Radio CALS

March 11, 2016


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Selections from an interview with Bobby Roberts, who retired as director of the Central Arkansas Library System on March 4, 2016, after leading the system for almost 27 years; the interview was conducted at Legacies & Lunch on March 2, 2016, by Clinton School of Public Service Dean Skip Rutherford; in this segment, Roberts discusses library funding in Arkansas, the evolution of CALS, the CALS Main Library campus, and the beginnings of the CALS Butler Center for Arkansas Studies; Information about CALS' digital resources from Information Services staff members; an interview with Tyrone Jaeger, author of So Many True Believers, a collection of short stories that will be featured at this year's Arkansas Literary Festival; interview conducted by Amy Bradley-Hole, Literary Festival moderator chair; Chewing the Fat with Rex and Paul, who talk about the St. Joe Mercantile and other general stores in Arkansas's past, including McLeod's and Matthews's at Imboden, Calahan's at Black Rock, Perry's at Ravenden, and Ernie Dunlap's at Kirby, going to Boy Scout camp at Lake Greeson, the Chidester store, Congo Mercantile, the Burdell store near Pocahontas, the Eleven Point River, the Spring River, the Hankins family store at Oil Trough, how Paul found 11 sailors from Lawrence County serving at the same time aboard the U.S.S. Saratoga, the 1992 election campaign, wood stoves, whittling benches, quail hunting, the Dalark stores, Sugar Jones, a man who fed his cow Oreo cookies, the Jingles store at Benton, and Walnut Ridge; an interview with Miss Arkansas, Loren McDaniel, for #CALSStories; selections from Legacies & Lunch featuring Charlotte Schexnayder, journalist and state politician; an interview with sisters Debra Brown and Regine Notto, who share their memories of growing up in El Dorado, Arkansas, with their loving, close-knit family; an interview with George West, Arkansas musician and member of Lark in the Morning, a band that will perform Celtic and Ozark roots music on vintage instruments at Butler Center Galleries.
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