Well visit with a historian and author who will share the history of the ozarks and talk about the stereotypes people face living in the region. Those stereotypes have been developing for a couple of hundred years. They are strong and they stick with us no matter what we do. You go outside this museum and you travel around northwest there are fortune 500 companies, there is a Major Research university, there is all kinds of business and industry and high tech stuff going on out there, but these stereotypes will stick with us. It is part of our story. Later, we will hear the story of the family who was residents who were residents of fayetteville and how they were driven from their home during the civil war. This is a family that lived here and survived the war. The war affected them in many ways and they eventually had to leave the house because of the war. Hour with athe visit to the center for arkansas oral and visual history. It was started as a way to preserve the stories of the pe
Will explore this city is literary life and we will hear from area writers including author and historian brooks lavished ensure the history of the ozarks and talk about stereotypes people face living in the region. Those stereotypes have been developing for a couple hundred years and they are strong in a kind of stick with us no matter what we do. As you seem come you got that in the cnn you travel around northwest at the fortune 500 companies, Major Research university is is all kinds of business and industry and hightech stuff going on out there, but those images and stereotypes, you know, theyll stick with us. They are part of our story. We begin our tour with a university of Arkansas Library. To learn more about the life and accomplishments of jay William Fulbright. James William Fulbright was a long time serving in arkansas from 1944 to 1974, 30 years. Before that he was a u. S. Representative from or fall, arkansas area produced president of the university of arkansas, and the y
The ozarks region covers most of the southern half of missouri, much of northern and northwestern arkansas, northeastern oklahoma, and the physical ozarks region lapse into the tip of the southeastern kansas so it covers parts of four different states. The cultural ozarks does not necessarily correspond with the physical ozarks. There are people who live in the physical ozarks who would not identify themselves as an ozarker and there are people who live outside the physical ozarks who would. The trilogy i am working on is called a history of the ozarks. It is published by the university of illinois press. The first volume comes out this year. It is called the old ozarks and it is a history of the ozarks before the civil war. There is a brief chapter on prehistory. Im not a anthropologist so that is why it is brief. It looks at native American Life in thehistorical period ozarks. The early settlement of the first europeans who came into the region who were generally french who came down
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To celebrate its 75th birthday, the Northwest Arkansas Handweavers Guild has collaborated with the Shiloh Museum of Ozark History for "Tracing the Threads: Weaving in the Arkansas Ozarks," on display through Dec. 31.