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The Sensory Garden, A Radio Exploration

Mark Munger

The public garden is often designed for the eye: hedges shaped gracefully, flowers arranged colorfully. For many, visions of gardens, memories of past gardens, are sight dominant. But the Sioux City Lions Club has envisioned a garden to be experienced by our other senses. As you walk through it, signs with information written in high contrast letters as well as Braille direct you to touch, smell, and listen to the plants and environment. Tom Venesky, Iowa's only blind Master Gardener, gave us a tour. Join us. 

    

Mark Munger first began listening to public radio as a child in the back of his Mom's VW Vanagon, falling in love with the stories on Morning Edition and Prairie Home Companion and the laughter of Click and Clack on Car Talk. Through KWIT, he was introduced to the great orchestras and jazz artists, the sounds of folk and blues, and the eclectic expressions of humanity. This American Life and Radiolab arrived in his formative college years and made him want nothing more than to be a part of the public radio world.
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