Wgtd's The Morning Show With Greg Berg

Bonnie J. Ruff, author of "Beyond Birds and Bees: Bringing home to our kids a new message about love, sex and equality." Ruff, her husband and children moved from the US to the Netherlands and found themselves confronted by profoundly different attitudes about sexuality - and, in particular, different ideas about the best way to educate youngsters about matters related to sex and sexuality. Ruff's book explores this.

We preview Saturday evening's performance (the one-and-only performance) of the Kenosha Verbatim Project, the latest in a series of Verbatim Theater Projects from Carthage. This one deals with the aftermath of the police shooting of Jacob Blake in the summer of 2020. Joining us is Martin McClendon, Professor of Theater, along with two Carthage students intimately involved in the project: Rayven Craft and Katherine Layendecker.

From 2007 - Hope Edelman, author of "Motherless Mothers: How Losing a Mother Shapes the Parent You Become."

From 2011 - Andrew Pertman, author of "Adoption Nation: How the Adoption Revolution is Transforming our Families - and America."

From 2007, and in honor of Mother's Day: Lori Leibovich, author and editor of "Maybe Baby: 28 Writers tell the truth about Skepticism, Infertility, Baby Lust, Childlessness, Ambivalence, and how they made the biggest decision of their lives." (Because of time constraints, we could only broadcast an abridged version of the interview. Here it is in its entirety.)

Nan Calvert's May visit to the Morning Show features two representatives from Hawthorn Hollow Nature Sanctuary and Arboretum: TJ Leveque (executive director) and Kailyn Palomares (naturalist and education manager.) Hawthorn Hollow has expanded its acreage and a celebratory grand opening will be occurring on July 15th.

From 2015 - Simon Read, author of "Winston Churchill Reporting: Adventures of a Young War Correspondent."

Award-winning designer and best-selling author Manuel Lima, author of "The New Designer: Discarding Myths, Embracing Change."

From 2007 - "Our Dumb World: The Onion's Atlas of the Planet Earth"

From 2007(?) - Carlyn Berghoff, co-author with her mother Jan Berghoff of "The Berghoff Family Cookbook: From our Table to Yours, Celebrating a Century of Entertaining."

We preview the performances this Sunday and Monday evening at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside of the Abyssinian Mass by Wynton Marsalis. My guests: Dr. James Kinchen, director of choral activities at UW-Parkside, and Russ Johnson, director of jazz studies at Parkside. This upcoming performance will feature the combined choirs of Parkside in collaboration with the school's jazz ensemble.

Fifty years ago - to the day - jockey Ron Turcotte rode Secretariat to a triumphant victory in the Kentucky Derby - and within a few weeks, horse and jockey completed the Triple Crown, the first time that had been done in a quarter of a century. Curtis Stock's book "The Turcottes: The Remarkable Story of a Horse Racing Dynasty" tells the story of Ron Turcotte and four of his brothers who became successful jockeys as well.

Byron White worked for 35 years for Kenosha Human Development Services. He is about to receive an award from the Mary Lou and Arthur F. Mahone Fund.

We preview the Kenosha Symphony Orchestra's next concert, which is this Saturday evening. We speak with Robert Hasty, artistic director and conductor of the KSO, Pete Rodriguez, president of the board and member of the french horn section, and violinist Yang Liu. The end of the program includes excerpts from the three works being played on the concert: Beethoven's Egmont Overture, Bruch's Violin Concerto #1 and Mendelssohn's Scottish Symphony.

From 2009- Adrian Goldsworthy discusses his book "How Rome Fell."

From 2007- Jake Page, author of "Dogs: A Natural History"

From 2009- Jerry Oppenheimer, author of "Toy Monster: The Big Bad World of Mattel"

Carthage music major Katiann Nelson talks about her experiences at Carthage over the last five years as a clarinetist, pianist and singer. She participates in her final opera workshop performances this weekend - portraying Constanze, the widow of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, in a presentation called "In Memory of Mozart: Celebrating the Operatic Legacy of a Singular Genius." After graduating from Carthage next month, she will pursue a masters degree in operatic performance at the University of Colorado-Boulder.

From the archives (2015) : Simon Goodman, author of "The Orpheus Clock: The search for my family's art treasures stolen by the Nazis."

Monnica Rose is International Director of Toastmasters International, a non-profit organization that has been helping people surmount their fears of public speaking for nearly a century. Ms. Rose will be the keynote speaker for the spring conference of Toastmasters District 35 that will take place at The Abbey in Lake Geneva on May 5th and 6th.