Tuesday, July 17, 2007
We go to Freemont, Michigan, home of Gerber Baby Foods – where they stage the National Baby Food Festival each July 17.
Sherry Heisse of Freemont talks with us about the event and what to us is its highlight activity – the Baby Food Cookoff. It’s an event for grown-ups where all dishes prepared must include baby food.
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
July Fourth to many means fireworks, hot dogs and Louis Armstrong. Stachmo always claimed that he was born on Independence Day 1901. In fact after his death it was disovered that his actual birthday was on August 4.
This discovery was made Louis Armstrong’s house in Corona, Queens.
We speak with Deslyn Dyer, Assistant Director of the Louis Armstrong Home and Archives about his real birth date, his connection with NYC (don’t you connect him with New Orleans?) and more in this first of what we hope to be a regular series of conversations about the story behind the music of our legends of American music.
Wednesday, July 4, 2007
Charles Kuralt died on July 4, 1997. Listen in to a conversation with Kuralt biographer Ralph Grizzle about Kuralt’s life, his signature “on the road” series and what we remember about him now a decade after his passing.
Also worth checking out is this CBS Sunday Morning feature remembering Charles Kuralt 10 years later:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/07/02/sunday/main3006324.shtml
Wednesday, July 4, 2007
It’s holiday time in Canada.
This week in French speaking Quebec, it’s a time of celebration with the Fete Nationale du Quebec (formerly known as Fete St. Jean Baptiste.
Then a week later on July 1 Canada observes its 140 th birthday with Canada Day (formerly known as Dominion Day).
Historian and musicologist Bruno Paul Stenson joins us from Montreal to share some insight about the pulse of Canada on this national birthday.
Bruno also owns what probably is the largest collection of memorabilia from Expo ’67. On this 40th anniversary of the Expo and of Canada’s centennial, we also talk to Bruno about his collection, and just what that magical year was all about.
By the way, one of the items in his collection is a can of Expo 67 air.
