The 18th season of Across Indiana premieres with companion pieces to Ken Burns’ telling of the World War II tale, some new and some from the archives.

Across Indiana Episode 1812 Description
Monday, April 14 at 7:30 pm and
Saturday, April 19 at 6:30 pm

Reason for Hope
Time Magazine once called her “the most recognized person in the world.” Celebrated anthropologist Dr. Jane Goodall has come to Hanover College to speak of her hope for the future of all the species on our planet.

Produced by: Jim Simmons and Diane Willis

Contact: Rhonda Burch
Hanover College
burch@hanover.edu
rootsandshoots.org

Pieces of a Dream
As Dr. Goodall has shown us, young people hold the future in their hands. They have a lot of important decisions ahead of them. Yet, making the right decisions to realize any dream is something we all encounter, everyday. How we make these choices has gotten the attention of “Skee” Skinner, a Midwestern filmmaker whose come to our “Across Indiana” studios in Indianapolis to pose an interesting question: “We all know that questions need answers – but what about those answers that need questions—that help us reframe what we ask of ourselves as we grow as human beings? ”

Produced by: Angel Carothers

Contact: Contact “Across Indiana” at jsimmons@wfyi.org to reach Mr. Skinner

By Any Other Name
Mike meets Mike as another gentleman named “Michael Atwood” drops in on WFYI, Indianapolis, to ask for our help in stopping the many calls he gets, suggesting stories for “Across Indiana” to cover. To his and our amusement, he points out that his father, “Tom Atwood” used to receive phone calls in his hometown of St. Louis for the famous sportswriter of the same name. “I guess this ‘Atwood’ name is just a family curse,” the “other “ Mike tells us. Huh? We ’d prefer to think of it as a “family blessing.”

Produced by: Jim Simmons

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This I Believe” Shotgun Rules
As part of the “This I Believe” series at WFYI, Fortville’s Roger Sharitt, a parent of two kids getting ready to head to high school, reminds us of the old child’s game of “shotgun.” “If you yell ‘shotgun’ before everyone else, you get to sit in the front seat by the window, next to dad. It doesn't matter if you were the last of six kids out the door,” he reminds us, “if you yell it first, you’re in the front row. You could be five inches smaller and 100 pounds lighter, yet you are king of the mountain all because of two little syllables.” Roger thinks about how we, as adults, often skirt the rules “like your grandmother’s hem at Christmastime” and hopes his kids will always remember that, while life isn’t always fair, it’s usually a better thing when you play by the rules.

Produced by: Jim Simmons

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Bottoms Up
When he heard that we were doing this story, host Michael Atwood laughed out loud and said, “Well, it certainly is an ‘Across Indiana’ story!”

We’re off to Radio Radio in Indianapolis to meet with a group of women who strip to raise money to fight breast cancer.

Produced (and with much good taste, we might add) by: Twila Snyder

Contact: Nicole Homoya
“ Bottoms Up Burlesque”
c/o ALCHEMY Art + Aesthetics
(317) 634-9700

What Part of ‘Anti’ Don’t You Understand?
In 1865, the Milligan family established a town where they could be anti-secret organizations, anti-Klan, anti-Masons, anti-dancing, anti-drinking, anti-smoking and anti-Catholic. Not the kind of place you generally would want to stop by and visit, but if you should ever, you can’t miss it. Just look for Antiville on the state map.

Produced by: Jim Simmons

Contact: Jay County Hostyrical Society
history@jaycounty.info

See our special 1991 interview with Hoosier literary legend Kurt Vonnegut:

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