Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History
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The David and Barbara Pryor Center is building a statewide archive of Arkansas oral and visual history.
Collect • Preserve • Connect
The David and Barbara Pryor Center is building a statewide archive of Arkansas oral and visual history by collecting interviews with Arkansans in all 75 counties and preserving these recordings for future generations. The center is connecting the collection to Arkansans and the world through of the center's Web site at http://pryorcenter.uark.edu.
John Abbott, born in 1912 in El Dorado, talks about the wood stove in a house he grew up in. They had a coal stove to heat the downstairs. To hear more about heating a house in the early '20s, his childhood, and his career as an architect, go to our interview with him at https://tinyurl.com/4pxs2rpp
We're wrapping up this series with the closing segment of the Bicentennial Arkansas history special that was aired on KATV in 1976. If you enjoy historic TV footage from KATV, visit our digitized collection on the Pryor Center website at https://tinyurl.com/bdz8zb2x
08/13/2024
John Abbott was an architect born in El Dorado, Arkansas, in 1912. He remembers how logging was done when he was young. It's very different than how it's done today!
To learn more about Abbott you can watch, read, or listen to his interview on our website at https://tinyurl.com/4pxs2rpp
This week on Ozarks at Large, Randy Dixon continues his look back at Razorback sports with the 1978 Orange Bowl game against Oklahoma in which Arkansas was considered an unlikely underdog. In this clip, Coach Lou Holtz talks about the game.
Episodes air every Monday at noon and 7 p.m. on KUAF and now on KUAR nightly at 7. To listen live or catch up on previous episodes, visit https://tinyurl.com/muamw3e6 and https://tinyurl.com/3fbu4aa4
08/09/2024
Have you checked out our Arkansas Traditions project page? There are so many festivals and events in the state that take place year after year, and we're capturing the oral history behind them! More will be added, but you can get ahead by visiting today. Go to https://tinyurl.com/znjp8fhd
08/08/2024
The Olympics are winding down, but one of our favorite historic medalists is our featured interview! He won a silver medal in 100-meter hurdles in 1948, but Clyde "Smackover" Scott is pictured here in his Razorback football uniform. His #12 was the first of only two jersey numbers ever retired by the Razorbacks.
Find his interview at https://tinyurl.com/3s52neyd or access it from our home page.
The KATV Bicentennial Arkansas History special in 1976 included a segment on prison reform and Cummins Prison. This program covered a lot of ground!
If you enjoy historic TV footage from KATV, visit our digitized collection on the Pryor Center website at https://tinyurl.com/bdz8zb2x
Enjoy this look back on the 1999 Razorback celebration after the Hogs defeated Tennessee, then give a listen to this week's Ozarks at Large for even more nostalgia!
Episodes air every Monday at noon and 7 p.m. on KUAF and now on KUAR nightly at 7. To listen live or catch up on previous episodes, visit https://tinyurl.com/muamw3e6 and https://tinyurl.com/3fbu4aa4
08/02/2024
Look for new interviews that we've added to our Arkansas Memories project page, like this one from Sadie Booker of El Dorado! Here she shares one of her memories from WWII. To see more, head to her interview at https://tinyurl.com/tttsa79h
This week's clip from the KATV Bicentennial Arkansas history special is about Winthrop Rockefeller, Arkansas's 37th governor.
If you enjoy historic TV footage from KATV, visit our digitized collection on the Pryor Center website at https://tinyurl.com/bdz8zb2x
07/30/2024
Razorback Clyde "Smackover" Scott is known as a great football player, but he was an Olympian in track and field! Scott ran on the outside track (on the left in this picture) to bring home the silver medal in the 110-meter hurdle race in 1948.
Take a break from watching the 2024 games to learn more by going to our interview with him at https://tinyurl.com/3s52neyd
07/26/2024
Check out our new featured interview! Artist and environmentalist Susan Morrison is pictured here with one of her drawings. Morrison passed away in July of last year.
To see her interview and learn more, click on the link on our home page or visit directly at https://tinyurl.com/3793mvs5
From the Bicentennial Arkansas History special that aired on KATV in 1976, this clip begins a retrospective on Governor Orval Faubus.
If you enjoy historic TV footage from KATV, visit our digitized collection on the Pryor Center website at https://tinyurl.com/bdz8zb2x
Next up in our look into Arkansas History from KATV archived footage is an excerpt about Hot Springs, complete with gangsters, bath houses, and Sid McMath!
To explore more from KATV, visit our digitized collection on the Pryor Center website at https://tinyurl.com/bdz8zb2x
This week's Ozarks at Large is an encore presentation about the USS Razorback. She was transferred to the Arkansas Inland Maritime Museum in North Little Rock 2004.
Episodes air every Monday at noon and 7 p.m. on KUAF and now on KUAR nightly at 7. To listen live or catch up on previous episodes, visit https://tinyurl.com/muamw3e6 and https://tinyurl.com/3fbu4aa4
07/12/2024
Check out our new Arkansas Traditions page on the Pryor Center Website! We've got the Gillett C**n Supper, the Bradley County Pink Tomato Festival, and the King Biscuit Blues Festival so far. Who knows where we'll go next! For now, you can go to https://tinyurl.com/znjp8fhd to see the projects.
If you have stories and memories about these Arkansas Traditions to add to our archives, please email John C. Davis at [email protected].
07/11/2024
June Freeman, Arkansas columnist and fervent advocate for the arts, passed away on July 4, 2024. Freeman served on the boards of the Arkansas Arts Council, the Arkansas Arts Center, the Southeast Arkansas Arts and Science Center, and the Mid-America Arts Alliance.
Visit https://tinyurl.com/5bda7d5v for our interview with her.
Enjoy more of the 1976 Bicentennial special on Arkansas history from KATV with a segment on Orval Faubus, Arkansas's 36th governor.
For more historic TV footage from KATV, visit our digitized collection on the Pryor Center website at https://tinyurl.com/bdz8zb2x
07/09/2024
Mayor Lioneld Jordan gave Arkansas Story Vault students an interview for the very first ASV project, Public Places and Spaces, where he tells what he thinks makes Fayetteville the town it is. Find the other interviews and the mini-documentary at https://storyvault.uark.edu/public-places-and-spaces/ and then stay tuned for the ninth student project from ASV coming up soon!
This week Ozark's at Large features another Arkansas tradition--the Tontitown Grape Festival! This is a clip from a 1956 Arkansas Highway Department film. The 125th Annual Tontitown Grape Festival runs August 6-10 this year.
Episodes air every Monday at noon and 7 p.m. on KUAF and now on KUAR nightly at 7. To listen live or catch up on previous episodes, visit https://tinyurl.com/muamw3e6 and https://tinyurl.com/3fbu4aa4
07/05/2024
Tomorrow you can go to the big farmers market on the Downtown Fayetteville Square, and today you can hear about its history from some of the founders and vendors by going to our Arkansas Story Vault website at https://storyvault.uark.edu/public-places-and-spaces/.
This was the first ASV project, but the ninth one is coming up soon. Don't miss it!
07/04/2024
Wishing you a happy and safe Independence Day!
For the Bicentennial in 1976, KATV aired a special on Arkansas history. Here's the opening segment and there are more clips to come, so stay tuned!
If you enjoy historic TV footage from KATV, visit our digitized collection on the Pryor Center website at https://tinyurl.com/bdz8zb2x
07/02/2024
The 2024 season of Opera in the Ozarks is going on right now, but you can learn more about the history at any time on the Arkansas Story Vault website that houses our student projects. James Swiggart, pictured, has been going to Inspiration Point Fine Arts Colony since he was a teenager. To watch his interview and find out the history from someone who lived it, visit ASV at https://tinyurl.com/2p839ed2
This week on Ozarks at Large, we look at the history (and a preview) of the Hope Watermelon Festival. This is a rare clip of the 2nd festival from 1927.
Episodes air every Monday at noon and 7 p.m. on KUAF and now on KUAR nightly at 7. To listen live or catch up on previous episodes, visit https://tinyurl.com/muamw3e6 and https://tinyurl.com/3fbu4aa4
06/28/2024
On Saturday, June 29, the Arkansas Air & Military Museum in Fayetteville celebrates 80 years! Check out our interview with one of the cofounders, Jim Younkin, and learn more about him, the planes, and the museum. Find it at the link in our bio.
06/27/2024
There's a new oral history project coming soon from the Arkansas Story Vault! Until it's here, you can take a look back at some of the first student projects from ASV, starting with the one documenting Opera in the Ozarks. See the documentary and interviews at https://storyvault.uark.edu
Here's another Bradley County Pink Tomato Festival clip from 1986 with the annual 5k race and ugly dog contest. Congratulations to Charlie!
We are still collecting stories about the festival. If you'd like to talk to us, email John C. Davis at [email protected]. We'd love to hear from you!
To explore our KATV digitized collection, visit the Pryor Center website at https://tinyurl.com/bdz8zb2x
We're on a Pink Tomato roll! The Bradley County festival is featured this week on Ozarks at Large. This clip is B-roll of the 1971 parade and has no sound, but has tons of character. Tune in to the show to learn more!
Episodes air every Monday at noon and 7 p.m. on KUAF and now on KUAR nightly at 7. To listen live or catch up on previous episodes, visit https://tinyurl.com/muamw3e6 and https://tinyurl.com/3fbu4aa4
More tomato coverage from our KATV archives! The Bradley County Pink Tomato Festival is over for this year, and we got lots of great stories. But we're still interested in yours! Contact our executive director, John C. Davis, at [email protected] to share your memories of the festival, and head to the Pryor Center website at https://tinyurl.com/bdz8zb2x for more KATV.
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