of herbicides and staging of Shakespeare's Othello will take place in the U of A campus this week, and Wayne Bell talks about the discontinuation of All My Children and One Life to Live.Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Sunday, March 30, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Weekend Ozarks, the Museum of Native American History in Bentonville may be a secret for now, but it won't be for long. We'll explain why, and we find out how distance education will have a larger footprint in the University of Arkansas School of Law next fall.
Though the repainting the interior of a water tower is, relatively, routine, the exterior of the Hill Street water Tower in Siloam Springs has not been repainted since its construction in 1967. Ozarks at Large’s Christina Thomas finds out more.
For the past two years the artistic director of the Reykjavik Blues Festival has also been in Eureka Springs for that town’s blues festival. During his most recent visit Halldor Bragason came to our studio.
Daniel Hintz of Downtown Bentonville tells us that the best way to cure a fireworks hangover is to see some live blues this weekend.
Arkansas home sales are up by 10 percent according to the Arkansas Realtors Association. The half-cent highway sales tax kicks in this month and will continue for the next ten years. The Fort Smith Fire Department honors one of its own who rescued a child from a 30-foot utility shaft. And a familiar term to Fayetteville residents: construction zone.
"Middle Man" by Jack Johnson
The popular resort town of Eureka Springs is a prime Ozarks vacation spot filled with pretty B&Bs, cottages and cabins for overnight guests. But as Jacqueline Froelich reports, some say a glut of tourist accommodations and vacation rentals are dislocating residents, forcing them to live out of town.
