World War II Roadshow

We invite veterans, family members, and anyone with a WWII interest to bring World War II photos, letters, souvenirs, and mementos to share your family stories. This event will be held on Saturday, June 23, from 10am to 4pm, at WOSU@COSI, 333 W. Broad Street, Columbus, Ohio.

All will be videotaped and posted to WOSU’s ohiowarstories.org, and some will be included in a local WOSU TV program airing in September.

To reserve time for your story, call us at 614-292-9678, or email us at wosu@osu.edu.

The Columbus World War II Roadshow coincides with Ken Burns’ The War, a 14-hour television series airing in September, 2007, on WOSU TV.

WOSU Online Auction

WOSU’s Auction is available online.

Bidding has been extended through July 2^nd and closes at 3PM.

 
Bid now on hundreds of items left over from the Travel, Leisure and Home Auction and Chefs in the City, plus newly acquired items not featured on television.  Bidding is open to the public, invite your friends and family to visit http://www.wosu.org/auction and click on the “Bid Now…” link to start bidding.

            Some items up for bid include:

      Cameron Mitchell Gift Certificates

      Amish-built Oak Entertainment Center

      Shadowbox Cabaret Parties

      Coffee Makers

      An Executive Business Chair

      Rosetta Stone Software

      The Worthington Inn Restaurant Gift Certificates

      A weekend at Daytona Beach

      Jeni’s Ice Cream Signature Gift Set

      Tecumseh! Tickets

      ShoeHats

      Overnight Canoe Trip for 2

      Renaissance Festival Tickets

      Winery Tour and Tasting Packages

      Bluefish, Seafood on the Cap Gift Certificates

      PBS Videos, including Animusic, Celtic Women, and Dr. Denese

Registering to bid is free and available now.  Bid high to buy.

Kaye Ballard

Kaye Ballard
Recorded June 1, 2007

LISTEN (Running time: 36:56. 33.7 MB)

CHRISTOPHER PURDY WITH KAYE BALLARD

Eric French, the indispensable engineer who helps me with these interviews, said to me the other day: “Dude. What’s up with all the death and politico stuff?” And I realized that we’ve been heavy on grief counselors and amnesty advocates and death penalty opponents and the wonderful but serious conversationst hat go with those subjects.

Then a new book caught my eye in the library, “How I Lost 10 Pounds in 53 Years” by Kaye Ballard. Born in Cleveland eighty-one years ago, Kaye Ballard (Caterina Ballotta) has done TV series (The Mothers in Law, The Doris Day Show), Broadway (The Golden Apple; Carnival; Molly; Nunsense) Vegas, clubs, pictures, you name it. She talks about her life in show business going back to her days with Spike Jones and His Band in the 1940s, and mentions her big break at Columbus’s Club Gloria. We’ll hear about her famous friends with whom she worked: Bette Davis, Desi Arnaz, Fred Ebb, Doris Day, Marc Blitzstein, Lenny Bruce, Jimmy Durante, and Lucille Ball among them, and she reminds us of great entertainers forgotten today: people such as Billy DeWolfe and Virginia Graham .

If you love showbiz you’ll love this conversation. If you don’t love showbiz, get over yourself, listen anyway and find How I Lost 10 Pounds in 53 Years.

With thanks as always to Eric French!