Mike Doran is commander of one of two crews that will be assigned to the USS Freedom, the first in a new class of combat ships being built for the US Navy. It’s being constructed in Marinette, Wisconsin – it’ll be commissioned in Milwaukee on November 8th. Our interview first aired last year. You can view a video of the Freedom’s christening here.
Melinda Myers is the host of Great Lakes Gardener on public television and author of numerous books, including Month-by-Month Gardening in Wisconsin. She also joins us month by month, as a regular contributor to Lake Effect.
Our piece on the Café Racer subculture comes to us from independent producers David Maxon and Paul Hancock. Maxon and Hancock both graduated from UWM – Hancock still lives here, Maxon lives in New York.
Justin Klug, Dan Hinz, Davey von Bohlen, and Dan Didier are the Milwaukee band “Maritime,” joined Bonnie North in Lake Effect’s Studio A… our in-studio concert was engineered by Tom May. Maritime plays a concert tonight at the Cactus Club, in Milwaukee.