Antoinette Grajeda

On today’s show, what literature can tell us about how we’ve behaved toward vaccines in the past.  Plus Apple Seeds teaching farm in Fayetteville demonstrates how to turn food waste into lush gardens. Arts Live Theatre is gearing up for summer programming with virtual and in-person camps, and much more. 

On today's show, one of the largest paintings in the world is on exhibit in Rogers. Plus how the state is preparing to add 12-to-15 year olds to the list of people eligible for Pfizer COVID-19 vaccinations, highlights from the Governor's weekly media briefing yesterday, a profile of the very first student to write a masters’ thesis at the University of Arkansas, part of the college's 150th anniversary review — and much more.   

On today's news hour: during the month of April, COVID-19 related deaths declined significantly in Arkansas. Plus, an executive emergency mask order first declared during the worst of the 2020 COVID 19 pandemic, recently lifted, has been outlawed by the Arkansas legislature. Our Militant Grammarian hands us words that make things sound worse, the opposites of euphemisms — and more. 

On today’s show, the final episode of the podcast "The Movement That Never Was: A People’s Guide to Anti-Racism in the South and Arkansas."  Plus, voters are being asked to approve the extension of a 1 percent sales tax during a special election in Lowell ...

On today's Ozarks at Large, we revisit some musical performances from our archive to look ahead at music happening in our region in the next few months. We hear Darrell Scot after one of his earlier concerts in Fayetteville, we talk with Kalyn Fay after the release of her last album, and we hear performances from John Moreland and Charley Crockett, recorded in front of a live audience for past editions of the Fayetteville Roots Festival.

Today on Ozarks at Large, we take a trip through our archives to learn why a yellow bicycle appears on a downtown Fayetteville lawn each spring, we hear how students learned in an outdoor classroom in Newton County, how cicadas invaded northweat Arkansas, how some area schools got their unique mascots, and we hear our interview with Shankar Vedantam, the host of NPR's Hidden Brain.