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If you're an artist or you'd like to get a little art in your life, there's a place for you in the Upper Valley: the AVA Gallery and Art Center in Lebanon. Today we meet the center's director, Bente Torjusen, and talk about the center's programs and mission. She also talks about her expertise in the art of Edvard Munch, whose best known work is "The Scream." Find out more about the gallery at www.avagallery.org.

Also, we hear from Peter Egelston, founder and owner of Smuttynose Brewing and the Portsmouth Brewery, whose Robust Porter won a gold medal at the Great American Beer Festival.

As New Hampshire enters its fifth year of wrangling over how to pay for public schools, a leading business group says the state is footing too much of the bill for education. The Business and Industry Association or BIA says it?s working on a plan to cut the state?s share by as much as a third. But critics say that would leave some towns struggling to pay for schools. NHPR?s Trish Anderton reports.

Lisa Peakes talks with Jim Gallagher,from the State Department of Environmental Services, about the low lake level and its consequences.

When he was a teenager, Max Ebel fled Nazi Germany to come to America. But after World War II broke out, he became a statistic. He was among the thousands of German-Americans arrested and detained for little or no reason. He ended up living in harsh conditions in rural North Dakota. Max talks about his experiences and his daughter Karen talks about her campaign to get government recognition for the treatment of German-Americans and to prevent similar ethnic targeting today. Find out more at www.foitimes.com/internment

The slowdown in the high-tech economy has hit hard in southern New Hampshire and the seacoast, where several companies have gone through layoffs. Unemployed high-tech workers have been gathering at so-called ?pink-slip parties? in Portsmouth, to polish their job-hunting schools and meet potential employers. NHPR?s Trish Anderton attended a pink-slip party last night and heard these stories from job-seekers.