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| Description: | For soldiers training for duty in Iraq, theater immersion has nothing to do with the stage. Native Iraqis role play situations soldiers may experience during their tour. This kind of practice is vital for the soldiers, and provides the kind of background that could mean the difference between life and death. |
| Credits: | Amy O’Neal |
| Location: | Edinburgh |
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| Description: | Grab your cowboy hat, shine your boots, and…hop on your forklift? Believe it or not, there are cash prizes and trophies for the winners of the Forklift Rodeo at the Dubois County Fairgrounds in Jasper, Indiana. Advice for contestants is simple: “Be fast, but don’t hit anything.” Then again, there are always the bonus points for sinking the lay-up, forklift style. |
| Credits: | Gary Harrison |
| Location: | Jasper |
| Contact: | Contact: Nancy Eckerle
Jasper Chamber of Commerce
(812) 482-6866
www.jasperin.org |
| Music: | WFYI Music Library |
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| Description: | Brenda Bernshaw opened a store called “Clown Heaven,” to sell clown merchandise. She thought the best way to keep “clowns” coming to the store to buy merchandise was to open her own “Clown College,” where people learn the fine art of same. |
| Credits: | Anna Hieronymous |
| Location: | Martinsville |
| Contact: | Brenda Bershaw
Clown Heaven
4792 Old State Road 37 South
Martinsville, IN 46151
(765) 342-6888 |
| Music: | “Kids’ Stuff”
Music Library
Cuts #3 & #17 |
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| Description: | Elderly members of a Randolph County bridge club, arguing that “old is beautiful,” made headlines by posing for a provocative calendar in a fight to save a 19th Century courthouse that their local government had decided to tear down. The so-called “Courthouse Girls” are giving new meaning to the term “historic preservation” and sparking a controversy over nudity where you wouldn’t expect it…in a little town called Farmland. |
| Credits: | Sy Jenkins |
| Location: | Farmland |
| Contact: | Larry Francer, Calendar Organizer
(765) 468-6958 |
| Music: | Pieces of 8
“When I’m 64” |
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