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Champagne Sundays Variety & Entertainment Radio

Airs Live Sunday, Dec. 7, 2008 from 11am - 1pm Pacific Time

Travel; Nature; History; Authors; and Gold!

Join your hosts Nancy J. Reid & Lisa D. Smith - editors of Big Blend Magazine – with a glass of champagne as they chat with Joe Zarki from Joshua Tree National Park; Leslie Roe from the Pioneer Museum in Flagstaff, AZ; R. Michael Wilson – author of ‘Outlaw Tales of Wyoming; Clare O’Donohue – author of ‘The Lover's Knot: A Simply Quilts Mystery’; and Richard Pettersson - Master Goldsmith/Gemologist.

MEET OUR SPECIAL GUESTS:

Joe Zarki - Joshua Tree National Park - Located in Southern California’s High Desert region, Joshua Tree National Park features 800,000 acres of desert, where the Colorado River Desert and Mohave Desert meet. Visitors to the park can experience ancient Joshua Trees, magnificent sunrises and sunsets, palm oases, phenomenal rock formations, desert big horn sheep, rock climbing, hiking, and more. Joe Zarki, Chief Information Officer for Joshua Tree National Park will join us to talk about the park’s history, natural habitats and wildlife, nature programs and ranger programs, recreational opportunities, and what visitors should pack and be prepared for when planning a trip to this beautiful park.

Leslie Roe - Pioneer Museum, Flagstaff, AZ - Housed in the former Coconino County Hospital for the Indigent (often called the ‘Poor Farm’ by the locals), this Arizona State Museum collects, preserves, and exhibits over 10,000 artifacts, documents, and photographs of the history of Flagstaff and Northern Arizona, and presents changing exhibits illustrating themes in Flagstaff’s history. Leslie Roe, the Director of the Pioneer Museum will join us to talk about Flagstaff’s fascinating history, and about the museum’s exhibits that feature farm machinery, livestock working gear, medical equipment, household items, toys and dolls, vehicles, costumes, pioneer memorabilia, plus a 1929 Baldwin articulated locomotive and a Santa Fe caboose.

R. Michael Wilson – Author of ‘Outlaw Tales of Wyoming - ‘Outlaw Tales of Wyoming’, the new book by Robert Michael Wilson, features the True Stories of the Cowboy State’s Most Infamous Crooks, Culprits, and Cutthroats. Through fourteen astonishing true stories, Outlaw Tales of Wyoming introduces you to a state you thought you knew – and a West wilder than you’ve ever imagined. R. Michael Wilson has been researching the Old West for fifteen years, following a quarter century as a law enforcement officer. An active member of the National Outlaw Lawman Association and Western Writers of America, he served as a consultant for an episode of The History Channel’s Wild West Tech.

Clare O’Donohue – Author of ‘The Lover's Knot: A Simply Quilts Mystery’ - Joining us to chat about quilting and her debut novel ‘The Lovers Knot: A Simply Quilts Mystery’, Clare O’Donohue is a freelance television writer/producer. She has worked worldwide on a variety of shows for the Food Network, the History Channel, and truTV, among others. She produced television’s most popular quilting show. Simply Quilts on HGTV, and is currently producing and writing for a variety of television crime shows, including Forensic Files. With a charming, but fresher take on the art of quilting, The Lover’s Knot introduces Nell Fitzgerald, who soons finds herself entangled in the hobby, and in solving a small town murder with the help of her grandmother and her quilting circle.

Richard Pettersson - Master Goldsmith/Gemologist, Borrego Goldsmith Jewelers - Richard Pettersson is a Master Goldsmith/Gemologist beginning as an apprentice in 1982, and evolving as an accomplished Master in exclusive stores in Palm Desert, California and Sedona, Arizona.  Richard earned a Gemologist Certificate from the Gemological Institute of America, and perfected his techniques through the Revere Academy of Jewelry Arts, owned and operated by San Francisco’s renowned designer Alan Revere. Today, Richard and DeNise Bowers-Pettersson run Borrego Goldsmith Jewelers in Borrego Springs, CA. Richard is joining us to talk about gold, and gemstone jewelry.

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