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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Thursday night three area high school volleyball teams will participate in the latest Cancer Challenge event. We talked with Tina Waggener, Executive Director for Cancer Challenge. To learn more visit cancerchallenge.com
"God Bless the Child" by Wes Montgomery
A music festival, major leaguer and more in our history capsule for August 18.
Becca has, for the third day in a row, something loud for an entertainment suggestion.
The web page of the Fort Smith Historic site contains lots of information on the history and culture of the area. The park is adding to that information through the creation of a database on federal court employees from the 19th century.
To access the database, visit fosmcourtdatabase.nps.gov.
To contact the Fort Smith National Historic Site, call 479-783-3961.
