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Amos Townsend is a retired physician and Air Force Colonel who served as a flight surgeon in Vietnam at the height of the American war. He later returned to Southeast Asia with his wife for five years to help refugees at a refugee camp on the Thailand-Cambodia border. He tells host John Walters why his work in the health field took him to more than 40 countries.

Stephen Richardson waited until his adoptive mother died before launching a search for his biological parents. He grew up in England and was told his father had been a chauffeur to his mother's titled family. When he began his investigation in earnest, he found out who his birth mother was but the clues to his father's identity remain elusive. Stephen's book, Lost & Found is distributed in Britain, but available in the U.S. through him at stephen.arichardson@comcast.net.

The Great Marsh is a very special place on the Seacoast of New Hampshire and Massachusetts. The marsh has a complex ecosystem and is a refuge for many kinds of wildlife. Bill Sargent is a writer and naturalist who spent a year living in a house on the Great Marsh. His new book, about the experince, is The House on Ipswich Marsh.

Sculptor Emile Birch says it's a challenge for the general public to know how to approach a sculpture. He should know -- most of his work can be found in very public places around New Hampshire and he often sits near them to observe the reactions of people walking by. Emile talks about how he came to sculpture by accident and why he prefers to work outdoors.

Dan Snow is a master builder of dry stone walls, and is one of only a handful of Americans to be certified as such by the Dry Stone Walling Association in Great Britain. But Dan's work is more than what one sees along a field line; he's a creative artist in an unusual medium.

Dan will read and sign books at Borders Books and Music in Keene this Saturday, May 21 at 1:00pm.