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Applause - Northeast Ohio Broadcast Archives July 10, 2008

Applause

The John Carroll University Northeast Ohio Broadcast Archives were established in 1988 to provide a permanent home for radio, television and print material related to this geographic area. We'll track down an American symbol that's still flying high - join us as the Museum of Natural History's Harvey Webster leads a search for the Bald Eagle in Ohio. There's a place in Ohio where the world's most inventive minds hang out... as exhibits. We'll take you to the National Inventors Hall of Fame in Akron.

If "Creativity" and "Practicality" were the names of two streets, they'd probably never cross. For most of his life, John Balazs of Ravenna has found the winding path of Creativity to be the more interesting route. Of course, as an industrial design student at the Cleveland Institute of Art, he learned to apply imaginative solutions to practical problems. And he passed that mindset on to his students at Kent State University. But now, in retirement, he's quite happy to use his skills in the pursuit of whimsy, inspiration and wonder. ideastream's David C. Barnett produced a portrait of a man and his muse.

July 10, 2008