Podcast appearances and mentions of vivienne lie schiffer

Today's broadcast of Radio CALS features a Primary Sources podcast interview with Vivienne "Lie" Schiffer, a historian of the Japanese-American experience at the Rohwer internment camp during WWII; a discussion of the women's suffrage movement by historian Bernadette Cahill; and a new episode of Chewing the Fat.

In this recent conversation, Kim Sanders, Confinement Sites Interpreter at the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, interviews Vivienne "Lie" Schiffer, author of Camp Nine , a book about life in and out of the Rohwer internment camp, and author and director of Relocation Arkansas , a documentary about those whose lives were affected by their internment in the camp.

Today's broadcast of Radio CALS features a new Primary Sources podcast interview with Vivienne "Lie" Schiffer, a historian of the Japanese-American experience at the Rohwer internment camp during WWII; an interview with Korean War veteran, Corporal James Blaylock; new episodes of Bizarre Arkansas and Chewing the Fat; and more.

This week's broadcast of Radio CALS features a reading by Rien Fertel from his book, The One True Barbecue, from the Arkansas Literary Festival 2016; selections from Legacies & Lunch featuring Vivienne Lie Schiffer, who has written a book and produced a film about the experiences of Japanese Americans held in internment camps in Arkansas during WWII; an interview with Guy Lancaster, editor of the Encyclopedia of Arkansas (EOA), on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the EOA; Bizarre Arkansas with a story about Dr. John Richard Brinkley, a notorious quack who practiced "medicine" in the 1930's in Arkansas; Chewing the Fat with Rex Nelson and Paul Austin; information about and music by Bob Dorough, a composer, lyricist, and musician from Arkansas who is best known for his jazz compositions and 1970s Schoolhouse Rock! shorts on ABC Saturday morning television; selections from Bagels & Books, a partnership between the CALS Hillary Rodham Clinton Children's Library & Learning Center and jUSt, a pending nonprofit that serves as the leadership for Global Kids Arkansas; a reading of a short story by Dave Wallis, who served as mayor of Pine Bluff and authored multiple books on Arkansas history; and an interview with Freeman McKindra, a teacher from Arkansas who has worked in community development with the Peace Corps and other groups.

Selections from Legacies & Lunch featuring Vivienne Lie Schiffer, who has written a book and produced a film about the experiences of Japanese Americans who were held in internment camps in Arkansas during World War II; information about Arkansas musician Little Willie John, an R&B vocalist and songwriter who recorded several hit songs, including the original version of the popular song, "Fever," at age 18; information about the Butler Center's Genealogy Workshop on Saturday, July 23, from Rhonda Stewart, the Butler Center's local history expert, and Kate Chagnon, the Butler Center's programming and outreach coordinator; Selections from Books & Bagels, a partnership between the CALS Hillary Rodham Clinton Children's Library & Learning Center and Just Us, a pending nonprofit that serves as the leadership for Global Kids Arkansas; this week's segment features a multigenerational conversation about feminism, misogyny, and sexism; Bizarre Arkansas, with a story about H. L. Mencken, a Baltimore journalist who wrote critical statements about Arkansas during the early 1900's; Chewing the Fat with Rex and Paul, who talk about Chafik Chamoun's Rest Haven in Clarksdale, Mississippi, the Klappenbach Bakery in Fordyce, the Sno-White Grill and Fino's in Pine Bluff, repeating oneself, Sunday afternoon drives, Baptist Training Union, Ravenden Springs, the Devil's Bathtub, the Needle's Eye, Crowley's Ridge, cemetery visits, Arkansas back roads, Des Arc, Carlisle, Lauratown, the collie who caught chickens so its owner could fry them, eating at boardinghouses, having the preacher over for Sunday lunch, a troublesome uncle who was afraid of mice, and the disaster that befell a visiting preacher when Rex's uncles tried to make wine in the attic in summer; an interview with Nancy Hendricks, author of Notable Women of Arkansas, just released by Butler Center Books; interview conducted by Rod Lorenzen, manager of Butler Center Books; selections from an interview with Cpl. Charles O. Hilburn, a veteran of the Korean War; interview conducted by Brian Robertson, the Butler Center's senior archivist and manager research services; a reading of an interview with Railroad Dockery, a former slave, conducted by the WPA from 1936-1938; read by Rhonda Stewart, the Butler Center's local history and genealogy expert; information about and music by Arkansas music legend, Johnny Cash; information about this year's Summer Seminar for state educators from George West, the Butler Center's education coordinator, and David Stricklin, head of the Butler Center; a Take Five interview with Bob Boyd, a musician who will perform with the Bob Boyd Sounds for the Arkansas Sounds concert series tonight, Friday, April 22.

An interview with Kevin Brockmeier, an author featured in the Arkansas Literary Festival 2016, conducted by Amy Bradley-Hole, moderator chair of the Arkansas Literary Festival; Selections from an interview with Dr. Ann Tice, a retired dermatologist who talks about growing up in a family of physicians and her non-traditional path to medical school; Selections from Legacies & Lunch featuring Vivienne Lie Schiffer, who has written a book and produced a film about the experiences of Japanese Americans who were held in internment camps in Arkansas during World War II; Chewing the Fat with Rex and Paul, who talk about Cherokee Village, the sales force at the Village and their sometimes-shady techniques involving Elvis and Jesus, an outstanding collection of shag carpet, the emergence of retirement communities, Paul's viewing of the moon landing in July 1969, John Cooper and his other developments at Bella Vista and Hot Springs Village, messing with salesmen, Horseshoe Bend, Holiday Island, the ferry at Norfork, the beginnings of tourism in North Arkansas, Imboden (a new record: Paul took seven minutes to mention his hometown), the great rivers and streams of Arkansas, fishing for smallmouth bass, the Eleven Point River, the Spring, the Strawberry, the Current, trout fishing in the cold water from Mammoth Spring to Hardy, Black Rock, the South Fork of the Spring, drum, perch, catfish, spring break on the Spring River, jon boats, the Many Islands, the use of hammers and electricity in catching and preparing fish, W.O. Prince's place on the Cache River, Murray's at De Valls Bluff, the Caddo River, Caddo Gap, how a longnose gar frightened a fellow from Virginia who thought it was a dinosaur, the Little Red River, and Lindsey's trout resort near Heber Springs; Bizarre Arkansas, with a story about reports of mysterious flying objects seen in the Ouachita Mountains in 1897; An interview with Gabrielle Simone, a very young published author who will be featured at the Arkansas Literary Festival 2016 -- interview conducted by Amy Bradley-Hole, moderator chair of the Arkansas Literary Festival; An interview with Sofia Gonzales, who will teach an upcoming CALS Community Learning course on embroidery; interview conducted by Kristen Cooke, CALS staff member; Selections from Legacies & Lunch featuring Ed Bethune; Selections from an Arkansas Sounds concert featuring Charley Sandage and Harmony, who present original music in a traditional Arkansas folk style.