In Focus with Carolyn Hutcheson

During America's 250th anniversary, the Alabama Genealogical Society hosts its fall seminar August 8th at American Village in Montevallo. Research chair Suzanna Rawlins visits In Focus with tips on how to become the family historian or storyteller. 

Author Marianne Weber has a new play about Truman Capote and Nelle Harper Lee traveling to Kansas to interview the murderers of a farm family for the book, "In Cold Blood."

In Focus brings you news today of an innovative project from Auburn University that will benefit rural Alabama for years to come. 

On the Newswrap from In Focus, Todd Stacy, host of Alabama Public Television's Capitol Journal, discusses the Defense Authorization Act recently passed by congress. And the Wildcard has a bank robber with a four-footed accomplice!

In Focus brings you a preview from director Tom Salter of a new Wetumpka Depot Theater play about Truman Capote and Harper Lee and their trip to Kansas to interview the killers portrayed in the book, "In Cold Blood."

The F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Museum in Montgomery is having a birthday party Saturday celebrating artist and novelist Zelda Fitzgerald, and In Focus has a preview. 

Today's In Focus brings you a visit with Sam Wooten, artistic director of Montgomery's Cloverdale Playhouse, about a fun play for the entire family!

On today's Newswrap from In Focus, Todd Stacy, host of Alabama Public Television's Capitol Journal, reports that students are making big gains in educational achievement. And the Wildcard is seared all over the floor!

With the increase in cases of the cyclospora parasite causing intestinal illness, the director of food safety for the Alabama Department of Agriculture and industries visits In Focus today with advice on how to avoid it!

Today's In Focus brings you part two of our conversation with two Florida archaeologists about a cat that a Spanish galleon brought to the Florida Gulf Coast in 1559.