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95: "Been A Busy Day": The Milton Cooper Diaries In 1984, at the age of 70, Madison County farmer Milton Cooper began keeping a diary. His daily writings describe a way of life common to many Ozark rural families, but rarely chronicled--raising chickens, hunting, fishing, gardening, visiting neighbors, going to town for groceries, and welcoming family for weekend visits. For this podcast, museum outreach coordinator Susan Young shares some entries from Milton Cooper’s diaries. |
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94: What Brought You Here? June Jefferson, facilitator of the LifeWriters memoir writing group, shares ideas about how to answer the question, ”What brought you to Northwest Arkansas?” Also, two members of LifeWriters share their original writings about coming to the Arkansas Ozarks. |
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93: The Music of Winter's Bone In May 2010 the producers of the Sundance Film Festival's award-winning film Winter's Bone collaborated with the Shiloh Museum to premiere the film in Arkansas, more than a month before its national release. The producers were familiar with the museum's podcast series, and some of the film's non-Ozark actors used the podcasts to learn a regional dialect. This podcast features cuts from the movie soundtrack. |
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92: The Making of Winter's Bone In May 2010 the producers of the Sundance Film Festival's award-winning film Winter's Bone collaborated with the Shiloh Museum to premiere the film in Arkansas, more than a month before its national release. The producers were familiar with the museum's podcast series, and some of the film's non-Ozark actors used the podcasts to learn a regional dialect. This podcast was recorded immediately following the premiere at AMC Theater in Fayetteville, when director Debra Granik, producer Jonathan Scheuer, music advisor Marideth Sisco, and cast member (and Fayetteville native) Lauren Sweetser fielded questions from the audience. |
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91: Public Access Television: The Quilt of Community Diversity Independent writer Richard Drake of Fayetteville recounts the history of community access television in Northwest Arkansas. Drake hosted a talk show on Fayetteville’s public access television station for more than a decade, and served as the director of the City’s Telecommunication Board for several years. |
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90: Our Natural Heritage, Vol. 4 In observance of the 2009 Arkansas Heritage Month, memoir writers read original stories about their experiences with nature, its characteristics, and its inhabitants. This is the last of four installments. (Episode 84 is Vol. 1, Episode 86 is Vol. 2, Episode 88 is Vol. 3.) |
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88: Our Natural Heritage, Vol. 3 In observance of the 2009 Arkansas Heritage Month, memoir writers read original stories about their experiences with nature, its characteristics, and its inhabitants. This is the third of four installments. (Episode 84 is Vol. 1, Episode 86 is Vol. 2, Episode 90 is Vol. 4.) |
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87: My Fayetteville Deryl Powers, Shirley Lucas, and Kim Agee describe the Fayetteville they grew up with, and Charlie Alison, creator of FayettevilleHistory.com, shares some thoughts on preserving the city's history. |
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86: Our Natural Heritage, Vol. 2 In observance of the 2009 Arkansas Heritage Month, memoir writers read original stories about their experiences with nature, its characteristics, and its inhabitants. This is the second of four installments. (Episode 84 is Vol. 1, Episode 88 is Vol. 3, Episode 90 is Vol. 4.) |
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85: Amateur Archeology Arkansas State Archeologist emerita Hester Davis discusses the Arkansas Archeological Society’s training program for amateur archeologists. In 1967, Davis became Arkansas’s first state archeologist, a position she held for 32 years until her retirement in 1999. She also taught in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Arkansas, creating and teaching a course in Public Archeology. |
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84: Our Natural Heritage, Vol. 1 In observance of the 2009 Arkansas Heritage Month, memoir writers read original stories about their experiences with nature, its characteristics, and its inhabitants. This is the first of four installments. (Episode 86 is Vol. 2, Episode 88 is Vol. 3.) |
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83: Care of Heirloom Textiles Shiloh Museum collections manager Carolyn Reno shares tips and handouts on caring for treasured family garments-everything from wedding gowns to football letter jackets. |
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82: Stories by the Tellers of Tales Storytelling is a cherished Ozark tradition. Sit back and get comfortable while Bob Mello, Sara Miller, Marjorie Shafer, and Oda Mulloy spin a few yarns. |
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81: The Heritage Trail in Northwest Arkansas: Civil War Historic Sites Off the Beaten Path Alan Thompson, museum registrar at Prairie Grove Battlefield Historic State Park, examines some lesser-known sites in Washington and Benton counties related to the Civil War troop movements. |
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80: An Impossible Cast Shane Andrews discusses his new book, An Impossible Cast: Glen Andrews and the Birth of Professional Bass Fishing. The book is about Shane Andrews’ father, Glen Andrews, who was a major influence in the early years of professional bass fishing. Glen Andrews lived in Rogers for 22 years until the mid-1980s, when he moved to the Boone County community of Lead Hill. |
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79: The Heritage Trail in Northwest Arkansas: The Butterfield Overland Stage Route |
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78: Tellers of Tales |
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77: The Heritage Trail in Northwest Arkansas: The Trail of Tears |
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76: Derailed! Getting Off Track in Northwest Arkansas |
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75: Sacred Harp Singing in Northwest Arkansas (video podcast) |
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74: Why We Love the Shiloh Museum (video podcast) |
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73: In and Around Rogers (video podcast) |
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72: So Big, This Little Place |
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71: Become a Curator |
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70: Orval Faubus Remembers Madison County |
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69: Arkansas/Arkansaw |
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68: Not A Good Sign |
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67: How Life Changed in Madison County in the 1860s |
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66: Mystery of the Trees |
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65: Historic Military Saddles Saddlemaker Doug Kidd takes on the persona of a leather craftsman from the 1800s as he discusses saddles from his personal collection. In real life, Kidd is the owner of Border States Leatherworks, and specializes in creating reproduction military leather goods. |
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64: A New Book on Tontitown History Jacqueline Froelich, news producer for our local NPR affiliate KUAF, interviews Denise Pellin, president of the Tontitown Historical Museum board of directors, and our outreach coordinator, Susan Young, who worked with the Tontitown Museum to put together the first-ever pictorial history of the founding of this historic Italian community in the Arkansas Ozarks. This story is a production for "Ozarks at Large," KUAF's news program focusing on the people, places, and events of the Ozark Mountains in Arkansas and Missouri. |
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63: Bridges of Northwest Arkansas Independent researcher and bridge enthusiast Randall Houp of Booneville, Arkansas, discusses 36 historic bridges in Benton, Boone, Carroll, Madison, Newton, and Washington counties in the Arkansas Ozarks. |
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62: 1947 Rodeo of the Ozarks Parade Marching bands, riding clubs, and a pint-sized wagon pulled by ponies are featured in this home movie filmed by Earl Baron during the July 1947 Rodeo of the Ozarks parade in Springdale, Arkansas. Also seen in the movie is two-year-old Orvil Patterson of Springdale, who won a $5 cash prize from the Springdale Riding Club for being the youngest rider. |
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61: The Only Good Snake is a LIVE Snake University of Arkansas doctoral biology student Rod Wittenberg, accompanied by some slithery friends, discusses the fascinating world of Ozark snakes. Recorded June 17, 2009. |
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60: A Season at Dogpatch Fayetteville musicians John Cook and Mic Walden relive the year they spent working at the Dogpatch theme park located in the Ozark Mountains near Harrison, Arkansas. Audience members share fond memories of trips to Dogpatch, which operated from 1968 until the early 1990s. Recorded June 6, 2009. |
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59: The Death of a Confederate Colonel |
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58: Down in the Holler |
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57: Squeaky Clean: A History of Hygiene in the Ozarks (note: this is a video podcast) |
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56: Roads of Conflict: Civil War Insurgents and Counter-Insurgents in Northwest Arkansas |
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55: Caving in the Ozarks (note: this is a video podcast) |
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54: The Northwest Arkansas Poultry Industry: Then and Now (note: this is a video podcast) |
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53: "We Can Take It": The CCC at Devil's Den |
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52: The Ice Storm Cometh (note: this is a video podcast) Donations to help pay for the tree removal and/or new plantings are gratefully accepted. Make checks payable to the “Shiloh Museum of Ozark History” and mail to: Tree Fund Shiloh Museum of Ozark History 118. W. Johnson Ave. Springdale, AR 72764 |
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50: Coming Up... |
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49: Land of a Million Smiles (note: this is a video podcast) |
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48: Northwest Arkansas Railroads |
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47: Feathers in Our Caps (note: this is a video podcast) |
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46: Sheep to Shawl (note: this is a video podcast) |
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45: No Longer Strangers: The Hispanic Presence in Our Midst Recorded September 17, 2008. |
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44: From Sumac Trees to Superhighway: The Butterfield Stagecoach Run Through Northwest Arkansas |
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43: The Essie Ward Story (note: this is a video podcast) You will need QuickTime or iTunes. |
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42: Early Madison County |
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41: A Special Announcement |
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40: In Dreadful Conflict (note: this is a video podcast) You will need QuickTime or iTunes. |
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39: Quilts, 1850 to the Present |
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38: The Trail of Tears: A Cherokee Perspective |
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37: Archeology at the Shiloh Meeting Hall |
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36: Arkansas Butterflies and Moths (1:02:13 minutes, 14.5 MB, MP3) Download This program was presented by Lori Spencer, Certified Heritage Interpreter and coordinator of the annual Mount Magazine International Butterfly Festival. Ms. Spencer also consults with federal and state agencies on butterfly management and travels throughout the state presenting programs focused on her award-wining field guide, Arkansas Butterflies and Moths. Recorded May 21, 2008. |
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35: The Ridge Family and Removal (55 minutes, 15.4 MB, MP3) Download Dr. Alice Taylor-Colbert, chair of the Department of History, Geography, and Political Science at the University of Arkansas-Fort Smith, recounts the story of John Ridge,a leader of the Cherokee minority faction who signed the Treaty of New Echota in 1835, trading tribal lands east of the Mississippi River for land in Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma). Dr. Taylor-Colbert's talk was part of the Cherokee Footsteps in Northwest Arkansas Symposium held at the Shiloh Museum in October 2007. |
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34: Restoring the Ozark Chinquapin (59:58 minutes, 14.3 MB, MP3) Download Stephen Bost, founder of the Ozark Chinquapin Foundation, discusses the natural history of the rare Ozark chinquapin tree (Castanea ozarkensis), and efforts to bring the tree back to its former glory. Recorded April 16, 2008. |
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33: My Spirit is Free: The Life and Art of Peggy McCormack (note: this is a video podcast) (35:33 minutes, 44.1 MB, MP4) Download Peggy McCormack was stricken with polio at the age of 16, and lived the rest of her life in an iron lung. She taught herself to paint by holding a brush in her mouth, and became a well-known artist in Northwest Arkansas. Peggy McCormack's inspiring life story is recounted here by Shiloh Museum outreach coordinator Susan Young at the 14th Annual Talking Ozarks Symposium held at the Shiloh Museum in September 2007. You will need QuickTime or iTunes. |
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32: Current Trail of Tears Research (1:08:52 minutes, 17.8 MB, MP3) Download Dr. Daniel F.Littlefield Jr., director of the Sequoyah Research Center, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, discusses his efforts to uncover new information on the Trail of Tears. Dr. Littlefield's talk was part of the Cherokee Footsteps in Northwest Arkansas Symposium held at the Shiloh Museum in October 2007. |
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31: Western Cherokee Ethnobotany and the Continuity of Traditional Arts (58:47 minutes, 16.1 MB, MP3) Download The use of plants in Cherokee artisanship (basketry, maskmaking, and expressive traditions) is explored by Dr. Justin Murphy Nolan, professor of anthropology, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Dr. Nolan's talk was part of the Cherokee Footsteps in Northwest Arkansas Symposium held at the Shiloh Museum in October 2007. |
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30: Myths, Legends, and the Nitty Gritty (1:08:40 minutes, 15.8 MB, MP3) Download Tim Mulvihill, archeologist with the Arkansas Archeological Survey, and Tom Wing, assistant professor of history and director of the historical interpretation program at the University of Arkansas-Fort Smith, team up to discuss archeological and historical research being conducted at the Drennen-Scott House in Van Buren. John Drennen was a founder of Van Buren, politician, Indian agent, landowner and businessman. Built in 1836, the Drennen-Scott Home, sits on 26 acres of property purchased by the University of Arkansas-Fort Smith from the descendents of John Drennen and Charles Scott. Recorded March 19, 2008. |
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29: The Evolution of a Baseball Franchise (55:30 minutes, 12 MB, MP3) Download The Northwest Arkansas Naturals, a Double-A affiliate of the Kansas City Royals baseball team, will open their inaugural season on April 10, 2008, when the Naturals take on the San Antonio Missions at Springdale's Arvest Stadium. Naturals general manager Eric Edelstein gives us a history of how the Naturals came to call Springdale home as well as an update on stadium construction and upcoming events. Recorded on February 20, 2008. |
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28: The Telegraph: A Look Back (48:22 minutes, 11.1MB, MP3) Download This program on the history of the telegraph presented by Bruce Vaughan details part of the evolution of modern communication. Mr. Vaughan is a long-time resident of Springdale, owned radio shop, and was the first television dealer in town. Mr. Vaughan has also been a ham radio operator for more than 60 years. Recorded on January 16, 2008. Due to unforeseen circumstances the audio for this program was lost from the middle to the end. We truly regret that we cannot offer you the program in its entirety and we hope you enjoy the portion that is available. Rest assured that we will try very hard to make sure that this does not happen again. |
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27: Cherokee Voices, Cherokee Sounds (46:06 minutes, 13.8MB, MP3) Download Dennis Sixkiller, host of Cherokee Voices, Cherokee Sounds radio show, discusses his work to keep the Cherokee language alive at the Cherokee Footsteps in Northwest Arkansas Symposium held at the Shiloh Museum in October 2007. |
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26: Jimmy Driftwood at One Hundred (1:13:41 minutes, 17.08MB, MP3) Download Dr. Brooks Blevins, professor of history at Lyon College, discusses the life and times of folk singer Jimmy Driftwood at the 14th annual Talking Ozarks Symposium held at the Shiloh Museum in September 2007. |
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25: Stitches in Time: Remembering the Arkansas Sesquicentennial Quilt Project (59:55 minutes, 14.71MB, MP3) Download Dr. Mike Luster, director of the Arkansas Folklife Program at Arkansas State University and co-founder of the Center for Ozark Living Traditions, remembers his work with the Arkansas Sesquicentennial Quilt Project in 1986 as part of the 14th annual Talking Ozarks Symposium held at the Shiloh Museum in September 2007. |
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24: Being Dreadful, Being Seen as Dreadful in the Ozarks (54:20 minutes, 13.75MB, MP3) Download Ozark stereotypes was presented as part of the 14th annual Talking Ozarks Symposium. John Hensley, curator/archivist at Winston Churchill Memorial and Library at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. reflects on Ozark stereotypes at the 14th annual Talking Ozarks Symposium held at the Shiloh Museum in September 2007. |
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23: Women Writers Promoting the Ozarks: Cora Pinkley Call and Lida
Wilson Piles (32:08 minutes, 15.46MB, MP3) Download Dr. Diane Worrell, special projects librarian with the Special Collections Department at the University of Arkansas Libraries, discusses the work of authors Cora Pinkley Call and Lida Wilson Piles at the 14th annual Talking Ozarks Symposium held at the Shiloh Museum in September 2007. |
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22: The Vaughn Brewer Photograph Collection (28:40 minutes, 14.27MB, MP3) Download Rachel Reynolds, an independent historian and co-founder of the Center for Ozark Living Traditions talks about the Vaughn Brewer collection of Ozark photographs at the 14th annual Talking Ozarks Symposium held at the Shiloh Museum in September 2007. |
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21: Ted Richmond and His Wilderness Library (28:14 minutes, 14.1MB, MP3) Download Willow Hancock, independent historian pursuing a degree in library science at the University of Arkansas, discusses the life of on Ted Richmond at the 14th annual Talking Ozarks Symposium held at the Shiloh Museum in September 2007. |
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20: Foodways in the Mary Celestia Parler Collection (55:00 minutes, 23.31MB, MP3) Download Dr. Ethel Simpson, emeritus librarian of the Special Collections Department at the University of Arkansas Libraries, makes us all hungry as she reflects on Ozark foodways documented by University of Arkansas professor Mary Celestia Parler and her students at the 14th annual Talking Ozarks Symposium held at the Shiloh Museum in September 2007. |
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19: Cooking on the Wild Side (47:20 minutes, 24.2MB, MP3) Download Phyllis Speer, regional education coordinator for the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission and host of the cooking segment on AETN's Arkansas Outdoors, shares her favorite secrets for cooking wild foods. Recorded November 14, 2007. |
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18: Tech-Knowledge-Gee! The Making of an Exhibit (note: this is a video podcast) |
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17: Ozark Hunting Stories (36:14 minutes, 14.6MB, MP3) Download This episode features hunting stories recorded as part of the Shiloh Museum’s ongoing oral history project. The audio clips have been converted from cassette tapes to digital so in some instances the audio quality is poor. We have only edited them to reduce background noise; the content has not been edited other than for time considerations. You will hear excerpts from interviews with Ruth Morris of Washington County and Oren Austin of Madison County. The program will conclude with a must-have tall tale about hunting collected by Ozark folklorist Vance Randolph and retold by Dr. Bob Cochran, Professor of English, Chair of American Studies,and Director of the Center for Arkansas and Regional Studies, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. The museum thanks Aaron Seifritz for supplying the hunting calls heard in this program. The hunting horn was excerpted with permission from 'Ed and His Hounds' by Doney Hammontree, and is part of the Mary C. Parler Folksong Collection, Special Collections Department, University of Arkansas Libraries, Fayetteville. |
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16: Giving Recognition to the Gifted Ones: Blanche Elliott and Ozark
Crafts (53:57 minutes, 22.9MB, MP3) Download The work of Blanche Elliott, founder of the War Eagle Craft Fair, is highlighted in this program by Ellen Compton, archivist with the Special Collections Department, University of Arkansas Libraries. Recorded during the 14th annual Talking Ozarks Symposium, September 8, 2007. |
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15: Request for Feedback (2:40 minutes, 1.4MB, MP3) Download The Shiloh Museum staff would like to thank you for your support of the Museum’s podcasting efforts as another way that you can enjoy our programs and exhibits. After more than a year of podcasting, we would like to know what you think about this service we are providing. Share your thoughts with us by sending an email with the subject line "Podcast Feedback" to Heather Marie Wells. Again, thank you for supporting the Shiloh Museum and we hope you stop in for a visit soon! |
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14: The History of the Peace Movement in Northwest Arkansas (54:00 minutes, 32.2MB, MP3) Download Dick Bennett, emeritus professor of English at the University of Arkansas and co-founder and former president of Fayetteville's OMNI Center for Peace, Justice, and Ecology, reflects on the peace movement in Northwest Arkansas from 1965 to 2000. Recorded August 15, 2007. |
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13: A Sport and A Business (62:00 minutes, 35.2MB, MP3) Download Amanda Dablemont Owens of Bella Vista shares memories of growing up in the 1930s as the daughter of "Catfish Sam" Dablemont, a hunting and fishing guide in the Missouri Ozarks. Recorded July 18, 2007. |
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12: Traditional Plants, Medicinal Uses (51:00 minutes, 35.6MB, MP3) Download Colleen Brown, Master Gardener volunteer with the University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service, takes on the persona of an 1860s Ozark woman for this program on medicinal herbs. Recorded June 20, 2007. |
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11: Rodeo Memories (55:01 minutes, 21.5B, MP3) Download Summer in Northwest Arkansas means it's time for the Rodeo of the Ozarks held July 1-4 in Springdale. Longtime Rodeo board members Pat Parsons Hutter and Sandy Boone share their memories of past rodeos. Recorded May 16, 2007. |
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10: The Peaceful Desegregation of Fayetteville High School (55:06 minutes, 27.5B, MP3) Download In celebration of Black History month, Gene Vinzant, professor of Arkansas and American history at Northwest Arkansas Community College, discusses the peaceful desegregation of Fayetteville High School. Recorded February 21, 2007. |
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9: Put Your Relatives in Their Place (59:17 minutes, 34.3MB, MP3) Download Shiloh Museum archivist Marie Demeroukas shares tips on caring for your family photos. Recorded January 17, 2007. |
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8: Odd Fellows in the Ozarks: A Beginner's History (52:00 minutes, 29.2MB, MP3) Download The history of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF) in the Ozarks is explored by Shiloh Museum collections manager Carolyn Reno and Jon Peterson, Past Sovereign Grand Master of the Sovereign Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Recorded November 15, 2006. |
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7: The Singers of Sacred Harp (36:00 minutes, 18.7MB, MP3) Download Shiloh Museum collections assistant and podcast producer Heather Marie Wells attends a meeting of the Northwest Arkansas Sacred Harp Singers. In this program you will hear some of the history of this singing tradition and some interviews with group members. Recorded September 2006. |
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6: The Songs of Sacred Harp (49:00 minutes, 24.7MB, MP3) Download Shiloh Museum collections assistant and podcast producer Heather Marie Wells attends a meeting of the Northwest Arkansas Sacred Harp Singers. In this program the group performs some of their favorite songs. Recorded September 2006. |
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5: La Storia de Tontitown (23:40 minutes, 11MB, MP3) Download The rich history of the Italian community of Tontitown is featured in this program by Denise Pellin and Vanessa Sbanotto, members of the Tontitown Historical Museum board. Recorded October 18, 2006. |
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4: Stills in the Hills (58:03 minutes, 26.9MB, MP3) Download Moonshining in the Ozarks - historically, how much is fact and how much is part of the hillbilly stereotype? Shiloh Museum outreach coordinator Susan Young discusses the lore of whiskey making in the Ozarks. Recorded September 20, 2006. |
| Episode 3: Dead Folks in Madison County Do Tell Tales! (41 minutes, 19.5 MB, MP3) Download Joy Russell with the Madison County Genealogical and Historical Society shares tales of colorful lives and mysterious deaths of people buried in Madison County cemeteries. Recorded August 16, 2006. |
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2: Caddo Repatriation (30 minutes, 17 MB, MP3) Download Representatives of the Caddo Nation discuss their efforts to reclaim remains under the guidelines of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act with Shiloh Museum collections manager Carolyn Reno. Recorded June 6, 2006. |
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1: Historic Monte Ne (57 minutes, 58 MB, MP3) Download The Benton County resort founded in 1900 by William "Coin" Harvey is highlighted in this program by Shiloh Museum director Allyn Lord, author of Historic Monte Ne. Recorded February 4, 2006. |