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WYSO Weekend: May 24, 2015

WYSO Weekend

On today’s program:  We’ll talk to journalist and now Playwright, Tom Stafford about his play "Before the Bricks Fell," about the closing of Crowell-Collier Publishing in Springfield, just before Chritmas in 1956.  And We’ll talk about the Wright Brothers’ legacy with Dawne Dewey - head of special collections at the Wright State University archives. Miami Valley StoryCorps, Dayton Youth Radio and more. See full details below.

  • Pulitzer Prize winning author, David McCullough, has written a new book about the Wright Brothers – it’s a window into the world of the two young men who gave mankind one of it’s greatest achievements – flight. You'll hear from David McCullough in today’s Book Nook with Vic Mickunas. The program follow this one at 10:30 but we wanted to take a longer look at the Wright Brothers’ legacy here in the Miami Valley, and to do that we spoke with Dawne Dewey at Wright State University – home to the largest collection of Wright Brothers artifacts in the world. Dewey the head of special collections there and tells us about its history.
  • Tom Stafford is a journalist with more than 35 years at the Springfield News Sun. He has written a play about the closing of Crowell-Collier Publishing in Springfield. The closure meant the loss of 2,250 jobs just before Christmas of 1956. It was a major blow to the city and its residents.
  • On Miami Valley StoryCorps we bring you conversations between local people who went to the StoryCorps booth in Dayton last spring. Today, we hear WYSO's Jazz Night host Dave Barber interview his friend Jerry Gillotti, owner of Gilly's a jazz club in downtown Dayton.
  • On Dayton Youth Radio we hear a story by Heather Ashley, a sophomore at DECA ­ the Dayton Early College Academy. Heather has strong feelings about feminism. DYR project coordinator Basim Blunt introduces her story.
  • This year WYSO and Tecumseh Land Trust sponsored Living on the Land, an essay contact inviting writers of all ages to reflect on what home and land mean to them.  This week, we hear from Dayton Regional STEM School student Tess Greene.  Her essay won the grand prize in the high school category and is entitled, "Always Moving, Ever Rooted."
  • Reading, writing and root vegetables – that might be the new future of education. Commentator Bob Brecha from the University of Dayton has been noticing a trend among college students when it comes to food security and sustainability. Bob Brecha is a professor of physics and renewable and clean energy. He is the coordinator of the Sustainability, Energy and The Environment program at the University of Dayton. For more stories and commentaries, visit our website, WYSO dot org.
Jerry began volunteering at WYSO in 1991 and hosting Sunday night's Alpha Rhythms in 1992. He joined the YSO staff in 2007 as Morning Edition Host, then All Things Considered. He's hosted Sunday morning's WYSO Weekend since 2008 and produced several radio dramas and specials . In 2009 Jerry received the Best Feature award from Public Radio News Directors Inc., and was named the 2023 winner of the Ohio Associated Press Media Editors Best Anchor/News Host award. His current, heart-felt projects include the occasional series Bulletin Board Diaries, which focuses on local, old-school advertisers and small business owners. He has also returned as the co-host Alpha Rhythms.<br/>