As a young man, Jack Benny played violin in a vaudeville theater in his home state of Illinois.

VOA: special.2009.03.09

Werner Herzog's movie "Grizzly Man" tells about the bear expert Timothy Treadwell who lived with and studied bears in the state of Alaska.

VOA: special.2009.03.25

They battle and survive a Mississippi flood for the reward of returning to state prison as the tall man did in the story "Old Man."

VOA: special.2010.01.10