WGTD's The Morning Show with Greg Berg

KAFASI stands for the Kenosha Aging and Family Services Inc., a non-profit agency that offers an array of 16 different services through its professional staff and a not-so-small army of 600+ volunteers.   The agency is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year.   Their services include Meals on Wheels, Transportation Assistance, Daybreak Respite Services (that helps caregivers caring for people with dementia) and other offerings for the elderly- as well as Parenting Classes,  Anger Management Seminars, Family Restoration and much, much more. 

Today's Morning Show is a special treat- a walking tour through the Kenosha Public Museum's spectacular new exhibit "From Curiosity to Science" with KPM executive director Dan Joyce and retired Director of Interpretation Nancy Matthews (who had a major hand in the mounting of the exhibit.)  The exhibit demonstrates how the so-called Curiosity Cabinets and Curiosity Rooms of the 16th and 17th centuries helped pave the way for the emergence of modern science.  In a special treat, the hour ends with a 2006 interview with Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Computers, talking about his much-discussed memoir "iWoz."  

This is a conversation with best-selling author Earl Swift, whose latest book is titled "Chesapeake Requiem:  A Year with the Water Men of Vanishing Tangier Island."  This small island - located in the middle of some of the richest fishing waters in the world - is being rapidly engulfed by rising sea levels.  Swift got to know some of the hearty souls who still live there.

Frederic Law Olmsted is the gifted American who was responsible for designing New York City's Central Park as well as significant and beautiful parks across the country.   Justin Martin's illuminating book about him is titled "Genius of Place:  The Life of Frederic Law Olmsted."  

Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Mark Obmascik's newest book is "The Storm on our Shores: One Island, Two Soldiers, and the Forgotten Battle of World War Two."  The island in question was Attu, one of the Aleutian Islands off the coast of Alaska - and Japan's takeover of this remote island was the first time a foreign power had seized American territory since the War of 1812.  The book examines the island,  Japan's invasion,  and America's retaking of the island- coupled with the personal stories of two men caught on opposite sides of the conflict: an American soldier and a Japanese medical doctor. 

This interview is with Jacqueline Novogratz, author of "The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World."  She is the founder and CEO of the Acumen Fund,  a non-profit global venture fund that takes an entrepreneurial approach to solving the problems of poverty in Third World countries. 

This is an interview from 2010 with comedy legend Carl Reiner.  The occasion of this conversation was the publication of Reiner's children's book "Tell me a Scary Story .... but Not Too Scary!"   But the conversation covers every facet of Reiner's amazing career in show business.  

We celebrate the 150th anniversary of PEO - the Philanthropic Education Organization - which began inauspiciously in 1869 with seven women in Mount Pleasant, Iowa who wanted to help other interested women gain the educational opportunities that they themselves had experienced.  PEO has grown to become an organization with 6,000 chapters across the United States.  

Nan Calvert co-hosts a thorough discussion about Biochar,  which is actually an ancient process receiving new attention in which biomass (wood based waste) is converted by heat into a material that resembles charcoal but which has properties that allow it to dramatically improve soil, enhance crop yield, and even have a positive effect on reducing global warming.  The special guest for this program is Tom Marrero, co-owner of Wakefield Biochar.  

Dr. Art Cyr, Clausen Distinguished Professor of Political Economy and World Business and Director of the Clausen Center at Carthage College, pays his monthly visit to the program to offer his analysis on a number of current events and issues, including Brexit, the Mueller Report, the recent mayoral election in Chicago, and more.