Ozark Foodways and Medicine – Mind Stretchers

OZARK STYLE MIND STRETCHERS

Join the Mind Stretchers* in learning about significant events in the history of our region. Enjoy Ozark Style music and snack on Ozark Style goodies as we challenge long held beliefs.

Justin Nolan's research in ethnobiology and folklore focuses on human relationships with native flora and fauna to understand the cultural construction of health through region-specific patterns of natural resource procurement. Nolan will discuss the origins and conservation of Native and European-American plant use traditions in Ozark folk medicine and food culture. He also studies of the survivorship of Oklahoma Cherokee plant traditions and their role in perpetuating Cherokee language and expressive culture in the Westernmost Ozarks. 



Nolan, is an associate professor and vice-chair of the Anthropology department at the University of Arkansas. Dr. Nolan received his Ph.D. from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 2000 and joined the anthropology faculty at UAF in 2002. Nolan is the immediate past-president of the Society of Ethnobiology and his last book, Wild Harvest in the Heartland: Ethnobotany in Missouri's Little Dixie, was published by Rowman & Littlefield in 2007.

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6:00 PM In the Ruth Skinner building across from St. John’s Episcopal Church. 

214 N. 6th Street
Fort Smith, AR

No Charge for Admission
479-782-9912

*MIND STRETCHERS IS A SMALL GROUP MINISTRY OF ST.JOHN’S. OUR HOPE IS TO EXPLORE NEW WAYS OF LOOKING AT OLD TOPICS. WE HOPE THAT YOU WILL JOIN US AS WE OPEN THE DOOR AND WE SEE WHAT IS ILLUMINATED.

Thank You to Squash Blossom Company [5005 Dora RoadDora Arkansas, 479-474-1147] for your contribution of groceries to make our Ozark Style snacks.

Dulcimer music will be provided by Mountain Strings.