Featuring events, interviews, archival films, and visits to college classrooms, museums, and historic places. As a big surprise to one of your grandfatherour shared his story late in his life. It was actually my husbands lthiest father a reporter who covers poverty and voting issues. It was because of this family experience. Was in it got started 1998, my fatherinlaw called us up one night out of the blue and said i have something i need to tell you. I have beenhing keeping inside for more than 60 years. When he was a teenage boy growing up in new york, he went to school one day and he came home and his father was gone and he never saw or spoke to his father again. He was not even quite sure what happened to them. He knew he had died a few years later but he did not know where he was taken and he did note his father had leprosy. It turned out that it was the hadic Health Service that taken him away and brought him. O carville it was a leprosarium that was run by the u. S. Government fo
Hosted the program and provided the video. Interviewing ms. Fessler is Laura Zeigler Community Reporter and producer with kcur radio in kansas city. Director of marketing at the Kansas City Public Library. My job, take care of housekeeping items before i hand it over to the two women smarter and more capable than i am. Any questions put them in the comments q a or chat box. If you hope to purchase the book, i hope you will, available through most major retailers and the Kansas City Public Library refer you are to bookshop. Org. Find any book and support authors across the country. With that out of the way, lets get started. Youll probably recognize voices of both of ourest go esest gues tonight. Host, Laura Zeigler, with npr washington, d. C. And covering the midwest and currently producer and commune engagement reporter at kansas citys npr and kcur. Laura, thank you for joining us tonight. Youre welcome, and good to be here. And jumping in now, i guess. [ laughter ] im delighted to be
Book you are looking for and support independent booksellers across the country. With that out of the way, lets get started. You probably recognize the voices of both of our guest tonight. Our host is laura singular. She has been a producer with npr in washington d. C. International npr reported covering the midwest. Currently, she is producer and Community Engagement report a kansas citys npr. Thank you for joining us tonight. You are welcome. Good to be here. Im jumping in and i guess. Im delighted to be here and introduce you to pam fessler, whos a Award Winning journalist at npr. She has covered poverty and election issues, voter issues, for many years. Now, in the tradition of npr journalists who you recognize as excellent storytellers, podcast and online. She has proven the ability to translate that ability to tell stories on the radio. The platform of the printed word. Of course her new book is called carvilles cure. I have the opportunity to talk to you. Thanks so much. The one