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Episode 1713Original air date: 5/29/2007
I Kept My Word
| Watch This Segment Online. | | Description: | Clay City's Clarence Wolfe survived the horrors of World War II -- only to return to the states, he says, harboring a tragic secret that he's kept for more sixty years. The vow of silence was made to the captain of the 134th AAA Battalion, whose soldiers manned the anti-aircraft guns at Dover that protected London from incoming V bombs. The cause? C.B. Wolfe claims that the 134th shot legendary bandleader Glenn Miller out of the sky in a friendly fire accident. The truth? Well, the cause of the disappearance of Glenn Miller's small Air Force plane over the English Channel has never been officially revealed . . . | | Credits: | Producer: Dan T. Hall
Narrator: Sarah Mynett | | Location: | Clay City | | Contact: | "I Kept My Word"
by Clarence B. Wolfe
(available at most bookstores and on the web) |
Back and Better Than Ever
| Watch This Segment Online. | | Description: | A decade ago, the round stage at Indianapolis' Christian Theological Seminary was one of the city's most cherished venues for community theatre, where many a player strutted and fretted their hour wrestling with lines. Then the arena and the acting community parted ways. But now, acting has returned to CTS with an original play, titled "Dependence Day" -- and the performers say they can feel the spirit of the theatre's founder, Dr. Edyvean, guiding their way to a re-birth of theatre at one of the city's most popular places to see it. | | Credits: | Jim Simmons | | Location: | Indianapolis | | Contact: | Miki Mathioudakis
mlmathio@stvincent.org
"Dependence Day"
June 1-17 |
History Matters: Marching to a Different Drummer
| Watch This Segment Online. | | Description: | Was she ahead of her time or merely insane? When her husband rushed off to the Civil War, Lovina Streight wasn't content to stay at home in Indianapolis, writing anguished letters, awaiting his return. She went off to war with him -- was adopted as a regiment's "mother" -- and was captured by Confederates three times. She was considered so vital to the Union war effort that, once, the "rebs" exchanged her for several prisoners. It was a little easier another time, when she got the drop on her captors by pulling out a pistol she had concealed under her skirt and walking out of camp on her own. And, after the war, when her husband died, she had him buried in the front yard so she could picnic with him. | | Credits: | Producer: Kyle Travers
Narrator: Carrie Wood-Hoppenjans | | Location: | Indianapolis | | Contact: | To contribute to the restoration of the Lovina Streight portrait featured
in "History Matters," contact Rachel Perry at (317) 232-1633 |
This I Believe: Sarah Hurtado Zuckerman
| Watch This Segment Online. | | Description: | As many of you know, NPR and WFYI have embarked on an ambitious project called “This I Believe,” which allows you folks at home to talk about issues that really matter to you. The first Across Indiana version of "This I Believe" touches on the need for each of us to take action in our own way to make a difference. Sarah Zuckerman, an art teacher in the Indianapolis public schools, recently traveled the mountain village of Oaxaca, Mexico, to study painting. Instead, she found herself a witness to a teachers' strike to bring more funding to Mexico's schools. Sarah notes that many of the issues facing Oaxaca's teachers are the same ones facing IPS teachers. She wonders: are we here in Indiana willing to lay it on the line to build a better school system for our children just as the brave teachers of Oaxaca are? "Es la misma lucha -- its the same fight," she concludes. | | Credits: | Jim Simmons | | Location: | Indianapolis | | Contact: | To submit your essay, go to www.wfyi.org/thisIbelieve |
Contentment
| Watch This Segment Online. | | Description: | Philip Gulley's mother-in-law, Ruby Apple, is always content. On paper, she shouldn't be, for she was born into hardship, left home at age fifteen to become a housekeeper and to put herself through high school, and raised five children as a widow and lived in the same small house in Paoli since 1941, venturing forth only occasionally -- mostly, to enjoy the treat of a chicken sandwich and a clear soda at the local restaurant. But content she is. "If life were mashed potatoes," Gulley posits, "most of us would see only the lumps, whereas Ruby sees the gravy." But learning a life lesson or two about how to appreciate life the way Ruby does is a mighty important thing to achieve, he continues, "for if we can't be happy now, it's not likely we'll be happy when." | | Credits: | Aric Hartvig | | Location: | Paoli | | Contact: | ahartvig@wfyi.org and he'll relay the message to Philip |
A Little Town Named C-o-m-e-t (oops!) C-o-r-r-e-c-t
| Watch This Segment Online. | | Description: | In 1881, Postmaster William Will wanted to name an Indiana town after Halley’s Comet. He enthusiastically sent the name to the post office department. But his handwriting was atrocious and the clerks there couldn’t make heads or tales of it. They sent a letter back asking if “comet” was the name. “Correct,” Will wrote, this time, more legibly. Alas, the post office misunderstood again and gave the new town the name of “Correct.” Today, little of the once bustling town remains -- just one store and one house -- but that house is the home of 91 year-old Lucille Warefield -- who was born there and whose childhood roots became the "hot location" in town -- when everyone who was anyone stopped by to use the first bathtub in the area -- complete with running hot water piped over from the kitchen stove. Oh, and be on your best behavior while visiting, or Lucille'll show you her piece of the old hanging tree -- where five outlaws got themselves hanged for behaving "incorrectly." | | Credits: | Jim Simmons | | Location: | Correct | | Contact: | jsimmons@wfyi.org to reach "Pat's Bulk Foods" or Lucille Warefield |
Prom Night
| Watch This Segment Online. | | Description: | Finally this trip, most little girls grow up dreaming about prom night. However, for young adults with physical or mental challenges, it’s little more than a dream. But, an Indianapolis residential home that serves children and young adults with developmental disabilities recently organized a prom for about 150 of their clients. DAMAR asked for help from volunteers and the response was overwhelming. Boys got tuxedoes and the girls could choose from 200 gently used prom and bridesmaid dresses. Then, hair dressers and manicurists volunteered their skills to give the young ladies a magical night -- nails done, hair teased, a dab of eye shadow here and some mascara there. "I feel like a princess tonight," says 17 year-old Delissa Duszynski. | | Credits: | Mary Hartnett | | Location: | Indianapolis | | Contact: | www.damar.org |
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