Wgtd's The Morning Show With Greg Berg

Nan Calvert's monthly environmental program is a conversation about the miracle of SOIL and the importance of preserving it.  Joining her are Jamie Patton, a soil expert with the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Dave Giordano,  Executive Director of the Root Pike Watershed Initiative. 

Cornelius Bond's newly-published biography is titled "T. Rowe Price:  The Man, The Company, and the Investment Philosophy."  

From the archives comes Bernard Cornwall's "Waterloo:  The History of 4 Days, 3 Armies and 3 Battles."   

Journalist John McNamara was one of five employees of the Annapolis Capital Gazette who was gunned down by a mass shooter.  His widow, Andrea Chamblee,  has finished the book that he was working on at the time of his death:  "The Capital of Basketball:  A History of DC Area High School Hoops."  The book examines the rich history of basketball in our nation's capital, going all the way back to 1900.  

On this Veteran's Day, we speak with Mark Jacob, co-author of "Aftershock: The Human Toll of War- Haunting World War II Images by America's Soldier Photographers."  The book contains 250 images taken by photographers of the U.S. Signal Corps of the U.S. Army during 1945, the last year of World War II.   Jacob and his co-authors looked through more than 100,000 images housed in the National Archives before choosing these particular images to include in the book. Most of these photographs have never before been published.  

Part One features a conversation with Kristen Ann Ware, a former cheerleader for the Miami Dolphins.  Her story helped inspire the new play "The Handbook" that just had its world premiere at Carthage College.   In Part Two,  Dr. Edward Kawakami, director of the Carthage Philharmonic, previews the group's upcoming concert that will feature music by three women composers.  

From the archives comes this 2014 interview with Dan Epstein, author of "Stars & Strikes: Baseball and America in the Bicentennial Summer of '76." 

From the archives comes this 2009 interview with David Vann, author of "Legend of a Suicide," which is comprised of five stories set in the beautiful but forbidding vistas of Alaska.      

We speak about the 4th Annual Vet Night of the Arts, coming up Monday evening, November 11th at Carthage College, with Dr. Martin McClendon, Associate Professor of Theater .... Robert Stevens, community activist and a faithful supporter of the event .... and Josh Beadle and Jordan Wilson from Three Brothers Theater in Waukegan, IL,  which is about to present the play "Afghanistan/Wisconsin" by Carthage grad Laurel McKenzie.  That play helped inspire the creation of Carthage's Vet Night of the Arts.  

Mikhal Deker's father was one of hundreds of Jewish children in Poland who managed to escape death by finding their way to Tehran, Iran - where they were welcomed and kept safe.  She was able to retrace his 3,000 mile journey and write about it in her book 'Tehran Children: A Holocaust Refugee Odyssey.'

We speak with Barry Levine and Monique El-Faizy, co-authors of a much-discussed new book titled "All the President's Women: Donald Trump and the Making of a Predator."  

We're joined by Dr. Thomas Carr, director of the Paleontology Department at Carthage College- and four of his Paleontology students.  Several weeks ago, they traveled to Brisbane, Australia to participate in the 79th annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology.  The four students presented posters that focused on the lifespan growth and development of giant marine lizards,  herbivorous long-necked dinosaurs, and wooly mammoths.   The students are Adam Larson, Amelia Zietlow, Brady Holbach, and Douglas Stefanski.

This is a 2018 interview with Finn Murphy, author of "The Long Haul:  A Trucker's Tales of Life on the Road."   Murphy writes about the many interesting experiences he has had as a long-haul trucker moving people's possessions across thousands of miles over the last several decades.  

From the archives comes this 2010 interview with Diana Jean Schemo, author of "Skies to Conquer:  A Year Inside the Air Fore Academy."  

We preview the upcoming Non-Profit Leadership Conference at UW-Parkside on November 8th.   Parkside's Debra Karp, the coordinator of the event, joins us- along with Kate Robinson, whose film "Failing Forward" will be screened and discussed at the conference.  She offers thoughts on the ways in which non-profits can most effectively use data to improve their success.  

More than a third of the teams in the NFL have been sued by one or more of their cheerleaders out of concerns about mistreatment and disrespect. We are previewing Laura Schellhardt's play "The Handbook," a commission from the Carthage theater department, which opens this weekend - and also talking about Yu Gu's documentary film "Women's Work: The NFL's Cheerleader Problem."  

We speak with Nancy Tate, co-chair of the 2020 Women's Vote Centennial Initiative and a past executive director of the League of Women Voters of the United States.   She is coming to Carthage as a Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow -and will appear on Tuesday the 29th at 6 p.m. in a public interview with Carthage faculty member Dr. Stephanie Mitchell.  In this conversation, we talk about the long struggle for women to secure the right to vote, a right which was finally and completely granted by the ratification of the 19th amendment in 1920.  

We talk about climate change with Dr. Ankur Desai, Reid Bryan Professor of Climate, People and Environment at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  He is speaking this coming weekend at the 5th annual Alumni and Community Celebration for the CNHS - the College of Natural and Health Sciences.  The event is a major fundraiser for their scholarship program.   

This 2014 interview is with Alan Bernstein, author of "Mastering the Art of Quitting:  Why it Matters in Life, Love and Work."   This book invites us to rethink the assumption that most of us make that it's always a mistake to quit.  It suggests that Quitting is sometimes the best thing we can do.  

This 2014 interview is with Dr. Allen Frances, author of "Saving Normal:  An Insider's Revolt Against Out-of-Control Psychiatric Diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma, and the Medicalization of Ordinary Life."   It is the contention of Dr. Frances that far too many people nowadays are diagnosed with various "disorders" because of behavior that once would have been regarded as normal.