Steve Flairty, Kentucky author and senior correspondent for Kentucky Monthly magazine, discusses his book Kentucky's Everyday Heroes: Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things on the next edition of One to One. The program, hosted by Bill Goodman, airs Sunday, May 25 at 2/1 p.m. CT on KET1 and Tuesday, May 27 at 7:30/6:30 p.m. CT on KET2.
Kentucky's Everyday Heroes is a collection of 40 biographical portraits in which Flairty describes regular people from all over the Commonwealth who are making positive differences in the lives of others. Some of the people Flairty writes about are Patrick Henry Hughes, a blind University of Louisville student who plays trumpet with the school’s marching band; Kendall Harvey of Adair County, who has made 150 custom bicycles for children with Down syndrome; and Shad Baker of Letcher County, who is leading a massive project to mark a hiking trail on Pine Mountain.
Flairty also discusses his experiences traveling around the state, including dealing with regional differences, sorting through the multitude of story ideas he received and locating the people he wanted to include in his book.
One to One is a KET production, produced by Bill Goodman and Cindy Asher. Following the broadcast, One to One is available for on-demand videostream viewing at www.ket.org/publicaffairs/onetoone.htm and podcasting at www.ket.org/rss.
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