Radio CALS

April 15, 2016


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An interview with Angie Macri, a poet featured in the Arkansas Literary Festival 2016, conducted by Amy Bradley-Hole, moderator chair of the Arkansas Literary Festival; selections from an interview with Sgt. A. Keith Jernigan, who served in the Korean War, conducted by Brian Robertson, senior archivist and manager of Research Services at the Butler Center; selections from Legacies & Lunch featuring Marvin Schwartz, author of "We Wanna Boogie", published by Butler Center Books; Information about CALS' audiobook service, OneClick Digital, from Jonathan Webb and Nathan Smith, CALS Information Services staff members; Bizarre Arkansas, with a story about the alligator farm that housed a mummified merman, the ostrich farm that was home to over 300 African ostriches, and more in Hot Springs during the early twentieth century; Chewing the Fat with Rex and Paul, who talk about Mount Magazine Lodge, the Paris Chamber of Commerce, Constitutional Amendment 75 and its effects on tourism in Arkansas, the transformation of Arkansas's Department of Parks and Tourism, Mountain View, the Little Red River, the need to pay attention to electrical power generators when fishing downstream from them, Village Creek State Park, peaches, Uncle John's at Crawfordsville, West Central Arkansas, Queen Wilhelmina Lodge, Rich Mountain, Mena, bears, once-frequent plane crashes on Rich Mountain, Oliver North, DeGray Lake, the Shangri La Resort, Mount Ida, Paul's Tom Sawyer experience featuring a run-in with a barge on the Mississippi River, Snow Lake, White River Refuge, Desha County, Imboden, crappie, smallmouth bass, Crooked Creek, fishing the White River before the dams were put in, Jerry McKinnis, Lake Chicot, De Valls Bluff, Pocahontas, the Current River, Stoby's in Conway, old-time breakfast places and political discussions, Wallace Grill in Little Rock, Thelma's in Imboden, the Grill in Walnut Ridge, Paul's initiation into the grown-up world of coffee breaks, Waffle House, the back booth at the Snow White in Pine Bluff, the round table in the corner of the cafe at the State Capitol, and the Pancake Shop in Hot Springs; an interview with Suzy Parker, an author who will be featured at the Arkansas Literary Festival 2016 -- interview conducted by Amy Bradley-Hole, moderator chair of the Arkansas Literary Festival; an interview with Sofia Gonzales, who will teach an upcoming CALS Community Learning course on embroidery; interview conducted by Kristen Cooke, CALS staff member (continued from last week).
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