Wgtd's The Morning Show With Greg Berg

Best-selling author Meredith Hall ("Without a Map") discusses her new novel,  "Beneficence," which explores how three members of a rural farm family struggle to endure a tragic loss.   

Michelle Duster, great-granddaughter of civil rights activist Ida B. Wells, talks about her new book "Ida B. the Queen:  The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Ida B Wells."  

From 2014:   Alan Bernstein. author of "Mastering the Art of Quitting:  Why it Matters in Life, Love and Work."  

In memory of Dr. Charlotte Chell,  Professor Emerita of Mathematics and Computer Science at Carthage College,  we are replaying this Morning Show conversation dating back to the years when Professor Chell served on the board of directors of Wisconsin Public Radio, of which WGTD is an affiliate.  Professor Chell was the first woman to serve as Wisconsin governor of the Mathematical Association of America, a recipient of the school's Distinguished Teaching Award, and in 2010 was given the Carthage Flame, the school's highest honor.  

From 2002:  David M. Skover, author of "The Trials of Lenny Bruce:  The Fall and Rise of an American Icon."   

Ann Bausum, author of "Ensnared in the Wolf's Lair: Inside the 1944 Plot to Kill Hitler and the Ghost Children of his Revenge."  The book explores the story of those Germans who plotted for the assassination of Hitler (there were actually multiple plots) - and how Hitler's search of revenge went beyond the actual conspirators and included their spouses and children as well.  

For Gateway Technical College President Bryan Albrecht's first 2021 Morning Show visit, we meet Dr. Tammi Summers, Vice President of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at GTC.  

(from 2010)   Tom Jokinen, author of "Curtains:  Adventures of an Undertaker-in-training." 

We reconnect with composer Jim Stephenson to talk about his "Fanfare for Democracy," which was given its world premiere at President's Joe Biden's inauguration on January 20th.   

From the archives:  Dr. Sam Chell (who for many years was a Professor English at Carthage College) discusses the peculiar fascinating of Cult Films.

From 2018-  Anna Sabino, author of "Your Creative Career: Turn your passion into a fulfilling and financially rewarding lifestyle." 

Fawn Germer, author of "Coming Back: How to win the job you want when you've lost the job you need."   The book is focused on the challenge of people in mid or late career who find themselves displaced from employment and need to find ways to make themselves relevant and attractive in a tight job market.  

Dr. Munish Batra, author of the thriller "Animal."  Dr. Batra is a plastic surgeon, and we spend the first part of the interview talking about what plastic surgery is - and some of the public's misconceptions about it.  Dr. Batra has long been concerned with animal cruelty.  In his book,  a vigilante has taken it upon himself to gain revenge on behalf of animals that have in one way or another been mistreated.   

Dr. Art Cyr,  Clausen Distinguished Professor of Political Economy and World Business at Carthage- and Director of the Carthage Center. 

Best-selling author Laura Levitt talks about her book "The Objects that Remain," in which she explores the importance of physical objects that remain from traumas  we have suffered  ... be they traumas we have experienced individually or traumas suffered collectively (such as the Holocaust.) 

Part One:  Margot Lee Shetterly- author of "Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians who helped win the Space Race." - and Joylette Hylick, daughter of Katherine Johnson (whose story was told in Hidden Figures)- author of a children's book about her mother called "One Step Further."   Part Two:  Dr. Manning Marable, author of "The Great Wells of Democracy: The Meaning of Race in American Life."  

From 2003-  Frank DeFord, author of "An American Summer,"  a novel set in the summer of 1954 against the backdrop of the polio epidemic (a year before the announcement that Jonas Salk had overseen the development of a desperately-needed vaccine for the dreaded disease.) 

From 2016 - a conversation recorded with acclaimed composer Libby Larsen when she visited Carthage College for a week as composer-in-residence. 

Sarah Hays Coomer, author of "The Habit Trip:  A Fill-in-the-blank Journey to a Life on Purpose."  The book explores how habits are made and remade.  

For Nan Calvert's first monthly visit to the Morning Show in 2021,  she brings along Jason Meekma,  executive director of Focus on Community, a non-profit agency in Racine that works for Substance Abuse Prevention-  and is helping to implement a program called "Take Back Your Meds" that encourages and facilitates the safe disposal of unused medications.