WGTD's The Morning Show with Greg Berg

We speak with Carolyn Friesch, executive director of the United Way of Kenosha County, about the good work in the community which they encourage. UW of KC is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year.

Diane Danvers Simmons is author of the memoir "My Mother Next Door." One week after the author's 16th birthday, her mother announced that she was leaving her ... and she ended up moving next door and living with several young college students. The book is a chronicle of how she tried to come to terms with this abandonment and managed to rebuild a relationship with her mother.

From 2009, Andrew Chaikin, author of "Voices from the Moon- Apollo Astronauts Describe Their Lunar Experiences."

From 2023- Joe Sutter, author of "747: Creating the World's First Jumbo Jet and other adventures from a life in aviation."

Dr. Art Cyr, from the faculty of Carthage College, offers thoughts on Russia's war with Ukraine, new tensions between North and South Korea and the disappearance of the young American soldier (from Racine) into North Korea, and the ongoing ramifications of the debt ceiling agreement.

Grant Blackwood, co-author (with Steve Berry) of "The 9th Man: a Luke Daniels Thriller."

We speak with Amy Greil, executive director of the Kenosha Community Foundation.

Juna Gjata, author of "Food, we need to talk: The Science-based, Humor-laced Last word on Eating ,Diet and making peace with your body."

From 2005 - Mike Lupica talks about "Too Far," a novel for young readers, which focuses on the dangers of Hazing.

Award-winning war correspondent Jane Ferguson discusses her new book "No Ordinary Assignment: a Memoir." Ferguson's work has taken her to conflicts and disasters in Yemen, Somalia, Afghanistan, Syria and Ukraine.

From 2002- Jerry Oppenheimer, author of 'Seinfeld: The Making of an American Icon."

Andrew Blechman, author of "Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die"

From the archives: Andrew Blechman, author of "Pigeons: The Fascinating Saga of the World's Most Revered and Reviled Bird."

We preview the Racine Theater Guild's production of Jonathan Larsen's RENT, which opens tonight, with music director Rob Kroes and music director Mary Leigh Sturino.

Today's conversation is about new ways to farm that can be enormously restorative to both our soil and water. Nan Calvert's guests are Kirsten Jurcek from Glacierland Resource Conversation and Development - and Paul Maggio, who owns and operates Starry Nights Farm in Burlington- and is the leader of the Kenosha Regenerative Producers Group, talking about the benefits of regenerative farmin...

Robert L. Harris, author of "Returning Light: 30 Years on the Island of Skellig Michael."

We catch up with Kristen Singer and Carly Mikula (who were on the program on June 14th) - talking about Carly's thrilling experience of singing in the Jimmys, an event in New York City featuring 96 exceptionally talented high school music theater students from all across the country. Carly ended up being named a semi-finalist.

From 2006- Vivian Goldman, author of "The Book of Exodus- The Making and Meaning of Bob Marley and the Wailers' Album of the Century." (The interview is followed by the title track from the album.)

From 2007 - Jane Stern and Michael Stern, co-authors of "Two for the Road: Our Love Affair with American Food." UPDATE: The Sterns divorced about a year after this interview was recorded- but they continue to write as a team.

In memory of Oscar and Tony Award-winning actor Alan Arkin, who died on June 29th at the age of 89, we replay a 2011 interview we recorded after the publication of "Alan Arkin- An Improved Life: A Memoir."

We preview this Saturday's Secret Garden Walk in Kenosha with Lynda Guttormsen Guy, past president and publicist for the Four Seasons Garden Club, and Tim Garland, owner of Garland Alliance (landscape architects/ sustainable land management) whose own home garden is part of this year's tour - and who designed the St. Matthew's Lakefront ElderGarten, which is a bonus offering on the tou...

Doannie Tran- co-author of "The Open System: Redesigning Education and Reigniting Democracy."

For a 4th of July Bonus, I am offering up an excerpts from my 2014 faculty voice recital at Carthage College. The program was fashioned to celebrate the 200th anniversary of our national anthem, but went on to include a number of patriotic favorites like "America," "Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean," and "America the Beautiful" - along with a moving song by John Hay tit...

From 2004- Larry Smith, author of "Beyond Glory: Medal of Honor Heroes in their own words."

Part One: Paola Cecchi-Demelgio, an attorney and data scientist associated with Harvard Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School for Government, weighs in on the U.S. Supreme Court's decision last week that struck down Affirmative Action. Part Two: (from 2018) Margaret Wilkerson Sexton discusses her first novel, "A Kind of Freedom."