Radio CALS - July 8, 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 (7/8/16) features:

• A discussion between Brad Mooy, coordinator of the Arkansas Literary Festival, and Dr. Alex Vernon, project director, about Fiction & Fact: A War Dialogue with Veterans, a new project of the Central Arkansas Library System, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities
• Selections from a CALS Con discussion of Star Wars; CALS Con is the library system's free annual celebration of all things fandom
• An interview with Brenda and Ellis, a married musical duo from Arkansas, conducted by John Miller, Arkansas Sounds music coordinator
• Information about CALS's ebook services presented by Jonathan Webb and Nathan Smith, CALS information services staff members 
• Bizarre Arkansas featuring a story about reports of mysterious flying objects seen in the Ouachita Mountains in 1897
• Chewing the Fat with Rex and Paul, who begin telling about their trip into Southwest Arkansas to attend the annual Purple Hull Pea Festival in Emerson and talk about old U.S. Highway 67, the Arkansas “nervous hospital,” Sling Blade, Billy Bob Thornton, Perla, the Acme Brick Company and Brickfest, the Keeney Food Market and café in Malvern, Paul’s father’s sausage recipe, Imboden, Paul’s father’s trick of restoring old hamburger meat to the appearance of edibility, butcher’s caps and aprons, the Morrilton Packing Company, B&B Grocery, Breitweiser’s Meat Market in Benton, the essential role of fat in the creation of sausage, the DeSoto Bluff Trail in Arkadelphia, Hernando DeSoto’s driver’s license, the Hunter-Dunbar Expedition, Ouachita Baptist University, Rex’s Eagle Scout project, Henderson State University’s collection of Caddo artifacts, the Arkansas Archeological Survey, Ann Early, and achievements in interpreting Native American experiences in Arkansas
• Music from the Butler Center's Arkansas Sounds music collection

Links related to this broadcast:

Fiction & Fact: A War Dialogue with Veterans

http://www.cals.org/fiction-and-fact/

This Month in Arkansas History: Battle of Helena 

http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?search=1&entryID=1129

For more information on CALS Con, email lneale@cals.org 

Genealogy Workshop 2016

Saturday, July 23, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.

CALS Ron Robinson Theater

100 River Market Ave.

Free and open to the public; no registration needed

http://www.butlercenter.org/workshop/index.html

Take Five: Brenda Ellis

http://www.brendaandellis.com

This Month in Arkansas History: Andrew Scott

http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?search=1&entryID=1758

CALS Digital Services

http://www.cals.org

Second Friday Art Night

Friday, July 8 (tonight), 5-8 p.m. 

Butler Center Galleries

401 Pres. Clinton Ave. 

Free and open to the public

http://www.butlercenter.org/art

Donate to CALS

http://www.cals.org/about/donation.aspx

Arkansas Sounds: Suzy Bogguss

Friday, July 22, 7 p.m.

CALS Ron Robinson Theater

100 River Market Ave.

Tickets: $20

http://www.arkansassounds.org

Music used in this broadcast was created by:

Brenda and Ellis - http://brendaandellis.com/

The Joy Drops - http://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Joy_Drops

David Szesztay - http://freemusicarchive.org/music/David_Szesztay
Velella Velella - http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Velella_Velella

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, Stewart Fuell, Katie Jones, John Miller, Brad Mooy, Laura Neale, David Stricklin, and Glenn Whaley. Voices by Kate Chagnon, John Miller, 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.