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In 1963 the guild, in cooperation with local civic organizations and education advocate Bessie Moore, organized the first Arkansas Folk Festival which attracted approximately 15,000 people. The festival became an annual event and within a few years was attracting almost 100,000 people to Mountain View.
Ozark Folk Center: Mountain View: Arkansas: Living: State park with traditional crafts and music Columbia State Historic Park: Columbia: California: Living: Mid-to-late 19th-century Gold Rush town Empire Mine State Historic Park: Grass Valley: California: Living: Late 19th-century living history tours, gold mine complex Heritage Square Museum ...
Ozark Depot Museum: Ozark: Franklin [19] Arkansas River Valley Region Local history Local history and railroad memorabilia Ozark Folk Center: Mountain View: Stone: The Ozarks Living history: Ozark cultural heritage and tradition, music, crafts Ozark Heritage Arts Center Leslie: Searcy: The Ozarks Multiple Art gallery, oral histories, music and ...
The local economy is largely tourism-based. Numerous hotels and restaurants exist to serve travelers who come to visit the nearby Blanchard Springs Caverns, in Fifty-Six, Arkansas, The Ozark Folk Center State Park, and Loco Ropes Treetop Adventure Park.
Stone County is located in the Ozark Mountains in the U.S. state of Arkansas.The county is named for the rugged, rocky area terrain of the Ozarks. Created as Arkansas's 74th county on April 21, 1873, Stone County has two incorporated cities: Mountain View, the county seat and most populous city, and Fifty-Six.
People have the same basic needs at any age: to explore, have fun, learn, and live life to the fullest. The best activities for assisted living residents do much more than just pass the time ...
Max Franklin Hunter [1] (July 2, 1921 – November 6, 1999) was an American folklorist who, while working as a travelling salesman, compiled an archive of nearly 1,600 folk songs from the Ozarks region of the southern United States between 1956 and 1976.
October 9, 1960 (Gillett: Arkansas: Commemorates the first semi-permanent European settlement in the Lower Mississippi Valley (1686); an American Revolutionary War skirmish (1783); the first territorial capital of Arkansas (1819–1821); and the American Civil War Battle of Fort Hindman (1863)