Ozarks at Large

Thousands of government leaders, diplomats, business executives, NGO reps and protesters from around the globe have converged this week on Glasgow to attend the 26th Conference of the Parties –COP26 Climate Summit. We talk with Cherelle Blazer, Senior Director of Sierra Club’s International Climate and Policy Campaign, headquartered in the mid-South region who's attending the summit.

Osage Park in Bentonville is a big wetland with new public art. We asked curator Chad Alligood how he assembled the works.

The Symphony of Northwest Arkansas kept moving and performing during the last 20 months. Friday, though, SONA is back home on the Walton Arts Center stage. We check in with music director Paul Hass for a preview.

The first international student arrived at the University of Arkansas more than 100 years ago. Charlie Alison surveys the history of students from outside the US at the U of A in his latest episode examining the first 150 years of the school.

On today's show, how a teenager’s decision to become an organ donor changed lives 15 years later. Plus, a preview of a gathering of the campus and greater communities Thursday to discuss the pandemic and health and much more.

The show begins with Governor Asa Hutchinson's support of road work, the lowest-single day total of new cases of COVID-19 since June, and Lance Harter will return as women's head track coach at Arkansas in 2023.

Thousands of Americans, and hundreds of Arkansans, are waiting for an organ donation. We meet a family, Jeff and Marietta Clardy, who benefitted from a organ donation.

Thursday the University of Arkansas' Department of African and African American Studies will host a pair of events, open to the public, devoted to the pandemic, health and community. A lunch hour colloquium starts Thursday at 11:00 and a keynote lecture with Dr. Ernest Yufenyuy from the CDC is Thursday night at 6:00. Both are free.

On today's show, a new family-owned and woman-operated medical marijuana cultivation and manufacturing facility in Fort Smith, will soon be harvesting a first crop. Plus, what COVID-19 numbers in October tell us, remembering the opening of XNA, and much more.

We begin November with new legislative districts proposed for Arkansas, a SWEPCO grant of $100,000 for students in Rogers, and a timetable for sale of single Hamilton tickets at Walton Arts Center.