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Authors Robert Cochran and Dale Carpenter share about the life and films of Arkansas documentary filmmaker Jack Hill and their latest book Reporting for Arkansas: The Documentary Films of Jack Hill.

Job Path assists high school students and young adults with disabilities, ages 16 to 24, to prepare for the workforce. The federal and state funded program trains a hundred northwest Arkansas youth annually, says regional Job Path manager, Laura Smith. We also meet Jarod Friend, a Job Path graduate, who works part-time at KUAF Public Radio.

On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision to reverse a 50 year-old federal constitutional right to abortion. The ruling makes way for states, like Arkansas, to ban or drastically limit access to abortion. Reaction from state officials, abortion providers, pro-life and pro-choice advocates was swift.

Anna and Joseph Herrington started an Instagram account for their new dog as a way to keep from clogging up their personal accounts. Now, Penny the Ozark Doodle has more than 18,000 followers.

The Princess debuts on Hulu today. Courtney Lanning says it is fun, a bit violent and a different kind of princess.

There is theater, music and more this weeked. Becca Martin Brown, the features editor at the Northwest Arkansasd Democrat-Gazette, says there are also fireworks. Many, many fireworks.

On today's show, Heartland Forward and Builders and Backers work with ten entrepreneurs for three months to help their ideas become real. Plus, a conversation about the impact of rising mortgage rates, interviewing an Instagram famous doodle, and much more.

Anna Pope is the newest voice at Ozarks at Large. As a reporter for Report for America, she's covering the subjects of rural life and of growth in northwest Arkansas for us. Her first story is on tomorrow's show, but we meet her today.

Route 66 is encased in nostalgic images of neon and roadside attractions. The road has been gone for some time, but there are still families and small communities along the route. Jeff Sonnabend, a photographer and writer living in northwest Arkansas, is working on a project to place a lens on the people—and not the nostalgia—still there.

On today's show, smaller towns in northwest Arkansas are experiencing growth, just like the bigger towns. Plus, the communities that have evaporated along Route 66, a conversation with Carlos Santana, and much more.