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Episode 1709Original air date: 3/27/2007
Instruments of Success
| Watch This Segment Online. | | Description: | Betty Perry grew up on the mean streets of Fort Apache in the Bronx, but her strong-willed grandmother was determined not to let those streets turn Betty into a lost soul. Instead, she encouraged her granddaughter to explore her talents in music. That turned out to be more-than-sage advice, with the adult Betty taking center stage at both Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center. But when she appears before an orchestra now, its one of her own making -- for Ms. Perry is founder and conductor of Indianapolis' Metropolitan Youth Orchestra -- a musical troupe where parents and their children perform together, strengthening the family bond and giving structure and discipline to kids who might be on the verge of becoming "at-risk." | | Credits: | Kaline Schounce and Mike Knight | | Location: | Indianapolis | | Contact: | Metropolitan Youth Orchestra, c/o Philharmonic Orchestra of Indianapolis
(317) 229-2367 info@philharmonicindy.org |
Whose Land Is It Anyway?
| Watch This Segment Online. | | Description: | Ever hear of the "Rockies Express?" It's a 622 mile-long pipeline designed to deliver natural gas from Colorado to Ohio -- and its route through Greensburg and other Indiana towns has residents there concerned, not just for the environmental impact, but because an explosion at a similar pipeline near Denver burned hundreds of acres of forest. But there's a more fundamental issue at stake. The pipeline's builders have called upon the government to exercise the right of "eminent domain" to allow them to build it -- and are backed by a recent Supreme Court decision that allows this right -- once used only by the government for public works projects -- to be invoked for commercial projects as well. | | Credits: | Sy Jenkins | | Location: | Greensburg | | Contact: | www.rerouterex.com |
Eric Rose, The Memory Guy
| Watch This Segment Online. | | Description: | Franklin's Eric Rose calls himself a mind-reader and entertainer and he's out to turn your rather confused and inefficient short-term memory into a steel trap. In the "Across Indiana" studio, he'll hear a random list of words attached to a random series of numbers (delivered by show regulars Kathy Billiard, Kyle Travers and Angel Carothers) and repeat them all back in numeric order . . . plus, Eric will teach you the handy tool of reciting the alphabet backwards using the tale of "ZY, the ex-Viking Warrior." | | Credits: | Jim Simmons | | Location: | Franklin | | Contact: | |
Where Spoons Are Dragons and Imagination is All Around
| Watch This Segment Online. | | Description: | Who's to say what's real and what's not when you look at the world through the eyes of Bloomfield artist John Haywood. Where some men see forks, he sees bears. Where some men throw chairs in the dumpster, he makes birds in flight. Where some folks see shovels, John sees wading ducks. Where other use kettles to boil water, John makes seven-foot tall man-eating spiders. And from those dinner forks and knives? . . . well, John makes dragons. Everything he sees . . . in dumpsters, along the side of the road, in flea markets . . . becomes fair game for this quixotic artist whose greatest creation is that of being true to himself. | | Credits: | Jim Simmons | | Location: | Bloomfield | | Contact: | Contact "Across Indiana" if you want to reach John Haywood. |
A Father's Love
| Watch This Segment Online. | | Description: | Dewon Darden has always been into sports and has a dream of running in the Indianapolis 500's Mini Marathon with his son, DJ. But DJ, you see, cannot walk -- he has muscular dystrophy. But through the help of some caring Hoosiers, Dewon's dream will come true -- thanks to a special wheelchair that allows DJ and him to go running together. | | Credits: | Jim Simmons | | Location: | Indianapolis | | Contact: | Muscular Dystrophy Family Foundation, (317) 923-MDFF, (800) 544-1213, www.mdff.org |
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