For Nan Calvert's monthly visit to the program, we learn all about orchids that are native to Wisconsin.  Our guest is Brandon Corder, a graduate student in botany at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  (He was on the program several months ago to talk about mosses.) After that, we pay musical tribute to the late Queen Elizabeth II (who died yesterday) by playing the stirring march written for her coronation in 1953,  "Orb and Sceptre" by Sir William Walton. 

Roseanne A. Brown, author of "Serva Boateng's Guide to Vampire Hunting," a new novel series for young readers. 

Cheryl Hernandez, Ex. Director of the Kenosha Literacy Council - and Marsha Connet, SE Consultant for Wisconsin Literacy.  Today is International Literacy Day. 

Barbara Goldsmith discusses her book "Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie."  Madame Curie, one of the most gifted and important scientists of her generation,  was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize, the first woman to win two Nobel Prizes, and the first man or woman to win Nobel Prizes in two different scientific fields - physics and chemistry.  Her research into radioactivity was groundbreaking.  

This is a rebroadcast from November 2021 of a conversation about Chiwaukee Prairie, a 485-acre nature preserve in Pleasant Prairie.  The three guests include Carthage biology professor Dana Garrigan, who will be giving a free public presentation about Chiwaukee Prairie this Thursday evening at Kenosha's Kemper Center.  

For Labor Day - from 2004 -   Mike Rose, author "The Mind at Work:  Valuing the Intelligence of the American Worker."  The book examines, among other things,  the ways in which blue collar workers possess and utilize intelligence and creativity to an extent that is not always understood nor appreciated. 

From 2008 -  Phoebe Damrosch, author of "Service Included:  Four-Star Secrets of an Eavesdropping Waitress."  She was a waiter at the four-star restaurant Per Se during its first year of operation in 2004.  (Per Se is still open for business.) 

In a followup to yesterday's conversation with Joe Drape, author of "Our Boys," we speak with one of the young men who was a member of that extraordinary football team in Smith Center, Kansas - Marshall McCall, one of the team's four captains.  (He is mentioned more than once in the Joe Drape interview and plays quite a prominent role in the book.)  Both of these interviews were recorded back in 2010.  

From 2010-  New York Times reporter Joe Drape talks about his book Our Boys:  A Perfect Season on the Plains with the Smith Center Redmen.  Drape moved to the small town of Smith Center, Kansas to follow the exploits of the high school football team, which at the time was enjoying the longest winning streak in high school football.  Ultimately, the Redmen won 79 games in a row ... and 5 consecutive state championships.  

Ellyn Lem- author of "Gray Matters:  Finding Meaning in the Stories of Later LIfe."