Ozarks at Large for Tuesday, January 18, 2022

KUAF | By Jacqueline Froelich,

Kyle Kellams

Published January 18, 2022 at 12:00 PM CST

On today's show, an 1800s African-American cemetery in east Fayetteville, almost lost to history, is being restored. Plus, TheatreSquared readies The Mountaintop, a reimagining of the last night of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s life, and much more.

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