Circus Blood, Tales from the Big Top
Airs Monday, September 4th at Noon
on WKMS.
Ringling Bro's Circus Poster circa 1890-1900 courtesy The
US Library of Congress.
Circus Blood is a three-ring radio spectacular featuring audio essays by independent public radio producers. In Jay Allison’s “Trapeze,” journalist Jon Carroll talks to his daughter Shana about her high-flying act as she hangs upside down on her trapeze. Elizabeth Eck inevitably returns to the circus family that she'd previously ran away from in Larry Massett’s “Circus in the Blood.” And a Joe Frank story unleashes a captured tale of love in “The Lion Tamer.”
9/11
Sonic Memorial
Airs Monday, September 11th at Noon on WKMS.
To learn more about the Sonic Memorial Project, click here.
WKMS goes a little Scottish in September
The
2006 West Kentucky Highland Games come to Murray September 15 through
17. The prodigious physical accomplishments of the athletes will be only
one aspect of the festival. Music, food, dance, and bagpipers will
be accompanied by traditional Scottish sheep dog demonstrations, highland
dance and the display of native animals, crafts and wares of all kinds.
The Games open at 9 a.m. Saturday, September 16 at Murray's Central Park,
continuing through 5 p.m. Throughout the day, enjoy Scottish Storyteller
Robert Valentine and musical entertainment by Smithfield Fair, Jerry Brown
and The Chattanooga Pipes and Drums. A Sunday morning traditional church
service, called "The Kirkin' o' the Tartans," at 10 a.m. in Wrather Auditorium
at Murray State, concludes the festivities on Sunday, September 17.
In cooperation with the Highland Games, George Eldred will feature the work of Scottish composers during Commonwealth Classics, 11 to Noon, Wednesday, September 13. Directly following, during Meridian Noon to 1, tune in for Master Robert Valentine's story telling and an interview with Jerry Brown who has become a regular performer for the Pikes Peak Highland Games and Celtic Festival.
For more about The 2006 West Kentucky Highland Games, contact the Murray Tourism Commission at 270-759-2199.
WKMS
Needs VOLUNTEERS!
It is fundraiser time, and you know what that means! We need your help!
Be a part of the action as we kick off the on-air portion of our 2006
autumn pledge drive. Now through August 25th, we need volunteers from
the community, people just like you, to allow us to record your personal
accounts of why you listen to and choose to support WKMS. We can record
you by phone or in our studios during the day or evening. We also need
volunteers September 23-30, to take pledge calls from WKMS listeners.
We'll make sure you have training and refreshments.
To volunteer and help sustain WKMS' first-rate programming,
excellent music, and in-depth news reporting, contact Stephanie Nutter-Osborne
today at 800-599-4737, or click
here.
We can't do without you! Thanks for your support!
WKMS thanks the following businesses for becoming underwriters or renewing their underwriting during August 2006. For information about becoming an underwriter on WKMS, e-mail ronda.gibson@murraystate.edu or anne.bidwell@murraystate.edu or call us at 1-800-599-4737.
We can’t do without you!
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Image Graphics, Inc., Paducah
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Mansion II Go's Artisan Kitchen, Paducah
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Paducah Symphony Orchestra
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Thank you to WKMS Member
Roger Kephart of Fulton for submitting his favorite poem to WIRED!
Leonardo da Vinci...A Legend
by R.P. Dickey
| Milan (at Santa Maria della Grazie's): |
| For the Last Supper in the refectory |
| Leonardo sought a model for Him. |
| The choir-boy from the cathedral, very |
| Suggestive of grace, firm of face and limb, |
| Clear of line and colour...yes, he would do. |
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Lime, water, umber, ultramarine blue.
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| Rome (another time, another painting): |
| For the face of Judas, he scoured the belly |
| Of alleys and found one, vice-lined. |
| Swore His sitter: "I'm Pietro Bandinelli..." |
| He strained his breath. "I've sat for you before..." |
| As nervous as at his vocation, theft. |
| The artist smiled. "Turn a bit to your left." |
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Do YOU have a poem you'd like to include
in Wired? If so, contact Stephanie Nutter-Osborne @ 800-599-4737,
or click here.
Click here for information on Regional Events
Quote Me on That...
"When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece."
John Ruskin -- English critic, essayist, & reformer (1819 - 1900)
We thank WKMS Member Johan Koren of Cadiz for sending this beautiful picture of his son at Versailles beach this June.
We also thank Members Chuck and Paula Hulick of Murray for submitting this photo of the waterways on the island of Burano in Venice.
Do you have vacation photos, summer-sports snaps, or lazy-summer
pics you'd like to share? Send them to WKMS, and we'll feature them
in an upcoming issue of WIRED. To submit your vacation photograph
via e-mail, click
here.
