FAYETTEVILLE, Ark., Sept. 29 -- The University of Arkansas issued the following news release:
The Ozarks have never been only a place on a map. They are also a collection of sounds and stories, inherited traditions and contested identities, a region whose boundaries can seem certain one moment and surprisingly elusive the next.
At this year's Honors College House Concert, the Ozarks will be heard as well as considered on Wednesday, October 28th at 6 p.m. in the Honors Student Lounge (GEAR 130). Historian Brooks Blevins will join the Ozark Highballers, a three-piece string band steeped in the musical traditions of the region, for an evening of music and conversation about how places acquire identities of their own and why, at certain momen...