The David and Barbara Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History in the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences has released a new episode of its Arkansas Archive Podcast, available on Spotify and other podcast players. The Arkansas Archive Podcast series, hosted by John C. Davis and Randy Dixon, explores a wide range of Arkansas history topics using material from the Pryor Center's KATV Collection.

In 2001, six-year-old Haley Zega went hiking with her grandparents in the Buffalo National River Wilderness and disappeared for more than two days. "Little Girl Lost" recounts her disappearance and rescue and recalls the story of another girl who went missing in those same woods 20 years earlier. The episode features interviews with Zega; her mother, Kelly Syer; and her cousin, Ben Hale.

Randy Dixon is the director of news media and archives at the Pryor Center. Before coming to the Pryor Center, Dixon spent more than three decades of his media career at KATV News in Little Rock. He oversaw the donation of the collection to the Pryor Center in 2009 and is now organizing the digitization of the archives.

John C. Davis is the executive director of the David and Barbara Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History and teaching associate professor of political science at the U of A. In 2024, his book, From Red to Blue: The Rise of the GOP in Arkansas was published by the University of Arkansas Press.

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About the David and Barbara Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History: The David and Barbara Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History is an oral history program with the mission to document the history of Arkansas through the collection of spoken memories and visual records, preserve the collection in perpetuity, and connect Arkansans and the world to the collection through the Internet, TV broadcasts, educational programs, and other means. The Pryor Center records audio and video interviews about Arkansas history and culture, collects other organizations' recordings, organizes these recordings into an archive, and provides public access to the archive, primarily through the website at pryorcenter.uark.edu. The Pryor Center is the state's only oral and visual history program with a statewide, seventy-five county mission to collect, preserve, and share audio and moving image recordings of Arkansas history.

About the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences: The Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences is the largest and most academically diverse unit on campus with three schools, 16 departments and 43 academic programs and research centers. The college provides the majority of the core curriculum for all University of Arkansas students.

About the University of Arkansas: As Arkansas' flagship institution, the U of A provides an internationally competitive education in more than 200 academic programs. Founded in 1871, the U of A contributes more than $2.2 billion to Arkansas' economy through the teaching of new knowledge and skills, entrepreneurship and job development, discovery through research and creative activity while also providing training for professional disciplines. The Carnegie Foundation classifies the U of A among the few U.S. colleges and universities with the highest level of research activity. U.S. News & World Report ranks the U of A among the top public universities in the nation. See how the U of A works to build a better world at Arkansas Research News.