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Mental health providers say many people who witnessed Hurricanes Katrina and Rita are experiencing symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder. We'll find out how crises affect people differently, whether they're on the battlefield or surviving a natural disaster. Liz's guest is Louis Josephson, the new CEO of Riverbend Community Mental Health. He moved to the state recently from New York City, where he was the Assistant Commissioner for Child and Adolescent Services after the September eleventh terrorist attacks.

Los Lobos brought Latin American music into the U.S. mainstream decades before anyone had heard of Marc Anthony or Ricky Martin. The band from East L.A. released their first full-length album to critical acclaim back in 1984, and a few years later they topped the charts with their rendition of Ritchie Valens' La Bamba. They've been going strong ever since, and this weekend they'll bring their mix of rock 'n' roll and Mexican folk music to the Lebanon Opera House. Also on the show we hear a vintage interview Shay Zeller did with Marylou Ashooh Lazos about the history of baseball in New Hampshire. Ashooh Lazos is the curator of the Manchester Millyard Museum.

Ralph Pope may know everything you ever wanted to know about lichens but were afraid to ask. His new book explores the down and dirty clingy tree huggers in exquisite detail. We'll find out why tenacious flora thrive in such lousy weather, and what's so cozy about a rock.

We'll also talk with Bruce Donald, a Dartmouth researcher who's helped create the world's smallest untethered, controllable robot. You can read more about the tiny machine and watch videos about it by clicking here.

We end the show with a song by The Everyday Visuals. The New Hampshire band's album "Media Crush" addresses the difficulty of getting radio play in an increasingly overcrowded industry.

Economist Russ Thibeault makes a living analyzing economic trends but has spent most of his free time this past year studying and painting the environment around tiny Perley Pond in Laconia. The state's 400-year-old oak tree lives there, along with countless other bits of wildlife. His show of watercolors and digital photographs documents the place, and opens at the Belknap Mill in Laconia on Friday September 23.

Kim Ponders was one of the first women to fly in a combat zone during her stint in the first gulf war. Her new novel, "The Art of Uncontrolled Flight", draws upon her six years of experience flying over the Middle East to tell the story of a similar, fictional pilot. We'll talk with her about the ups and downs of life as a woman in a military dominated by men and in a region ruled by Muslim standards. You can read Kim's Blog, Femme La Guerre, here.