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Marc Strauss, author of "One-Legged Mongoose:  Secrets. Legacies and Coming of Age in 1950s New York."

Bryan Albrecht, the President of Gateway Technical College, is joined by his counterpart at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Chancellor Debbie Ford.  Also in the interview is Zina Haywood,  Executive Vice President and Provost of GTC,  and Roger Ducoffe, Provost at UW-P.  They are talking about an exciting new agreement between the two schools that has facilitated the crea...

John Happ, author of "The Navigation Case:  Training, Flying and Fighting in the 1942-1945 New Guinea War."  The book is a fascinating examination of a largely forgotten chapter in the story of the Pacific Theater during World War Two.  Happ's father Len was a combat pilot who flew 64 combat missions.  He later flew numerous missions for medical transport.  Happ is giving...

From 2003 - Bill Buford, fiction editor for New Yorker Magazine 

From 2003-  Les Krantz, author/editor of "Not till the Fat Lady Sings: The Most Dramatic Sports Finishes of All Time."  

British music journalist Paul Sexton, author of "Prince: Portrait of an artist in memory and memorabilia." 

Dr. Claude Clegg, author of "The Black President: Hope and Fury in the Age of Obama."  Dr. Clegg is the Lyle V. Jones Distinguished Professor of African, African-America and Diaspora Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.   

Dr. Richard Bjella, one of the country's most renowned choral conductors, is currently serving as Distinguished Conductor-in-Residence of the Carthage Choir.   The ensemble's next performance is this coming Sunday afternoon at 2:00 as part of the college's Fall Choral Concert.  

Charles Shields, author of "Mockingbird: a Portrait of Harper Lee."   (from 2017)

The impact of commercial fossil collection on the scientific study of T-Rex and other dinosaurs.  

From 2005 - A preview of a Science Night presentation about the Costa Rican Rain Forest at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. The guests are Dr. Gregory Mayer, Professor of Biology at UW-Parkside -  and Eric Hileman, who was with the Racine Zoological Society at the time.  Hileman, a UW-Parkside graduate, is now a professor at Mississippi State University. 

As a follow up to Thursday's Morning Show with Dr. Sandra Moats, Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, we are sharing a previous interview with Professor Moats from 2009 -  this time talking about her book "Celebrating the Republic:  Presidential Ceremony and Public Sovereignty from Washington to Monroe."

We preview the upcoming PBS documentary series "American Veteran" with consulting producer Kelly Kennedy (who is herself a veteran as well as a journalist.)  

Dr. Sandra Moats, Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside ... author of "Navigating Neutrality: Early American Governance in the Turbulent Atlantic."  This interview was recorded in front of a live audience at a book signing event in the UW-Parkside ballroom.  

Pasqual Laurino, Music Director of the Racine Symphony, previews the RSO's upcoming Fall Masterworks Concert on October 30th titled "A Night in Venice," which will feature the music of several different Italian composers, including the great Antonio Vivaldi.   

A preview of this weekend's performances of Neil Simon's THE ODD COUPLE by the Fleeing Artists Theatre Group at the Rhode Center for the Arts in downtown Kenosha.   

Marta McDowell, the author of "Unearthing The Secret Garden:  The Plants and Places that Inspired Frances Hodgson Burnett."  

Mike Papantonio, author of the novel "Inhuman Trafficking."   

Dr. Josef Benson,  Associate Professor of Literature and Languages at the University of Wisconsin Parkside, and co-coordinator of their Foreign Film Series.   

From 2005 -  Hugh Kennedy, author of "When Baghdad Ruled the World:  The Rise and Fall of Islam's Greatest Dynasty." 

In honor of Coming Out Day (which was this past Monday, October 11) ... we rebroadcast this 2005 interview with Robert Trachtenberg about his book "When I knew," a light-hearted yet poignant examination of when he (and others he interviewed) knew that they were gay. 

Leonard Rubenstein, author of 'Perilous Medicine:  The Struggle to Protect Health Care from the Violence of War." 

Collin O'Mara,  Executive Director and CEO of the National Wildlife Federation

Fabrice Conte-Williamson, who is a member of the University of Wisconsin-Parkside's theater faculty, discusses their production of Margaret Atwood's The Penelpiade that opens this weekend.  

Nan Calvert's  most recent monthly visit to the Morning Show features Kenosha County Executive Jim Kreuser talking about the Pike River Restoration Project.  Also on hand is Dave Giordano, executive director of RootPikeWIN.