Radio CALS - February 12, 2016

Radio CALS airs on KABF 88.3 FM in Little Rock from noon-2 p.m. every Friday. It may be streamed live at www.kabf.org (click "Listen Live" ) or anytime at www.soundcloud.com/radiocals.

Today's broadcast of Radio CALS (2/12/16) features:

• David Pryor, talking about Pryor's relationship with former governor, Orval Faubus; his relationship with former Representative John Paul Hammerschmidt; and his thoughts on the current state of Arkansas politics
• An oral history interview with Sgt. Allen L. Dunn, a Korean War veteran, recorded in 2009
• This Month in Arkansas History - On February 6, 1944, Willie Kavanaugh Hocker (schoolteacher, poet, and designer of AR State Flag) passed away. 
• Who You?, a segment about the Butler Center's genealogy resources, narrated by Rhonda Stewart, CALS' local history and genealogy expert 
• This Month in Arkansas History - On February 1, 1910, Little Rock's first public library opened.
• Arkansas musicians with birthdays in February - Roberta Martin, gospel singer, and Lenny Williams, R&B/soul vocalist and lead singer in Tower of Power
• Chewing the Fat with Rex and Paul, in which they sing the praises of fried chicken in Northwest Arkansas and talk about Monte Ne Inn near Rogers, the Venesian Inn in Tontitown, Stubby's in Hot Springs, the AQ Chicken House in Springdale, Paul's experiences frying chicken at Luby's in Jonesboro, skillet-fried versus deep-fried, the Old South Restaurant in Russellville, Coursey's Smoked Meats near St. Joe, hauling hay at Ravenden, the Dairy Bar in Imboden, the resort at Ravenden Springs, the Gables in Arkadelphia, Paul's appearance as the last commencement speaker--ever--at Sloan-Hendrix High School, his father's work at the butcher's shop in Imboden, and the disastrous time he scored a basketball goal for the opposing team
• Authors on Air, featuring Rod Lorenzen, manager of Butler Center Books, interviewing Mike Polston, staff historian for the Encyclopedia of Arkansas, who co-edited (with Guy Lancaster, editor of the EOA) To Can the Kaiser: Arkansas and the Great War, published by Butler Center Books in 2015
• A reading of an EOA entry on Pharoah Sanders and recordings of his music
• Take 5 interview with Jeff Laux, a member of the Rolling Blackouts, who will perform at Second Friday Art Night at Butler Center Galleries tonight (Friday, February 12) from 5-8 p.m. 

Links related to this broadcast:

Senator David Pryor at Legacies & Lunch

http://cdm15728.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/search/collection/p15728coll5/searchterm/pryor/order/title

CALS Storytime Calendar 

http://www.cals.lib.ar.us/events/default.aspx

This Month in Arkansas History - Willie Kavanaugh Hocker 

http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=2948

Sgt. Allen L. Dunn, Korean War veteran, Oral History

http://arstudies.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15728coll5/id/719/show/718/rec/6
http://www.butlercenter.org/koreanwarproject/

CALS Stories Adventure Challenge
http://www.cals.org/cals-stories/

Who You? with Rhonda Stewart, the Butler Center's local history and genealogy specialist
http://www.butlercenter.org/genealogy/index.html

This Month in Arkansas History - Little Rock Public Library 
http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/media-detail.aspx?mediaID=7768

Arkansas musicians with birthdays in February:

- Roberta Martin

http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?search=1&entryID=2779

- Lenny Williams
http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?search=1&entryID=5092

Upcoming Arkansas Sounds events:

A Tribute to Florence B. Price and William Grant Still

Friday, February 22, 7 p.m.

Ron Robinson Theater

100 River Market Ave.

FREE

www.arkansassounds.org

Second Friday Art Night at Butler Center Galleries
Friday, February 12, 5-8 p.m.
http://www.butlercenter.org/art/index.html

To Can the Kaiser: Arkansas and the Great War, edited by Mike Polston and Guy Lancaster
http://www.uapress.com/dd-product/to-can-the-kaiser/

This Month in Arkansas History - Belle Starr, "the Bandit Queen"
http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?search=1&entryID=2406

Freegal, CALS' digital music resource
http://www.cals.org/explore/freegal.aspx

Pharoah Sanders
http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?search=1&entryID=3614

This month in Arkansas History - Elijah Pitts
http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?search=1&entryID=5943

Take 5 - The Rolling Blackouts

http://soundcloud.com/rollingblackouts

Music used in this broadcast was created by the Joy Drops (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Joy_Drops)

Radio CALS is a production of the Central Arkansas Library System (CALS), its Arkansas history department, the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, and the CALS Community Outreach Department. For more information, visit www.cals.org and www.butlercenter.org. Radio CALS was produced this week by Kate Chagnon, Lee Ann Blackwell Hoskyn, Rod Lorenzen, John Miller, Chris Stewart, Rhonda Stewart, David Stricklin, and Glenn Whaley. Voices by Stewart Fuell and Jasmine Jobe. Engineering and editing by Michael Stotts and Anna Lancaster. Our production manager is Glenn Whaley. Our executive producers are Lee Ann Blackwell Hoskyn and David Stricklin.