Wgtd's The Morning Show With Greg Berg

For Pride Month- from 2017: Susan Stryker talks about her book "Transgender History: The Roots of Today's Revolution." The book was originally released in 2008. This interview was done at the time that its second edition was released.

We speak with best-selling authors Steve Berry and Grant Blackwood about how collaborate in writing thrillers- and talk about their latest novel, "Red Star Falling."

From 2015: Linda Flashinski talks about her book "In what light there is," a collection of some of the essays she wrote for her column of the same name that was published for a number of years in the Racine Journal Times. Linda is known to many WGTD listeners as a very capable co-host of our weekend program "Education Matters" as well as a limited series titled "Heroes in our midst." For many years, she worked for the Racine Unified School District.

Best-selling author Larry Tye discusses his latest book "The Jazz Men: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and Count Basie Transformed America."

From 2015- John Feinstein, author of "Where nobody knows your name: Life in the minor leagues of baseball."

Advice Columnist Amy Dickinson ("Ask Amy") is ending her column after a 21-year run. This archival interview was recorded back in 2005. Amy Dickinson's final column will be published on Sunday, June 30th.

This is the complete interview I recorded with Holly Stanfield last week in which we talked about her distinguished career with the Kenosha Unified School District - and her final KUSD production ("Between the Lines") which is performed Thursday and Friday of this week before the cast and crew take it to the International Thespian Festival.

From 2019 - Parker J. Palmer, author of "On the Brink of Everything: Grace, Gravity and Getting Old."

From 2007 - Phillip Lerman, author of "Dadditude: How a Real Man became a Real Dad."

Kailyn Palomares pays her monthly visit to the Morning Show with a conversation about the removal of the Horlick Dam. Joining her is Dave Giordano, executive director of Root-Pike WIN, and Monte Osterman, chair of the Racine County Land and Water Conservation Association.

We speak with Brian Mullgardt, professor of history at Millikin Univerisity, talks about his book "Wear some armor in your hair: Urban renewal and the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Lincoln Park." Professor Mullgardt is speaking to Adventures in Lifelong Learning tomorrow (Friday) afternoon at 2:00. More information can be found at uwp.edu.

We talk about Racine's Violent Crime Reduction Initiative with John Tate II, director of the Dept. of Community Safety .... Jessie Metoyer, deputy chief of the Racine Police Department .... and Maurice Horton, Racine County Violence Prevention Manager.

Jimmie James talks about his memoir "Playing from the Rough: A Personal Journey through America's 100 Greatest Golf Courses." James, an executive at Exxon who retired at the age of 58, undertook the challenge of playing the 100 greatest American golf courses as ranked by Golf Digest ... and to do so within one calendar year. The book is about much more than the golf courses; it's about the people he met as he came to reacquaint himself with America itself; it was also the experience of coming to terms with his own childhood, which was marked by severe poverty.

Boyce Upholt talks about his new book "The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi."

From 2014- Douglas Whynott, author of "The Sugar Season: A year in the life of Maple Syrup and one family's quest for the sweetest harvest."

From 2020 - An interview with three highly regarded high school choir directors in southeastern Wisconsin ... Elizabeth Steege from Case H.S. in Racine, Polly Amborn from Tremper H.S. in Kenosha, and Derek Machan from Waterford H.S. ...... talking about how each of them confronted the considerable challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic within the protocols and practices of their respective school districts. I am re-sharing this interesting interview because two of these three choral directors - Elizabeth Steege and Polly Amborn - are retiring.

Two interviews about dogs. Part 1- Jennifer Holland, author of "Dog Smart: Life-Changing Lessons in Canine Intelligence." Part 2- from 2004, the author of "How Dogs Think."

Dr. Art Cyr, a monthly visitor to the Morning Show, offers a commentary on D-Day on the 80th anniversary to the day of that momentous event.

We catch up with Barbara Brattin, who has been the director of the Kenosha Public Library for the past ten years. She is retiring on August 2nd. We talk about the ways in which libraries have changed over recent years - specific innovations that have come about at the KPL over the past decade - and the challenges that public libraries face. We also talk about the new children's library in Kenosha- which has its grand opening on July 13th.

From 2004: Mario Cuomo, author of "Why Lincoln Matters"