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Dirt is staple of long road trips on the side of vehicles, the grime collecting on shoes and is used under projects such as driveways and buildings in Northwest Arkansas. Residents voicing environmental and safety due to some quarries is a reccuring conversation in public meetings. This material is common in the region and dump trucks carry tons of dirt daily to meet the area's demand.

This week's collection of archives from the David and Barbara Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History helps us examine how Arkansas has weathered past recessions.

On today's show, making sure learning doesn't stop in summer. Plus, COVID-19 is still spreading throughout Arkansas, Chamber Music on the Mountain is back, and much more.

Our Militant Grammarian, Katherine Shurlds, says many of our idioms may cause confusion for younger people since the phrases don't really relate to 21st-century living.

Since 1985 Oklahoma Humanities has facilited the Sooner State's version of Let's Talk About It as a mutli-city book club. This fall the average Oklahoman is no more than 30 miles from a discussion.

Buckminster Fuller was an architect, entreprenuer and futurist. A new book, Inventor of the Future: The Visonary Life of Buckminster Fuller by Alec Nevala-Lee cosniders the complext life of the man.

On today's show, what does our hot, dry spell mean for our drinking water supply? Plus, safely removing a chicken house, talking books in Oklahoma, and much more.

The exhibit, The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art is coming to a close soon. But not before a packed weekend of events tied to the art.

Becca Martin Brown, the features editor for the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, says the Rogers Historical Museum this weekend educates us about the Civil War here and the one-time mega-business of apples in Rogers.

Tearing down a chicken house might seem as simple as pushing it over and cleaning up the remains, but Practice 360 is a conservation procedure meant to help close the structures and remediate soil. The University of Missouri and Enviroscapes Ecological Consulting are researching through a survey and interviews how Northwest Arkansas farmers use this program, what happens to their out-of-commission houses and why they stop farming poultry.