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Daily Episodes of the Morning Show with Greg Berg. One-of-a-kind interviews with locally and nationally-renowned authors, regional newsmakers, opinion leaders, educators, performers, athletes, and other intriguing members of the community. Presented by WGTD FM. Visit us for local news and information: http://www.wgtd.org
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Part One- Jeffrey Boutwell, author of "Boutwell: Radical Republican and Champion of Democracy." The author's distant ancestor George Boutwell was an important force for racial equality in the 19th century. He helped secure the Republican presidential nomination for Abraham Lincoln- assisted in the crafting of the 13th and 15th amendments- was a fie…
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This interview was recorded this morning for broadcast next week - but because it concerns a theatrical production that is opening tonight, I want to share the interview as a supplement to today's podcast episode. The play is "Life is a Dream" by Pedro Calderon de la Barca, one of history's most notable theatrical masterworks. My guests: Neil Schar…
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This is the complete interview with Paul Beston talking about his book "The American Kings," which tells the story of seven American heavyweight boxing champions: John L. Sullivan, Jack Johnson, Jack Dempsey, Joe Louis, Rocky Marciano, Muhammad Ali, and Mike Tyson. (An excerpt played on today's program.)…
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We preview the Racine Theater Guild's newest production, "And in this corner: Cassius Clay," which runs this weekend and the next. Shawn Holmes, director of the production, joins us - along with Aquil Ocacio, who is one of two actors portraying the title character. For part two, we replay an excerpt from an interview with Paul Beston in which he ta…
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We discuss the acute affordable housing shortage in our area with Ron Cronovich, Professor of Economics at Carthage College. He is the moderator for an event at Carthage on February 27th titled "Equity and Housing Development" that is sponsored by the Carthage Business and Professional Coalition.
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From 2002 - Rachel Simon discusses her memoir "Riding the Bus with my Sister: A True Life Journey." In this moving book, the author talks about her developmentally disabled sister who loved riding the city buses of their hometown of Reading, Pennsylvania. Rachel Simon took it upon herself to ride the buses with Beth in order to get to know her bett…
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Lindsay Jill Roth talks about her book "Romances and Practicalities: A Love Story (maybe yours!) in 250 Questions." Roth and her British boyfriend / eventual fiancee found themselves separated by thousands of miles for most of their courtship, so she compiled a list of questions with which the two of them could come to a deeper understanding of one…
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We speak with author Buddy Levy about his newest book, "Realm of Ice and Sky: Triumph, Tragedy, and History's Greatest Arctic Rescue." The book chronicles the earnest efforts of several different explorers to reach the North Pole via airplane or airship (after repeated attempts to reach the North Pole on the ground failed.)…
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From 2013- Dara-Lynn Weiss, author of "The Heavy: A Mother, A Daughter, A Diet." Weiss attracted a tremendous amount of attention (some of it quite critical and negative) with an essay in which she spoke candidly about her young daughter's struggles with obesity. She wrote this book in the wake of that experience.…
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Part One: We speak with Dr. Erin Weber, Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Carthage. She recently earned a $498,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for her study of a virus that could potentially affect a large portion of the world's potato crop. Her research could help unlock the secrets of how these viruses do the damage that they do.…
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This is the unabridged version of the interview with Frank McGrath in which he talks about what he and his family experienced with the horrific Eaton Wildfire that destroyed 80-90% of their community of Altadena, CA- including the their home. A GoFundMe account has been created for their family ..... https://gofund.me/59defcdd. Many such funds have…
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From 2007 - one of my all-time favorite interviews .... with Mark Kreidler, author of "Four Days to Glory: Wrestling with the Soul of the American Heartland." It follows the efforts of two outstanding high school wrestlers in their senior year- both 3-time state champions in their respective weight divisions- contending for a fourth state champions…
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Today's Morning Show features excerpts from three of my previous interviews with best-selling author Michael Perry. We begin with a portion of a 2012 conversation about his book "Visiting Tom: a Man, a Highway, and the Road to Roughneck Grace." After that is an excerpt from an interview from 2009 about "Coop: A Year of Poultry, Pigs, and Parenting.…
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We introduce you to the new Poets Laureate of Kenosha and Racine ....... Nico Moore, poet laureate for Kenosha, and Mary Skillings and Thomas Carr, co-poets laureate for Racine. They will be meeting the public in an event coming up on February 22nd at Vintage & Modern Books in downtown Racine at 6:30 pm.…
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Dr. Art Cyr - a monthly visitor to the Morning Show for more than twenty years- pays his first visit to the program in 2025. We discuss the closing days of the Biden administration and his decision to pardon members of his family .... the opening days of President Trump's second term, with an array of executive orders .... the legacy of former pres…
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Our guest is Dr. Dana Oswald, Professor of English, and Chair of the Department of Literatures and Languages at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. She is about to teach a free community course on Homer's "The Iliad." We talk about this iconic work - who may have written it and why - and what sort of lessons it teaches us all these years later.…
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