Ozark

The 11th annual Ozark Mountain Music Festival is taking place Jan. 16-19 at the Basin Park Hotel in Eureka Springs. Ozark at Large’s Sophia Nourani speaks with festival event producer Mary Howze about what to expect at the 3-day indoor music event.

Three University of Arkansas educators will lead an Honors College seminar, Ozark Culture, next spring. They came to the Carver Center for Public Radio recently to talk about the course and said having instructors from different disciplines lead the class about an evolving, complicated matter like Ozark culture is a benefit for students.

Sarah Neidhardt’s childhood sounds like something from a Laura Ingalls Wilder book. Her parents moved to the Ozarks in the 1970s as part of the back-to-the-land movement. The bohemian counterculture meets pioneer homemaking story sounds romantic, but Sarah’s memoir Twenty Acres paints a sober and compassionate telling of her unconventional life.

On today's show, a pop-up procurement museum is displayed at the University of Arkansas’ Walton College of Business. State Sen. Gary Stubblefield, R - Branch, sponsors a bill classifying a drag performance as an adult-oriented business. Also, Buddy Hasten, Electric Cooperatives of Arkansas CEO, discusses international, national and state energy policy. Also, collecting comprehensive Ozark folklore, local music and more.

Jared Philips grew up around Ozarks folk practices. Philips, a farmer, historian and international studies professor at the University of Arkansas, brought in a couple folklorists to speak about the expanding world of Ozark traditions.

Weeks after it was marked for deactivation, along with eight other Job Corps Centers around the country, the Cass Job Corps Civilian Conservation Center,…