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In the Local Spotlight
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
 Illinois
Adventure
WTVP 47’s own Illinois Adventure
continues on Nov. 5 with visits to the Spurlock Museum on the
campus of the University of Illinois in Urbana for a glimpse of
the human journey through time and across continents and to the
Randolph County Museum and Archives in Chester.
On Nov. 12, the program visits the
Lewis and Clark State Historic Site, a re-creation of the Corps
of Discovery's first winter encampment and the starting point of
the historic westward expedition. They also visit the Weber
House and Garden in Streator and the Ulysses S. Grant Home State
Historic Site in Galena.
On Nov. 19, it’s on to DeKalb, the
"Barbed City," for a brand new Adventure. Jim Wilhelm tours the
buildings and history of the Ellwood mansion, the beautiful
Victorian home of Isaac Ellwood, one of the kings of barbed wire
fencing. The program also visits a home in Oakland whose owner
went to court for the freedom of slaves, the Antique Auto Museum
in Quincy, and the state’s largest Percheron horse farm.
Illinois Adventure, hosted by Jim
Wilhelm and produced by William Baker, generally airs on
Thursdays at 8 p.m. and is repeated the following Sundays at 4
p.m.
At Issue
 WTVP’s
public affairs
series At Issue
continues on
Thursday, Nov. 5
with Peoria
Mayor Jim Ardis
and City Manager
Scott Moore
discussing
Peoria’s Budget
Crunch. On Nov.
12, Rocco
Landesmen,
Executive
Director of the
National
Endowment for
the Arts,
expands his
knowledge of
Peoria Arts on
the National
Stage. And on
Nov. 19,
District 150
Superintendent
Ken Hinton, who
will be retiring
his post on Dec.
1st after four
decades of
service to the
district, will
join host H
Wayne Wilson for
a personal look
back and a
professional
look forward to
the district’s
future.
The half-hour
programs
generally air on
Thursdays at
8:30 p.m. and
are repeated the
following
Sundays at 4:30
p.m.
Interesting
People
 In
a recently taped
interview,
Interesting
People host Ed
Sutkowski sits
down with
William C.
Stone, Founder
and CEO of SS&C
Technologies, a
mission-critical
software and
software-enabled
service for the
global financial
services
industry. The
interview will
air on Sunday,
Nov. 1 at 9:30
p.m. and will
repeat
Wednesday, Nov.
25 at 9:30 p.m.
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For further information contact Linda Miller, WTVP Vice President of
Programming,
at (309) 495-0591 or linda.miller@wtvp.org
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