The annual Arkansas Folk Festival takes place on the third weekend in April in Mountain View (Stone County). H...

Both a local and national celebrity, Ollie Eva Woody Gilbert, known popularly as Aunt Ollie, performed with Ji...

The Ozark Folk Center State Park at Mountain View (Stone County) may be the only state park in Arkansas dedica...

Originally known as the Ozark Native Craft Association, Ozark Folkways—located on Scenic Byway 71 south of W...

Mary Celestia Parler was responsible for developing and implementing the most extensive folklore research proj...

The Rackensack Folklore Society was organized for the purpose of perpetuating the traditional folk music of t...

The Rackensack Folklore Society, Pulaski County (RFSPC) was founded in mid-1963 by noted political cartoonist ...

Vance Randolph was a folklorist whose wide-ranging studies in the traditional culture of the Ozarks made him f...

Otto Ernest Rayburn was a writer, magazine publisher, and collector of Arkansas and Ozark lore. Vance Randolph...

Irene Robertson was an interviewer and writer for the 1930s Federal Writers’ Project in Arkansas. She preser...

Fred Starr was an educator, farmer, sometimes-politician, and writer who spent the second half of his life wor...

Writer and educator Samuel Shinkle Taylor was one of only two African-American interviewers for the Arkansas F...

A college professor and self-trained folklorist, John Quincy Wolf Jr. left a lasting legacy in the mid-South ...