Happening this week at the Ozark Folk Center State Park!
Happening this week at the Ozark Folk Center State Park!
Welcome To The
Ozark Folk Center
State Park
1032 Park Ave
Mountain View, AR 72560
Administration phone: 870.269.3851
Cabin Office: 870.269.3871
E-mail: OzarkFolkCenter@arkansas.com
Website: www.OzarkFolkCenter.com
2016 Hours of Operation
March 29 – November 26
Open Tuesday-Saturday
Craft Village 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
General Store 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Smokehouse 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Daytime Music 10:15, 11:15, 12:15, 1:45, 2:45, 3:45
Music Theater/Large Auditorium
April 15-September 30 Wednesday – Saturday
October 1 – October 30 Tuesday – Saturday
Concession open 6:00 pm Concert 7:00 p.m.
HomeSpun Gift Shop
March 29 – November 26
Sunday & Monday 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Tuesday – Saturday 10:00 a.m.– 5:30 p.m.
Loco Ropes
March 1 – November 30
Skillet Restaurant
March 29 -November 29 open 7 days a week
7:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Skillet Restaurant Now featuring local produce and fruits
Open 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Lunch Special Served from 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Lunch Specials October 4—10
Breakfast: Cinnamon Pancakes with fried apples $4.99
Lunch: Meatloaf with mashed potatoes, gravy, green beans, roll $6.95
Or
Chicken Philly Steak on a Hoagie bun with chips $7.95
October 4 through 8, 2016
Tuesday, October 4
Daytime Musicians: Sheryl Irvine
Noon, Bessie Moore Deck—Women of Mountain Music with Mary Gillihan
Evening: Bonafide Stringband; Five South; Old Timers; Duane Porterfield; Two Roads
Wednesday, October 5
Daytime Musicians: Armadilla Holler
Wednesday Weekly Garden Tour at Noon, starting on the Bessie Moore Deck
Evening: Chinkypin; Mulligan Stew; The Weide Family; Prestin Garey; Bess Kelley & Friends
Thursday, October 6
Daytime Musicians: The Original Flathoof Stringband
Noon on the Bessie Moore Deck: Smitty the Cowboy Poet
Evening: Leatherwoods; Armadilla Holler; Twang; Cindy Rice; Flat Broke
Friday, October 7
Herb Harvest Fall Festival—Registration Required
Daytime Musicians: Sibling Rivalry
Evening: Possum Juice; Pretty Lil Miss; Gabi & Albee; Borderstate
Saturday, October 8
Herb Harvest Fall Festival—Registration Required
Daytime Musicians: Possum Juice;
Craft Village Matinee – Don Edwards, 2 to 3 p.m.
Evening: Feature Concert Don Edwards
Opening Act: Ruby Pines; Samuel Blake
Schedule Subject to Change
Upcoming Events
October 6, 2016
Sumptuous Herb Harvest Supper*
October 7-8
Herb Harvest Festival*
October 8
Feature Concert Don Edwards
Matinee and Evening Performances
October 15
Farmstead Cheesemaking*
October17
Basic Letterpress Printing*
October 22
Dutch Oven Workshop*
OzarkFolkCenter.com for details
*preregistration required
Schedule subject to change
Young Pioneers Saturday. These special hands-on programs of Ozark crafts and music for children 7-14 are offered at 11:00 a.m., 2:00 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. at the Shannon Cabin. Programs are free with regular admission
Ozark Highlands Radio
Do you want to hear more of the music you enjoyed in the park? Check it out… Ozark Highlands Radio at www.OzarkHighlandsRadio.com or the following stations.
KUAR: Little Rock AR
FRI 8 p.m. 89.1FM
KASU: Jonesboro AR
SAT 2 p.m. 91.9FM
KUAF: Fayetteville AR
Sat 6 p.m. 88.9 FM
KFFB: Fairfield Bay AR
SUN 6 a.m. 106.1FM
KSMU: Springfield MO
Sun 8 p.m. 91.1 FM
K255AH: Joplin MO
Sun 8 p.m. 98.9 FM
KSMW: West Plains MO
Sun 8 p.m. 90.3 FM
K204FX: Mountain Grove MO
Sun 8 p.m. 88.7 FM
KSMS: Point Lookout/Branson MO
Sun 8 p.m. 90.5 FM
K279AD: Neosho MO
Sun 8 p.m. 103.7 FM
Yarb Tales – October 3, 2016
The Heritage Herb Garden at the Ozark Folk Center graces the park with visual colors and textures, sweet and pungent aromas, and helps us to interpret the history of the human use of plants.
I truly believe that learning new things keeps our minds and bodies young and vital. Each year, a different area of the world is featured at the Herb Harvest Fall Festival–we’ve been traveling around the globe for many years now. The idea is to show how countries from around the world relate to the history, past and present, to life in the Ozarks. This year, we hopped across the proverbial pond to South America–it made sense since Chiles are herb of the year and they are indigenous to South and Central America. Do you know how many other foods originated from there?! Well you can find out all about it if you attend this fun, entertaining and educational event.
Susan Belsinger has been researching the foods and plants of this area of the world for her program Flavors of South America (and yes there will be tastings). One of the best cooks I know, Marion Spear, will be discussing and showing us the fine art of making empanadas y ensalatas from this region of the world. Owners Randy and Katie Crumby of Mount Olive Smoked Pepper, a local business in nearby Mount Olive, will inform us on how they hickory smoke-dry tons of locally-grown, vine-ripened peppers. The Skillet Restaurant will be making a Lavish Herbal Feast using recipes from all over South America, and lunches on seminar days.
Folks from the Folk Center will be participating too, with Craft Director, Jeanette Larson showing us fiber types, discussing her life as shepherdess of many critters including her llamas, alpaca and angora goats; Potter Judi Munn will share her experience of being in the Peace Corp in Paraguay and show us the art of preparing yerba buena. Kathleen Connole is a gardener and botanist and she has a rare gift of being a plant historian–she researches and finds out about how plants got where they are–and reveals all kinds of fascinating facts about plant explorers and much more. Tina Marie Wilcox and Susan Belsinger are teaming up to do a program about the 25+ types of capsicums growing in the Heritage Herb Garden–from mild to incendiary. Last though not least, herbal master and photographer extraordinaire, Steven Foster, will present two programs from his travels to South America–you are in for an unbelievable photo journey.
The Ozark Unit of the Herb Society of America will kick of the happenings on Thursday, October 6, with a reception in the Craft Village before the Lavish Herbal Feast. Seminars are Friday and Saturday, October 7 and 8. There is still time to sign up; for more infohttp://www.ozarkfolkcenter.com/calendar-of-events/workshops/herb-harvest-festival.aspx
Celebrate the harvest season and chile peppers! Don’t miss this event in your own backyard. If I don’t see you in the future—I’ll see you in the pasture!
Jeanette Larson
Craft Director, CIT
Ozark Folk Center State Park
Mountain View, Arkansas
870-269-3851
www.ozarkfolkcenter.com
jeanette.larson@arkansas.gov
The mission of the Ozark Folk Center State Park is to perpetuate, present and promote the Ozark way of life in an educational and enjoyable manner; through craft demonstrations, musical programs, the Heritage Herb Garden, workshops and other special events.
