that attempted to release a red tail hawk from a power line, an effort that cost him his life. Since the tragedy, Ralph and Carol have increased their efforts to teach and build bridges between cultures. Ralph shares facets of his Native American culture with anyone who cares to listen. That includes school children who enjoy his 'show and tell' over the ICN, tourists at the Iowa State Fair, boy scouts at a jamboree, and the general public at a pow wow. Together with his wife and a friend, Gene Fracek, in the singing group 'Red Tale,' Ralph also performs a mixture of native and pop songs. This Living in Iowa feature gives the microphone to Ralph, and lets him tell his 'Red Tale.'
SIDEROADS: Ladora Producer: Jack Shepardbecome productive citizens. Since its inception in 1995, Spectrum has helped nearly 200 men and women toward a better life, through their training in construction and heavy machine operation and in their instruction on what it means to have a job. Jerald Brantley, the driving force behind Spectrum, grew up in a tough neighborhood in Akron, Ohio and it was his early experiences that today give him a rapport with his clients.
FEATURE #3 Barber/Lloyd Luft 'Lloyd the Barber' Producer: Jack Shepard Contact: See Producer
Story line: Lloyd Luft has been cutting hair in Holstein longer than most of his clients have had theirs. The 96-year-old barber opened the shop he still runs in 1935. At that time Lloyd was one of 11 barbers in a town of 1500. Today


language make you ill, the doctor is in, Dr. Grammar that is. Jim HiDuke, alias Dr. Grammar, is an English professor at the University of Northern Iowa and will answer your grammar, punctuation, spelling and etymology questions on his website, drgrammar.org. Jim was always correcting mistakes and colleagues would go to him for answers, so, as Dr. Grammar developed as a means to promote the University around the state, Jim was the logical choice to run it or run with it. He says, 'I live for this stuff,' and his enthusiasm shows. But, Jim has turned Dr. Grammar into a kinder, gentler and non-judgmental corrector of your grammar mistakes.
SIDEROADS: Black Angel Producer: Jack Shepard Contact: See Producer
Storyline: The legend behind The Black Angel in Iowa City's Oakland Cemeteryis explored. According to the legend, what was originally a white angel marking a woman's grave turned black when it was disclosed that the woman had been philandering about town. Another legend has it that if you touch the black angel you'll die within a year. Devil or angel?
FEATURE #2 Prison Theater/Sivi 'Captive Cast' Producer: Mary Milz/Nancy Heather Contact: Marti Sivi Address: 5320 Waterbury Road, Des Moines Phone: 255-9453
Storyline: One woman's efforts to make a difference in the lives of women doing time at a the Iowa Correctional Institution for Women in Mitchellville. Des Moines actress Marti Sivi uses theater to improve the emotional well-being of the inmates and to prepare them for life on the outside. The women involved in the theater project tell how it's boosted


Conservationist / Romeo FEATURE #3: 'Isiserettes' CLOSE: stone park SIDEROADS: Salisbury House FEATURE #1: 'All The Worlds A Stage' a story about GregAlan Williams' play 1534 Cleveland. FEATURE #2: Loess Hills conservationist, Bob Romeo. FEATURE #3: 'Not the Same Old Drill' Isiserettes, a Des Moines drill team and drum corps, SIDEROADS: Salisbury House in Des Moines CLOSE: Stone Park in Sioux City
FEATURE #1 1534 Cleveland/Williams 'All The Worlds A Stage' Producer: Chris Gourley Contact: GregAlan Williams Address: 3588 Highway 138 Suite 309, Stockbridge, Georgia 30281 Toll Free Nationwide: (800) 720-9999 Fax: (770) 914-7035 E-mail address: See Producer Web page: http://gregalan.com/index. html
Storyline: GregAlan Williams and Iowa Public Television are working in cooperation to present 1534 Cleveland, a play of GregAlan's journey to adulthood as a young African-American in Iowa.than $4 million in profit. But it's Bob's dream that the land be preserved for all people who find spirituality in the Hills.
FEATURE #3): Isiserettes Drill Team / Des Moines 'Not the Same Old Drill ' Producer: Nancy Heather Contact: Director: Joan Hill (515)288-2181 Head Instructor: Pam Williams (515)246-9959 Address: 614 E. 6th Street, Des Moines, IA 50309 PRONUNCIATION: EYE-sis-er-etts
Storyline: The Isiserettes, a Des Moines drill team and drum corps, has proven that Sousa isn't the only perfect marching music. Using a syncopated drum rhythm, this team of 7 to 17 year-olds, mainly composed of inner-city African Americans, creates a head-turning dance sensation in stadiums, gymnasiums, malls, and parades in Iowa towns large and small. The musical members of the team are all trained by mentors, and they


in Town' girls' high school wrestling. FEATURE #2: 'The Homestead' a place for people with autism to live and work. FEATURE #3: Charles Anolik is a German concentration camp survivor who has learned to find happiness. SIDEROADS: Battle Hill Museum in Battle Creek, IA. CLOSE: Backbone State Park.
FEATURE #1 Girls' Wrestling/Auderer 'A New Game in Town' Producer: Jack Shepard Contact: Scott Auderer, wrestling coach, Gilbert High School Phone: 515-232-3738 Dave Storm, wrestling coach, Spencer High School Phone: 712-262-1700
Storyline: In a wrestling crazed state like Iowa, it just had to happen: girls' high school wrestling. Gilbert High School, now in its third season, is the pioneer in this sport. They've held the unsanctioned State Tournament there for the last two years and this years' is scheduled for March 4.Living in Iowa was on hand for the state's first dual meet between Gilbert and Spencer, where we met some of the wrestlers and their coaches. Actually, Iowa is getting off to a slow start in girls' wrestling, which is already quite popular in several states, with Texas' 130 sanctioned high school teams leading the way. There has been a national tournament for the last several years, and the International Olympics Committee is planning to add women's wrestling soon. Some see the sport as a possible savior for men's college wrestling programs which are being scaled back due to Title IX requirements for gender equality.
SIDEROADS: Battle Hill Museum/Battle Creek, IA Producer: Chris Gourley Contact: Dennis Laughlin Address: Hwy 175E, Battle Creek Iowa 51006 Phone: (712)365-4414 E-mail: bhmuseum@pionet.net Web


515-279-3055
Storyline: Charles Anolik was born in 1917 in Kovno, Lithuania to a middleclass Jewish family. When the Germans invaded Kovno in 1941, he and his family were taken to a ghetto and then eventually to the Dachau concentration camp. By the time World War II had ended, Charles, his mother Mina, his brother Ben and Ben's wife were the only members of the family who survived. Charles' father, younger brother, four-year-old nephew, and cousins were all murdered. Today, Charles lives in America, Des Moines, Iowa to be exact, with his wife Adele. They have three children and four grandchildren. And, for fifty years, Charles has been a hairdresser. In the 50s, he owned Salon Charles and styled hair for the socialites of the city. While he is retired,he continues to do hair for a few women. Through a loving family and rewarding career, he has learned to find happiness despite experiencing the Holocaust. He has learned to let go of the guilt he felt for surviving, when so many other Jews died, and embrace life.
CLOSE: Backbone State Park Producer: Chris Gourley Contact: See Producer
Storyline: Backbone State Park was dedicated in 1920. It was Iowa's first state park and remains one of the most significant. Backbone is named for its narrow and steep ridge of bedrock carved by a loop of the Maquoketa River. Folklore named this high ridge of rock the 'Devil's Backbone'. Nearly a hundred years ago, State Geologist Samuel Calvin wrote these words about 'The Backbone': 'Its sides are in places precipitous, the


Katie Hefel, Angie Toomsen, Matt Mullin and Angie Den Adel. All in their early to mid-twenties, all from Iowa and all graduates from the University of Northern Iowa, they are living in the Big Apple trying to find success in the theatre business. After moving to the city, they started their own company called the Key Theatre in the hopes to produce their own productions. The Key Theatre is comprised of nearly 40 people - most are from Iowa and also graduates of UNI. So far, they have produced two plays - 'Eastern Standard' and 'Boston Proper.' Living in Iowa traveled to New York City to see 'Boston Proper', an in-your-face comedy about a group of self-absorbed twenty-year-olds in the late 1970s. We got to know the IowaMary Bracken Night Receptionist Dennis Malloy John Montet Kurt Plagge
FEATURE #1: Jack Shelley, career news Broadcaster.
FEATURE #2: Update on cancer in Iowa.
FEATURE #3: Jazz revolution at UNI 50 years ago.
SIDEROADS: Le Mars, Iowa, the ice cream capitol of the world.
CLOSE: Harleys in the Park
FEATURE #1 Broadcaster, Jack Shelley Producer: Chris Gourley Contact: See Producer
Storyline: Jack Shelley's career as a news broadcaster began when radio was still a novelty. Jack shares with us some of the stories he covered that changed the world, and shares his thoughts concerning what is news today.
SIDEROADS: Sideroads / Ice Cream Capitol Producer: Chris Gourley Contact: See Producer
Storyline: Paul Berge will give us the scoop on a small northwest Iowa town (Le Mars) that is known as the Ice Cream Capitol of the World.
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Living in Iowa Show #1143 Airdates: 9/14,16/01
To: Becca Ketcherside Carlyn Crowe Dan Miller Teresa Smith Harriet Meldrem Martha Pas Mary Bracken Night Receptionist Dennis Malloy John Montet Kurt Plagge
FEATURE #1: Leopold Center Director, Fred Kirschenmann.
FEATURE #2: Alcohol-Free Fraternity at ISU.
FEATURE #3: Iowa Jazz/Preston Love, jazz musician recalls the midwest music scene from the 1930's.
SIDEROADS: Flagpole Sitter History in Strawberry Point
CLOSE: Bee Balm Flowers
FEATURE #1 Leopold Center/Kirschenmann 'Agricultural Import' Producer: Jack Shepard
Contact: The Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture Address: Iowa State University, Ames
Phone: April @ Leopold Center: 515-294-3711
Storyline: Part philosopher, part old fashioned dirt farmer, raised by dust bowl-seasoned conservationists and educated at some of America's most prestigious institutions, Fred Kirschenmann is a disciple of Iowa's foremost conservationpioneer, whose center he now directs. Kirschenmann began heading up Iowa State University's Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture last fall, leaving behind the North Dakota organic farm he'd managed successfully for 25 years. That experience, coupled with a keen intelligence and an inbred love of the land makes Kirschenmann a good fit for the ecology-minded post. Living in Iowa visited him on his Windsor, ND farm, his Ames office, and also sat in on some farm community discussions, which Kirschenmann believes will help put into focus the 21st century vision for U.S. agriculture.
SIDEROADS: Flagpole Sitter/Strawberry Point Producer: Marlin Schram Contact: See Producer
Storyline: Paul Berge and crew head up to Strawberry Point for a story even more interesting than the giant strawberry statue. In 1930 William Penfield climbed a


to put a rabbit into the hat rather than pull one out. He makes Kaleidoscopes that expose the beauty of ordinary objects, including tooth brush handles and discarded lighters. Look into his Kosmik Kannon, and you might see everything from astronauts and spinning ants to the face of a friend. Not only are his kaleidoscopes eclectic and fanciful, but many of them are big enough to share. He's made them large enough to walk through. In fact, Tom Chouteau thinks so big about his crafty works of art, he's starting to reflect upon ways to share them in a kaleidoscope museum that would be open 24-hours a day.
SIDEROADS: Stanton Producer: Chris Gourley Contact: See Producer
Storyline: Paul Berge visits Stanton, a town with a water tower that looks likedefend, these tools of war have survived in tact to this day. But Iowa's collection of 138 regimental flags, banners and cavalry guidons is now in need of some tender loving care. Hung in state capitol display cases since 1894, many of the battleflags have become badly deteriorated, damaged by the ravages of time and torn by the weight of their own fabric. But thanks to the persistence of The Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, and to the guidance of the State Historical Society, these relics of this nation's great internal struggle are getting the preservation they need and deserve. In addition, the history of each flag is being researched so that its story can be told to future generations of Iowans. Their stories tell


life of a Division I coach. It just so happens that one of our producers, Laurel Bower, has a cousin who is an assistant coach at the University of Iowa. Greg Lansing has been one of the three assistant coaches with Head Coach Steve Alford for the men's basketball team. We decided what better way to give you a look at what the life of a coach is like than through the eyes of someone on the inside. Greg is an Iowa boy, growing up in Harlan and playing basketball for his father, Dave Lansing, who was a coach there for many years. In 1999, Dave was inducted into the Iowa Boy's Basketball Hall of Fame. Ever since Greg was a little boy, he has lived and breathedbasketball -watching his dad coach, playing both at the high school and college levels, coaching Roosevelt High School in Des Moines and moving onto the college level. Greg served as an assistant coach at Indiana State University for four seasons and has been at the University of Iowa for two seasons. Producer Laurel Bower shares her experiences growing up with Greg's obsession for basketball, and together, they talk about his passion for the game and what it takes to be a coach at the Division I level.
SIDEROADS: John L. Lewis Museum Producer: Chris Gourley Contact: John L. Lewis Museum: (642)766-6831
Storyline: Paul visits the birth place of John L. Lewis, a miner and major influence in the history of Americas industrial unions. Lewis, the leader of the United Mineworkers


people who carved these remarkable faces.
CLOSE: Barn Producer: Laurel Bower Contact: See Producer
Storyline: Living in Iowa was traveling on HWY 169 when we noticed an old barn off the highway on a farm. As we stopped to videotape it, the farmer who owned it visited with us telling stories of the barn. The farmer's name is David Friday and he told us that the barn was built in 1906. He says his grandfather used to have a team of horses in there and when we looked around a bit, we noticed the harnesses were still hanging. We captured the essence of this old barn reminding one of how farming used to be. Unfortunately, the barn will be torn down later this spring.
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LINCOLN HIGHWAY SPECIAL HOST: Paul Berge ('Sideroads' host takes us onan 'extended sideroad') SUMMARY: Traveling is a way of opening one's horizons, seeing the world through someone else's eyes. And, on Livi ng in Iowa, viewers will meet people from across Iowa. The Lincoln Highway once connected our state to both the east and west coasts, and some of the people we visited in the early '90's came up with stories about the old days of this now embattled road. These people include Marvin Wolfe, whose hobby is traveling the Lincoln Highway, collecting facts and figures. We'll view an interesting Chelsea wood carver and a Jefferson man who makes Lincoln Highway memorabilia. Elderly Mechanicsville resident, Pagie Wilson, tells of the highway in the days it was only a


of history. And explore some of the ins and outs of immigration in Iowa.
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Meet Bob Black, from North English, who plays a mean five-string banjo and has an album called 'Banjoy.' Then visit the Pine Creek Grist Mill, built in 1848 and now preserved in Wildcat Den State Park. [27 minutes]

(Johnston, Iowa) –Effigy Mounds National Monument preserves some of the few remaining structures built centuries ago by Native Americans in Iowa. In 2001, a new 1,000 acre addition was made, which contains several state-endangered species, two bear effigies, some linear mounds and other archaeological sites. The new Heritage Addition will also connect the mounds to the Yellow River State Forest, protecting the birds which migrate along the Yellow River.
This week, Living in Iowa hikes the trails andrides the waters of this area, which will not be open to the public for several years.
Also on Living in Iowa, meet Manchester native Susan Werner, who writes songs that interpret life and love with Midwestern honesty. When she’s not recording, Werner is travelling, playing over 200 shows in a typical year – in places ranging from The Civic Center in Des Moines to The Beacon Theatre in New York City.
Living in Iowa spent some time with Werner at her family’s farm in Manchester, and caught an Ames performance by one of the state’s premier singer/songwriters.
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In the mid 1800 mmunal and religious society in eastern Iowa known as the Amana Colonies. Photography was forbidden because it was considered to be a worldly vanity in a society that


Living in Iowa travels to Ankeny to introduce viewers to Linda Farr and her dog Keeper, who are national champions in a sport called Canine Musical Freestyle. According to the World Canine Freestyle Organization, Linda and Keeper of Ankeny, Iowa are the best in the U.S. when it comes to dog dancing. They have danced to everything from country to disco and have performed in competitions throughout the United States.
Then viewers will visit the Cedar River Festival, a two-day event in July that was launched in 1988. The festival is part environmental clean-up and part celebration of the river through music and the arts. Visit with Living in Iowa as volunteers talk about their work with the festival and their love of the river.
And finally this week, Livingin Iowa takes a look at the wildflowers and prairie grasses blooming near the ancient rock outcroppings at Gitchie Manitou State Preserve in Lyon County, Iowa. Plant communities includ [28 minutes]

Laura Berkson, cantorial soloist at Temple B’nai Jeshurun, found her love of music and her love of the Jewish faith could make happy music together in Des Moines. Besides her work with the temple singing solo and directing choirs, she’s also making inroads on the local music scene as a singer-songwriter. She grew up on the east coast, and says she’s always surprised when people ask, “Why did you move here-?” because she loves her new home. [28 minutes]

Dancing Dog
He has two left feet but knows how to cut a rug. Meet Keeper, a golden retriever and Linda


Farr, his dance partner, from Ankeny. Together they are National Champions in the world of Canine Musical Freestyle.
Janusz Bardach
Janusz Bardach tells his story of surviving five hellish years in the Soviet slave labor camps during W.W.II. He has revisited the painful memories in order to write a book about his experiences called, 'Man is Wolf to Man: Surviving the Gulag.' It's an extraordinary story of human brutality, human kindness and human ability to survive under the most inhuman conditions imaginable.
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TV We Grew Up On
Fifty years ago, when television was first becoming popular, it was common for local television stations to host afternoon shows for children.
In Iowa, kids spent their afternoons watching TV programs hosted by space commanders, river boat captains, clowns, and puppets.
This nostalgic Living in Iowaprogram looks back on those days with the hosts of those shows from around the state. They include 'Commander Four' of Sioux City, 'Captain Ernie' of Davenport, 'Dr. Max & Mombo the Clown' from Cedar Rapids, Betty Lou Varnum from 'The Magic Window' in Ames, and Bill Riley's several childrens' TV and radio shows in Des Moines. Waterloo's 'Romper Room' and Mason City's 'Bart's Clubhouse' are also remembered.
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Defying the odds, a space probe navigates successfully through the asteroid fields between Mars and Jupiter, sending back data about distant planets, while continuing its trajectory toward the edge of our solar system. This is the mission of Pioneer 10, watched closely by Dr. James Van Allen of Iowa City.
This week on Living in Iowa, meet Dr. Van Allen and


discover how he designed the only instrument on board the Pioneer 10 that is still sending back information that will help determine the boundary of our solar system. Celebrating its 30th Anniversary, the Pioneer 10 mission is 7.5 billion miles out in space, or about twice the distance to Pluto.
Also this week, Living in Iowa begins a limited series of student productions. Iowa college students produce work for Living in Iowa entitled 'My Hometown.' This week, Aaron Siskow takes viewers to Sheffield, which has preserved the traditional values of small town life, while still having the savvy to compete in the world of 21st century technology. Siskow is a graduate student at Iowa State University studying journalism and mass communications.
Craig Cronbaugh of Brooklyn, Iowa, is a huge fanmust make adjustments in their daily lives. On Living in Iowa this week, explore how the demographic changes in Marshalltown have affected the police department, the schools and the local hospital. All of these institutions must face challenges in making the community work for everyone. In early 2001, Marshalltown became a Model Community in a statewide effort to recruit new Iowans, including skilled immigrants. Viewers can learn more on this week his week, Living in Iowa catches up with singer/songwriter Dan Bern. Bern has made quite a name for himself in folk music circles. He has been described as 'the next Bob Dylan' by more than one music critic, and is known for his sharp wit and biting satirical lyrics.
Bern and his band, 'The International Jewish Banking Conspiracy,'


recently opened for fellow folksinger and producer, Ani Difranco at Carnegie Hall. Living in Iowa was on hand for the band and also spent some time in the artist hen asked why he writes songs, he replied, 'Why did you stop? All children make up songs. They put their thoughts into music. I just didn stop doing that.'
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Iowa ith a G. The G stood for 'Glider' but there are those who wore the emblem who will tell you it stood for guts. They were the original stealth pilots. They were glider pilots who during World War II would deliver troops, munitions and supplies behind enemy lines. With the help of glider pilots from Iowa, Side Roads host Paul Berge tells the story of the men who quietlyhelped win World War II on silent wings.
Peace and Patriotism
As long as there have been wars, there have been those protesting for peace. In this story, meet some Iowa veterans of the protest movement who say they would like our nation or alternatives to bombing, even in light of recent events. What are those options, and what are the costs of violence? Olive Wilson of Primghar, editor of the 'Peace Links' newsletter, and Rita Hohenshell of Des Moines, who was recently imprisoned for entering a military base to protest the 'School of Americas,' reflect upon the causes of terrorism and their interest in peace.
World War II on Stage
Jane Cox, a faculty member in Iowa State University d herself in the stories of Iowa World War II veterans for


more than two years. And last December, at ISU ne Every War
On Side Roads this week, Paul Berge visits a cemetery in Carroll where there is a monument for each war, beginning with the Civil War and ending with Desert Storm [29 minutes]

Iowa can now boast one of the fastest trucks in the world, thanks to a Des Moines auto parts salesman.
A Ford Ranger mini pickup truck was the star of a race at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah this past summer. The goal: to break the land speed record in the modified mid/mini pickup truck class. This week Living in Iowa follows the project that made the 'Rocket Ranger' pickup the fastest in the world. Led by auto parts distributor Bob Folkestad and his team ofis the theatre of the real,' he said.
Also this week, viewers can see how Storm Lake helping the influx of immigrants adjust to a new life, while helping community members cope with change. The gardens were created two years ago to provide members of the town the opportunity to have their own garden plots, and to help them acclimate to their new community. This successful project has influenced other Iowa towns to try their own diversity gardens.
This week, Living in Iowa also visits Jim Mason, the producer, artistic director, and creator of the Tony- and Emmy-award winning hit 'Blast.' Mason, originally from Cedar Rapids, created the show, which was performed in Des Moines at the Civic Center last fall.
On Side Roads this week, Paul Berge takes viewers on


Iowa visits a special summer camp. At the University of Iowa, hearing-impaired children learn to use cochlear implants, electronic devices designed to help the deaf hear. Living in Iowa followed three children who practiced listening and speaking skills for six hours every day in a camp-like atmosphere that mixes learning with fun.
Living in Iowa also profiles the D & D Ranch in Swisher. Ranch-owners Deb and Dave Hoffman are growing a business with worms to conserve resources. The worms are available for bait, and the worm manure is available for compost. It omposting, and the Hoffmans say anybody can do it.
Paul Berge visits Anamosa for his weekly Side Roads segment. In the middle of Grant Wood country, Berge found more than American Gothic hat all of Fame' offersarea still standing. Then travel to Woodbine, where a 1936 barn is easily visible and a Loess Hills landmark. The community support for this barn has been surprisingly strong, as passers-by have stopped by to express their gratitude. Then near Winterset visit the Gillespie barn, built in 1874, with wooden pegs used to secure beams and a foundation of thick limestone.
Other barns featured include a Hampton barn built in the 1800s, a Latimer barn built in 1950 with clay tile and a round laminated roof with matching silo, a barn near Carroll with hip-roof rafters, the Mulcahey Pioneer Barn built in the 19th century near Colo, and a barn near Massena built in 1920.
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Dr. Nancy Andreasen is a world-renowned psychiatrist, whose groundbreaking work with schizophrenia has earned


her the 2000 National Medal of Science. This week, Living in Iowa visits with this University of Iowa professor to discuss her work with the disease that afflicts one in every 100 Americans.
Using the latest advances in computer imaging, Andreasen and her associates have developed a new model of schizophrenia, one that links the disease to abnormalities in brain circuitry. In this model, disruption in communication between portions of the brain are responsible for the hallucinations, paranoia, and other symptoms schizophrenics suffer.
On August 1 of last year, Ames passed a no-smoking ordinance making it the first city in Iowa to pass a law of its kind. The smoking ban applies to all public places unless food and nonalcoholic beverage sales at the establishment are less than 10 percentIowa.' This Keokuk native holds cooking classes in the kitchen of her home, and she enjoys finding fresh ingredients at her nearby farmer west s to choose to make her home here in Iowa.
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Character does count. Just ask the people in Fort Dodge who have implemented a program throughout the community called Character Counts!, a national program aimed at teaching young people and adults the principles of character. This week, Living in Iowa profiles Fort Dodge rts to become a community of character.
Focusing on what it calls 'The Six Pillars of Character,' Character Counts! works to give people the skills they need to live successful lives and create a civil community. Host Morgan Halgren will also discuss this effort with former Iowa Gov. Robert Ray during an


in-studio interview on the program. Ray is chairman of the board of the Institute for Character Development at Drake University. The Institute is a statewide partner with the national Character Counts! program.
Also this week, find out what it takes to put pieces of the past back together along the Lincoln Highway. Thirty years ago, vandals damaged monuments that provided a tribute to the history of the nation the work of three Iowans, the damage has been repaired and the monuments again stand as a tribute to the past.
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This week Living in Iowa introduces viewers to a ars is proud to be a big loser and encourages others to be losers as well. Anne has been a Weight Watchers team leader for 13 years, winning awards for largestmeeting and biggest losers - of weight, that is. More than 1000 people a week come to Anne with humor, but also contain a serious message about her personal struggle to beat the battle of the bulge.
Also this week, meet two Iowans who are trying to reintroduce grapes to Iowa ranked sixth in the nation in grape production. With Prohibition, the ease of row-crop farming and the destructiveness of farm chemicals to vineyards, the grape farms almost completely disappeared from Iowa landscape. See how two vintners, Ron Mark and Paul Tabor, are having success with their own grape crops, a growing industry in Iowa.
Iowa African-American history is also examined in this week ing World War I, Fort Des Moines was transformed into the first training camp for black


officers. Among the men assembled there was William Morris' grandfather. In his contribution to the recently published book 'Outside In: African-American History in Iowa,' Morris tells the story of the camp and its far reaching effects on such acclaimed military figures as Colin Powell. Morris will discuss his book and progress on The Fort Des Moines Memorial Park and Education Center, a monument to both the black World War I officers and the WACs who trained there during World War II.
Finally, Paul Berge takes a Side Road to Council Bluffs, to the Pottawattamie county jail which is an experiment in incarceration. The ch level cut into 10 pie-shaped cells. One guard could look in on each cell by turning a large crank and rotating the cylinder. It isaffected by cerebral palsy, she rode, until May 1998 when this 14-year-old nation inspired others to create a therapeutic riding program for people with mental and physical disabilities. Learn about therapeutic horse riding with host Morgan Halgren.
Another feature this week introduces viewers to Boone resident Jamie Aaron Kelley. Kelley loves everything Elvis, including the movies, the music, and even the clothes. Kelley dresses like Elvis, combs his hair like Elvis and even sings like Elvis. Being an from father to son. Join Living in Iowa as we walk a mile in his blue suede shoes.
Finally, Paul Berge takes a Side Road to Chariton, Iowa. Throughout the Midwest, Chariton is known as the corporate headquarters of the grocery giant Hy-Vee. Internationally, however, Chariton is known for its small corner


grocery known as Pipers. Come take a Side Road to Pipers for the sweet facts concerning this unique little grocery store.
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Iowa of September 11, 2001. Americans had never experienced anything like the horrors of the terrorist attacks, and it was no wonder words were hard to come by. In times like these, we tend to turn to the arts, andespecially poetry to help us come to terms with all that has happened . Late the night of September 11, Bell sat down to write e Resurrected Dead Man in a private reading on the University of Iowa campus. Also this week: More than 25 years ago, former Governor Bob Ray helped bring a group of people to Iowa to escape their war-torn homeland. These people were theTai Dam people, whose homeland included parts of Vietnam, China, Laos and Thailand. Living in Iowa gets an inside look at the traditions and history of the Tai Dam people who now make their home in Iowa, and visits with local experts who give their insight on the culture. Also this week Living in Iowa catches up with Roger Williams, who has been called the world mous musician, came home in December 2001 to celebrate the 70th anniversary of his first public recital. Living in Iowa was in the audience for the concert and also went along with him to his alma mater, North High, where he received a special declaration. During his long and prolific career, Williams has recorded 115 albums, 18 of which have gone gold


or platinum. Finally this week, take a Side Road with Paul Berge who introduces us to Williamsburg, Iowa native Eugene Ely. Ely made aviation history in 1910 by becoming the first pilot to take off from and land on a ship. [28 minutes]

Cael Sanderson ughout the country this past spring. But who is the man who has been called the greatest wrestler in a generation? This week, Living in Iowa introduces viewers to the humble, yet intensely motivated, collegiate superstar in a feature produced as Sanderson was on his way to his fourth title.
Sanderson, an Iowa State University senior majoring in art and design, is from a Mormon family in Utah. He is the third of four brothers who are wrestlers, and was the first collegiate wrestler everto finish his career both undefeated (159-0) and with four individual NCAA championships. Sanderson has won numerous awards since accomplishing this feat, including an ESPY Award as College Male Athlete of the Year, the cover of a Wheaties box, and recognition in the U.S. Congress and Iowa Legislature.
Also this week, Living in Iowa introduces viewers to Jane Farrell-Beck of Iowa State University mily and Consumer Sciences. Farrell-Beck has co-authored a book on the history of the bra called Uplift: The Bra in America. Her new book is a comprehensive examination that places the development of the bra in the context of economics, business conditions over the last 100 years, women arn more about the book that studies this important piece of women ashion history this week.
Living in Iowa


will air at 8:30 p.m. Friday, August 30 and at 6:30 Tuesday, September 3 on all Iowa Public Television stations. Living in Iowa invites phone calls at 800-532-1290 and email at its web site: iptv.org/livinginiowa. For more information, visit www.iptv.org.
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Effigy Mounds National Monument preserves some of the few remaining structures built centuries ago by Native Americans in Iowa. In 2001, a new 1,000 acre addition was made, which contains several state-endangered species, two bear effigies, some linear mounds and other archaeological sites. The new Heritage Addition will also connect the mounds to the Yellow River State Forest, protecting the birds which migrate along the Yellow River.
This week, Living in Iowa hikes the trails and rides the waters of this area, which will not be open to thepublic for several years.
Also on Living in Iowa, meet Manchester native Susan Werner, who writes songs that interpret life and love with Midwestern honesty. When she's not recording, Werner is travelling, playing over 200 shows in a typical year - in places ranging from The Civic Center in Des Moines to The Beacon Theatre in New York City.
Living in Iowa spent some time with Werner at her family's farm in Manchester, and caught an Ames performance by one of the state's premier singer/songwriters.
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In the mid 1800 ommunal and religious society in eastern Iowa known as the Amana Colonies. Photography was forbidden because it was considered to be a worldly vanity in a society that wanted to be separate from the influences of the outside world in order


to focus on a spiritual life.
This week on Living in Iowa, learn how a group of prominent members of Amana society felt that documenting their lifestyle in a rapidly changing world was more important than following the rule against taking pictures. The photographers took great care in capturing images from still life photos to documentation of local disasters. They left behind a time capsule of a gentler way of life.
On the program this week, viewers can learn more about these historical photos from author
Abigail Foerstner, who wrote raphers. photographers who took these fascinating photos.
Also this week, Living in Iowa travels to Ankeny to introduce viewers to Linda Farr and her dog Keeper, who are national champions in a sport called Canine Musical Freestyle. According to the World CanineFreestyle Organization, Linda and Keeper of Ankeny, Iowa are the best in the U.S. when it comes to dog dancing. They have danced to everything from country to disco and have performed in competitions throughout the United States.
Then viewers will visit the Cedar River Festival, a two-day event in July that was launched in 1988. The festival is part environmental clean-up and part celebration of the river through music and the arts. Visit with Living in Iowa as volunteers talk about their work with the festival and their love of the river.
And finally this week, Living in Iowa takes a look at the wildflowers and prairie grasses blooming near the ancient rock outcroppings at Gitchie Manitou State Preserve in Lyon County, Iowa. Plant communities includ [28 minutes]

After the


g as an s living in Iowa so much, and how she came to be involved with her two loves, music and faith.
Then on Living in Iowa, see the spring buds along a nature trail in Nine Eagles State Park whose grace and beauty caught the attention of our videographer. Viewers will be refreshed with the scenes of a day in May.
And finally on Living in Iowa, take a Side Road with Paul Berge to Marne, Iowa, the home of Baxter Cycle. Owned by Randy Baxter, this cycle shop is home to over 80 motorcycles, mostly classic European models like Norton, B.S.A. and Triumph. Baxter started his collection as a result of buying a British motorcycle in need of repairs. In his search for parts he bought over20 British parts dealerships. Baxter Cycle has many parts and motorcycles now sold worldwide.
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During World War II, Janusz Bardach, a 20-year-old Polish Jew, escaped the Nazi invasion by fleeing to Russia. There he was forced to enlist in the Red Army, but Stalin to labor camps in Siberia.
This week on Living in Iowa, learn how this Iowa City man made the journey from slave laborer to world-class plastic surgeon during one of the last interviews he gave before his death in the summer of 2002. Also, learn how Bardach told his story through his book, in Iowa, meet Michael Carey, a poet from New Jersey who met and married an Iowa woman. Carey moved to Farragut to help out on his wife fth-generation family farm, only to


have a rude yet magical awakening.
Also this week, meet General Jack Pershing. During World War I, General Jack raised over $40,000 for the American Red Cross. This is a considerable achievement for anyone, but considering General Jack is a rooster, it is even more incredible. This week Living in Iowa tells viewers the story of General Jack and how he raised the funds.
And finally this week, Living in Iowa takes viewers to Nine Eagles State Park to a windy day in May. Watch the wind play with the forest and the various plants within the park.
Living in Iowa will air on Thursday, October 10 at 7 p.m., Friday, October 11 at 8:30 p.m., and on Tuesday, October 15 at 6:30 p.m. on all Iowa Public Television stations. Livingthe traditional values of small town life, while still having the savvy to compete in the world of 21st century technology. Siskow is a graduate student in journalism and mass communications at Iowa State University.
Craig Cronbaugh of Brooklyn, Iowa, is a huge fan of 1950s recording star Frankie Laine and he shares his collection with Living in Iowa on this episode. The extensive collection includes nearly every recording Laine ever made, clips of Laine ances and recordings of the many theme songs Laine sang for motion pictures.
And finally this week, take a Side Road to the Sergeant Floyd Monument in Sioux City. The 100-foot tall monument marks the grave of Sergeant Charles Floyd, the only person to die during the Lewis and Clark Expedition. [28 minutes]

More than 150


years ago, a building that symbolized an entire religious community was destroyed. It was the temple in Nauvoo, Illinois. Even though the temple he Mormon of the Mormon faith. Church members fled through Iowa to Salt Lake City, Utah, and the church now claims more than 11 million members.
This week Living in Iowa tours the recently-rebuilt Mormon temple, which was dedicated on the anniversary of the murder of the church l leader, Joseph Smith, Jr. In the few months before the official dedication, tourists were able to enter the temple and learn about the sacred rites of the oth Mormon and non-Mormon townspeople about the temple and the town place in history.
Then on Living in Iowa, meet Belmond sisters Luanne Krabbe and Kathy Schnell. These women have starteda multi-community theatre in the small town of Rowan. In just two years the theatre success is unimaginable. Learn how volunteers from surrounding communities have given their time, money and other resources to the cause of entertaining residents in the area.
Also this week, Living in Iowa takes a look at Grant Wood lithographs which were displayed at the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art this past summer. Grant Wood is world-renowned for his colorful paintings like of Iowa e his artwork more available to the public, and created some lithographs in black and white. In this Living in Iowa musical montage, see some of Wood through winter.
And finally this week, take a Side Road with Paul Berge to The Castle on the Hill. Built in 1892 it served as


Sioux City Central High School until 1972. The school was heading toward demolition when Sioux City residents Lois Littl [28 minutes]

In the 13th season premiere, the program discovers a colorful culture, right here at home. From the traditional Mexican hat dance to the mod ern Macarena, Latino culture is alive in Iowa. Viewers can see Meringue dance lessons, sample traditional dances in Davenport and Des Moines, and celebrate the 'Dia de los Muretos' or 'Day of the Dead.' [27 minutes]

Mount Ayr native Peggy Whitson is at a high point in her life. This biologist is currently orbiting 200 miles above the earth as an astronaut aboard the International Space Station. This week, Living in Iowa host Morgan Halgren talks to Whitson from space about her perspectives on earth,life in space, and how her trip has affected Iowans.
Also this week, Living in Iowa looks at Iowa State University rsary celebration of Art on Campus. From 1930s Grant Wood murals and the Christian Petersen sculptures to the G-Nome project that is the molecular biology building, art at ISU is as old as the campus itself. This week the program traces some of that history and explores the role Art on Campus plays at ISU.
Continuing the November series of Latino features is the history of two areas in the Quad Cities that began in the 1920s. Holy City and Cook and boxcars that housed Mexican railroad and factory workers and their families. With no electricity or indoor plumbing, the living conditions were poor. In spite of the hardships,


two proud and close-knit communities developed. In this episode, former residents look back at the annual Cook nd of these unique communities.
And on Side Roads this week, host Paul Berge takes viewers on a tour of the Anamosa Prison Museum for a detour from the straight and narrow for a trip down incarceration lane. [28 minutes]

Living in Iowa will explore the impact of the English Language Reaffirmation Act, Iowa's law declaring English the state's official language. The legislation has generated diverse reactions from Iowans. Living in Iowa will explore the legislation by interviewing people from both sides of the issue -- a leader in the Latino community and a Legislative sponsor of the act -- to learn how the legislation is affecting Iowans.
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Islam has a long historyin Iowa: Cedar Rapids is home to the oldest mosque in North America, and there has been an Islamic congregation in Cedar Rapids since the 1930s. Despite this history, few Iowans know much about Islam or their Muslim neighbors. This week, Living in Iowa travels to the Cedar Rapids Islamic Center to get to know some Iowa Muslims.
In this traditional season of giving, Living in Iowa also looks at Goodwill Industries. This charitable organization with Iowa roots has been serving people for more than 100 years, and has touched 5 million lives.
On Side Roads this week, part two of Paul Berge Hills adventure takes him to a portion of the Loess Hills National Scenic Byway along Iowa , Murray Hill Scenic Overlook, Small a, and more.
In Living in


Iowa Des Moines Register music critic Kyle Munson introduces viewers to Mike and Amy Finders. Their music is self-described
ove- though sometimes bitter - is mostly just sweet.
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In June of 2002, a choir from Tanzania visited Iowa as guests of the Evangelical Lutheran Church omen, known as the owans during their 20-day visit. This week, Living in Iowa finds out what these choir members from a third-world country learned about Americans during their stay, and sees how the choir e Iowans who met them. Viewers can discover how music can dissolve the cultural and economic differences between Christians from a Third World country and those who live in America.
Also this week, Living in Iowa introduces viewers to an Iowa music mogul - 32 year old David Zollo ofIowa City. Zollo plays many different roles in his band David Zollo and the Body Electric, including singer, songwriter, keyboardist, manager, and producer. He has one more important role that not many Iowans can claim - record label owner. As founder and owner of Trailer Records in Iowa City, Zollo provides 12 Iowa artists an avenue to have their music produced.
Zollo ic has been a staple in Iowa and throughout the Midwest for nearly 10 years. His blossoming music career was nearly halted, however, by a throat condition. Following surgery and intensive therapy, Zollo has been able to continue his unique brand of entertaining Iowans. Living in Iowa tells his comeback story, and showcases his talent in several venues, including an in-studio performance.
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To celebrate the season, this


year atures historical Iowa traditions. These traditions include songs, stories, and food. Viewers can see all three in a special Midwestern Christmas celebration called Perry.
rmance based on 1913 newspaper stories and songs of the era, accompanied by a four-course meal. Living in Iowa host Morgan Halgren hosts the special from the Hotel Pattee ecutive chef David North. The Lamb ill also perform at the Hotel oliday edition, Living in Iowa travels to Algona, where German prisoners of war were held during World War II. While held captive, the German soldiers created a large nativity scene, which was left to the city as a gift with the stipulation that it would only be open to the public during the Christmas season.
In the wa Paul, who will perform her songfor Christmas called y is Born. [27 minutes]

He has been called the world owa e 70th anniversary of his first recital. This time he didn hare the piano bench with his music teacher. Living in Iowa was in the audience for the concert, and went along with him to his alma mater, North High, where he received a special declaration.
Williams also tells the story of his first big break, the recording of , , Williams has recorded 115 albums, 18 of which have gone gold or platinum.
Also this week, viewers can witness a time capsule for a gentler way of life through the eyes of Amana photographers. Though photography was forbidden in the mid-1800s among Amana Colonies settlers, a group of prominent members of Amana society felt that


documenting their lifestyle in a rapidly changing world was more important than obeying the rule against taking pictures. The photographers took great care to capture photos and Living in Iowa shares them and tells their stories this week.
Finally this week, Living in Iowa introduces viewers to Canine Musical Freestyle - dog dancing. Linda Farr of Ankeny and her golden retriever Keeper are the national champions in this sport, dancing to everything from country to disco in competitions around the U.S.
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Things are changing in Marshalltown. In 1990, 97 percent of Marshalltown residents were white, largely of European decent. By the 2000 census, almost 13 percent of Marshalltown descendents of the Purhepecha Indians of Mexico.
As in all towns experiencing a rapid and significant influx of immigrants, both the new-comersand old-timers must make adjustments in their daily lives. On Living in Iowa this week, explore how the demographic changes in Marshalltown have affected the police department, the schools and the local hospital. All of these institutions must face challenges in making the community work for everyone. In early 2001, Marshalltown became a Model Community in a statewide effort to recruit new Iowans, including skilled immigrants.
Also this week, Living in Iowa catches up with singer/songwriter Dan Bern. Bern has made quite a name for himself in folk music circles. He has been described as re than one music critic, and is known for his sharp wit and biting satirical lyrics.
Bern and his band, onspiracy, Carnegie Hall. Living in Iowa was on hand for one of the band rts


in Iowa City and also spent some time in the artist Mount Vernon.
When asked why he writes songs, he replied, stop? All children make up songs. They put their thoughts into music. I just didn tured this week. The Art Center was recently host to an exhibit of the
can Art Museum. Living in Iowa takes viewers on a tour of the exhibit of some of America ian American Art Museum.
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First Lady Christie Vilsack was a teacher for 28 years. Today, the whole state is her classroom. Whether she aries or schools, the First Lady is dedicated to encouraging literacy and reading, and getting all Iowans to read and share their stories to create stronger communities.
A self-described political activist since the age of 10, the First Lady isa mother, a teacher, and a writer. But as First Lady, her issue of choice has been reading. She has visited more than 300 of the state their communities. Host Morgan Halgren talks with the First Lady on this week re a group of Old West itage by wearing historically accurate or authentic clothing and sporting firearms from 1866 to 1899. The National Congress of Old West Shootists was started by Iowan George Glenn and now has 1200 members in the U.S., Canada, and Europe.
In Mason City, Living in Iowa takes a spin in the Fatmobile - a VW Rabbit that Craig Howard of Plymouth converted to run on used cooking oil that he gets free from restaurants. Craig shares how and why he turned his petrol-powered VW


childhood influences, including Governor Vilsack youth. You r personalities complement each other.
Sometimes humorous, sometimes poignant, this casual yet candid conversation is a unique opportunity to see the personal side of Iowa ring the week in which Governor Vilsack and Lt. Gov. Sally Pedersen celebrate their inauguration to a second term in office. [28 minutes]

After four months of captivity in an Indonesian prison, Waterloo nurse Joy Sadler has returned home to her family in Iowa. Sadler, who was imprisoned under harsh conditions for violating the terms of her visa last year, was in Indonesia to provide humanitarian aid when she was arrested in September and jailed along with a British counterpart. She returned home January 12 and sat down with Living in Iowa host Morgan Halgren for her mostan abandoned three-mile road-racing course that winds through wooded hills southeast of Indianola. Living in Iowa is there for a trip down memory lane in vintage sports cars at Greenwood Roadway, where there hasn't been a race since 1966.
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How is a young war photographer who was killed on the job in 1993 still inspiring young people today- even students in Iowa? Find out as Living in Iowa remembers Reuters photographer Dan Eldon, and visits with his mother and people in Iowa who are using his art and way of life to influence others.
s, their real potential, Eldon. ng that could happen if you don rsonal journey to find meaning in her brother is documented in Dying to Tell the Story, which will air Thursday, January 30 at


7:30 p.m. following Living in Iowa on all Iowa Public Television stations.
Also this week, Living in Iowa visits Robert James Waller, who grew up in Rockford, Iowa near the banks of the Shellrock and Winnebago rivers. Before the Madison County fiction that made him famous, Morgan Halgren interviewed Waller about his passion for photography and the environment in this 1991 interview. The following week, on February 6 and 7, Living in Iowa will get caught up with Waller in a new interview recorded this past fall at Francesca rset.
On this week Bob Cook and Gary Audsley, long-time Des Moines musicians with a unique blend of folk music. This duo has been performing together for nearly 30 years, and their audiences keep coming back to dance - and rollas a utopia for girls d as executive director of the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union. This week, Living in Iowa talks with Cooley about nearly half a century of service to the anted the girl to walk down the street equally tall with the boy, maybe no taller, but certainly no less tall, .
Also this week, Living in Iowa introduces viewers to members of the Mothers tradition going back to 1918, the Mothers are a group of older women who have dedicated themselves to helping church members and others, too.
They help by example, through living a life of faith. They help by doing things as simple and profound as giving a hug or a word of encouragement. And they help by sharing things like wisdom, food,


and concern.
On this week o The Nadas. Their name literally means aks volumes. This Iowa-based rock quartet runs the gamut of modern acoustic folk balladeering to good old Rock or a Side Roads that will take viewers back in time. The Carstens 1880 Farmstead is an 80-acre working farm exhibit that is a celebration of Iowa of the yard and restored buildings of the farmstead that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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The Music Man, is one of America in Iowa profiles the charming musical genius who wrote it-Mason City s Meredith Willson. The list of Willson d long. Throughout his career he performed with the band of John Philip Sousa, and the New York Philharmonic, and served as the music director on NBC formore than 20 years. He also received commendations and awards from every realm, including three awards from American presidents.
During his life, Willson enjoyed spending time with his friends in Mason City, Iowa, just as well as rubbing elbows with the rich and famous. He visited home often, and memories of these visits are still told by those who knew him. This week, Living in Iowa tells the story of this remarkable man who took his home town roots along with him to the top of the charts.
Also this week, Living in Iowa talks with Jane Elliott, the teacher from Riceville, Iowa who divided her third-grade students by eye color to teach them about racism over 30 years ago. While she no longer teaches third grade, Elliott still conducts


her exercise for various civic groups and corporations around the world. Spend time with Elliott at her home in Osage and find out how racism can color a person [28 minutes]

This week, Living in Iowa visits the Blanden Memorial Art Museum in Fort Dodge, which mounted a major effort to help the community deal with the September 11 tragedy. Artists and citizens all contributed by sharing their feelings through writing, painting, photography, drawing, and other ways. The effort culminated with the premiere of ffirmation, rinnell College. The piece was performed on September 22, 2002 and was dedicated to Ann Nicole Nelson, a young woman who died in the World Trade Center.
Also this week, Living in Iowa meets three Iowa students-Katy Miller from Iowa City, Brian Claeys from Eldridge,www. iptv.org.
[28 minutes]

This week on Living in Iowa, viewers can meet a young woman who is truly caught in the middle. Born in the United States in 1980 to Iraqi parents, Hend moved to Iraq at the age of two and spent most of her formative years there. She lived there during the Gulf War and in 1999 came to Iowa to be a student at Iowa State University. Today, she is torn between her ties to and memories of Iraq, and the freedom and independence she has experienced here.
"I don't know with whom to be sympathetic. I don't know who is to blame," she said. "I don't' know what's happening. I don't know why it's happening, actually."
Host Morgan Halgren talks with Hend about her life in Iraq


and in the United States, and about her feelings about the current war.
Also this week, Living in Iowa will continue its on-going series of excerpts from war journals being kept by Iowans at home and overseas.
Also on the program this week, viewers can meet Dr. Robert Larsen, director of the Des Moines Metro Opera. When opera singers of national prominence think of the ultimate summer singing experience, many of them think of Indianola and the Des Moines Metro Opera, mainly because of Larsen. Living in Iowa meets Larsen and finds out how his passion for opera has put Indianola on the national map.
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As Iowans search for perspective in these uncertain times, Living in Iowa will take a look back this week, with stories that shed light onIowans the World War I black officer training camp at Ft. Des Moines, as tol d by William Morris, a Des Moines attorney and military historian. Morris y in Iowa. pilot in World War II. Yellin speaks to young people about the war, his experiences in it, and how he was able to let go of his hatred of a country he knew only through war. Robert Gates of Urbandale is a Korean War veteran, and he feels his work to make a difference in the lives of South Koreans was worthwhile. He saw his tour of duty as an important job, and can identify with the soldiers currently serving in thePersian Gulf. Veterans of the Vietnam War had starkly different expe riences when they returned home from


the war than previous soldiers. Faced with protestors and strong anti-war sentiment at home, Samuel Sours week escribed for us the start of the war, her living conditions, what it like to go to church in a gas mask with an M16, and her memories of I owa. Also this week, Living in Iowa will continue its on-going series of excerpts from war journals being kept by Iowans at home and overseas. Emmetsburg other will read a diary entry from him. Adam Schenck, a student at Buena Vista University, and Maggie Mulvey, a high school student from Cedar Falls, will read their journal entries as well. [28 minutes]

Young Iowans have questions and concerns about the war in Iraq. This week on Living in Iowa they ng Iraqi adultwho lived through the Gulf War, made it to America, and has a unique perspective on the country, culture, and political climate in Iraq. Students from Perry Middle School and Johnston High School will ask questions of Alen Gisso, a 25-year-old from Baghdad now living in Des Moines.
Gisso left Iraq when he was 17 to avoid the Iraqi military and to find freedom in the United States. After spending four years as a temporary refugee in Switzerland, he moved to the United States four years ago and will become a citizen later this year.
Also this week, Living in Iowa introduces viewers to a program that ping create a fresh start. The Iowa Department of Natural Resources has turned to the state ries with a diversity of plant species.


Doing the labor-intensive work of seed collection, germination, and transplantation, inmates are helping restore 3,000 acres of state land with species that would be too cost-prohibitive otherwise.
Also this week, Living in Iowa will continue its ongoing series of excerpts from war journals being kept by Iowans at home and overseas.
[27 minutes]

Artist Mauricio Lasansky is one of the country and he helped establish the University of Iowa as the printmaking capital of the United States in the 1940s. He was also a well-known artist, whose f man play at the University of Iowa represents the ewing a U.S. military film showing the victims and the aftermath of Nazi atrocities. This week, Living in Iowa takes a special look at these drawings, and tells the story of Mauricio and hisartwork.
Lasansky is also featured in a national, award-winning documentary by Iowa City independent filmmaker Lane Wyrick. The Nazi Drawings by Mauricio Lasansky explores the history and passion behind these powerful drawings.
Also this week, Living in Iowa visits a place where prayer and prairies go together, the Prairiewoods Franciscan Spirituality Center in Hiawatha. The center, run by Franciscan nuns, aims to integrate ecology and spirituality. In recognition of Earth Day, Living in Iowa visits the center set within 70 acres of woods and prairies to see how children and adults have learned to appreciate the earth by interacting in this place.
Viewers can also meet the Bunny Band this week. These music lovers meet each Easter weekend to play and record rare European band marches, saving them from obscurity. It


all happens at Maquoketa High School.
Also this week, Living in Iowa will continue its ongoing series of excerpts from war journals being kept by Iowans at home and overseas. Desert Strom veteran Mary McFarland-Stabe shares her thoughts with us as she remembers serving her country. She and her husband, Jason Stabe, were both deployed during Desert Storm. Mary reflects on her past experiences in the first war against Iraq, and shares her thoughts on today's events. Mary and Steve live on her Great-Great Grandfather's farm in rural Fredericksburg.
[27 minutes]

(Johnston, Iowa) - Beaconsfield native Peggy Whitson is a NASA Astronaut who recently spent six months aboard the International Space Station orbiting 240 miles above the earth at 17,500 miles per hour. This week, Living in Iowa catches up withWhitson as she tells stories and shows pictures from her summer trip during public appearances at the Science Center of Iowa in Des Moines, and at her alma mater, Mount Ayr High School.
s of a very, very special place ver be able to capture everything that makes it so special, aid.
Also this week, viewers meet a teacher with a rock and roll past. Layton Zbornik was known as Jerry Martin in 1957, and when he recorded his song Janet it was the first rock and roll song recorded in Iowa. Known to his Nora Springs students as make the world a better place through his Peace Alliance seminars. Travel with Living in Iowa on the long and winding road that took Jerry Martin from rock and roller to


him through both the woods and the rain forest in Blank Park Zoo [28 minutes]

This week, Living in Iowa remembers the late Isabel Bloom, a Davenport artist whose creations are cherished by generations. Bloom studied under Grant Wood, married an accomplished artist, produced an art-based children mbol of the Quad Cities area. A lifetime spent experimenting with materials and techniques resulted in a business that manufactures and sells thousands of reproductions of her sculptures each year.
Also this week, Living in Iowa will take a look at Youth Incentives, a Des Moines organization that is working to motivate inner city young people through connections with adults n hopes will motivate young people to become caring, productive, and responsible citizens.
On this week Paul follows the Burma Shave-style signs to thenorth central Iowa town of Dows, where the restored train depot doubles as a welcome center, the blacksmith shop houses items from as far back as the 1830s, and the mercantile market displays area antiquers' newest old stuff.
The Blue Band returns to Living in Iowa this week in the Iowa Spotlight segment. Music host Kyle Munson welcomes one of Iowa revered and requested bands, a group that performs original and cover blues, soul, rockabilly, and R & B grooves.
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This week Living in Iowa takes a look back at when prisoners of war were held in Iowa. Many stories from overseas POWs in World War II are filled with terrible cruelty and death. In America, however, prisoners of war were kept in camps that met the standards of


the Geneva Convention. These POWs received not only humane treatment, but were surprisingly involved in their local communities. Many German and some Italian and Japanese prisoners were held in the Midwest, coming in by train to Algona, Iowa, where they would be deployed to satellite camps.
Long-forgotten stories of the best side of a difficult time have been discovered recently by amateur historians, and showcased by a nonprofit organization, TRACES, a group with Iowa and German connections. In the past few years, the group once ushered through the Iowa POW camps. He recently brought some of these former prisoners and their families through the Midwest so they could explore the remains of these camps and walk in their ancestor ootsteps. Living in Iowa spent several days with these visitors,public about mental illness ut people with mental illness. Every member of the s a mental illness, and hopes to educate the public about the impact common stereotypes have on their lives.
Also this week, Living in Iowa profiles a new slant on Iowa ortance of creativity to economic development.
Iowa has three cities in the top ten of Richard Florida's "Creativity Index." So, the Department of Cultural Affairs invited Richard to lead a lively discussion of how having lots of creative people in an urban area can provide economic benefit. Called an "Unconference," this event, held in the snowy month of March 2003, drew together an unlikely mix of business patriarchs, artisans, musicians, and state leaders, all interested in seeing how arts and economics interact.
On this week c segment,


jazz musician Rob Lumbard performs in Iowa Public Television on where he's playing, he can be found covering a jazz standard, Robert Johnson, Lyle Lovett, or doing a set of his own tunes in his finger-picking guitar style
During the last weekend in June, the town of Riverside takes a trip into the future - to the year 2228 to be exact. That's when Starship Enterprise Commander, James T. Kirk, will be born. Confused? All the better reason to join Side Roads host Paul Berge as he joins the rest of the Trekkies, Vulcans, Klingons, and tribbles who journey to Riverside for the annual event.
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This summer, Living in Iowa will offer something a little different the opportunity for weekend travelers to visit unique and fun-filled locations in Iowawith Side Roads host and humorist Paul Berge. Each week, Paul will take any transportation necessary ne, or horse funny bits from around the state.
This week, in North Central Iowa, Living in Iowa visits several unique and interesting places, including:
Hobo Museum in Britt
The Fossil and Prairie Park in Rockford
Also this week, the popular band rt performance in Des Moines. Des Moines Register music critic Kyle Munson provides some background information on the Des Moines-based band, which has recently completed a coast to coast concert tour.
Also this week, Living in Iowa brings viewers a reunion of sorts. At the end of World War II Merle Gerry walked away from the bomber known as the Superfortress and didn't look back. In July of 2002 the only B-29 Superfortress still flying


landed in Cedar Rapids, which gave Merle and other World War II veterans from Iowa a chance to see a plane that they hadn't seen in over 50 years.
From the traditional Mexican hat dance to the modern Macarena, Latino culture has come to Iowa. Viewers can see dance lessons and sample a celebration of the "Dia de los Muretos" or "Day of the Dead" as Living in Iowa discovers a colorful culture, right here at home.
[28 minutes]

Living in Iowa wa City and traditional tunes in country, folk, and blues. Amy will sing her composition, River he history of two areas in the Quad-Cities that began in the 1920
Holy City and Cook that housed Mexican railroad and factory workers and their families. With no electricity or indoor plumbing, theliving conditions were poor, but two proud and close-knit communities developed. Former residents looked back at friendships and hardships during the annual Cook int reunion, which celebrated the 50th anniversary of the end of that area and era.
In a student production this week, Rachel Bevins takes us to Belle Plaine, a town where three generations of her family live. Rachel is the daughter of Daniel and Susan Bevins and a 1998 graduate of Belle Plaine High School. Rachel majored in journalism with an emphasis in political science at the University of Iowa, graduating in 2002.
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(Johnston, Iowa) little different que and fun-filled locations in Iowa with Side Roads host and humorist Paul Berge. Each week, Paul will take any transportation necessary car, tractor, airplane, or horse of tourist


tips and funny bits from around the state.
This week, in South East Iowa, Living in Iowa visits several unique and interesting places, including:
s House in Burlington
t Bellevue (Now known as Fort Madison)
D) Museum near Morning Sun
he Mississippi in Keokuk
Living in Iowa s music is a combination of jazz, blues, folk, and pop. His guitar finesse will soothe viewers, make them blue, and take them down the bayou.
Iowa wa talks with Iowans who are reaching out to the Hispanic community, and finds out how they share the issues that have an impact on Latinos in Iowa.
Living in Iowa was there when the whole town of Bristow came out to honor an American veteran and unsung hero . This adventurer and inventor has launched balloons to the edge of spaceto study cosmic radiation prior to manned space flight.
[28 minutes]

This summer, Living in Iowa will offer something a little different the opportunity for weekend travelers to visit unique and fun-filled locations in Iowa with Side Roads host and humorist Paul Berge. Each week, Paul will take any transportation necessary ne, or horse funny bits from around the state.
This week, in North East Iowa, Living in Iowa visits several unique and interesting places, including:
Sturgis Falls Festival in Cedar Falls
Factory in Waterloo
Cedar Valley Nature Trail
enter in Waterloo
Then Living in Iowa Ashanti, one of the Midwest d, high-energy band has a distinctively wide-ranging repertoire.
Andy Goldsworthy, an artist who grew up in rural England and now hails from Scotland, has much to say about nature, art, and how he sees the Midwestern


United States. This week, Living in Iowa tells the story of his new sculpture that links Iowa with both coasts.
Goldsworthy has found a way to use Iowa limestone in an egg- or seed-shaped design he calls a cairn. His temporary cairns have weathered waves of the Pacific and Atlantic oceans and the weather in the Midwestern prairie as part of a nine-part art project displayed around the country. His permanent structures, also made of Iowa limestone, are three interconnected displays standing in Des Moines, New York, and California. Their central focal point is in Greenwood Park, near the Des Moines Art Center [27 minutes]

This summer, Living in Iowa will offer something a little different the opportunity for weekend travelers to visit unique and fun-filled locations in Iowa withSide Roads host and humorist Paul Berge. Each week, Paul will take any transportation necessary ne, or horse funny bits from around the state.
This week, in East Central Iowa, Living in Iowa visits several unique and interesting places in Cedar Rapids, including:
ble Cars
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art
The History Center
Also this week, viewers can learn more about All Iowa Reads 2003. The purpose of this project is to encourage Iowans statewide to read and talk about a single title in the same year. Peace Like a River by Leif Enger has been selected for the initiative, which is a project of the Iowa Center for the Book.
Living in Iowa also looks at Goodwill Industries. This charitable organization with Iowa roots has been serving people for more than 100 years,


and has touched 5 million lives.
Then Living in Iowa ight features Cedar Rapids singer/songwriter/guitarist Gayla Drake Paul, who has been playing and writing guitar music for over a quarter of a century. The Iowa Women's Foundation named Gayla Iowa Woman Musician of the Year in 1996, and for the past four years she has won an award from the ASCAP Popular Music Board.
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Few can imagine the life of Denese Becker, an Iowan by adoption. Denese came from Guatemala where at age nine, as Dominga Sic Ruiz, her parents were massacred, and all alone, she had to bury a baby sister. On Living in Iowa Denese talks with Lorenzo Sandoval and shares her story with viewers. Then, on Tuesday, July 8 at 9 and 11:30 p.m. PBS -winningseries P.O.V.: Discovering Dominga follows Denese as she returns to her hometown in the hills of Guatemala.
Also this week, Living in Iowa continues to offer something a little different - the opportunity for weekend travelers to visit unique and fun-filled locations in Iowa with Side Roads host and humorist Paul Berge. Each week, Paul will take any transportation necessary - car, tractor, airplane, or horse - to bring viewers just the right mix of tourist tips and funny bits from around the state.
This week, in South Central Iowa, Living in Iowa visits several unique and interesting places, including:
Warren County Fairgrounds in Indianola
Osceola side Casino Resort
Prairie Trails Museum in Corydon
Stephens Forest near Lucas
Francesca ts Iowa State University. In the 2002-2003 school year, ISU celebrated the 20th anniversary of Art


on Campus. An integral part of the educational experience, art at ISU is as old as the campus. Join Living in Iowa as it traces some of that history and explores the role Art on Campus plays at ISU.
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This summer, Living in Iowa will offer something a little different -the opportunity for weekend travelers to visit unique and fun-filled locations in Iowa with Side Roads host and humorist Paul Berge. Each week, Paul will take any transportation necessary - car, tractor, airplane, or horse - to bring viewers just the right mix of tourist tips and funny bits from around the state.
This week, in Central Iowa, Living in Iowa visits several unique and interesting places, including:
the Iowa Summer Games in Ames,
Seven Oakes Recreation ski resort near Boone,
theKate Shelley Museum in Moingona,
Living History Farms in Urbandale,
Ledges State Park near Lucas.
In June 2002, a choir from Tanzania visited Iowa as guests of the Evangelical Lutheran Church theast Iowa Synod. These 15 men and women, known as the e, Living in Iowa finds out what these choir members from a third-world country learned about Americans during their stay, and explores how the choir lso explores the value and belief systems that motivate the pro-choice and pro-life movements on the 30th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that women have a constitutional right to an abortion.
Then, Living in Iowa style, an energetic quintet of talented professional musicians from the Des Moines area. Each member broad musical background.
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July 27, 2003 is the 50th


anniversary of the end of the Korean War. Living in Iowa learns about the experiences of veterans of this war by speaking with Paul M. Edwards, PhD., who has started a Korean War archive. The Center for the Study of the Korean War, started by Edwards in the 1980s, is a collection of 140,000 documents that detail the American experience in Korea. It is the largest archive of Korean War documents in the nation. Graceland University has taken up care of the archive, which, at last count contained 11,000 photos, 225 motion pictures, 75 oral histories, 2,500 books, 200 flight maps, 75 painting and drawings by soldiers and thousands of articles, letters, diaries and journals kept by soldiers.
This summer, Living in Iowa will offer something a little differentunique and fun-filled locations in Iowa with Side Roads host and humorist Paul Berge. Each week, Paul will take any transportation necessary
mix of tourist tips and funny bits from around the state.
This week, in East Iowa, Living in Iowa visits several unique and interesting places, including:
Fenelon Place Elevator in Dubuque,
the Bix Beiderbecke Jazz Festival in Davenport,
the Quad City River Bandits baseball team,
the St. Francis Xavier Basilica in Dyersville,
Maquoketa Caves State Park near Maquoketa.
Also this week, Living in Iowa examines a puzzle that has taken over 100 years to be solved. Ray Elliott was kidnapped in broad daylight and went missing for over a year. But was the boy who was suspiciously returned to the Elliotts really their son? Playwright Tom Johnson and modern DNA technology work together to


solve this Marengo mystery
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This summer, Living in Iowa will offer something a little different -the opportunity for weekend travelers to visit unique and fun-filled locations in Iowa with Side Roads host and humorist Paul Berge. Each week, Paul will take any transportation necessary - car, tractor, airplane, or horse - to bring viewers just the right mix of tourist tips and funny bits from around the state.
This week, in Southwest Iowa, Living in Iowa visits several unique and interesting places, including:
the Iowa Aviation Museum at the Greenfield Airport,
the Rodeo Grounds in Sidney,
Shenandoah llisca,
Lake Icaria near Corning,
and the Printing Museum in Diagonal.
How is a young war photographer who was killed on the job in 1993 still inspiring young people today-even students in Iowa? Find out as Living invisits several unique and interesting places, including:
the Threshermen and Collectors Show in Albert City,
a canoe trail near Ruthven
the Grotto of the Redemption in West Bend
the Living Heritage Tree Museum in Storm Lake
and the ornate Woodbury County Courthouse in Sioux City.
Also on Living in Iowa this week, meet an Iowa music mogul ter, keyboardist, manager and record producer for his band David Zollo and the Body Electric. Tune in to see Zollo and his band in performance at a concert in Des Moines, go behind the scenes on a 3 ert tour from Nashville to New York, and watch Zollo perform solo material in IPTV s in Grimes is home to Champagne Branson, an American Saddlebred horse who loves his peppermints and performs explosively in the show ring. Living


in Iowa looks at the unique qualities associated with the American Saddlebred and how horses and riders prepare for a show.
And on Living in Iowa this week, meet Joy Sadler, the Waterloo nurse who went to Indonesia to care for the
war-torn country wound up in an Indonesian prison for four months. Sadler returned home January 12 and sat down with Morgan Halgren for an extensive television interview.
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When the members of the Quad Cities Mexican American Organization were teenagers, a night of dancing at the Coliseum Ballroom was something many only dreamed about. While some could not afford the price of admission, others were denied entrance because of the color of their skin. On Living in Iowa this week, find out how the Quad Cities Mexican American Organizationhas turned one of America multi-cultural meeting place.
Also this week, Living in Iowa catches up with Robert James Waller, 12 years after our first interview in 1991 to explore how The Bridges of Madison County changed his life and to find out what program this week, viewers will meet Jean Haviland, who lost her cousin, Laurel Clark, on the Columbia space shuttle. Haviland and her second grade class at Carroll s on the mission and were eagerly anticipating Clark . Living in Iowa will interview Haviland and a few of her students.
On this week proclaimed Purple Martin capital of Iowa.
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During World War II, a group of African American soldiers known as the Tuskegee Airmen battled enemies abroad and racism at home. This week, Living in Iowa attends


the dedication of the first statue honoring Iowa outstanding records, they excelled despite facing institutionalized racism in the American military.
Also this week, Living in Iowa visits with Thomas Sutherland. In 1985, Sutherland was taken hostage in Lebanon, and was held captive for six and a half years st period of time any Western hostage has been held in captivity. Host Morgan Halgren talks to this Iowa State University graduate about his first-hand experience with terrorism.
On this week , Kyle Munson introduces viewers to Fat Tuesday and the Greasefire Horns. Octogenarian Iowa Blues Hall of Fame inductee Jimmy Prior leads the group, who is accomplished in both original and cover material. Their blues style can go anywhere from soft acoustic to an in-your-face electric sound that will leave yourpassion for opera has put small-town Iowa on the national map.
Also this week, Paul Berge takes a Side Road visit to the smallest town in Iowa Founded by Varlen and Fern Calrson, it was voted Iowa tion of the Year in 1991.
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At one time, basketball was the only game in town for high school girls in Iowa. Through the direction of E. Wayne Cooley, however, Iowa grew to be known as a utopia for girls d as executive director of the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union. This week, Living in Iowa talks with Cooley about nearly half a century of service to the anted the girl to walk down the street equally tall with the boy, maybe no taller, but certainly no less tall, .
Also this


of the yard and restored buildings of the farmstead that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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This week, Living in Iowa revisits the ways Iowans responded to the events of September 11, 2001.
During the show, Living in Iowa speaks with Jean Cleere. Jean September 11 for a business meeting. He was one of seven Iowans or former Iowans who were killed during the terrorist attack. Jean was married to Jim for 23 years and in her interview she tells us who he was and how she is dealing with this tragedy.
After the tragedy, more than 250 Iowans left their homes to volunteer in the stricken areas. These volunteers, coordinated through the American Red Cross office in Des Moines, spent from three to six weeks dispensingan Iowan who moved to New York City in 1976 and recently returned to West Des Moines, visit the Night to Iowa children as well as people whose job it is to serve and protect the population on how September 11, 2001 changed their lives.
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The Music Man, is one of America in Iowa profiles the charming musical genius who wrote it s Meredith Willson. The list of Willson d long. Throughout his career he performed with the band of John Philip Sousa, and the New York Philharmonic, and served as the music director on NBC for more than 20 years. He also received commendations and awards from every realm, including three awards from American presidents.
During his life, Willson enjoyed spending time with his friends in Mason City,


Iowa, just as well as rubbing elbows with the rich and famous. He visited home often, and memories of these visits are still told by those who knew him. This week, Living in Iowa tells the story of this remarkable man who took his home town roots along with him to the top of the charts.
Also this week, Living in Iowa visits the Blanden Memorial Art Museum in Fort Dodge, which mounted a major effort to help the community deal with the September 11 tragedy. Artists and citizens all contributed by sharing their feelings through writing, painting, photography, drawing, and other ways. The effort culminated with the premiere of "Elegy and Affirmation," a musical composition written by Jonathan Chenette from Grinnell College. The piece was performed on Septemberthe median hourly pay for nurses? Find out on this week le in the nursing profession.
Finally this week, take to the Blank Park Zoo Discovery Center with Side Roads host Paul Berge. Paul oad takes him through the woods and the rain forest of Blank Park Zoo.
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This week, Living in Iowa remembers the late Isabel Bloom, a Davenport artist whose creations are cherished by generations. Bloom studied under Grant Wood, married an accomplished artist, produced an art-based children l of the Quad Cities area. A lifetime spent experimenting with materials and techniques resulted in a business that manufactures and sells thousands of reproductions of her sculptures each year.
Also this week, Living in Iowa will take a look at Youth Incentives, a Des Moines organization that is working


to motivate inner city young people through connections with adults - connections the organization hopes will motivate young people to become caring, productive, and responsible citizens.
On this week e-style signs to the north central Iowa town of Dows, where the restored train depot doubles as a welcome center, the blacksmith shop houses items from as far back as the 1830s, and the mercantile market displays area antiquers' newest old stuff.
The Blue Band returns to Living in Iowa this week in the Iowa Spotlight segment. Music host Kyle Munson welcomes one of Iowa at performs original and cover blues, soul, rockabilly, and R & B grooves.
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This week Living in Iowa takes a look back at when prisoners of war were held in Iowa. Many stories from overseas POWsin World War II are filled with terrible cruelty and death. In America, however, prisoners of war were kept in camps that met the standards of the Geneva Convention. These POWs received not only humane treatment, but were surprisingly involved in their local communities. Many German and some Italian and Japanese prisoners were held in the Midwest, coming in by train to Algona, Iowa, where they would be deployed to satellite camps.
Long-forgotten stories of the best side of a difficult time have been discovered recently by amateur historians, and showcased by a nonprofit organization, TRACES, a group with Iowa and German connections. In the past few years, the group ushered through the Iowa POW camps. He recently brought some of these former prisoners and their famlies through the


"Stigma Busters." This volunteer improvisational theatre troupe, whose vignettes target the stigma associated with mental illness, is featured on the next Living in Iowa.
The troupe hat by educating the general public about mental illness us way mental illness. Every member of the "Stigma Busters" has a mental illness, and hopes to educate the public about the impact common stereotypes have on their lives.
Also this week, Living in Iowa profiles a new slant on Iowa tivity to economic development.
Iowa has three cities in the top ten of Richard Florida's "Creativity Index." So, the Department of Cultural Affairs invited Richard to lead a lively discussion of how having lots of creative people in an urban area can provide economic benefit. Called an "Unconference," this event, held in the snowy monthof March 2003, drew together an unlikely mix of business patriarchs, artisans, musicians, and state leaders, all interested in seeing how arts and economics interact.
On this week musician Rob Lumbard performs in Iowa Public Television bard's music is based in blues and folk, but depending on where he's playing, he can be found covering a jazz standard, Robert Johnson, Lyle Lovett, or doing a set of his own tunes in his finger-picking guitar style
During the last weekend in June, the town of Riverside takes a trip into the future - to the year 2228 to be exact. That's when Starship Enterprise Commander, James T. Kirk, will be born. Confused? All the better reason to join Side Roads host Paul Berge as he joins the rest of the Trekkies,


Vulcans, Klingons, and tribbles who journey to Riverside for the annual event.
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One of the most recognized paintings in the world, Grant Wood's 'American Gothic' was back in its home town last fall. The classic painting of a stern couple standing in front of a farm house was part of an exhibit of Grant Wood's work shown at the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art through the end of 2005. Living in Iowa received a guided tour from the museum well as many works that probably seemed surprising. Wood was also a master at craftsmanship, producing items for homes in the area, including classic doors, iron works, and designs for stained glass windows. Living in Iowa's Morgan Halgren was delighted to see the masterpiece, and to also visit thevery studio where it was painted, a place Grant Wood called '5 Turner Alley,' just a few blocks away from the museum. The studio, still much like it was when Grant lived there, has recently been opened to the public.
Also in this episode, take a stroll down memory lane with Morgan Halgren to one of her favorite Living in Iowa segments from 1998 with members of the Iowa Grotto, a local chapter of the National Speleological Society. Cold Water Cave is one of the largest caves in Iowa and gets its name because cold water is constantly running through it. The cave also has several large speleothems which are mineral deposit formations such as flowstones, stalactites and stalagmites.
Then, join Paul Berge on a Side Road that leads to


delicious puff pastry and saut lternative.
Also in this episode, take a stroll down memory lane with Morgan Halgren to one of her favorite Living in Iowa segments from 1992. In this feature, viewers meet Michael Carey, a New Jersey native who came to Iowa to become a poet. While attending the Writer's Workshop in Iowa City, he met and married an Iowa woman and moved to Farragut to help out on her 5th generation family farm. To Carey, this was a rude and magical awakening. Carey combines farming and poetry in a magical way perhaps partly due to his Irish heritage.
On this week segment, enjoy a performance from Tonic Sol-fa, one of the premier a cappella singing groups in the nation. The name rom the key musical relationshipsart cathedral, a battleship and the U.S. Capitol building, just to name a few. Many of Acton Ripley [27 minutes]

During WWII one out of three Americans who fought on Iwo Jima never made it home. Iowa's Barnett brothers survived those odds. In 1942 Bob and Doug Barnett enlisted in the marines. Doug, just nineteen years of age, had to persuade his father to let him sign up. On February 19, 1945, Bob and Doug were among the first U.S. marines to land on Iwo Jima. They returned to the small island in 2005 for the 60th anniversary honoring the fallen of this critical battle. This week, the Barnett brothers share their story. Tune in for this feature that won an Iowa Motion Picture Association Award of Excellence.
This week


on Living in Iowa, tune in for the second part of Morgan Halgren st Des Moines native Peter Hedges, who burst onto the national scene with his first novel, 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape' and then adapted that story for the acclaimed 1993 movie starring Johnny Depp and Leonardo DiCaprio.
In the third of Living in Iowa's cooking segments, Chef Jon Benedict shows us how to prepare Stuffed Roasted Acorn Squash.
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According to blues and jazz musician Patrick Hazell, 'Bells were generally designed to be a signal. To think of them as musical instruments is something not commonly done.' This week on Living in Iowa, Hazell achieves the uncommon with his Hawkeye Valley Bell Project, orchestrating nine of Burlington's century-old bells in a unique community-wide concert.
Also this week on Livingin Iowa, Morgan Halgren travels back to one of the stories she found most moving. In this segment, Barbara Fassbinder, a nurse who contracted the AIDS virus while assisting a patient in the emergency room, told her story and advised other nurses and health care workers to use precautions against blood diseases.
In Living in Iowa's final cooking segment, Chef Jon Benedict gives viewers their just desserts with a Warm Chocolate Torte with Fresh Raspberries, another idea to help spice up your next gathering.
Dubuque's 'Busted Lift' opened its doors for a special Living in Iowa recording session with Jen Gloeckner and friends. Accompanying Jen's vocals and guitar were Jennifer Barron on cello and Tim Knautz on bass. The group performed the song, 'Hazy Sky,' from Gloeckner's recently released album,


'Miles Away.' Andy Steil of Waterfall Music mixed the sound.
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This week on Living in Iowa, Morgan Halgren takes viewers on a tour of the Figge Art Museum in Davenport. The museum was designed by architect David Chipperfield, in conjunction with Iowa architects Herbert Louis Kruze Blunck. Its glass walls help visitors enjoy views of both the Mississippi River and the bustling downtown area. Because of this building, the collections of the Davenport Art Museum now have their first-ever permanent display areas. Living in Iowa also tours the Family Activity Center, where the first display is about -- what else -- architecture's building blocks.
In this week aul Berge finds himself in over his head when he searches for shoreline property in Lake City, Iowa.
Also in this episode, takea stroll down memory lane with Morgan Halgren for one of her favorite Living in Iowa segments. In this feature from 2002, Living in Iowa traveled to Muscatine County to find what an enthusiastic group of volunteers did to restore a 150 year old grist mill in Wildcat Den State Park.
In this week des the backdrop when Living in Iowa sits in with The Soul Searchers. Playing music that's rooted in traditional blues with healthy doses of rockabilly, the group is called the hardest working blues band in Des Moines. The Soul Searchers are Malcolm Wells on vocals and harmonica, Erich Gaukel on bass, Scott Eggleston on guitar, and Mark Grimm on drums.
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This week, Living in Iowa introduces viewers to Clementine Msengi, a remarkable refugee from Rwanda


who now lives in Cedar Falls, Iowa. In 1994 she survived a war that killed nearly one million people in her country, including most of her family. She came to Cedar Falls in 1995 knowing three languages but not English. She first took an intensive English course at the University of Northern Iowa and then graduated in three years with a degree in Health Promotion. Msengi e and education led her to create an organization called 'Bright Move Network' to help other refugees adjust to American culture and increase mutual understanding within the community.
Also in this episode, take a stroll down memory lane with Morgan Halgren for one of her favorite Living in Iowa segments. This segment from 2002 features historical photographs of life in the Amana Coloniesin the mid 1800s. The photographs were taken at a time when photography was forbidden in the Colonies because it was considered to be a worldly vanity. Author Abigail Foerstner, who wrote a Photographers fascinating photos.
Iowa is known as a tough presidential battleground, but campaigns today are nothing compared to 1864 when, during the Civil War, confederate rebels made their furthest incursion, from the south, into northern union territory. This week local group of Civil War re-enactors telling the story of a little-known raid near Bloomfield.
This week iz & the Bellyswirls, a high-energy Quad Cities rock and roll band. Brothers Bob and Leo Kelly provide the saucy licks, Greg Hipskind lays down the beat, but it's lead singer, Liz Treiber, who gives the group its name.
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This week,


Living in Iowa revisits some favorite features from the past year:
First, Living in Iowa speaks with Iowa City photographer Ina Loewenberg about her book to turn 70, she got curious about what other women her age looked like. She placed ads in various newsletters and newspapers asking women who were born in 1931 (the year of her birth) to respond if they would like to be photographed for a book. When Ina met the women, she realized that even great photographs can't express the fullness of a life. She began interviewing the women and ended up with her book which combines portraits of the women at 70 and the story of 42 women who had gone 'from birth to old age against the same backdrop of world history.'This feature also includes a reunion of several of the women featured in the book.
Then, Living in Iowa visits an unusual Iowa health spa that's been getting rave reviews by big-name spa magazines. The Raj (pronounced 'Rawzh'), which means 'royal, orth of Fairfield (it was one of the first buildings in Maharishi Vedic City, Iowa), and offers visitors a rural respite. According to its owners, The Raj's 'royal' treatment includes more than just a fluff and buff. Dr. Nancy Lonsdorf and all the specially trained nurses and aides perform holistic 'Ayurvedic' treatments designed to improve their visitors' health.
And finally, learn about two distant lands, once at war, that were brought together by one unexpected act of friendship. This event is the unlikely but true premise of a children
recounting


of the 1960 Iowa Hog Lift story demonstrates what can happen when cultural differences are overcome through kindness. It also illustrates how an unusual gift created an endearing friendship and cooperation that continue more than 40 years later.
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Downtown Des Moines Art Center curator Patricia Hickson recently moved to Iowa. When she was deciding how to showcase Iowa artists in 2005 for the Des Moines Art Center Downtown, she put out a call for entries to find out what people here were creating response which told her Iowa has a vigorous community of creative types, and a wide range of expressions. This week on Living in Iowa, Hickson offers viewers a tour of the final exhibit, which features the works of 11 up-and-coming Iowa artists an Carder fromDes Moines; Tova Carlin from Iowa City; Amze Emmons from Iowa City; Jessie Fisher from Iowa City; Andrew McCormick from Ames; Michael Perrone from Iowa City; Brian Roberts from Pella; Le Emma Running from Iowa City; Jean-Marie Salem from West Des Moines; and Pete Schulte from Davenport. This feature is the first in a series. Be sure to stay tuned as Living in Iowa travels the state to visit many of these artists in their studios.
With the start of a new legislative session, Living in Iowa takes time out to recall a history-making legislator. During her 36-year tenure, Minette Doderer broke all the stereotypes of governmental power ity Democrat, who retired in 2000, passed away in 2005.
Also on Living in Iowa this week, Polk County naturalist Lewis Major