#Craighead Forest

[bebopbeatniks]

Blues Fest - September 24, 2023

Blues Fest Craighead Forest Bandshell Jonesboro, Arkansas Sunday, September 24 2:00 Hairy Larry and The Flying Hungarians 3:00 Butler and Holmes 4:00 Bebop Beatniks 5:00 Anna and the Tanks Free and open to the public. Picnics permitted. Bring blankets and lawn chairs for your comfort.

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Jonesboro, Arkansas, nestled in the heart of the Arkansas Delta, offers a variety of attractions that make it a great destination for both residents and visitors. Whether you're looking for outdoor adventures, cultural experiences, or family-friendly activities, Jonesboro has something for everyone. Here are some of the top places to visit in this vibrant city.

1. Craighead Forest Park

One of Jonesboro’s most beloved outdoor spaces, Craighead Forest Park, is a haven for nature enthusiasts. Spanning over 692 acres, the park offers plenty of recreational opportunities, including hiking trails, fishing, camping, and disc golf. The serene lake at the center of the park is perfect for a leisurely day of fishing or paddle boating. Families can enjoy the playgrounds and picnic areas, making it an ideal spot for a day out.

2. Forrest L. Wood Crowley’s Ridge Nature Center

The Forrest L. Wood Crowley’s Ridge Nature Center provides an immersive experience into the natural beauty and history of the Crowley’s Ridge region. With interactive exhibits, educational programs, and wildlife observation areas, this nature center is perfect for those interested in learning about the unique ecosystem of the area. The center also features walking trails that offer stunning views of the ridge.

3. ASU Museum

Located on the Arkansas State University campus, the ASU Museum is a treasure trove of cultural and historical exhibits. It offers a glimpse into the history of Northeast Arkansas, with displays ranging from Native American artifacts to contemporary art. The museum also hosts special events and educational programs, making it a great stop for families and history buffs alike.

4. The Downtown Jonesboro Experience

Downtown Jonesboro is a hub of activity, blending historic charm with modern amenities. Stroll through the streets and explore a variety of local shops, boutiques, and restaurants. The area also features several art galleries and live music venues, providing a vibrant cultural scene. Whether you’re in the mood for a gourmet meal or a casual coffee, Downtown Jonesboro has it all.

5. The Fowler Center

The Fowler Center, also located on the Arkansas State University campus, is the cultural heart of Jonesboro. This performing arts center hosts a wide array of events, including theater productions, concerts, and dance performances. With its state-of-the-art facilities, the Fowler Center offers high-quality entertainment for all ages.

6. The Mall at Turtle Creek

For those who enjoy shopping, The Mall at Turtle Creek is the largest shopping destination in Northeast Arkansas. With a variety of national retailers, specialty stores, and dining options, the mall is a great place to spend an afternoon. Whether you’re looking for the latest fashion trends or a quick bite to eat, The Mall at Turtle Creek has something for everyone.

7. The Historic Arkansas State University District

Take a step back in time by visiting the Historic Arkansas State University District. This area is home to several historic buildings that tell the story of the university's rich history. Walking tours are available, allowing you to explore landmarks such as the Dean B. Ellis Library and the iconic ASU Arch.

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[leguin]

2023 books

alright, calling it bc i’m not optimistic about finishing anything else in the next week - here’s this year’s reading list.

january

- the vampire lestat by anne rice

- bedroom rapper: cadence weapon on hip-hop, resistance, and surviving the music industry by rollie pemberton/cadence weapon

february - was reading queen of the damned

march

- queen of the damned by anne rice

- endurance: shackleton’s incredible voyage by alfred lansing

april

- the liar’s dictionary by eley williams

- drive your plow over the bones of the dead by olga tokarczuk (trans. antonia lloyd-jones)

- desert notes/river notes by barry lopez

- an imaginary life by david malouf

- eastbound by maylis de kerangel (trans. jessica moore)

- the forest museum by pip craighead

may - was reading the thirty years war

june

- the thirty years war by c.v. wedgwood

july

- taoism: the road to immortality by john blofeld

- the tale of the body thief by anne rice

august

- the badger by jenn ashworth

- storm in june by irene nemirovsky

- pulling the chariot of the sun by shane mccrae

september

- i don’t want to talk about it: overcoming the secret legacy of male depression by terrence real

october

- peaces by helen oyeyemi

november

- going postal by terry pratchett

- the futurological congress by stanisław lem (trans. michael kandel)

- stations of the tide by michael swanwick

december

- waxing on: the karate kid and me by ralph macchio

- the postcard by anne berest

[innervoiceartblog]

Sybil Hangs Her Wash - Meinrad Craighead, 1990, Ink on Scratchboard, 16 x 12 in.

"An otherworldly being, her mouth a hole in the sky, has somehow given herself hands and is hanging the wash, with clothespins, while birds suspended in flight surround her head. Sibyl is both a terror and a comfort. She is both loud and silent. She embodies the wind rushing through a dense forest, the spirits of night, the ancestors of centuries ago. She is both on earth and in the ethereal realm. She connects one to the other. She reminds us that when performing the simplest tasks, we have the opportunity to be so present as to feel timeless, to know eternity, to see ourselves in the earth-spirit-animal-human continuum, to hear the voices of ages past, to embrace the sacred with our hearts."

Zoe Katherine Burke from "Meinrad Craighead, Crow Mother and the Dog God, A Retrospective" - Published by Pomegranate Communications, Inc., 2003.

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[neareport]

Bear spotted roaming south Jonesboro

JONESBORO, Ark. – Police alerted the public Wednesday of a black bear roaming around the south Jonesboro area. The bear was spotted around 2 PM roaming around the ATV area at Craighead Forest Park, JPD said in a post to social media. Multiple people have reported seeing the bear but thankfully, no one has had any negative encounters. Police hoped to keep it that way by urging the public not to…

[that-witchy-goldengirl]

💜

Sally and I went on an adventure yesterday.

Photo 1: Excited about being alive.

Photo 2: Eating my ice 🙄

Photo 3: The Reckoning of the Geese (which I despise, btw. I don't wish to harm them, but they're evil all the same.)

We walked about three miles around a local park and had an amazing time. Sweet girl loved walking the dirt trails.

💜

[jazzbuskers]

Lady Day and The Prez Live at Craighead Forest Bandshell on 2018-05-13

Lady Day and The Prez Craighead Forest Bandshell Jonesboro, Arkansas May 13, 2018

Song list

01 Blue Moon 02 talk 03 Gloomy Sunday 04 talk 05 The Very Thought Of You 06 outro

Personnel

Whitley Newman - vocals Tyler Remagen - tenor sax Spencer Rawlins - bass Alex Washam - drums Hairy Larry - piano

Recorded to my Zoom H6 using Radio Shack 1070D microphones.

Audio post production in Audacity and SAW Classic, then flac --best.

Photos by Vivian Heyl

[daydreameilyah]

[readingbooksinisrael]

Books I Read in February 2022

b-bookclub read c-challenge r-reread

*-top 3 recommendations

* r Chrissa/Mary Casanova (Chrissa #1) (middle grade realistic fiction)-Chrissa has just moved to a new state, which is hard enough, but the girls in her cluster at school seem to really dislike her.

r City of Stars/Mary Hoffman (Stravaganza #2) (young adult time travel alternate universe fantasy)-Georgia’s step-brother is making her home life miserable and her only solace is horses, so when she wakes up in a stables 16th century not-Italy she’s ecstatic, and even more so when she sees the winged foal. But political plots are always being woven in Talia...

b The City We Became/N.K. Jemisin (adult urban fantasy)-Every city has a soul. Some are as ancient as myths, and others are as new and destructive as children. New York City? She's got five. But there’s an enemy come to destroy them.

* Claudette Colvin: Twice Towards Justice/Phillip Hoose (young adult biomemoir and historical non-fiction)-On March 2, 1955, an impassioned teenager, fed up with the daily injustices of Jim Crow segregation, refused to give her seat to a white woman on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama.

c Earthquake in the Early Morning/Mary Pope Osborne (Magic Tree House #24) (early chapter book fantasy historical fiction)-Jack and Annie discover a magic tree house in the woods that can take them to any time and place if they point at a book and wish to go there... Now Camelot is in trouble and to save it Annie and Jack need to find four special writings. The fourth is in San Francisco...

* c Ellen Tebbits/Beverly Cleary (Ellen and Otis #1) (middle grade realistic fiction)-Ellen has been lonely ever since her best friend moved away. But then she discovers that the new girl at school shares a secret with her. Soon they are hanging out and having adventures, but Ellen might ruin everything with one mistake.

c A Girl Named Misty: The True Story of Misty Copeland/Kelly Starling Lyons and Melissa Manwill (American Girl: A Girl Named) (early chapter book illustrated biography)-Misty Copeland became the first African American Female Principal Dancer for the American Ballet Theatre, but how did she get there?

Novelets of Science Fiction/ed. Ivan Howard (science fiction anthology)-A collection of science fiction stories from the 1950s and 60s, ranging from 6-30 pages.

On the Far Side of the Mountain/Jean Craighead George (Mountain #2) (mg realistic historical? adventure)-Two years after leaving NYC to live in the Catskill Mountains Sam Gribley is still living in his hemlock with his peregrine, Frightful, and his sister, Alice, now lives across the clearing. When Frightful is taken and Alice disappears Sam sets out on a trek through the mountains to find his sister.

c One Crazy Summer/Rita Moreno-Garcia (Gaither Sisters #1) (mg historical fiction first-person)-In the 1968 summer vacation Delphine’s father has decided that it is time for her and her sisters to meet the mother who abandoned them. When they get to Oakland she doesn’t act like a mother at all-doesn’t hug or feed them, or let them into the kitchen. Delphine shoulders up and-to get out of their mother’s way-takes her sisters to a Black Panther summer school.

c Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky/Kwame Mbalia (Tristan Strong #1) (mg African and African American folktale based portal fantasy)-Seventh-grader Tristan Strong feels anything but strong ever since he failed to save his best friend when they were in a bus accident together. All he has left of Eddie is the journal his friend wrote stories in. When a talking, sticky doll steals the journal he chases her into a Bottle Tree forest and accidentally punches them-and an evil spirit-into the magical world of Alke.

c Twister on Tuesday/Mary Pope Osborne (Magic Tree House #23) (early chapter book fantasy historical fiction)-Jack and Annie discover a magic tree house in the woods that can take them to any time and place if they point at a book and wish to go there... Now Camelot is in trouble and to save it Annie and Jack need to find four special writings. The third is in a dugout schoolhouse in the Kansas prairie as a tornado begins to whirl...

Series finished: 0  Series continued: 3 Series started: 4

[bebopbeatniks]

Rob Alley Trio Live at Craighead Forest Bandshell on 2009-06-21

Songs

01 Intro by MC Hairy Larry 02 Autumn Leaves 03 Rob Alley talks 04 Gentle Rain 05 A Foggy Day 06 All Blues 07 I Remember April 08 On A Clear Day 09 The band 10 Blues In The Closet 11 Fantastic sound from the Rob Alley Trio … MC Hairy Larry outtro

Personnel

Rob Alley - trumpet Dave Eckert - bass Mike Overall - drums

Sound - Vivian Heyl Recording - Larry Heyl

[razzle-zazzle]

Some facts about Malachi:

He’s 21.

I drew it wrong but he is, indeed, a twunk.

A lot of his lifestyle is based off of My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George, because I read that book a lot when I was younger. Thus,

Malachi used to live in a tree, but he’s since built himself a cabin to reside in. He still visits the tree sometimes.

He doesn’t particularly like his brother, Forrest, and part of him living in the woods is so that he doesn't have to deal with him, because Forrest, ironically, cannot stand the forest.

Malachi doesn’t really buy into the fae folk, as he’s not extremely superstitious, but he really can’t think of any other explanation for Cole. Malachi has no idea what an oni is, he lives in the woods.

He doesn’t particularly dislike people, just Forrest.

Malachi doesn’t like guns, but he respects that other people do. He knows the forest isn’t his, but he still feels responsible for it.

He got the scar across his nose in a childhood incident involving his brother. He doesn't like to talk about it.

[hairylarryland]

Hairy Larry And The Flying Hungarians Blues Fest Craighead Forest Bandshell Jonesboro, Arkansas October 9, 2022

00:00 One More Cup Of Coffee 05:05 Setup ... 07:13 Memphis Blues Again 13:05 Ok, we're gonna do ... 13:25 Baby What You Want Me To Do 16:43 We got three drummers ... 20:20 Turn On Your Love Light

[leguin]

read pip craighead's the forest museum today, which i picked up from the library this morning. i actually considered buying it last week and went with eastbound instead, and i'm glad i did. it's not that the forest museum is bad per se, but something about the prose really annoyed me - it's cloyingly descriptive compared to eastbound, and especially compared to barry lopez's desert notes/river notes, which has a similar tone and subject.

a paragraph that i think illustrates the issue:

She came to a meadow where the trees fell away and the forest seemed to open up directly to the sky, an oculus into boundless space. Above her ranged enormous towers of puffy clouds, their edges gilt a blinding white by the sun. A flock of birds wheeled far above, tiny black silhouettes against a creamy white massif of piled cumulonimbus. Suddenly Celeste felt acutely aware that she was standing upon the globe of the earth, and that before her was a portal into the vastness of the universe - that behind the cerulean veil lay countless stars in their ancient arrays, alongside planets, suns, galaxies, clouds of interstellar gas and fields of cosmic dust, and that she herself was on a spinning ball in the midst of that empyrean realm, upon one blessed green-and-blue orb amongst myriads of myriads of other planets. She felt almost dizzy with the thought, flooded with a sense of awe at the terrestrial gravity which mercifully bound her to the earth, like a seat belt keeping her from spinning off into the star-pierced blackness of space. In that moment, looking up into an immense well of sky, she fleetingly saw her own fragility in the grand scheme of things, as if glimpsing the unseen pillars of creation upon which the earth was borne perpetually, the perfect point upon which her life and the life of the planet rode. She felt seized by an overwhelming sense of gratitude.

it's just...a bit much. i don't have a problem with most of the individual descriptions, but they're piled on top of each other, frequently very repetitively, and to very infrequently positive effect. i did want to like it! and occasionally there was a really nice turn of phrase - and the ending landed well. but a tiny 187 page book should not feel like such a slog...

[fatehbaz]

October 2019: The first grizzly bear in over a decade to enter and remain for a significant amount of time far within Idaho borders has now returned closer to its home within Montana borders. After enjoying most of the 2018 activity season within Idaho’s Clearwater drainage, the bear returned to its permanent home in Montana’s Cabinet Mountains to den for the winter. The bear then awoke in early 2019 before again traveling to Idaho, staying in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness during summer 2019.

This seems like pretty routine news if you’re from this region, but it’s still a Big Deal because, even though grizzlies haven’t permanently occupied central Idaho’s mountains for decades, environmental groups and US agencies have long recognized the “Bitterroot Recovery Zone” (containing the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness) as a formal zone ideal for potential re-establishment of grizzlies, since so much of central Idaho’s mountains are within designated wilderness areas. Grizzlies weren’t detected in the Bitterroots after 1946, but one was killed by a hunter in the nearby North Fork Clearwater drainage in 2007.

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In 2018, this three-year-old male bear, from the Cabinet-Yaak population, crossed the Clark Fork River, Interstate 90, and the Bitterroot Divide to enter the Idaho panhandle, and then returned to the Cabinets to den for the winter. But then, in 2019, the bear returned to Idaho, crossing the divide again, and traveled through the St. Joe watershed and lush cedar-hemlock forest of the Kelly Creek area before crossing the Lochsa River to reach the Selway-Bitterroot area.

I couldn’t find any maps of this bear’s journey, but I tried to draw it on this map of current (as of 2018) grizzly bear distribution range, from US Fish and Wildlife Service. [Source.]

And here’s a much larger file size. [I added the text at the bottom.]

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From the Lewiston Tribune, 11 October 2019:

A grizzly bear that spent much of the summer in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Area has nudged north and west into Montana. The 3-year-old griz that has shown an affinity for exploration is still in the Bitterroot Mountains but is now north of U.S. Highway 12. Wayne Kasworm, a biologist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service at Libby, Mont., said the bear is roaming around the South Fork of Fish Creek drainage, about 15 miles north of Lolo Pass. [...] Kasworm said the bear, whose location is tracked via a satelite collar, had gone missing for about 2½ weeks. But the collar began sending locations again this week. [...] He speculated the huckleberry crop that the bear and other grizzlies and black bears have likely subsisted on for much of the late summer is now pretty well spent. Bears are now focusing on things like the berries of mountain ash trees. [End of excerpt.]

There’s a lot more content about this bear’s journey here: [Source.]

And another article from Coeur d’Alene / Post Falls Press, 1 August 2019: [Source.]

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Here’s a thing. [Source: Western Wildlife Outreach.]

[The Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness, where this bear spent the summer, is located within the zone marked “BE.”]

This is also a Big Deal because the bear’s presence in the Bitterroot region is a step towards reconnecting megafauna presence and habitat in the Yellowstone and Salmon River Mountains regions with habitat in British Columbia, Glacier National Park, and the Canadian Rockies. The potential reconnecting of contiguous habitat in the central Idaho with habitat in the Selkirks, Cabinets, and Northern Continental Divide is emblematic of the locally famous “Yellowstone-to-Yukon corridor” concept; or, the establishment of unbroken, undeveloped ecosystems extending along the Rockies from Yukon to Yellowstone.

On that note: Craighead Environmental Research Institute worked with British Columbia agencies and ecology labs in the US to make some nice maps of contiguous habitat corridors in the inland temperate rainforest region, which is the pivotal corridor connecting central/southern Idaho habitats with Canadian environments. [Here, I added the superfluous text.]

All 6 of these species actually are still present in all of the regions marked in deep blue on this map. [Except for the caribou; the caribou no longer lives south of the Canadian border.]

Aside from the grizzly bear, other iconic mountain and forest species which currently live along the Bitterroot slopes of the forested Idaho-Montana border, and which similarly rely on and benefit from this habitat corridor, are black bear; gray wolves; lynx; mountain lion; moose; elk; wolverine; fisher; marten; mountain goat; inland redband trout; bull trout; etc.

Anyway, grizzly bear news like this is pretty routine if you’re from or have lived in this region, but I still find it interesting.

[neareport]

Teen arrested after large fight at park

JONESBORO, Ark. – An incident late Friday at Craighead Forest Park resulted in police responding and arresting one, a report said. Around 11:35 PM, police were dispatched to 614 Forest Park Drive. The initial dispatch was for a large fight, Officer Kassandra Espensen said in the report. Police arrived and began working through what happened. Much of the publicly visible report was masked.…

[cyclingblog2019]

Craighead Forest Park

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