Thursday, April 26 – Little Women is a classic novel from Louisa May Alcott. It's getting the PBS Masterpiece treatment, with a new series beginning on May 13th. Prairie Public is hosting an advance screening of the first hour this Sunday 2pm at the North Dakota Heritage Center in Bismarck and at Prairie Public's Fargo studio. Prairie Public's Darcy Bakkegard is a former English teacher. We visit about the novel and the evolution of teaching classics to students. ~~~ Federal food benefit programs can be vital for low-income immigrant families. In part four of Harvest Public Media’s series on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Esther Honig reports from Colorado that there’s a growing anxiety that enrollment in SNAP could lead to deportation. ~~~ NDSU history professor Tom Isern share’s this week’s Plains Folk essay, “Martyr Mother.” ~~~ The Bismarck-Mandan Civic Chorus is celebrating its 40th anniversary. News director Dave Thompson visits with Tom Porter, who has been a member of the chorus from the start, and is now in his 25th year as chorus director. In addition to hearing about the big anniversary concert coming up on Saturday, we hear a little history, and get a preview of some of the chorus’s other outreach efforts – perhaps coming to a town near you. ~~~ Doug and Ashley have our What’s Happening calendar of events.
Darcy Bakkegard on Classic Literature ~ 40 Years of the Bis-Man Civic Chorus
