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Nancy's Bookshelf: A fond farewell with Ken Rose and wine appreciation with Marian Baldy

Retired professor Ken Rose, who taught history and social science for 25 years, passed away on May 18. His interview on Nancy's Bookshelf is rerun in his honor.

Listen to a conversation on his 2008 published, "Myth and the Greatest Generation: A Social History of Americans in World War II."

Also, retired professor Marian Baldy taught wine appreciation at Chico State University and wrote about it in "The University Wine Course: A comprehensive Text & Self Tutorial."

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Nancy Wiegman has a master's degree in French linguistics from Indiana University and taught yoga and foreign languages at CSU Fresno and the College of Charleston before moving to Chico in 1990.
Matt Fidler is a producer and sound designer with over 15 years’ experience producing nationally distributed public radio programs. He has worked for shows such as Freakonomics Radio, Selected Shorts, Studio 360, The New Yorker Radio Hour and The Takeaway. In 2017, Matt launched the language podcast Very Bad Words, hitting the #28 spot in the iTunes podcast charts.