Make Way For Liberty by Jeff Kannel
Wednesday, February 16, 2022, 12:30pm
Wednesday, February 16, 2022 through Friday, February 25, 2022. Read by Norman Gilliland. Hundreds of African American soldiers and regimental employees represented Wisconsin in the Civil War, and many of them lived in the state either before or after the conflict. And yet, if these individuals are...
Lincoln Among The Badgers by Steven K. Rogstad
Tuesday, February 8, 2022, 12:30pm
Tuesday, February 8, 2022 through Tuesday, February 15, 2022. Read by Norman Gilliland. Verbal and written historical accounts of the visits that Abraham and Mary Lincoln made to the Badger State. Lincoln entered the state’s borders for the first time in 1832 during his military service in the...
A Beginner’s Guide to America (Part 2) by Roya Hakakian
Friday, January 28, 2022, 12:30pm
Friday, January 28 through Monday, February 7, 2022. Read by Michele Good. Written as a "guide" for the newly arrived, and providing "practical information and advice," Roya Hakakian, an immigrant herself, reveals what those who settle here love about the country, what they miss about their homes,...
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
Monday, January 17, 2022, 11:00pm
Monday, January 17, 2022. Read by Melvin Hinton. At the time of the award was given, Dr. King was the youngest person ever to get that particular honor, and said that he would dedicate all of the $54,000 that accompanied it toward the cause of equal rights. When he appeared in Oslo to collect the...
Driftless by David Rhodes
Monday, December 27, 2021, 12:30pm
Monday, December 27 through Thursday, January 27, 2022. Read by Karl Schmidt. A story from the "driftless" area of Wisconsin, about a town apparently left out of time. It's an unforgettable slice of life in rural America. Driftless by David Rhodes (Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2008). Copyright...
Christmas at Thompson Hall by Anthony Trollope
Wednesday, December 22, 2021, 12:30pm
Wednesday, December 22 through Friday, December 24, 2021. Read by Karl Schmidt. Anthony Trollope’s Victorian “comedy of errors” "Christmas at Thompson Hall" was a holiday tradition for many years on Chapter A Day. Not quite a “Christmas story”, it nonetheless is filled with the festivity and...
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum
Monday, December 13, 2021, 12:30pm
Monday, December 13 through Wednesday, December 21, 2021. Read by Jim Fleming. Every child knows about Santa Claus, the jolly man who brings gifts to all on Christmas. There are many stories that tell of his life, but this delightful version filled with fairies, immortals and a kidnapped human baby...
The Eye of Edna from Essays of E.B. White
Thursday, November 25, 2021, 11:00pm
Thursday, November 25, 2021 – 11 pm only. Read by Jim Fleming. "The Eye of Edna" is an essay from the collection "The Essays of E.B. White." The author, one of the founders of The New Yorker magazine, lived in Maine at the time and writes of spending a day listening to the radio while announcers...
Little Hawk and the Lone Wolf by Raymond C. Kaquatosh
Monday, November 22, 2021, 12:30pm
Monday, November 22 through Friday, December 10, 2021. Read by Jim Fleming. Raymond Kaquatosh was born in 1924 on Wisconsin’s Menominee Reservation. The son of a medicine woman, he spent his boyhood immersed in the beauty of the natural world and the traditions of his tribe and his family. When his...
Perestroika in Paris by Jane Smiley
Monday, November 1, 2021, 12:30pm
Monday, November 1 through Friday, November 19, 2021. Read by Jim Fleming. Paras, short for "Perestroika," is a spirited racehorse at a racetrack west of Paris. One afternoon at dusk, she finds the door of her stall open and wanders all the way to the City of Light. Soon she meets an elegant dog...
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Monday, October 11, 2021, 12:30pm
Monday, October 11 through Friday, October 29, 2021. Read by Norman Gilliland. In Oscar Wilde’s only novel, he forges a devastating portrait of the effects of evil and debauchery on a young man in late-19th-century England. Combining elements of the Gothic horror novel and decadent French fiction,...
A Beginner’s Guide to America by Roya Hakakian
Monday, October 4, 2021, 12:30pm
Monday, October 4 through Friday, October 8, 2021. Read by Michele Good. Written as a "guide" for the newly arrived, and providing "practical information and advice," Roya Hakakian, an immigrant herself, reveals what those who settle here love about the country, what they miss about their homes,...
Evening Class by Maeve Binchy
Monday, September 6, 2021, 12:30pm
Monday, September 6 through Friday, October 1, 2021. Read by Jim Fleming. Eight Dubliners take a class in Italian and find their lives changed along with their language. (Doubleday; ISBN-10: 0385318073 ) Theme: "Un Bel Di" from "Madama Butterfly" by Giacomo Puccini; Cincinnati Pops Orchestra -...
Our Lady of Perpetual Hunger by Lisa Donovan
Monday, August 23, 2021, 12:30pm
Monday, August 23 through Friday, September 3, 2021. Read by Susan Sweeney. Noted chef and James Beard Award-winning essayist Lisa Donovan helped establish some of the South's most important kitchens, and her pastry work is at the forefront of a resurgence in traditional desserts. Yet, Donovan had...
Raft of Stars by Andrew J. Graff
Monday, July 26, 2021, 12:30pm
Monday, July 26 through Friday, August 20, 2021. Read by Norman Gilliland. When two hardscrabble, young boys think they’ve committed a crime, they flee into the Northwoods of Wisconsin. Will the adults trying to find and protect them reach them before it’s too late? (Ecco; ISBN-10 : 0063031906 /...
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
Monday, June 21, 2021, 12:30pm
Monday, June 21 through Friday, July 23, 2021. Read by Jim Fleming. In 1922 an unrepentant aristocrat is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol Hotel. If he steps outside he will be shot. Inside, however, life goes on. (Viking Press; ISBN-10: 0670026190 ) Theme: Tchaikovsky: Serenade in C, Op 48...
Edge of the Map by Johanna Garton
Monday, May 31, 2021, 12:30pm
Monday, May 31 through Friday, June 18, 2021. Read by Susan Sweeney. A dramatic and inspiring adventure story based on the lives of trailblazing mountaineer Christine Boskoff and her partner Charlie Fowler. Edge of the Map captures each step of the pair's story, culminating in their disappearance...
The Woman Who Stole Vermeer by Anthony M Amore
Monday, May 10, 2021, 12:30pm
Monday, May 10 through Friday, May 28, 2021. Read by Norman Gilliland. The extraordinary life and crimes of heiress-turned-revolutionary Rose Dugdale, who in 1974 became the only woman to pull off a major art heist. (Pegasus Crime; ISBN-10 : 1643135295 / ISBN-13 : 978-1643135298) THEME: Malcolm...
Lady Cop Makes Trouble by Amy Stewart
Monday, April 19, 2021, 12:30pm
Monday, April 19 through Friday, May 7, 2021. Read by Michele Good. Constance Kopp, one of the nation’s first deputy sheriffs, prowls the streets of New York tracking down victims, trailing leads, and making friends with girl reporters and lawyers. (Mariner Books; ISBN-10: 0544409949 | ISBN-13: 978...
Girl Waits With Gun by Amy Stewart
Monday, March 22, 2021, 12:30pm
Monday, March 22 through Friday, April 16, 2021. Read by Michele Good A lively novel about a forgotten woman, Constance Kopp. She was one of very first female deputy sheriffs. (Houghton Mifflin; ISBN-10: 0544409914 ) / ISBN-13: 978-0544409613) Theme: Charleston Rag from Memories Of You, Eubie Blake