Saturday, December 15, 2012

Other Voices: Cherokees in the Civil War Ozarks

David Fowler, manager of the Murrell Home in Park Hill, Oklahoma, disucsses the Civil War homefront experiences of Cherokees in eastern Oklahoma. (47:36 minutes, 8.2MB, MP3)

This lecture was funded in part with tax funds from the State of Arkansas and the Arkansas Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission in association with the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program, an agency of the Department of Arkansas Heritage.
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Friday, December 14, 2012

Other Voices: The Peace Society in the Civil War Ozarks

Author and historian James Johnston discusses the secret, pro-Union Peace Society organized by men from in and around Searcy County, Arkansas, during the Civil War. (50:40 minutes, 8.9MB, MP3)

This lecture was funded in part with tax funds from the State of Arkansas and the Arkansas Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission in association with the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program, an agency of the Department of Arkansas Heritage.

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Thursday, December 13, 2012

Other Voices: Women in the Civil War Ozarks

Rebecca Howard, PhD history student at the University of Arkansas, examines the Civil War as a turning point in the lives of wives, mothers, and sisters of Union soldiers from Madison County, Arkansas, and how their lives played out after the war. (44:59 minutes, 7.8 MB, MP3)

This lecture was funded in part with tax funds from the State of Arkansas and the Arkansas Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission in association with the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program, an agency of the Department of Arkansas Heritage.

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Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Other Voices: African Americans in the Civil War Ozarks

Father Moses Berry, curator of the Ozarks Afro-American Heritage Museum in Ash Grove, Missouri, discusses Civil War homefront experiences of African Americans in the Ozarks. (43: 54 minutes, 7.7 MB, MP3)

This lecture was funded in part with tax funds from the State of Arkansas and the Arkansas Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission in association with the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program, an agency of the Department of Arkansas Heritage.

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Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Whiffletrees and Kitchen Cabinets

Shiloh Museum outreach coordinator Susan Young takes a look at early Springdale, Arkansas, inventors and their inventions. (54:13 minutes, 9.5 MB, MP3)

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Thursday, November 15, 2012

The Crescent Hotel: The Norman Baker Years

Artist Sean Fitzgibbon discusses his collaboration with writer Kevin Brown to create a documentary graphic novel about the historic Crescent Hotel in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. The novel is set in 1938 and 1939, the years the hotel was turned into a hospital under the direction of Norman Baker, a "doctor" claiming to have a cure for cancer. (56:58 minutes, 9.9MB, MP3)

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Friday, October 26, 2012

The Making of the Atlas of Arkansas


Dr. Tom Paradise, professor of geography, cartography, and Middle East studies at the University of Arkansas, discusses his book, the Atlas of Arkansas. Says Dr. Paradise, "Atlases are created to link the complex and diverse aspects of the landscape such as politics, culture, geology, and agriculture into one coherent collection of maps, diagrams, charts, photographs, and other information. Very few books or media can do what an atlas can, since it is a visual and informative representation of a place and all its wonder, stories, beauty, and history--and Arkansas is truly unique." (46:50 minutes, 8.3MB, MP3)

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Tuesday, October 16, 2012

The Dating Game

Shiloh Museum photo archivist Marie Demeroukas shares tips for making an educated guess about the age of a photo based on knowing who's in the picture, determining how the photo was made, and examining clothing styles, hairstyles, and other visual clues. (42:55 minutes, 14.9MB, MP3)

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Monday, October 15, 2012

East of Zion Plus

East of Zion PlusLocal musical group East of Zion Plus performs old-time songs from their family’s musical heritage. The band members are relatives of Alma Gilbert Allen, Helen Gilbert Fultz, and Phydella Gilbert Hogan, three sisters who grew up in the east Washington County, Arkansas, community of Zion. (52:59 minutes, 9.2 MB, MP3)

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Ghost of the Ozarks

Dr. Brooks Blevins, professor of Ozark studies at Missouri State University, discusses his latest book, Ghost of the Ozarks: Murder and Memory in the Upland South. In 1929, in a remote county of the Arkansas Ozarks, the gruesome murder of harmonica-playing drifter Connie Franklin and the brutal rape of his teenaged fiancée captured the attention of a nation on the cusp of the Great Depression. National press from coast to coast ran stories of the sensational exploits of night-riding moonshiners, powerful "Barons of the Hills," and a world of feudal oppression in the isolation of the rugged Ozarks. The ensuing arrest of five local men for both crimes and the confusion and superstition surrounding the trial and conviction gave Stone County a dubious and short-lived notoriety. (1:10:14, 12.1 MB, MP3)

Sex and the Civil War

Alan Thompson, collections manager at Prairie Grove Battlefield State Park, presents an overview of the private lives of soldiers and civilians during the Civil War, including some incidents of local and regional interest. (29:29 minutes, 10.3 MB, MP3)

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Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Northwest Arkansas's Ace in the Hole

(52:12 minutes, 23.9 MB, MP3)

Dr. Robert Morgan, manager of environmental quality at Beaver Water District, discusses the history of Northwest Arkansas’s water supply from the late 1800s to the present.

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Tuesday, August 07, 2012

Remembering Eureka Springs

(42:29 minutes, 48.8 MB, MP3)

Local historian John Fuller Cross shares stories from the colorful history of Eureka Springs, a Victorian village in the Arkansas Ozarks. A Eureka Springs native, Cross is chairman of the board of Cornerstone Bank, whose office is in the Historic Bank of Eureka Springs Museum.

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Friday, December 30, 2011

"Whatever You Do, Stay in Print": The Life of Ernie Deane

(58:04 minutes, 66.5MB, MP3)

Journalist, educator, and historian Ernie Deane is remembered by his daughter, Frances "Fran" Deane Alexander. Deane was a press officer for General George Patton during World War II and at the Nuremberg Trials after the war, a newspaper columnist, a professor of journalism, a director of the War Eagle Fair, a champion of historic preservation, and a community activist.

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Bee Gums and Flax Skeins: Farming in the Pioneer Ozarks

(1:04:18, 73.8 MB, MP3)

Dr. Brooks Blevins, professor of Ozark studies at Missouri State University, discusses farming methods used by Ozark pioneers in the late 1800s.

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Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Art, Artistry, and Eccentricity: Stories of Ozark Tombstone Carvers

(50:10, 46.1 MB, MP3)

Independent researcher and journalist Abby Burnett discusses the lives of several Ozarkers who made their living carving tombstones. Burnett has written numerous articles for local historical journals and for the online Arkansas Encyclopedia of History and Culture, most of them having to do with tombstones and stone carvers. She was featured in AETN's cemetery documentary, "Silent Storytellers" which aired in 2010 and 2011 on public television. She is currently finishing work on a book on burial customs of the Arkansas Ozarks, which includes sections on cemeteries, tombstones, quarries and carvers.

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Wednesday, November 02, 2011

Under the Cover of Darkness: Buried Treasure, Magic, and Deception in the Ozarks

(1:01: 33, 56.5 MB, MP3)

Independent researcher Robert Myers of Champaign, Illinois, discusses the life and times of Ozark treasure hunter Charlie Gonzales. (NOTE: Audio quality improves as podcast plays.)

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Thursday, September 01, 2011

Ozark Tall-grass Prairies

(49:44 minutes, 17.2 MB, MP3)

Ozark Ecological Restorations founder Joe Woolbright and local bird expert Joe Neal discuss the history of plants and birds related to Northwest Arkansas's tall-grass prairies.

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Thursday, May 19, 2011

Sustainability: Voices from the Past, Promise for the Future

(38:50 minutes, 13.5 MB, MP3)

Michele Halsell, managing director at the University of Arkansas Applied Sustainability Center, discusses the historical roots of sustainability and how we can put the old ways into practice today. Recorded April 13, 2011.

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Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Ozark Chinquapins

(1:44:42 minutes, 35.9 MB, MP3)
On March 18, 2011, the Hobbs State Park Conservation Area Visitor Center in Rogers, Arkansas and the Ozark Chinquapin Foundation held a daylong meeting to discuss the history of, current research on, and tips for growing the Ozark chinquapin.

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Wednesday, April 13, 2011

History of Midwifery in Northwest Arkansas

(1:o4:38 minutes, 22.2 MB, MP3)

Licensed midwife Shawn House of Boxley, Arkansas discusses the age-old methods of bringing babies into the world. Recorded April 2, 2011.

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Wednesday, April 06, 2011

Leave Town and Never Return: Racial Cleansing in Arkansas

(1:17:03 minutes, 23.1 MB, MP3)

Dr. Guy Lancaster, editor for the online Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture, discusses his research on “sundown towns” in Arkansas—communities where white residents expelled all or most of the African American residents. According to Dr. Lancaster, some 100 towns in Arkansas are suspected to have been sundown towns, most of them located in the northern and western sections of the state. Recorded March 8, 2011.

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Tuesday, April 05, 2011

The Art and History of Glassblowing

(53:49 minutes, 18.5 MB, MP3)

Arkansas Craft Guild member Ron Mynatt gives an overview of glassblowing history from ancient times to the present, and explains some of the mechanics behind the art of glassblowing. Mynatt began his career as a glassblower at Silver Dollar City in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. Later, he served as the blown glass instructor at the Arkansas Arts Center in Little Rock, before moving on to Terra Studios in Durham, Arkansas. Today, he creates hand-blown glass art at his Callahan Mountain Studios in Springdale. Recorded March 16, 2011.

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Monday, April 04, 2011

Arkansas's Apple Roots

(1:11:44 minutes, 24.8.MB, MP3)

Dr. Roy Rom, emeritus professor of horticulture at the University of Arkansas and owner of Rom Family Orchard in Fayetteville, discusses the history of apple production in Arkansas. Recorded January 19, 2011.

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Monday, February 07, 2011

The Art of Photography

(35:54 minutes, 16.5 MB, MP3)

Award-winning photographer Don House of Hazel Valley, Arkansas, reflects on his start in photography and his four community photo album projects, and offers some basic tips on shooting family photos.

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Albert E. Brumley's Gospel Music

(22:58 minutes, 10.6 MB, MP3)

In this 1993 interview, Albert E. Brumley's son, Bob, discusses his father's early career and the founding in 1969 of the Albert E. Brumley Sundown to Sunup Sing in Springdale, Arkansas. The Brumley Sing grew to become the largest outdoor gospel singing event in the nation.

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Madison County Mysteries

(37:37 minutes, 13.1 MB, MP3)

A castle in the hills, a lone marked grave, a Civil War massacre. Joy Russell, president of the Madison County Genealogical and Historical Society, shares some historical mysteries of Madison County, solved and unsolved.

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Friday, November 26, 2010

Collecting Folk Songs: An Art & A Science?

(1:11:33 minutes, 41.1 MB, MP3)

Professor Chalon Ragsdale of the University of Arkansas Department of Music examines the art and science of folk song collecting, using on the work of two collectors: Percy Grainger, who collected in England in the early 1900s, and Mary Celestia Parler, who collected in Arkansas in the mid-20th century. Recorded October 20, 2010.

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Friday, November 12, 2010

What You Don't Know About the Shiloh Museum

(13:45 minutes, 6.49 MB, MP3)

Museum staff and volunteers offer some insights about the Shiloh Museum.

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Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Ozark Ghost Stories Retold

(53:17 minutes, 24.6 MB, MP3)

The Shiloh Museum teamed up with KUAF 91.3 FM radio and Northwest Arkansas Newspapers to give folks a chance to share their otherworldly experiences. We weren’t interested in whether the story could be documented, just that the tellers believed their tales to be true. The result? Some tellers delved into area history, some told very personal stories, but all stories were eerie, interesting, and thought provoking.

Thanks to KUAF for permission to use their recording of this program for our podcast.

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Saturday, October 23, 2010

One Family's Musical Legacy

(38:30 minutes, 17.8 MB, MP3)

Family musical traditions run deep in the Ozarks, with each generation leaving its own influence. The Gilbert family of Zion (Washington County), Arkansas, exemplifies this. Martha Hogan Estes, a descendant of the Gilbert family, shares memories of her family’s musical legacy.

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Friday, October 08, 2010

Don in the Dark

(27:45 minutes, 19.1 MB, MP3)

Award-winning photographer Don House takes us on a behind-the-scenes look at the Shiloh Museum's darkroom. In the interest of podcast length, some of the repetitive parts of the darkroom process have been edited out.

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Sunday, September 26, 2010

Native American Rock Art in Northwest Arkansas

(1:09:00 minutes, 23.8 MB, MP3)

Dr. George Sabo III, archeologist with the Arkansas Archeological Survey and professor of anthropology at the University of Arkansas, shares examples of pictographs and petroglyphs found at sites in Northwest Arkansas that give us insight into the lives of the pre-Columbian Indians who were in this area.

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Friday, September 10, 2010

Shiloh Scrapbook, Vol. 29 No. 2

Bonus content!
(12 pages, 880KB, PDF)

Our September 2010 newsletter features an article on volunteer and member Regina Gabel, a spotlight on our living history program, and information on upcoming events.

Friday, September 03, 2010

"Been A Busy Day": The Milton Cooper Diaries

(1:00:00 minutes, 20.8 MB, MP3)

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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Wednesday, July 28, 2010

What Brought You Here?

(1:04:25 minutes, 22.3 MB, MP3)

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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Sunday, July 04, 2010

The Music of Winter's Bone

(24:20 minutes, 7.1 MB, MP3)

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 the regional dialect.

Prior to the premiere showing, Winter’s Bone director Debra Granik, producer Jonathan Scheuer, music advisor Marideth Sisco, cast member Lauren Sweetser, and five musicians held a musical performance at the museum along with a questions and answer session about the use of music in the movie. This podcast also features cuts from the movie soundtrack.

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Friday, June 25, 2010

The Making of Winter's Bone

(31:50 minutes, 11.1MB, MP3)

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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Monday, June 21, 2010

Public Access Television: The Quilt of Community Diversity

(40:20 minutes, 14.0MB, MP3)

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 of Fayetteville's Telecommunication Board for several years. Recorded June 16, 2010.

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Friday, June 04, 2010

Our Natural Heritage, Vol. 4

(29:55 minutes, 10.5MB, MP3)

Memoir writers read original stories about their experiences with nature, its characteristics, and its inhabitants. This is the last of four installments.

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Saturday, May 22, 2010

Gone to the Grave: Ozark Funeral Customs, 1850-1950

(01:06:35 minutes, 19.3MB, MP3)

Independent researcher Abby Burnett discusses the ways in which Ozark folks helped one another when there was a death, including the role in the community in nursing the sick, laying out the body, building the casket, sitting up with the body, digging the grave, and holding the burial. Recorded May 19, 2010.

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Monday, May 17, 2010

Our Natural Heritage, Vol. 3

(29:46 minutes, 10.5MB, MP3)

Memoir writers read original stories about their experiences with nature, its characteristics, and its inhabitants. This is the third of four installments.

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Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Shiloh Scrapbook, Vol. 29 No. 1

(8 pages, 893KB, PDF)

Our May 2010 newsletter features an article on a century of service by the Springdale Fire Department, a volunteer spotlight, and information on our upcoming summer camps.

Friday, May 07, 2010

My Fayetteville

(1:03:50 minutes, 22.1MB, MP3)

A panel discussion by Deryl Powers, Shirley Lucas, Kim Agee, and Charlie Alison, four generations of Fayetteville residents. Recorded April 21, 2010.

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Wednesday, May 05, 2010

2009 Annual Report


(4 pages, 340KB, PDF)

2009 Annual Report

Friday, April 30, 2010

Our Natual Heritage, Vol. 2

(26:00 minutes, 9.11MB, MP3)

Memoir writers read original stories about their experiences with nature, its characteristics, and its inhabitants. This is the second of four installments.

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Friday, April 23, 2010

Amateur Archeology

(57:20 minutes, 19.9 MB, MP3)

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 32years 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. Recorded March 17, 2010.

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Friday, April 16, 2010

Our Natural Heritage

(28:45 minutes, 10.1MB, MP3)

Memoir writers read original stories about their experiences with nature, its characteristics, and its inhabitants. This is the first of four installments.

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Thursday, April 08, 2010

Caring for Heirloom Textiles

(54:39 minutes, 18.9MB, MP3)

Museum collections manager Carolyn Reno shares on caring for treasured family garments—everything from wedding gowns to football letter jackets.

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Friday, April 02, 2010

Stories by the Teller of Tales

(40:27 minutes, 14.2MB, MP3)

Enjoy yarns by local storytellers Bob Mello, Sara Miller, Marjorie Shafer, and Oda Mulloy.

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