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 How did your life collide with the headlines in 2007? What's your holiday performance story? 
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A few months ago we started thinking about where ideas come from, how they pass from one person to the next, as if inspiration were a baton that is handed from one person to another to another. We were curious if we followed the links, where they would lead.
This is what we did: A while back we asked America's Poet Laureate Ted Kooser to name a person who has influenced him. That led us to his doctor, Bill Lydiatt. Lydiatt said his influence was the writer Peter D. Kramer, author of Listening to Prozac. And now Peter Kramer brings us to the fourth link in our chain, Dr. Robert Coles, a world-renowned writer and child psychiatrist.  Chain of Influence: Music Prodigy Isaac AkersWe can all touch people's lives in unexpected ways. Host Barbara Bogaev tracks a musical child prodigy's chain of influence back to an imaginative 62-year-old scientist. Online resources:
Chain of InfluenceIn the latest of a series that connects people and their influences, Weekend America host Barbara Bogaev talks to female writers about the people and works that inspired them. The chain begins with Lan Samantha Chang, the new director of the prestigious Iowa Writers Workshop. (10/01/2005) "Chain of Influence" authors at the Public Radio BookSource:
Baruch HochmanYou never know whom you touch in this life. In the latest link of our chain of people who influenced others, Weekend America host Bill Radke talks with literature professor Baruch Hochman. He inspired religion scholar Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg. (06/25/2005) Aviva Gotlieb ZornbergIn a recent segment of our series that follows people and their greatest influences, the trail led from an eminent child psychologist to a man who works with a Catholic ministry for the poor. Weekend America host Barbara Bogaev speaks with his influence, author Aviva Gotlieb Zornberg, from her home in Israel. She's a Jewish scholar who specializes in interpreting biblical texts. (05/21/2005) Matt VogelIn our latest installment of the Chain of Influence series, we asked Harvard Professor Robert Coles who has most influenced his life. He didn't pick a lofty thinker or a favorite politician -- he named one of his former students, Matt Vogel. Vogel has taken a vow of poverty and serves food to the homeless in New York City, and Weekend America visited him on the job. (04/23/2005) Online resources:
Child Psychiatrist Robert ColesWeekend America is linking Americans through the people who influence them. We started with Poet Laureate Ted Kooser and now we've come to Robert Coles, a world-renowned writer and child psychiatrist. (03/26/2005) Author Peter KramerWeekend America is linking Americans through the people who influence them. We started with poet Ted Kooser and now we've come to Peter Kramer. He's the author of a book called "Listening to Prozac." (02/19/2005) Online resources:
Dr. Bill LydiattIn the first of our Chain of Influence series, Barbara Bogaev talked to Poet Laureate Ted Kooser about a person who influenced his life, Dr. Bill Lydiatt. In this second segment, Barbara talks with Dr. Lydiatt about the people who have made an impression on his life and work. (01/15/2005) Online resource:
Poet Laureate Ted KooserWeekend America has been following a chain of influence. In the first of this series, we talk to Poet Laureate Ted Kooser about the people who have influenced his life. (12/18/2004) Online resource:
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From the July 5 broadcast
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Awful Car Night
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National Brewery Museum Opening Ceremony
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Sand Sculpture Contest
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Oregon Coast Geezer Games
Newport, Ore.
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Annual Coolest Fourth of July Celebration
Fort Davis, Texas
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Maui Invitational Band Festival and Blues Fest
Wailuku, Hawaii
 
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