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11/21/23 Dr. Laura Gellott on Helen Perry Curtis
September 21, 2023 12:19 - 45 minutes - 29.7 MBIn a change from our published schedule, we're sharing an interview with Dr. Laura Gellott, UW-Parkside Professor Emeritus of History, talking about her book "Helen Perry Curtis and the European Trip of a Lifetime." As a young girl, Gellott read Helen Perry Curtis's classic book "Jean and Company, Unlimited," the story of a young American girl's first trip to Europe; the book was arguably one of the most beloved children's books of its day. Gellott's book is an illuminating biography of t...
9/20/23 Of Time and Turtles
September 20, 2023 12:18 - 46 minutes - 33.9 MBBest-selling author Sy Montgomery and award-winning illustrator Matt Patterson have collaborated on a beautiful and moving book titled "Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell." The book springs primarily from their experience volunteering for Turtle Rescue League, an organization devoted to rescuing turtles, nursing injured turtles back to health, and trying to safeguard their survival. We are told a great deal about this beautiful creatures, of which there are mo...
9/19/23 That First Season (Complete)
September 19, 2023 16:15 - 48 minutes - 44 MBJohn Eisenberg, author of "That First Season: How Vince Lombardi took the worst team in the NFL and set it on the Path to Glory." (From 2010)
9/19/23 Lombardi / That First Season
September 19, 2023 16:13 - 48 minutes - 33.1 MBPart one - We discuss the current production of Kenosha's Lakeside Players, Eric Simonson's play "Lombardi," which just opened their 50th season. We speak with the co-directors. Part two- A look back at Lombardi's first season as head coach of the Green Bay Packers with author John Eisenberg. This is an excerpt from a 2010 interview. The full interview will be offered up in a separate posting.
9/18/23 "Interstellar"
September 18, 2023 13:56 - 46 minutes - 31.1 MBDr. Avi Loeb, author of "Interstellar: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Our Future in the Stars." the longest-serving chair of Harvard's Astronomy department, discusses a theory that our solar system may have recently been visited by a piece of advanced alien technology from a distant solar system. His book also explores some of the provocative questions raised by such a possibility.
9/17/23 "Immigrant Girl"
September 17, 2023 10:11 - 36 minutes - 41.9 MBFrom 2017 - I speak with Robbin Legere Henderson about her grandmother, Matilda Rabinowitz, who made a huge difference for the better in the lives of many of her fellow immigrants - and wrote a memoir about her life called "Immigrant Girl, Radical Woman: A Memoir from the Early 20th Century." She wrote the memoir for her family, never intending or perhaps imagining that it would every be published and shared with the wider world.
9/16/23 "Play"
September 16, 2023 10:04 - 27 minutes - 31.2 MBFrom 2009- a serious conversation about Play with Dr. Stuart Brown, author of "Play: How it shapes the brain, opens in the imagination, and invigorates the soul." The book examines how and why human beings- along with many other creatures on earth- must play in order to be fully healthy and whole.
9/15/23 Two Disney-related interviews
September 15, 2023 14:28 - 48 minutes - 34 MBFor this centennial year of Walt Disney Studios, we have two Disney-related interview. Part 1: Greg Glasgow and Kathryn Mayer, co-authors of "Disneyland on the Mountain: Walt, the Environmentalists, and the ski resort that never was." Part 2- (from the archives) "Bruce C. Steele, author of "One Day at Disney: Meet the people who make the magic across the globe."
9/14/23 Nan Calvert/ Todd Burlet - Light Pollution
September 14, 2023 14:55 - 44 minutes - 27.2 MBFor Nan Calvert's September visit to the Morning Show, we discuss the scourge of Light Pollution (excessive, unnecessary human-made illumination) and its detrimental effects on the environment and habitats, with Todd Burlet from Dark Sky International.
9/13/23 UW-Parkside's Foreign Film Series
September 13, 2023 15:05 - 48 minutes - 33.8 MBDr. Josef Benson, Associate Professor of Literature and Languages at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, joins us to talk about the newest season of the university's Foreign Film Series. Fourteen films will be screened. The first one, an exquisite Belgian film titled "Close," is screened this week. (Screenings are Thursday nights, Friday nights, and two screenings on Saturdays and Sundays.) A season pass of just $30 allows you to see all 14 films (plus you're given 3 guest passes...
9/12/23 "The Harvest"
September 12, 2023 15:21 - 48 minutes - 31.7 MBPulitzer Prize-winning author Douglas Blackmon discusses his film "The Harvest," which airs tonight on the PBS series American Experience. Blackmon was a first grader in the fall of 1970 when the U.S. Supreme Court forced the public schools of Mississippi to desegregate. Blackmon and his classmates were the first youngsters to experience desegregated public education in the small community of Leland, Mississippi.
9/11/23 "102 Minutes" - the full interview
September 11, 2023 15:11 - 53 minutes - 50.8 MBFrom 2005: Pulitzer Prize winning writer Jim Dwyer talks about his extraordinary book "102 Minutes," which tells the story of the thousands of people who were in the Twin Towers on 9-11 and somehow managed to escape. In many cases, it's the story of ordinary civilians demonstrating incredible courage, tenacity and ingenuity - but also the story of simple luck determining who survived and who perished.
9/11/23 Jane Barbian / 102 Minutes
September 11, 2023 13:17 - 48 minutes - 38.9 MBPart One- Jane Barbian president of the school board of the Racine Unified School District. We discuss various issues confronting the school district- and upcoming elections to fill two vacancies on the board. Part Two - to commemorate the anniversary of 9-11 - we'll replay a portion of my 2005 conversation with Jim Dwyer, co-author of "102 MInutes- The Untold Story of the fight to survive inside the Twin Towers." This is the remarkable story of the thousands of people who were inside ...
9/10/23 "81 Days Below Zero"
September 10, 2023 12:24 - 47 minutes - 43.5 MBFrom 2016- Brian Murphy discusses his book "81 Days Below Zero: The incredible survival story of a World War 2 pilot in Alaska's frozen wilderness." It's the story of the aftermath of a plane crash in Alaska in 1943. There were 5 aviators on board. 4 were killed. 1 of them, Leon Crane, a Philadelphia native with no wilderness experience, somehow managed to survive 81 days in the harshest conditions imaginable.
9/9/23 Dragonflies
September 09, 2023 12:01 - 46 minutes - 48.8 MBFrom the archives, Nan Calvert co-hosts a program that focuses on one of the most amazing creatures on earth - the Dragonfly. Our special guest is Marla Garrison, a biologist who lives and works in McHenry County, Illinois .... and who is an expert on Dragonflies and Damselflies.
9/8/23 Like Finding My Twin
September 08, 2023 12:53 - 49 minutes - 37.2 MB(from 2017) Fern Schumer Chapman, author of "Like Finding My Twin." Her mother, a Holocaust survivor, made it to America with her childhood best friend- and then the two found themselves separated from one another. More than 70 years later, they finally were reunited, thanks to the help of some 8th graders doing a class project. It's an extraordinary but true story.
9/7/23 Dr. Art Cyr
September 07, 2023 14:13 - 44 minutes - 102 MBDr. Art Cyr - from the faculty of Carthage College - offers his analysis of various issues and concerns. In this discussion, we begin by discussing a book recently featured on the MS, "Valiant Women," about the thousands of women in uniform who served our nation in World War II. Then we discuss unrest in various African nations, a new trade accord between Japan and South Korea, deepening ties between the US and Australia, and a look back at the impeachment of Andrew Johnson, our 17th pres...
9/6/23 Mike Rose: Why School
September 06, 2023 12:59 - 47 minutes - 109 MBFrom 2009- One of my all-time favorite interviews on the topic of public school education. The book is "Why School: Reclaiming Education for All of us." Mike Rose was a professor at the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies.
9/5/23 Dr. Thomas Carr
September 05, 2023 15:23 - 47 minutes - 108 MBDr. Thomas Carr, director of Carthage College's paleontology program - Dr. Megan Seitz, preparator - and Andrew Goebel (and Carthage graduate), who has been hired as a new preparator.
9/4/23 Modern Family
September 04, 2023 06:04 - 49 minutes - 113 MBFrom 2020- Marc Freeman, author of "Modern Family: The Untold Oral History of one of Television's Groundbreaking Sitcoms." Freeman was able to speak with every major participant in the show, including every cast member as well as the creators of the show and those who led the production team.
9/3/23 Kepler's Witch
September 03, 2023 06:48 - 28 minutes - 65.6 MBFRom 2004 - James A. Connor, author of "Kepler's Witch: An Astronomer's Discovery of Cosmic Order amid Religious War, Political Intrigue, and the Heresy Trial of His Mother." This is a biography of Johannes Kepler, a 16th century mathematician and astronomer sometimes called "the Protestant Galileo" who discovered the three basic laws of planetary motion.
9/2/23 Patrick McEnroe
September 02, 2023 06:42 - 20 minutes - 46.9 MBFrom 2010: Former tennis pro Patrick McEnroe, author of 'Hardcourt Confidential: Tales from 20 Years in the Pro Tennis Trenches." McEnroe has gone on to be a much respected coach and commentator.
9/1/23 Three Children's Books
September 01, 2023 13:00 - 46 minutes - 107 MBWe speak with renowned children's book author Carmen Adra Deedy about her latest book, "Carina Felina," a fresh take on a Caribbean folk tale. We follow that with interview from the archives with the authors of "Big Nate" and "The Proudest Color."
8/31/23 Captured Freedom
August 31, 2023 15:13 - 47 minutes - 54.3 MBSteven Procko's book "Captured Freedom" tells the true story of nine Union solders in the American Civil War who managed to escape from a Confederate prison camp, Camp Sorghum in Columbia, South Carolina, and journeyed more than 350 miles to freedom with the aid of sympathetic Southerners as well as some enslaved men and women that they encountered along the way.
8/30/23 Kate Colbert - "Commencement"
August 30, 2023 13:33 - 48 minutes - 55.8 MBFrom 2022 - Kate Colbert, author of "Commencement: The Beginning of a New Era in Higher Education." Colbert and her co-author spoke with over one hundred college and university presidents across the country for a comprehensive view of the extraordinary challenges confronting higher education and the ways in which these institutions are scrambling to remake themselves to meet these challenges.
8/29/23 President of the Other America
August 29, 2023 13:34 - 46 minutes - 53.4 MBFrom the archives (2010) - Dr. Ed Schmitt, Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, discusses his book "President of the Other America: Robert Kennedy and the Politics of Poverty." This interview serves as an interesting sequel to two different recent Morning Show interviews: yesterday's conversation with the co-author of "The Poverty of Place" and last week's conversation with the author of "The Year that Broke Politics," which examined the presidential race of 1968 ...
8/28/23 The Injustice of Place
August 28, 2023 14:54 - 47 minutes - 53.9 MBKathryn J. Edin, co-author of "The Injustice of Place: Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America." Edin and a team of researchers studied those areas of the U.S. where poverty is most seriously entrenched and tried to sort out the reasons for it.
8/27/23 More God, Less Crime
August 27, 2023 05:17 - 26 minutes - 30.4 MB(from 2011) Byron Johnson, author of "More God, Less Crime: Why Faith Matters and How it could matter more."
8/26/23 Film Critic Michael Phillips
August 26, 2023 05:15 - 43 minutes - 49.4 MB(From 2018) Chicago Tribune Head Film Critic Michael Phillips
8/25/23 The Boxing Kings
August 25, 2023 14:48 - 48 minutes - 55 MBPaul Beston, author of "The Boxing Kings: When American Heavyweights Ruled the World"
8/24/23 Too Much Sea For Their Decks
August 24, 2023 14:09 - 48 minutes - 55.6 MBMichael Schumacher discusses his latest book, "Too Much Sea For Their Decks: Shipwrecks of Minnesota's North and Isle Royale." The book chronicles some of the most dramatic shipwrecks to occur on Lake Superior - and the last section of the book focuses on three exceptionally savage storms in the region.
8/23/23 Casey Holtz
August 23, 2023 14:36 - 58 minutes - 67.1 MBWe revisit a dramatic event from the summer of 2003 when a then-college student named Casey Holtz saved a youngster (a complete stranger) from drowning in Lake Michigan. We also hear briefly from Holtz in the present-day. He is Dr. Casey Holtz, a clinical psychologist based in Milwaukee. We also hear from Seth Weidman, head swimming and diving coach at Carthage College, who performed a similar feat last summer at roughly the safe place at the Kenosha lakefront.
8/22/23 Leyte Gulf
August 22, 2023 14:41 - 48 minutes - 55.8 MBMark E. Stille, author of "Leyte Gulf: A New History of the World's Largest Sea Battle." The Battle of Leyte Gulf occurred at a critical point in the Pacific Theater of the Second World War.
8/21/23 Public Radio's Jack Mitchell
August 21, 2023 14:45 - 48 minutes - 55.1 MBJack Mitchell is a something of a legend in public radio. He was hired as National Public Radio's very first employee in 1970 and went on to serve as the first producer of NPR's All Things Considered. He later served as director of Wisconsin Public Radio for more than 20 years and presided over the network at a time of spectacular growth and expansion.
8/20/23 Lost in Space
August 20, 2023 05:12 - 48 minutes - 55 MB(2017) Marc Cushman, author of "Lost in Space: The Authorized Biography of a Classic Sci-Fi Series"
8/19/23 Mary Pipher
August 19, 2023 05:10 - 26 minutes - 30.6 MB(2016) Mary Pipher, author of "Letters to a Young Therapist."
8/18/23 The Streak
August 18, 2023 21:04 - 47 minutes - 54.7 MBJohn Eisenberg, author of "The Streak: Lou Gehrig, Cal Ripken Jr., and Baseball's Most Historic Record." The subtitle refers to the record for most consecutive games played; Gehrig played in 2,130 consecutive games, and his record remained unbroken for 56 years.
8/17/23 Guitarist Norman Brown
August 17, 2023 13:33 - 45 minutes - 52.6 MBGrammy Award-winning guitarist Norman Brown is the headliner for this Saturday's Harbor Park Jazz Rhythm and Blues Festival.
8/16/23 Harbor Park Jazz Rhythm and Blues Fest
August 16, 2023 14:56 - 45 minutes - 52.5 MBWe preview this Saturday's Harbor Park Jazz Rhythm and Blues Festival. Part One features Ardis Mahone-Mosley, co-chair of the event, and three participants in the popular Cooking Studio event that kicks off the festival. Teri Jacobson is the co-chair of the Cooking Studio. This year's event features a competition between Kenosha Police and Firefighters. Representing their respective sides are Jeff Weidner and Josh Kunz. Part Two features Tim Mahone, co-chair of the event, with two reci...
8/15/23 Dr. Jonathan Shailor
August 15, 2023 14:55 - 46 minutes - 53.6 MBDr. Jonathan Shailor, Professor of Communications at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, talks about his 28 years teaching at Parkside .... as well as the groundbreaking work he has done with his Shakespeare in Prison Project. Professor Shailor was just given the UW System's highest teaching award.
8/14/23 Anna Ploszajski "Handmade"
August 14, 2023 13:01 - 46 minutes - 21.5 MBDr. Anna Ploszajski, author of "Handmade: A Scientist's Search for Meaning through Making." Dr. Ploszajski is a materials scientist, which means that she studies the properties of substances such as metals, plastic, glass, etc. In this book, she chronicles her encounters with various artisans who actually interact with materials to create things.
8/13/23 Everybody Eats There
August 13, 2023 06:08 - 25 minutes - 29.7 MBFrom 2007- Mara Gibbs, author of "Everybody Eats There: Inside the World's Legendary Restaurants"
8/12/23 Confessions of an Alien Hunter
August 12, 2023 06:04 - 29 minutes - 33.8 MBFrom 2009- Seth Shostak, author of "Confessions of an Alien Hunter: A Scientist's Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence." [the originally announced interview concerning a true story of a real life rescue at the Kenosha lake shore will be shared later]
8/11/23 Lydia Pyne - "Genuine Fakes"
August 11, 2023 13:07 - 46 minutes - 53 MBLydia Pyne, author of "Genuine Fakes: How Phony Things Teach us about Real Stuff." (from the archives)
8/10/23 Nan Calvert- Marissa Jablonski (Freshwater Collaborative)
August 10, 2023 14:29 - 48 minutes - 55 MBFor Nan Calvert's August visit to the Morning Show she arranged for a visit from Dr. Marisa Jablonski, executive director of Freshwater Collaborative of Wisconsin, which is working on the crucial issue of fresh drinking water in an amazing array of ways.
8/9/23 Doug McIntyre: "Frank's Shadow"
August 09, 2023 13:38 - 32 minutes - 37.6 MBDoug McIntyre talks about his intriguing and entertaining novel "Frank's Shadow." In it, the main character's father has died the same day that the famed singer Frank Sinatra dies - and the character realizes that he knows more about Frank Sinatra than he does about his own father- and seeks to discover who he was.
8/8/23 Doug Instenes- Racine Theater Guild
August 08, 2023 14:22 - 45 minutes - 52.1 MBWe talk with Doug Instenes about his thirty years with the Racine Theater Guild as well as his upcoming 100th production that he has directed there - "The Cemetery Club" - which, by complete coincidence, is also the very first play that he directed there.
8/7/23 The Year That Broke Politics
August 08, 2023 02:05 - 48 minutes - 55.5 MBLuke Nichter, author of 'The Year That Broke Politics: Collusion and Chaos in the Presidential Election of 1968." The book examines the presidential race of 1968 from the perspective of the four chief participants: Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Hubert Humphrey, and George Wallace.
8/6/23 Garage Sale America
August 06, 2023 06:50 - 25 minutes - 29.7 MBFrom 2007 - Bruce Littlefield, author of 'Garage Sale America.'
8/5/23 Legend of a Suicide
August 05, 2023 06:34 - 42 minutes - 49 MBFrom 2010- David Vann, author of "Legend of a Suicide"