Summary: Part A:At a time when Emmy winner and singer Amy Grant was emotionally struggling with her parent’s experience with dementia, she had temporarily stopped touring to take care of her ill father. Grant talks about why her newest album, How Mercy Looks from Here, is so dear to her heart and how her late mother inspired many of the lyrics. The album is a highly reflective and personal work that sums up recent events in her life from the death of her mother to care giving for her father. In this highly personal interview, Grant expresses her emotions tenderly and with amazing depth as an artist.Part B:In the 1930’s, baseball was already more than a national pastime, it had grown into a cultural phenomenon that pulled communities together and inspired a struggling country in the midst of a depression. When Hank Greenburg joined the Detroit Tigers in 1933, he was one of the most exciting sluggers in the game. As he rose to fame, he was usually cheered wherever he played. At the same time, he was also jeered and insulted, both on and off the field, suffering taunts and anti-Semitic threats. These hardships only drove him on to greater heights. Author John Rosengren reveals an intimate story of a life of integrity and triumph over adversity on and off the field.
