With a suicide rate reaching nearly 50 percent higher than the national average, farming is considered one of the most stressful occupations in the United States. It’s an unprecedented number and one that deserves national attention.
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Share your recipes, photos or videos today of your favorite holiday traditions and you’ll be entered to win. Use our easy online form to submit now through Dec. 31 at myarkansaspbs.org/celebratingarkansas.
Our random drawing will take place Jan. 13, and winners will be notified via email.
Arkansas PBS is bringing viewers a series of concert specials this December, featuring Willie Nelson, Alan Jackson, Mariah Carey and more!
Kicking off Friday, Dec. 2, at 11 p.m., “John Sebastian Presents: Folk Rewind (My Music).” Join John Sebastian of The Lovin’ Spoonful in a special featuring the greatest singers and songwriters of the classic 1950s and ‘60s folk era, with historic footage and new performances.
As we honor veterans in November, Arkansas PBS is highlighting those who have served in the military.
Premiering Thursday, Nov. 10, at 7 p.m., “Honor. Service. Duty.: Arkansas Women Veterans” recognizes the contribution of women in the military and helps connect these veterans with resources and services. Arkansas PBS will air an encore of “Honor. Service. Duty.” on Veterans Day, Nov. 11, at 8 p.m.
This program is made possible by AARP Arkansas.
Farming is not for the faint of heart.
The long hours and unpredictability of the weather are enough to turn many people away from choosing it as a profession. Add in a heavy dose of rising fuel costs, aging equipment and the extremely high price of new technologies, and you can understand why farming is one of the most stressful jobs in America.
Darrin Davis, owner of Lakeview Farms in Lakeview, Arkansas, says there is nothing else he would rather do, though.
“Golden Eagle: Witnesses to a Changing West” is a breathtaking film that transports you to a dramatic, but imperiled western landscape with me, Chuck Preston, and my research team as we rappel into cliffside golden eagle nests to examine and place leg bands on these magnificent birds. Stunning images of the eagles and landscapes are accompanied by Native American and other voices to paint an intimate portrait of this American icon, its habitat and the threats both face in a rapidly changing American West.
“The U.S. and the Holocaust,” a film by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein not only explores how the events of the Holocaust were handled at the national level but brings conversations to the local level.
“[The] film, at its very core, will help reconnect Arkansans with a piece of history that happened; that should have never happened and can never happen again,” Holocaust education activist Steve Ronnel said. “The only way it can never happen again is if we learn from it and we talk about it.”
Louis Armstrong said, “If you ever get a second chance in life, you’ve got to go all the way.” The trick about second chances, though, is to recognize them.
For Margie Raimondo, there was no question when her second chance came: it was a clear morning with a gorgeous blue sky on Sept. 11, 2001, and in her hand was a plane ticket on United Airlines Flight 93 from Newark, New Jersey, to San Francisco, California — the flight that ultimately crashed in a Pennsylvania field after being hijacked.
