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On The Monday, April 8, 2019 Edition Of Idaho Matters

  • Talking about the birds and bees with kids without cringing.
  • Marc Johnson chronicles the life of a prominent Montana rapscallion.
  • A documentary about the Minidoka internment camp debuts at The Egyptian.

- "The Talk" with your kids doesn't have to be awkward and embarrassing and on Monday's Idaho Matters, we talk with a doctor holding workshops that teach puberty, hygiene and sexuality in a direct, honest and comfortable manner.

- Writer Marc Johnson's new book, “Political Hell-Raiser: The Life and Times of Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana,” paints a picture of an irascible politician who supported FDR but was staunchly against intervening in WWII, until December 7, 1941. He was a pro-labor advocate who took on Montana's copper barons and was talked about as a potential presidential candidate in 1940. Johnson joins Idaho Matters to tell the story of the man who called himself "The Yankee from the West."

- Bamboo and Barbed Wire documents the stories of Japanese-Americans interned at the Minidoka War Relocation Center in Jerome County, Idaho. The film is premiering a The Egyptian Theatre and Idaho Matters talks with the film's director, Karen Day, and Katie Hirai, a descendent of a Minidoka internee and president of the Boise Valley Japanese American Citizens League.

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