Description
If you head down to the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, you'll doubtless see cars and information about car parts, but you'll also see a booth about an effort to tell the history of southeast Michigan and the automobile. Michigan Radio's Tamar Charney has a look at a new partnership with the National Park Service.

Interviews
• David White - curator, Flint's Sloan Museum
• Brenda Barrette - coordinator, Heritage Area Program, National Park
Service
• Constance Bodorow - executive director, Automobile National Heritage
Area

Description
In February, people in West Michigan are getting a crash course in the history of modern art. Two exhibits of photography capture how some of the biggest names in painting and sculpture lived and worked. Michigan Radio's Tamar Charney has a look at the photographs of Alexander Liberman.

Interviews
• Henry Matthews - director of galleries and collections, Grand Valley State University
• Joe Becherer - sculpture curator, Frederick Meijer Gardens.

Description
A recent article in the journal Science suggests animals use rhythms, notes and patterns that are also found in human music. Certain types of birds and whales can vocalize in ways that are often similar to the music we create. It's something a few dozen people got a chance to hear earlier this week when whale and flute where heard side by side. Michigan Radio's Jackie Paige explains.

Interviews
• Salvator Cerchio - biologist, University of Michigan
• Michael Gold - grand master, Shakuhachi flute

Description
The Flint Youth Theater, in many respects, operates like a typical youth theater... presenting plays for school groups and teaching kids about drama. But over the years the theater has also created provocative and emotional theater pieces to help the community talk about and address major issues. There was one about racism and another about school violence that was even performed on Capitol Hill for members of Congress. As Michigan Radio's Tamar Charney reports, the Flint Youth Theater is once again trying to use theater to make a difference.

Interviews
• William Ward - executive artistic director, Flint Youth Theater
• Sue Wood - former director, Flint Youth Theater
• Pam Korza - program coordinator, Animating Democracy

Description
In an art museum, the objects on display are typically in good health. The paintings and sculpture are clean. And ceramic objects typically aren't chipped. That's because these museums have conservators; people dedicated to the care and repair of the objects on display. Some museums bring in outside people to do this; others have their own conservation staff. In the 1970s, the Detroit Institute of Arts became one of the first museums to open its own in-house conservation lab. This month, the museum completed renovating it. Michigan Radio's Tamar Charney recently got a behind-the-scenes look at the DIA's conservation facility.

Interviews
• Barbara Heller - head conservator, Detroit Institute of Arts

Description
A 17-year-old singer from small-town Michigan went to Los Angeles to record an album. Until this year, Ryan DeHues was only known in his home town of Chesaning, where he sang occasional sets with his high school jazz band. Now, Ryan DeHues is an overnight success, having won a national contest to become "America's next great crooner" in the style of Frank Sinatra. Gretchen Millich has our report.

Interviews
• Ryan DeHues - 17-year-old crooner
• Larry and Lorraine DeHues - parents of Ryan DeHues
• Pat Boone - musician and contest organizer

Description
The Royal Shakespeare Company today begins a three-week residency at the University of Michigan under the auspices of the University Musical Society. Thirty actors as well as the cast and crew from the prestigious British company will participate in lectures, lead workshops and become involved in the community life of Ann Arbor and southeast Michigan. But the highlight of the residency will be the staging of four of Shakespeare's history plays - the well-known "Richard the Third" and three earlier Shakespeare dramas which are rarely performed. Michigan Radio's Donovan Reynolds has a preview.

Interviews
• Michael Boyd - director, Royal Shakespeare Company
• Aiden McArdle - actor playing Richard III, Royal Shakespeare Company

Description
When the Royal Shakespeare Company performs "Henry the Sixth" in Ann Arbor, the lead role will be played by a 24-year-old actor named David Oyelowo. The casting of Oyelowo caused something of a flutter in England when it was announced last year. That's because he's the first black actor to play an English king in a Royal Shakespeare Company production. In the second part of our series on the Royal Shakespeare Company, Michigan Radio's Donovan Reynolds has a profile of the actor some drama critics are calling "The Black Olivier."

Interviews
• David Oyelowo - Henry VI, Royal Shakespeare Company
• Michael Boyd - director, Royal Shakespeare Company

Description
This weekend, the Royal Shakespeare Company will give the first of its only U.S. performances of "Henry the Sixth," parts 1, 2 and 3. The performances will be staged at the University of Michigan's Power Center, under the auspices of the University Musical Society. The story of how these plays came to Ann Arbor and how they have traveled from the company's home base in Stratford-Upon-Avon in England is almost as full of intricate plot twists as a Shakespearean drama. Michigan Radio's Donovan Reynolds has the third in our series of special reports.

Interviews
• Tom Piper - set designer, Royal Shakespeare Company
• Michael Boyd - director, Royal Shakespeare Company
• Terry King - fight director, Royal Shakespeare Company

Description
One of world's premier classical theater companies is currently spending some time in southeast Michigan. The Royal Shakespeare Company is performing "Henry the Sixth" parts 1, 2 and 3 and "Richard the Third" this week and next. Ann Arbor is the only place outside England where the RSC will stage these plays. But while the company is here, they'll be doing more than performing. They'll be meeting with classes, community groups and people of all ages to talk about Shakespeare, British history and theater. Michigan Radio's Donovan Reynolds has the final part of our series.

Interviews
• Kristin Briana Johnson - 17-year-old actor, Mosaic Youth Theater
• Clare Venebles - education director, Royal Shakespeare Company
• Ken Fischer - executive director, University Musical Society • Rick Sperling - founder and artistic director, Mosaic Youth Theater

Description
This year, you've probably been hearing a lot about Detroit's efforts to commemorate its history in honor of its 300th anniversary. But another of Michigan's oldest cities is also doing more these days to honor its history. Michigan Radio's Tamar Charney paid a visit to Sault Ste. Marie in the Upper Peninsula where a group of history buffs are trying to tell the Soo's history to visitors.

Interviews
• Robert Money - history professor, Lake Superior State University
• Capt. Jimmie Hobough - president, Sault Historical Sites, Inc.
• Yvonne Hogue Peer - Chippewa County Historical Society.

Description
The 39th Ann Arbor Film Festival opens tonight [March 13] at the Michigan Theater. The festival has an international reputation for promoting 16mm works by experimental filmmakers. But this year it is expanding to include works in a new format - digital video. In doing so, the festival has joined one of the most important debates in filmmaking. Michigan Radio's Tamar Charney reports.

Interviews
• Bart Cheever - founder and CEO, D. Films
• Vicki Honeyman - director, Ann Arbor Film Festival

Description
The Detroit Public Library is trying to bring some of its collections to life. The library is trying to let people know about some of the stories held in the documents in its archives. That why the library is hosting concerts and talks this weekend about the late tenor singer named Roland Hayes. He broke through racial barriers and became the first African-American classical singer with an international career. Michigan Radio's Tamar Charney reports.

Interviews
• Maurice Wheeler - director, Detroit Public Library

Description
A growing community of Bosnian immigrants is making its mark on Grand Rapids. Amid the endless chain restaurants and strip malls on 28th Street, a new bakery and grocery store has opened. It caters to Bosnians but is winning over many others in Grand Rapids, as well. Michigan Radio's Tamar Charney reports.

Interviews
• Sakib Kajtezovic - owner and baker, Eurostar Bakery
• Ted Thwarp - customer
• Adnan - customer
• Darryl Chichester - case manager, Catholic Human Resources

Description
For the most part, we don't talk with kids about death until someone they know dies. At that point, often the child has a hard time understanding what happened. A social worker from Saline has written a children's book to help people understand death and grief. Michigan Radio's Tamar Charney reports.

Interviews
• Kirsten McLaughlin - author, The Memory Box
• Airene Pink - social worker, McCauley Heath System
• Teri Turner - clinical manager, Hospice of Washtenaw

Description
Last year, the success of the first Detroit Electronic Music Festival surprised everyone including its founders. Organizers had hoped a couple hundred thousand people might show up. Instead the three- day event drew more than 1.5 million people to Hart Plaza. In its first year out, the festival drew more people than any other summer festival at Detroit's Hart Plaza. Now the hope is last year's success can be repeated this year.

Interviews
• Greg Bowens - press secretary for Mayor Dennis Archer
• Carol Marvin - executive director, Detroit Electronic Music Festival
• Alberta Wilburn - Detroit Parks and Recreation Department

Description
When you read a word you don't know in a book or magazine, you often just reach for the dictionary. But this reference tool didn't even exist until the middle of the 18th century. And no dictionary existed for what's known as Middle English. That's the language in which works like Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight were written. But that's about to change. After 71 years, the final installment of the Middle English Dictionary is about to be published by the University of Michigan.

Interviews
• Robert Lewis - editor, Middle English Dictionary, University of Michigan

Description
This year, the University Musical Society presented its first International Theater Festival. The visit by the Royal Shakespeare Company to Ann Arbor was part of this initiative. UMS will close the theater series with a world premiere of a work commissioned by UMS and The Lincoln Center Festival. But, as Michigan Radio's Tamar Charney reports, the work is not a play -- it's a piece that got its start on the concert stage.

Interviews
• Ping Chong - theaterical artist and Fellow, University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities
• Benjamin Bagby - director, Sequentia

Description
Many educators say one of the biggest problems they face with kids who have trouble in school is getting these students to keep showing up. But one alternative school in Ann Arbor has found a way that seems to work. Michigan Radio's Tamar Charney reports.

Interviews
• Gettye Goins - student, Stone School
• Kurt Maier - teacher, Stone School
• Gayl Dybdahl - principal, Stone School

Description
Over this past week, more than thirty faculty members from the University of Michigan have been traveling across the state on a bus. It's the third year for what's known as the "Road Scholar" tour. During this quick-paced, whirlwind excursion, they've been shown some of Michigan's popular tourist attractions. But they've also been introduced to some of the various industries, communities and economies that make up the state's character. Michigan Radio producer Matt Shafer Powell was along for the ride, and put together this audio postcard from the road.

Voices heard:
David Lossing- Associate Director, UM State Outreach office; Kathy Wendler- President, Southwest Detroit Business Association; Shuresh Bhavnani - Assistant Professor, School of Information; Keith Taylor - Lecturer; Coordinator of the undergraduate program in Creative Writing; Michael Dulaney - Plant Manager, Flint Assembly; Pierre Goovaerts - Assistant Professor, College of Engineering; Lydia Li -Assistant Professor, Social Work; Jacqueline Francis - Assistant Professor, History of Art and the Center for Afroamerican and African studies; Bob Keweygoshgum -Tribal Chairman, Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians; Ann Stephens Geologist/Guide, Hartwick Pines State Park; Emily Silverman - Assistant Professor, School of Natural Resources and Environment; Bob Vandekoppel- Resident Biologist, UM Pellston Biological station; Michael L. Falk - Assistant Professor, College of Engineering, Department of Materials Science & Engineering

Description
Native Americans were the first to navigate Lake Superior's waters. Today freighters carrying grain and ore regularly pass through the lake. Over the years Lake Superior and its rugged shores have claimed many ships. But, the Lake has also claimed the imagination of many artists. This summer a rotating group of artists from Michigan, Germany, and Colorado will circumnavigate Lake Superior in a sailboat. The artists will be painting, photographing, and making sketches of their journey. They will also be collecting stories to share with school children after their return. Michigan Radio's Tamar Charney caught up with some of the artists.

Interviews
Fritz Seegers - Illustrator, Captain, and Builder of the sailboat
Brent Spink - Painter
Scott Spink - Photographer
Mary Brodbeck - Woodcut Print Artist

Description
This weekend there is a good chance you may stumble upon some art. In Saugatuck and Douglas the first annual Art Round Town show gets underway. Eighteen outdoor sculptures will be unveiled all across the two towns. And across the state in Ann Arbor an exhibition called U-Shop opens. It is a series of artworks placed in stores. Michigan Radio's Tamar Charney has a
look at the show in Ann Arbor.

Interviews
Sadashi Inuzuka - Artist & Professor UofM School of Art and Design
Gregory Steele - Curator, Ushop
Margaret Parker - Director, Art Pro Tem
Ali Amiri - Owner, Persian House of Imports

Description
One of the most famous neighborhoods in Detroit was destroyed by urban renewal in the 1950's. But Hastings Street has come back to life on the theater stage. As Michigan Radio's Tamar Charney reports it's a project that brought a high school theater troop together with faculty and students from the University of Michigan.

Interviews
Rick Sperling - Artistic Director & Founder, Mosaic Youth Theate
Carmen Philips - 14 year old Actor, Mosaic Youth Theater
Charlie Bright - Professor of History, University of Michigan

Description
With advances in medicine and psychological care, more teenagers with mental health problems are advancing to colleges and universities. That places a heavier load on campus counseling centers. Recently, the mother of a U-M student who committed suicide this year publicly questioned the adequacy of University mental health care. As Michigan Radio's Tamar Charney reports, one U-M student group has for years been advocating to have more attention paid to students with mental health issues. And the theater stage is their tool

Interviews
Cara Sandelands - Student, University of Michigan & Troop Member, Mentality
Summer Berman - Founder, Mentality
Jim Etzkorn - Psychologist, Counseling and Psychological Services,
University of Michigan

Description
In 1984, a biologist from Harvard University coined the term "Biophilia" to describe man's instinctive attraction to nature. Nearly twenty years later, designers and architects are increasingly using the Biophilia principle. Michigan Radio's Matt Shafer Powell has this report.

Interviews
Edward Wilson - Biologist, Harvard University
Keith Winn - Project Manager and Designer, Herman Miller
Judith Heerwagen - Environmental Psychologist

Description
The exhibit called"Reflections in Black" is at the Detroit Institute of Arts. It shows over 300 pictures by more than 100 African American photographers. It was put together by the Smithsonian and it traces the history of African American photography from the mid 1800's to today. Michigan Radio's Tamar Charney got a look at the exhibit and has this report.

Interviews
Adrian Odem - Photographer
Nancy Barr - Curator, Detroit Institute of Arts

Description
A raft called the "Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn of Michigan" is making its way down the Mississippi. Two young adults from Holland Michigan were inspired
by Mark Twain's novels to follow in the footsteps of Huck and Tom on a search for an America with "substance." Lester Graham has the story of three Huck Finns, a rickety raft, and the mighty Mississippi.

Interviews
Ben Doornbos - Rafter, Holland Michigan
Ethan VanDrunen - Rafter, Holland Michigan
Mike Delano - Rafter, Boston Massachusettes
David Able - Tourist, Hannibal Missouri
Larry Woodward - Tourist Hannibal Missouri

Description
All summer long communities across the state hold festivals. Michigan Radio's Tamar Charney visited one recent festival to find out what the variety of festivals in the state says about who we are, our history, and our heritage.

Interviews
Kurt Dewhurst - Director, MSU Museum and Center for Great Lakes Culture
Ron Helman - Festival Chairman, Chassell Strawberry Festival
Barbara Besner - Visitor to Strawberry Festival

Description

The Michigan Legacy Art Park in Northern Michigan's Benzie County has trails, an amphitheatre, and outdoor sculptures by various artists. The works combine nature and art to reflect Michigan's past, from the Native American influence to the logging industry. Now the park has inspired two musicians to write a jazz suite inspired by the park's sculptures. Michelle Corum reports from the park on the newly composed "Legacy: a musical tribute to the Michigan Legacy Art Park"

Interviews
Keith Vreeland - Detroit based jazz keyboard player
Marvin Kahn - Detroit based jazz alto clarinetist

Description
This week a new opera is being performed in the Upper Peninsula. It is a work based on a real life tragedy that happened in Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula in 1913. In the first of a two part series on the opera, Michigan Radio's Tamar Charney takes a look at the 1913 Italian Hall Disaster - the real life tragedy that inspired the musical.

Interviews
Frank Fiala - Superintendent, Keweenaw National Historical Park
Ruben Niemisto - Descendent of Finnish Mine Workers
Ed Yarbrough - Director Quincy Mine Hoist Association & Former Park Service
Historian

Description
In 1913 a labor activist named Anna Clements organized a Christmas party for the children of striking copper miners in Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula. During the party someone heard a cry of fire. Panic ensued and 73 people died trying to escape from the second story of Calumet's Italian Hall. It became known as the 1913 Italian Hall Disaster. There was no fire and to this day know one knows for sure who cried fire or if anyone did at all. Some say it was yelled by strike busters. Others say it was just a misunderstanding. A new opera is being performed in the UP that's inspired by this real life tragedy. Michigan Radio's Tamar Charney reports.

Interviews
Paul Sietz - Composer, The Children of the Keweenaw
Kathleen Masterson - Librettist, The Children of the Keweenaw
Bill Ivey - Chairman, National Endowment for the Arts
Laura Demming - Artistic Director, Pine Mountain Music festival
Ed Yarbrough - Director, Quincy Mine Hoist Association & Former Park Service Historian

Description
On July 23 1967 police tried to disperse crowds around an unlicensed bar. Several days of violence ensued, causing millions of dollars of damage and taking countless lives. The 1967 riot has become a defining event in the city's story. To some, it was an act of political rebellion, which led to the integration of the police, and the eventual election of Coleman Young. Young was Detroit's first black Mayor. To others, it marked the end of the city's industrial ascendance and the beginning of its economic crisis-even though industrial jobs had begun to leave the Motor City a decade earlier. Michigan Radio and the University of Michigan's Arts of Citizenship Program collaborated on a two-part series exploring the memories of 2 Detroiters who were teenagers during the riots. The interviews were done by UofM undergraduates -- not to tell the real truth about the riots, but to offer a glimpse into the ways that lives are changed by the accident of living in historic times. First, Patricia Hatcher's story. She is now a teacher at Cooley High School. She was sixteen years old when the riots erupted living in the northwest area of Detroit around Lynwood and Glendale.

Interview
Patricia Hatcher - teacher, Cooley High School

Description
34 years ago riots broke out across Detroit. The riots changed the face of the city and had lasting effects upon the people who were living there at the time. Michigan Radio and the University of Michigan Arts of Citizenship Program have collaborated on a 2 part series of interviews with Detroiters who were teenagers during the riots. This story belongs to Carol Boyd. She's now a professor at the University of Michigan. In 1967 she was a student at Ferndale High School, in Pleasant Ridge, one mile north of the city line. We tend to remember the fear that made up the reaction of so many white Detroiters to the riot. The events of 1967 accelerated a process of white flight that has made Detroit the biggest black-majority metropolis in America. Carol Boyd reflects on what that meant for her life then and now.

Interview
Carol Boyd - Professor, University of Michigan

Description
By now we all heard the concerns about classical music. The audience is aging and dying off, classical recordings don't sell as well as other types of music, and schools are cutting music education. But in reality the news isn't all bad. Over the past two years, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra has seen an 18 percent jump in its classical subscription sales. .not the pops, not Aretha Franklin with the DSO, but the classical series. As Michigan Radio's Tamar Charney reports the DSO's success is rooted in the rebound of all the arts in Detroit.

Interviews
Steven Molina - Assistant Principle Bass Player and Personnel Manager, Detroit Symphony Orchestra
John MacElwee - Marketing Director, Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Marilyn Wheaton - Cultural Affairs Director, City of Detroit
Peter Cummings - Real Estate Developer & Chairman of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra's Board.

Description
Each summer Michigan's cherry, strawberry and other fruit crops are harvested by migrant workers. In Leelanau County the children of these migrant workers have been learned how to find their roots while their parents are picking fruit. Michelle Corum visits a summer program for the children of the migrant workers. The kids are learning to tape interviews with their ancestors and turn those stories into art.

Interviews
Andrea Stupka - Project Leader, Views from the Field: Migrant Children's Perspectives, Glen Arbor Art Association
Betty Mann - Oral Historian
Eric Hernandez - Student in Views from the Field: Migrant Children's Perspectives

Description
At 9pm on May 26th a woman on a horse road around the block in downtown Chelsea. The second time around she whipped off her clothes, a photo was snapped, and the woman arrested. It was a publicized photo shoot and publicity stunt to get people talking about a Michigan based photographer known as Harvey. Harvey has pulled off similar stunts around the country. Though usually his photo shoots are a bit more coy than the one in May was. Michigan Radio's Tamar Charney caught up with the photographer to find out what his photographs are all about.

Interview
Harvey the photographer

Description
In Paris, Milan, and London fashion shows are used to show off the latest designs. In other cities and towns, fashion shows more likely are used to raise money for local charities. But one group in the Upper Peninsula uses fashion shows to teach about history. Michigan Radio's Tamar Charney
reports.

Interviews
Nancy Leonard - Founding Member, Friends of Fashion.
Abbey Green - President, Friends of Fashion

Description
When you hear the word design you might think fashion design, but every product you'll wear or use today ...whether its your shirt, your car, or your stapler ..was designed by somebody. A group of exhibitions in Flint is taking a look at America's contribution to design. Michigan Radio's
Matt Shafer Powell reports.

Interviews
John Henry - President, Flint Institute of Arts

Description
Since the September 11th attacks we all been reminded of what it is like to lose a loved one. We've been left wondering how to cope with that loss and wondering when the healing begins. Michigan Radio's Jonathan Menjivar visited one woman who used art to deal with the death ... the death of her son.

Interview
Ann Savageau - Art Instructor, University of Michigan Residential College
Geri Shapeau - Visitor to Lifeline Exhibit

Description
Since September 11th the daily news is a barrage of stories about anthrax, bombings, and terrorism. It's left many people scared and confused. As Michigan Radio's Tamar Charney reports people are flocking toward creative activities as a way to cope.

Interviews
Mary Craig - Arts Coordinator, Arts at Michigan, University of Michigan
Robert Lynch - President, Americans for the Arts, Washington DC
Chantarius Atkins - Plant for Peace volunteer

Description
Recently scholars and fans of Ernest Hemingway got together. The conference wasn't in Key West, Paris, or the other cities people associate with the author of Farwell to Arms, The Old Man and the Sea, and other classic works of American Literature. Instead it was in Petoskey where each year the Hemingway in Michigan Society meets. As Michigan Radio's Tamar Charney reports, the area north of Traverse City in Northern Michigan is an important place in the world of Ernest Hemingway.

Interviews
Candace Eaton - Director of the Little Traverse History Museum
James Sanford - nephew of Ernest Hemingway
James McCullough - Chair of Humanities and Communications, North Central
Michigan College
Brad Leech - City Planner of Petoskey

Description
A number of community arts groups in Ann Arbor have come together to create a new staging of a 230 year old opera. It's bringing in some big international opera stars and it may also help launch the careers of some young divas. Michigan Radio's Tamar Charney reports.

Interviews
Martin Katz - Professor of Piano, University of Michigan
Peter Sparling - Founder & Choreographer, Peter Sparling Dance Company
Lauren Allerdice - Singing Eurodice
Ken Fischer - Director, University Musical Society

Description
Tourism has suffered a major blow since the September 11th attacks. As a result, museums across the country are struggling to get people through the turnstiles But one West Michigan museum is enjoying record attendance, thanks to an exhibit honoring one of the nation's most revered presidents. The Abraham Lincoln exhibit at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum might be succeeding because of the attacks, not despite them. Michigan Radio's Matt Shafer Powell has this story.

Interview
Richard Norton Smith - Executive Director Gerald R Ford Presidential Museum

Description
A new DVD is being premiered this evening at Grand Valley State University. It pushes the limits of DVD technology to teach about an older technology -- animated films. Michigan Radio's Tamar Charney reports.

Interviews
Deanna Morse - Animator and Professor, Grand Valley State University

Description
The head of Michigan's newest state department has been traveling around the state recently. He's been talking with people about Michigan's history, arts, and libraries. Michigan Radio's Tamar Charney reports.

Interviews
Bill Anderson - Director, Michigan Department of History, Arts, and Libraries

Description
We all leave things behind. Shopping lists, notes, receipts. One Michigan man has figured out something to do with all this stuff we leave behind. Michigan Radio's Jonathan Menjivar has the story

Interviews
Davy Rothbart - Founder, Found Magazine
Nigel Morgan - Finder, Ypsilanti All Starz Booty Cassette
Tim Schreiber - Creator of the Booty Tape
Raymond McDaniel - Ann Arbor's Shaman Drum Bookshop

Description
It's been said that we live in a visual culture. We make sense of the world through television, movies, and photographs. But an art exhibit is exploring how sound helps us understand the world. Michigan Radio's Tamar Charney reports.

Interviews
Stephanie Rowden - Curator, Close Listening, Audio Installation Artist, and
Visiting Professor University of Michigan School of Art and Design

Description
From about the time of the Civil War until the Civil Rights movement there was a proliferation of anti-Black caricatures and stereotypes. They appeared during a period when Jim Crow laws were in effect. And everyday objects from ashtrays to fishing lures were adorned with these caricatures.
In Big Rapids these artifacts are being used by a museum to teach about prejudice. Michigan Radio's Tamar Charney visited the museum and has this report.

Interviews
David Pilgrim - Sociologist and Curator, The Jim Crow Museum of Racist
Memorabilia, Ferris State University
Maude Bigford - Director, Honors Program, Ferris State University.
Mar-shell Barber - Owner, Martha's Crib
Susan Fogerty - Professor of Nursing

Description
Mike Wallace of CBS 60 minutes will be in Ann Arbor today. At 8 this evening the UofM graduate will be on stage at Hill Auditorium, not to give a lecture, but to perform a work about Abraham Lincoln. Michigan Radio's Tamar Charney reports.

Interviews
Mike Wallace - CBS 60 Minutes

Description
In Grand Rapids -- and cities all across the country -- people are sitting down to plan the future of their communities. In the past, those decisions were made by city zoning administrators behind closed doors. Tonight in Grand Rapids, the city's planning committee will take a look at the latest draft of a new master plan that's being created by the people who live in the city. The master plan is a document that describes what Grand Rapids will look like in the future. It's used as a reference when making zoning decisions. Michigan Radio's Matt Shafer Powell has this report

Interview
Suzanne Schulz - Coordinator of Master Plan, City of Grand Rapids Planning Department
Jack Hoffman - Chair of Master Plan Committee
Bill Hoyt - Director City of Grand Rapids Planning Department

Description
Chestnuts used to be a common ingredient in the Amerian diet: chestnut stuffing, chestnut soup and of course, chestnuts roasting on an open fire. But a blight in the 1900's wiped out billions of
chestnut trees in the United States. And for the most part, people stopped eating them. Now an effort is under way to change that. Gretchen Millich has our report.

Interviews
Kevin Keppers - Chef, Walnut Hills County Club Restaurant East Lansing
Bruce Smith - Head of the Chestnut Marketing Program, Michigan State University's School of Agriculture.
Janice Harte - Professor, Food Science Michigan State University
Earl Metzler - Customer, Walnut Hills Country Club

Description
For the last two-and-a-half months the daily carillon concerts at Grand Valley State University have started with the same piece of music. It's a piece of music that has been played around the world since September 11th and it was written by a native of Lansing. Michigan Radio's Tamar

Interviews
John Courter - Composer "In Memorian, September 11th, 2001"

Description
As you thumb through catalogues or go to the store in search of the perfect gift, you'll doubtless come across jewelry, furniture, and other items whose brand name is that of a museum. More and more museums are allowing companies to reproduce items in their collection. As Michigan Radio's Tamar Charney reports even products from University museums are showing up in stores.

Interviews
Anita Covert - Owner, Country Stitches
Marsha McDowell - Curator of Folk Arts, MSU Museum
Edward Able - President of the American Association of Museums