Nan Calvert with Monte Osterman.

Dr. Dana Garrigan, from the biology faculty at Carthage .... Pam Holy, president of the Chiwaukee Prairie Preservation Fund .... Sharon Fandel, the Southeast Field Ecologist for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.   Professor Galligan's photo exhibit "Chiwaukee Prairie: a Photo Journal of Preservation" opens this weekend at the Kenosha Public Museum. 

Dr. Lydia Kang, co-author of "Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases." 

We preview the Fleeing Artists Theater Company's production of Athol Fugard's anti-apartheid play "Master Harold and the Boys," which opens this weekend.   

Rollo Dilworth is one of the country's most renowned and prolific choral composers in the country.  He is a guest of Carthage College for their fifth treble chorale festival - and his brand new setting of the 23 Psalm will receive its world premiere performance Wednesday afternoon at Carthage.  Also in the interview is Dr. Peter Dennee from Carthage's music faculty,  the creator and coordinator of the festival.   

From 2005-  Gary Pomeramtz, author of "Wilt 1962: The Night of 100 Points and the Dawning of a New Era."   On March 2, 1962,  in a now legendary game played in Hershey, PA,  Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points.   That is still the unbeaten record for most points scored by a player in a single NBA game.  

Marcus Thompson II, author of "Dynasties:  The 10 Greatest-Of-All-Time Teams That Changed The NBA Forever."  

From 2008-   'Sometimes Why: a Novel' by Vogue editor Rebecca Johnson.

From 2006 -  David Quammen, author of "Monster of God: The Man-Easting Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind."  

My guest is a WGTD colleague,  news director Dave McGrath - talking about his book "Gene Pitney: The Singer, The Songs, The Songwriters."  McGrath worked closely with Pitney for more than twenty years.