Essayist Beverly Lapp explains what "The Star Spangled Banner" means to her as a Mennonite.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Psychiatrist Darold Treffert is one of the world's authorities on savant syndrome. In this EXTENDED interview, he calls savants "islands of genius" and says we won't understand consciousness until we figure out what's happening in the minds of savants.
Storyteller Donald Davis spends Thanksgiving on Oracoke Island, off the coast of North Carolina. He tells one of his family’s favorite Thanksgiving tales.
Brenda Peterson talks with Jim Fleming and reads several selections from “The Sweet Breathing of Plants: Women Writing on the Green World”.
David Shields talks with Anne Strainchamps about his book, which is a meditation on how our bodies decay and die, and his irrepressible father who is 97 and who doesn't give death the time of day.
David Gilmour decided to let his son, Jesse, drop out of school, provided that he agree to watch three movies a week with his father. He talks about this experience.
Eddie Lenihan is the author of “The Other Crowd,” a book about the tradition of fairies in Ireland. From his home in County Clare, he says that Irish fairies are violent and dangerous and that people believe in them still.
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