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Saving Memories
Saturday Sep. 6, 2008This weekend, New Orleans native Edwin Harrison is relieved. He was only a month away from moving back into his home destroyed by Katrina when Hurricane Gustav bore down on the Gulf Coast. This time, his house was spared. It wasn't easy to leave everything he'd rebuilt and flee to Atlanta to wait out the storm. But there was one thing Mr. Harrison didn't have to worry about this time. Earlier this summer, he entrusted one of his prized possessions to a stranger.
This Weekend in 1968: Miss America
In September of 1968, a group of radical feminists protested the Miss America pageant in Atlantic City. The event would be one of the earliest demonstrations of the Women's Liberation Movement. It was also here that the term, bra burner was coined, even though no bras were, in fact, burned.
Beauty of All Sorts
Art lovers in the Boston area have a lot of options for their weekend museum browsing. You've got your Museum of Fine Art, your Institute of Contemporary Art, your Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum and scads of little galleries scattered all over town. But what about bad art lovers? Well you're in luck. Just for you, there's the Museum of Bad Art.
Retracing a Wartime Bike Ride
In 1940, Asta Ladstein, biked across Norway with her husband. They did it when Norway was under German occupation. After taking a ferry from their island off the southwest coast up into one of the fjords, they pedaled over the mountains through Telemark. They went over 200 miles, just to visit Asta Ladstein's sister. Almost 70 years later, her granddaughter retraced that bike ride.
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Good News, Bad News, No News
As Mentioned on the Show
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Beauty of All Sorts:
A slideshow from the Museum of Bad Art.
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McCain's Real Summer Home:
Video of McCain's summer home in Cornville, Ariz..
WeAm Music Stop
On the show this week, we brought you music by the following artists:
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