The Wonders of Wildlife National Museum and Aquarium celebrated its first birthday last month. The museum features four-dimensional dioramas that recreate the sensory depictions of the locations exhibited, and there are real live animals in the museum as well. Two of those animals, a falcon and an alligator, recently stopped by the studio with their handler to tell us more about the facility

Leigh Wood, membership director of KUAF and host of the KUAF Vinyl Hour, Saturdays at 5 p.m. on 91.3, returns. We give away a night out on the station to one lucky contributing listener, and we hear about this week's Vinyl Hour, which will feature a celebration of the sounds of 1968.

With Election Day a week away, we check in with Roby Brock of Talk Business and Politics. He offers insight into whether there is higher voter participation in other parts of Arkansas, whether there's anything that can bolster support for Democrats before Nov. 6 and more.

Early American anthropologist, geographer and geologist, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft was among the first Anglo-Americans to explore and document the Ozark Highlands frontier in the early 1800s. We explore Schoolcraft’s daily journal of his three-month long expedition, which remains a fascinating and invaluable record.

Becca Martin Brown, features editor at the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, gives us a list of some of the Trick-or-Treat opportunities taking place throughout the area on Wednesday.

Our Militant Grammarian Katherine Shurlds returns. Today, she gives us a lesson on personal pronouns.

With election day just ahead, some are expecting a new Congress to again take up the debate over health care. Marcy Doderer, CEO of Arkansas Children' s Hospital, talks with Roby Brock of Talk Business and Politics about pre-existing conditions in the context of the health care debate. She also talks about a new partnership that will help connect patients with legal aid

In Subversive Spirits: The Female Ghost in British and American Popular Culture, author Robin Roberts explores how female spirits disrupt and challenge gendered assumptions.

Sugar & the Mint won the 2017 Telluride Bluegrass Festival Band Contest, and they've shared concert bills with the likes of Punch Brothers, Jerry Douglas, I'm With Her and more. On a recent stop in Fayetteville, the band came to the Firmin-Garner Performance Studio to perform for us.

Leigh Wood, host of the KUAF Vinyl Hour Saturdays at 5 p.m. on 91.3, tells us this week's show features some soothing songs, some songs to get you moving, Japanese funk and more.