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Back for another summer, the Chamber Music on the Mountain Summer Festival provides eight concerts (two of them free) in six different venues and is centered on Mount Sequoyah in Fayetteville.

Arkansas PBS is helping make sure young viewers continue to learn in between school years with Rise & Shine. The mix of national and state educational programming includes input from several Arkansas Teachers of the Year.

Arkansas and other southern states — where COVID-19 vaccination rates are low — this summer are ground zero for Omicron subvariant infections. Dr. Robert Hopkins, a professor of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, and Chief of Internal Medicine at University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock, provides insight and guidance about this new outbreak.

Over 5,500 Indigenous women and girls have gone missing according to the most recent data from the U.S. Department of Justice. Indigenous women are murdered at a rate ten times higher than any other ethnicity. Students from Stillwell High School in Oklahoma investigated and reported on the epidemic of missing and murdered indigenous women.

The Amazeum is collaborating with two new makers this summer. Dayton Castleman and Tyler Altenhofen are helping create a new exhibit at the facility.

Suzanne Woods Fisher often sets her novels in Cape Cod, Pennsylvania and Maine. Her latest novel, The Sweet Life, serves as an inspiration for her talk Monday evening on July 18th at Fayetteville Public Library about the history of ice cream.

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.