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Teacher by day and rapper by night, Joe Ruiz, may not have won NPR's Tiny Desk Contest - but it has given him a big break. He and his fellow musicians in Rhymer/Educator will open for Vanilla Ice July 14th at the LaPorte County Fairgrounds.

Thanks to everyone who came out June 7th to join us at Meet Me on the Island. Check to see if you are featured in any of our many photos.

Just in time for the Meet Me on the Island season, WVPE is thrilled to present Four Winds as our partner in bringing you the 2019 Entertainment Series. 

Slideshow of images from Elizabeth Warren's campaign stop June 5th at the RV/MH Hall of Fame. 

Wednesday at 8pm 

Adults telling kids who they are, and kids wondering — are they right? That is the theme Wednesday night on "This American Life" at 8pm on 88.1 WVPE. 

"Big Picture Science" Tuesday at 8pm

Our often simplistic view of animals ignores their remarkable adaptive abilities.  Stumbly sloths are in fact remarkably agile and a vulture’s tricks for thermoregulation can’t be found in an outdoors store. 

Our ignorance about some animals can even lead to their suffering and to seemingly intractable problems.

Monday, June 3, 2019 at 9 PM

Hello World!  Here comes Jigjam, an award-winning quartet originating from Ireland with a passion for Americana and Bluegrass tunes. They’ll join host, George Schricker, for a discussion of their beginnings and a fine rendering of some of their great songs.  The band features Jamie McKeogh, Cathal Guinan, Daithi Melia, and Gavin Strappe and all are on hand for the lively and fun conversation.  You’ll soon hear why Folk Words called them “an unadulterated display of accomplished musicianship, skill, and talent.” 

All wars are the same, it is said; only the scenery changes. And the repercussions are pretty much the same too. 

Over the course of five years producers working with the Public Radio Exchange gathered stories of surviving members of Delta Company, a Vietnam-era paratrooper unit. Over the course of the last two years it turned from a book into a radio story. 

WVPE is proud to be a media sponsor of summer day camps for girls at St. Mary’s College.

Camps focusing on fine arts, fashion, forensics, sports, self-esteem and spirituality take place in late June and throughout July.

Campers get to live in the residence halls and eat in the dining halls at St. Mary’s.  

More information about the camps is available here:

https://www.saintmarys.edu/camps

Monday, May 20, 2019 at 9 PM

Neuroscientists and gerontologists see evidence that people become more vulnerable to financial exploitation as they age. Con artists, fraudsters, even family, friends and caregivers take money from seniors and abuse their trust.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Former Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning and Holocaust survivor Eva Kor of Terre Haute head the Indiana Historical Society's 2019 class of Living Legends.