Wgtd's The Morning Show With Greg Berg

Lydia Pyne, author of "Genuine Fakes: How Phony Things Teach us about Real Stuff." (from the archives)

For Nan Calvert's August visit to the Morning Show she arranged for a visit from Dr. Marisa Jablonski, executive director of Freshwater Collaborative of Wisconsin, which is working on the crucial issue of fresh drinking water in an amazing array of ways.

Doug McIntyre talks about his intriguing and entertaining novel "Frank's Shadow." In it, the main character's father has died the same day that the famed singer Frank Sinatra dies - and the character realizes that he knows more about Frank Sinatra than he does about his own father- and seeks to discover who he was.

We talk with Doug Instenes about his thirty years with the Racine Theater Guild as well as his upcoming 100th production that he has directed there - "The Cemetery Club" - which, by complete coincidence, is also the very first play that he directed there.

Luke Nichter, author of 'The Year That Broke Politics: Collusion and Chaos in the Presidential Election of 1968." The book examines the presidential race of 1968 from the perspective of the four chief participants: Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Hubert Humphrey, and George Wallace.

From 2007 - Bruce Littlefield, author of 'Garage Sale America.'

From 2010- David Vann, author of "Legend of a Suicide"

In honor of the blockbuster film "Barbie" currently in theaters.... Part one: (2010) Robin Gerber, author of "Barbie and Ruth- The Story of the World's Most Famous Doll and the Woman Who Created Her." Part two: (2009) Jerry Oppenheimer, author of "Toy Monster- The Big, Bad World of Mattel."

Jayne Herring, coordinator of the Racine Art Guild's Starving Artists Fair, gives us a preview of this year's event ... which is this Sunday 9:00-4:00 on the grounds of the DeKoven Center. She also gives us a behind-the-scenes peek at all that has to take place to make an event like this happen.

This is a bit of buried treasure - a 1998 conversation that has not been heard since it originally aired 25 years ago. Then-news director Bill Guy, creator of The Morning Show, spoke to three well-known Kenoshans (Ray Forgianni, Bob Fuhrman and Don Jensen) about the re-publication of the 1925 Development Plan for the city of Kenosha - examining what parts of that ambitious plan saw fruition and which parts did not.

Lena Andrews discusses her new book "Valiant Women: The Extraordinary American Servicewomen Who Helped Win World War Two." It was General George Marshall who first recognized that the Americans could not possibly win World War Two without the active participation of women. The book examines the contributions made by the 350,000+ American women in uniform- and some of the resistance which they confronted.

From 2017 - Nora McInerny Purmont discusses her memoir "It's Okay to Laugh: (Crying is Cool, Too.)" Purmont was 27 years old when her boyfriend was diagnosed with a rare and serious form of brain cancer. They went ahead and got married and had a child together. The book focuses primarily on how much joy they tried to pack into the three years of marriage they were granted before Aaron's untimely death.

From 2003- Matthew Pearl, author of "The Dante Club."

From 2000 - Dr. Daniel Miller, a member of the faculty at Carthage College. This interview was done shortly after he was given Carthage's Distinguished Teaching Award. (He is still teaching at Carthage and is now a Full Professor of Neuroscience and chair of that department.)

Part 1- Ryan Kane, athletic director at Carthage College, talks about the phenomenon of Hazing among college athletes. Part 2- Tim Brown, author of "The Tao of the Backup Catcher: Playing Baseball for the Love of the Game." The book discusses the unique role that backup catchers play on many MLB teams. The book focuses in particular on the experience of Eric Kratz, who tasted some unaccustomed glory during the Milwaukee Brewers' exciting postseason run in 2018.

Richard Vague, author of "The Paradox of Debt: a new path to Prosperity without Crisis." The book discusses both government and private debt - and the paradox that some debt is healthy and perhaps even necessary for economic well-being .... and how too much debt can do great harm.

Best-selling author J. Randy Taraborelli talks about his new book "Jackie: Public, Private, Secret," an illuminating portrait of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis. In part two of the program, we replay a portion of a conversation with the author about an earlier book titled "Jackie, Janet and Lee: The Secret Lives of Janet Auchincloss and her daughters Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill."

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."