The schedule below for the Ozark Folk Center is ready for you to join in the education and fun of the Ozarks!
Monday – May 18, 2015
Final Civil War on the Sylamore Performance Sunday, May 24
In the 1850’s the Ozarks were a land full of promise for many families who moved here to homestead. Politics and conflict were far from their minds as they cut timber to build houses and fences. When word of the troubles in the outside world reached them, many of them just thought they’d stay quietly on their farms.
The troubles of the world came right to their doorsteps in this land between the Federal and Confederate Armies starting in the 1860’s. On Sunday, May 25, visit the Ozark Folk Center State Park in Mountain View, Arkansas to experience how the Civil War affected the hill people of northern Arkansas.
Starting at 6 p.m. on Sunday evening, you’ll be able to travel back to the Civil War years between 1861 and 1865 in this land along the Sylamore Creek. Through a series of 20 minute programs you’ll learn how the families who had settled in this area dealt with the war. A map and a schedule will guide you on the walking tour through the village. Costumed interpreters will present living histories, songs and stories of the war. Learn about Bushwhackers, Jayhawkers and the Legend of Bill Dark. You’ll be able talk with Obadiah T. Fassbinder about the medicine of the Civil War times and contrast his outlook on medicine with that of the Widder Wilcox, a yarb doctor of local reknown; listen to the worries of a war widow trying to keep her children safe; be moved by original ballads that share the realities of the war; and visit with uniformed soldiers in their camp about who they are and where they came from.
The programs will wrap up at 8:00 p.m. when you’ll be invited to dance your war worries away to live music on the Picnic Pavilion. Traditional Civil War period dancing will be led and taught by Jimmie Edwards and you’ll get a chance to dance the Virginia Reel.
Feature Concert with Cindy Woolf and Mark Bilyeu
Cindy Woolf and Mark Bilyeu will be performing in concert at the Ozark Folk Center State Park on Thursday, May 21. They will be performing outdoors in the Craft Village from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. and will be featured in the evening concert in the large auditorium.Cindy Woolf and Mark Bilyeu have been playing together for the better part of ten years,
performing on the Americana/Folk and singer-songwriter circuit. They are now a full-
Yarb Tales – Compost Time
Composting is a natural process that has been taking place on earth since life began. It is the biological reduction of organic waste to a stable material called humus. The dark-colored, crumbly, sweetly fragrant layer of material found just under the leaf litter in the woods is humus. Worm castings are humus. Loam, the best soil, is composed of humus, clay, silt and sand particles. Intentional composting is the single, most important human activity that can be performed to improve and maintain healthy soil.
Humus is the almost completely broken down form of organic matter. It contains the chemical elements that were present in the plant and animal tissues before they were digested by bacteria, fungi, yeasts and other creatures that live on organic matter.
Plants growing in soil are aided in their processes of photosynthesis by humus and humic acids. Humus works chemically in soil so that plants can assimilate nutrients. In photosynthesis, humic acids are enzymes that play an important role in manufacturing plant sugars and are an important source of carbon dioxide used in this complex process.
Skillet Restaurant Specials This Week
Skillet Restaurant Lunch Specials May 19-May 25
or
Friday Night Special in May
Performing this Week
Craft Village – Open 10 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. every day May 19-25 for the Memorial Day Holiday Weekend. Admission $12.00 for adults and $7.00 for children 6-12, children under 6 are free. Family pass is $29.50. A season pass includes both Crafts and Music $75 for adults and $35 for children 6-12.
Skillet Restaurant Open 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. – good southern country cooking
Homespun Gift Shop Open 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. – featuring items from Arkansas crafters
Cabins at Dry Creek Open daily & year-around for comfortable, quiet lodging
Loco Ropes Treetop Adventure open 7-days a week, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Noon program on the Bessie Moore Deck next to the School House
Daytime Musicians are located at the Back Stage of Large Auditorium. 10:15 a.m., 11:15 a.m., 12:15 p.m., 1:45 p.m., 2:45 p.m., 3:45 p.m.
Tuesday, May 19
Noon Program – Jeanette Larson – Spinning Tales
Daytime Musicians – Fog on the Mountain
Wednesday, May 20
Noon Program – Tina Marie Wilcox – Widder Wilcox
Daytime Musicians – Long ago Stringband
- Smith & Jenson
- Nathan Cobb & Friends
- Grace Stormont
- Bess Kelley & Friends
- Possum Juice
Thursday, May 21
Noon Program – Mary Gillihan – Women of Mountain Music
Daytime Musicians – Cindy Rice
- Mulligan Stew
- Long Ago Stringband
- Scrap Iron
- Woodsong
- Wharf Rats
Friday, May 22
Noon Program – Kathleen Connole – Native Plants and Native Peoples
Daytime Musicians – Woodsong
- Switchback Road
- Fog on the Mountain
- Bona Fide Stringband
- Mary Parker & Friends
- Odell Jackson
Saturday, May 23
Young Pioneers children 7-14 for more information click here for schedule click here
Noon Program – Jeanette Larson – Spinning Tales
Daytime Musician – Possum Juice
Evening Concert – Large Auditorium –
- Feature Concert Willie Watson
- Lazy Goat Stringband
Sunday, May 24
Noon Program – Jeanette Larson – Aunt Martha’s Civil War Remembrances
Monday, May 25
Noon Program – Jeanette Larson – Spinning Tales
Daytime Musicians – Whoa Mule!
