Coming up on MainStreet we will meet a retired Bowling Green surgeon who turned a Christmas gift into a life long hobby, visit a south central Kentucky native who lived his own Olympic dream, sail with the Port Oliver Yacht and experience the great minnow regatta and finally meet a Japanese musician who is a master of the biwa a Japanese instrument and hear his first performance outside of Japan.

Art comes to us in so many different forms from so many different places. On today’s program, we will experience carved art, graphic art, the art of sailing and a lost Japanese art, but first what began as a Christmas present some two decades ago has turned into a passionate livelihood for a retired Bowling Green surgeon and I think you will agree once you see Dr. Robert Goodwin’s wild foul carvings, duck decoys sure aren’t what they used to be.

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Onto the art of graphic design, as we meet South Central Kentucky’s Malcolm Grear – his graphic artistry is known worldwide.

Malcolm Grear
www.mgrear.com

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The Port Oliver Yacht club was born of sailing dreams and the wind driven boats that ply the Barren River Lake prove that where there is wind and water, likely there is sailing.

Port Oliver Yacht Club, Barren River Lake
Barren County Kentucky offer sailing lessons in the spring to anyone who is interested in the sport..

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Kakuho Ohashi
Biwa Master
The Battle of Okehazama

Recently we had the opportunity to take a rare first hand look into a Japanese art form that dates back to the 7th century. Kakuho Ohashi is a master biwan maker and he is one of the few living performers of traditional biwa music. The biwa is a pear shaped instrument it has four strings and four frets. The strings are whacked with a wooden stick and they emit kind of a twanging buzzing sound. We had the opportunity to capture Mr. Ohashi’s first performance outside of Japan. The performance was the prelude to Kentucky composer Dan Dutton’s love and time at the Center Theatre in Sommerset.

Coming up on MainStreet we will meet a Kentucky organization that is helping to rehabilitate injured birds of prey, we will travel to Murray to meet an artist who captures Kentucky’s life in the wild and finally we are going to go into the lion’s den to meet a man who provides a safe haven for abandoned exotic animals. Kentucky goes wild coming up on MainStreet.

On this edition of MainStreet, wild birds of prey, a Kentucky wildlife artist and into the lion’s den.

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The word raptor probably conjures up the images of wild birds of prey, free and unafraid. But as the people at Raptor Rehabilitation of Kentucky have found out, these birds fall victim to another type of predators – humans and it is their job to help these orphaned and injured birds. Let’s go now and meet Eileen Wicker – R.R.O.K.I.

Raptor Rehabilitation of KY, Inc.
PO box 18002
Louisville, KY 40261
502-491-1939
raptors@aye.net
www.raptorrehab.org

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Kentucky’s wildlife is both beautiful and universe. You know very few people get to see these creatures in their natural habitat, but for wildlife artist Phillip Powell, he not only is able to see these rare creatures but he captures them in a perfect moment as subjects of his paintings. Let’s travel now to Murray Kentucky to see where and how Phillip creates his magic. Phillip Powell 128 Guerin Road Murray KY 42071 800-869-0174 philpowell@hotmail.com www.fineart4u.com

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It is called Project Noah and just like the namesake, the project president Harold Maxwell is providing a safe haven for abandoned exotic animals.

Project Noah, Inc.
PO Box 101
Bowling Green, KY 42102-0101
270-846-1991
liontriumphant@mindspring.com

Coming up on MainStreet, see an interesting approach to archeology at an Antebellum farm, travel to Ohio County to learn a new type of recycling, learn when a tiny town was home to the Pittsburg Pirates and finally re-discover the lost resort at Chalybeate Springs.

On this edition of MainStreet, youthful archeologists, warehouse recycling, host the pirates and the lost resort.

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Archeology touches the past through the artifacts left behind as Jay Stottmann, lead archeologist at Riverside an Antebellum farm right outside of Louisville has discovered, it is not so easy to reconstruct buildings from what is left behind but he has found a way to get some new help with endless energy, questions and a real love of digging.

Riverside Building Blocks
Of History Program
Patti Linn
502-935-6809

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When you think of recycling, you probably think of glass, metals, plastics, recycling like you do at home. In Hartford, KY businessman Ron Peech has taken recycling one step further. There, recycling and manufacturing come together in the name of preservation.

Heartwood Industries
270-275-9424
heartpines@aol.com
www.americanheartwoods.com

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At the early half of the century, the small west Kentucky town of Dawson Springs was known for its mineral springs which were suppose to provide the cure all. From 1914 – 1917 the Pittsburg Pirates held their spring training there and they took advantage of the mineral waters. Well soon after the fad died and Dawson Springs returned to a quite little town. Today in honor of history, Dawson Springs has constructed a turn of the century style ball park on the very sight where H. Waggoner and the Pirates held their Spring Training over 80 years ago.

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In the early 1800s Chalybeate Springs located in Edmonson County was known as the center for rest and relaxation. The well to do from near and far would come and take advantage of the mineral waters. Well just like with Dawson Springs, time has a tendency to fade things away. Today the town of Chalybeate Springs is being revived – let’s go revisit the past with folklorist Dale Johnson.

Chalybeate Springs
Mammoth Cave National Park
270-758-2328
www.nps.gov/maca/