Two Main Street with David James is WNIN's flagship public affairs program in our station on Evansville's riverfront. The program features lively one on one interviews conducted by one of the area's most well known journalists.
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"The Knife Thrower's Daughter" is among the films and music videos being featured at the Victory International Film Festival. It's the true-life story of Mary Hurst growing up in Wild West Shows and performing on the "Wheel of Death.". .Mary and Festival Artistic Director Jordan Barclay join David James on Two Main Street.
After being kidnapped in his homeland in Venezuela, Alfonso Vidal shares his journey to Evansville in a new book "A Long Way from Caracas." It's an adventure story with a shocking twist. Was there divine intervention?
The newly named Community Foundation of Southwest Indiana serves nine counties and foundation executives Jill Carpenter and Tim Jones join David James on Two Main Street to talk about the foundation's mission and history of charitable giving.
The new book "The War is Upon Us' gives the reader a snapshot of New Harmony's contributions and sacrifices during the Civil War. On Two Main Street David James talks to the authors Bill Bartelt and Ryan Rokicki about three key characters in the book: Robert Dale Owen who had the ear of President Lincoln, Owens's brother Richard who ran a Confederate POW camp only to be later captured by the rebels and Capt. James Penn Bennet who wrote moving letters home to his wife and children.
David talks with local author and historian Kelley Coures. His new book is Indignation: A History of Politics and Race in Evansville, Indiana 1870-1950.
David James takes us behind the gates of Igleheart Gardens. A 25 acre estate on Evansville's east side that features manicured gardens, numerous sculptures and a detailed history of one of Evansville's famous families.
Are you stressed out? Have a question about mental health? Do you need some professional advice? Psychiatrist Jay Fawver is joining the WNIN Channel 9 lineup with his long-running program "Matters of the Mind." David James introduces us to Doctor Fawver on Two Main Street.
Attention word nerds: Martha Barnette, co-host of public radio's "A Way with Words" joins David James for a lively conversation about Martha's latest book "Friends with Words, Adventures in Languageland."
Author Lori Cates Hand joins David James for a retro trip to the 70s and 80s in her unapologetic, tell-all-book "Ohio River Valley Girl." What was the social life of a teenage girl? Lori shares her triumphs and misadventures in a narrative set to music. And yes, the reader can listen along..
David talks with author Craig Fehrman. His new book is This Vast Enterprise: A New History of Lewis and Clark. This book moves beyond the traditional focus on Lewis and Clark, but rather highlights those that travelled with and helped along the journey westward, like York, Sacagawea and Black Buffalo.
Youth Build Evansville is a second chance program for high school dropouts. Youth Build's Lea Sconiers and Andy Hartman join David James to share success stories as these young people literally rebuild their lives by finishing their education, learning a construction skill and receiving a paycheck as they go back to school.
Evansville's first radio station, WGBF 1280 AM, is now silent after more than a century of broadcasting. With the radio now off the air, two local radio veterans join David James on Two Main Street to share their audio memories.
There's a new non-profit to help local military veterans in crisis. We learn about the mission of Veterans Overwatch as board members Savannah Whicker and John Noback join David James on Two Main Street.
There's a new non-profit to help local military veterans in crisis. We learn about the mission of Veterans Overwatch as board members Savannah Whicker and John Noback join David James on Two Main Street.
Hard times and hard ankle characters fill the pages of "Turn a Blind Eye' the debut novel of Henderson native Billy Parks Burton, Burton and award-winning journalist Chuck Stinnett join David James on Two Main Street to revisit the gambling culture in No Man's Land and the crusade to clean up corruption and vice.
Could a local priest be on the path to sainthood? Two Main Street shares the legacy of the late Father Jerry Ziliak who spent 50 years serving the poorest of the poor in India. His niece, Mary Ellen Ziliak, has begun the petition process to consider the priest as a future saint. Her new book is "Touching the Untouchables."
David talks with Author Chris Underwood. They discuss his recent trip on the LST 325 as a volunteer crew member. And the latest book in his Grid Down Series, Cold Winter. In it, the LST is back in action with a new enemy.
David talks with the author of Lost Treasure of Indiana, Joseph S. Pete.
David talks with Dr. Wolf Gruner, a Holocaust and Genocide Scholar, and Dr. Todd J. Schroer, Chair of the Criminal Justice Department at The University of Southern Indiana. Dr. Gruner is the 2025 Rechnic Holocaust speaker at USI. He tells the story of how ordinary Jews resisted the Nazis in Hitler's Germany.
David talks with Tri State Food Bank's Resource Development Officer Joe Klemczewski about the state of food insecurity and what the food bank can do to help those in need in 2025.
