WGTD's The Morning Show with Greg Berg

Best-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...

John 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)

Part 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...

Dr. 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 poss...

From 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...

From 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.

For 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."

For 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.

Dr. 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...

Pulitzer 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 communi...

From 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...

Part 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 surviv...

From 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...

From 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.

(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.

Dr. 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...

From 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.

Dr. 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.

From 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.

FRom 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.

From 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.

We 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."

Steven 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.

From 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 challe...

From 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...