Local Programs

Coming Up on Screentime

July 29

Missouri's First Poet Laureate: Walter Bargen
Airs Thursday, July 29 at 9pm

In 2008, Walter Bargen was named the first Poet Laureate of Missouri. This program by KMOS showcases Mr. Bargen reading some of his works both at home and at the Monserrat Poetry Festival, and talking a bit about the nuts and bolts of writing poetry.

August 12

Canteen Spirit
Airs Thursday, August 12 at 9pm

The Canteen Spirit tells the story of the North Platte Canteen of World War II. The Canteen began as a case of mistaken identity and grew into a legend. At a railroad depot in the middle of America the people of North Platte, Nebraska, and communities beyond offered food,friendship and unconditional love to soldiers they didn't know and who might never return. Six WWII veterans from across America return to North Platte to share their memories and reunite with former Canteen workers for a homecoming, a hero's welcome and a last chance to find lost love at a place they called the North Platte Canteen. Historic film, photos and reenactments create a powerful sense of time and place.

August 19

Picture Perfect: Iowa in the 1940's
Airs Thursday, August 19 at 9pm

From 1939 until 1942, Everett Kuntz snapped hundreds of photos capturing everyday life in his hometown Ridgeway, Iowa. But it wasn't until 2002, shortly after learning he had cancer, that Kuntz would print the photos.

Immediately, he noticed how the images preserved a time thought to be lost forever ... a time when America was still emerging from the Great Depression and rapidly approaching a great war.

Yet the photos depict a sense of hope in the people of Ridgeway, an innocence that epitomized the calm before the storm.

Kuntz's photographs show the faces, fields and porches of small-town America before World War II and stand as a historical record of both a bygone time and a rural Iowa that's fading away.

For more information, visit Iowa Public Television's site.