This week on ‘Sunday Morning’ (Aug. 9)

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Guest host: Seth Doane

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COVER STORY: Rescuing a candlepin bowling alley helps bolster a Maine community | Watch Video
Autumn Mowery was 18 when the candlepin bowling alley in Ellsworth, Me., where she worked, was threatened with the wrecking ball. She took it over, challenging herself to keep the lights on in a pillar of the community – and in so doing Mowery found a way to help others in need of a safe place. Lee Cowan reports.

For more info:

• Ellsworth Candlepin Bowling Alley, Ellsworth, Me.
• GoFundMe: Ellsworth Candlepin Bowling Alley
• Ellsworth Candlepin Bowling Alley (Facebook)
• 207 Collectibles, Ellsworth, Me.

     
ALMANAC: August 9 (Video)
“Sunday Morning” looks back at historical events on this date.

NATURE: Protecting the Venus fly trap (Video)
The carnivorous Venus fly trap is native to the Carolinas, but its population is dwindling due to loss of habitat. Correspondent Seth Doane talks with botanist Julie Moore, who has spent much of her life helping to save these remarkable plants; and with Damon Waitt, director of the North Carolina Botanical Garden, who discusses the unusual traits of a species that Charles Darwin called the most interesting plant in the world. (Originally broadcast April 26, 2026.)

For more info:

• Venus Flytrap Champions
• North Carolina Botanical Garden, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Boiling Spring Lakes, N.C. City Manager Gordon Hargove

      
SHORT: Dog Days of Summer (Video)
How did the “dog days of summer” get their name?

U.S.: Visiting the Iowa 80 Truckstop, the world’s largest (Video)
The Iowa 80 Truckstop, on Interstate 80, claims to be the world’s largest truck stop – and who would argue? Luke Burbank pulls up to the Walcott, Iowa truck stop larger than 150 football fields, catering to those who keep America moving, which features everything from 24-hour restaurants and maintenance shops, to a dentist, ministry office, and movie theater. (Originally broadcast Aug. 31, 2025.)

For more info:

• Iowa 80 Truckstop, Walcott, Iowa

PASSAGE: Jeanne Gibson, a.k.a. “Rosie the Riveter” (Video)
Jeanne Gibson, who at age 18 joined the war effort by becoming a “Rosie the Riveter” to help build Navy destroyers as a welder, died July 29, 2026 at age 100. Seth Doane looks back on the life of a woman who stepped up during World War II. Gibson later earned a Ph.D. and worked as an educator, while continuing to tell the story about the contributions of millions of Rosies during World War II. 

For more info: 

• Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Historical Park, Richmond, Calif. 

Special thanks to: 

• Tammy Brumley
• Jane Tyska
• Julia Robinson for the Gary Sinise Foundation
• MOHAI, Vigor Industrial Collection on Todd Shipyards, 2023.36.84

U.S.: How THC tests landed more than a thousand new mothers onto child abuse registries | Watch Video
In more than 40 states, marijuana is now a legal method of relieving pain. But in Idaho, more than a thousand new mothers have ended up on a child abuse registry after testing positive for THC – a chemical found in marijuana – following childbirth. In other states, women have even been sent to jail. The findings of a joint investigation by “CBS Sunday Morning” and the Marshall Project raise hard questions about who gets punished, and who doesn’t. Erin Moriarty reports. [This story was produced in partnership with The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice system.]

WEB EXTRA: Dr. Stephen Patrick on drug testing new mothers (Video)
In this web exclusive, Dr. Stephen Patrick, a newborn ICU doctor and researcher on how the opioid crisis affects pregnant women and infants, talks with CBS News’ Erin Moriarty about what happens after a mother tests positive for a substance during pregnancy. Patrick argues that automatically referring mothers to child welfare or law enforcement over a single drug test – even for substances like marijuana, which are legal in much of the country – can create more harm than it prevents: driving women away from prenatal care, disproportionately affecting Black and Native American families, and separating moms from newborns without evidence of harm.

For more info:

• The Marshall Project
• Dr. Richard Hearn, Hearn Law PLC
• Child and Family services, Idaho Dept. of Health and welfare
• Attorney Erin Bailey
• Solicitor Jimmy Richardson, Horry County, S.C.

HARTMAN: The bond between dog and duck (Video)
Barley, the golden retriever, lost her spunk once she started taking medication. But when Justin and Tori Cannarelli, of New York, brought Louie, a duckling, home for a short visit, the bird and the dog immediately bonded – and Barley was once again good as gold. Steve Hartman reports on a healing friendship that transcends species. 

SUNDAY PROFILE: The life and mystique of Tim Curry (Video)
In 50 years on screen, Tim Curry, star of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” “Clue” and “It,” has played roles campy, comical, and menacingly sinister, yet his most inscrutable role is still Tim Curry. The actor talks with Turner Classic Movies host Ben Mankiewicz about his memoir “Vagabond” (which is decidedly not a Hollywood tell-all); the stroke he suffered in 2012, and learning how to speak again; and why he never sought to curry stardom. (Originally broadcast Oct. 19, 2025.)

WATCH AN EXTENDED INTERVIEW: Tim Curry (Video)
In 2012 actor Tim Curry suffered a stroke, after which he had to relearn how to speak. In this web exclusive, the steadfastly private Curry talks with Turner Classic Movies host Ben Mankiewicz about his memoir “Vagabond,” and his life, career, and medical story.

READ AN EXCERPT: “Vagabond: A Memoir” by Tim Curry

For more info:

• “Vagabond: A Memoir” by Tim Curry (Grand Central), in Hardcover, eBook and Audio formats, available October 21 via Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Bookshop.org
• timcurry.co.uk

BOOKS: Tales from Gay Talese | Watch Video
For more than six decades, Gay Talese has been a celebrated legend among writers and reporters – a leading practitioner of the “New Journalism.” At 94, he talks with New Yorker writer Kelefa Sanneh of a career writing about the famous and not-so-famous (including mobsters, aging sports figures and nudists), and why his renowned 1966 Esquire article about Frank Sinatra didn’t require his actually talking to the Chairman of the Board.

For more info:

• Gay Talese (Official site)
• “A Town Without Time: Gay Talese’s New York – The Master Journalist’s Greatest Reporting on the City’s Eccentric Characters from the 1950s to Today” by Gay Talese (Mariner Books Classics), in Hardcover, Trade Paperback, eBook and Audio formats, available via Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Bookshop.org
• Robert Boynton, journalism professor, New York University

NATURE: Otters in California (Extended Video)
We leave you this Sunday morning among river otters frolicking at Point Reyes National Seashore in Marin County, Calif. Videographer: Lee McEachern.      

WEB EXCLUSIVES:

MARATHON: Bookstores (YouTube Video)
To honor National Book Lover’s Day (August 9), “CBS Sunday Morning” pulls some stories off the shelf about treasured bookstores, and the bibliophiles who love them. Featuring:

• A visit to Powell’s, the nation’s largest independent bookstore, in Portland, Ore. (1999)
• Ann Patchett: Writer, and purveyor, of books (2017)
• Grolier, in Cambridge, Mass., a bookshop devoted to poetry (1983)
• Hay-on-Wye, the Welsh booktown that is a reader’s, and author’s, paradise; featuring Martin Cruz Smith, P.D. James and Doris Lessing (1996)
• Dickman’s, one of the largest booksellers in the country, housed in the middle of Iowa farmland (2008)
• A new chapter for the Book Thing, a charity “bookstore” in Baltimore (2017)
• The Massachusetts town of Stoughton pickets a store selling adult books (1983)
• How independent bookstores (like New York City’s Strand, and EyeSeeMe, an African-American children’s bookstore in St. Louis) found ways to cope during the COVID pandemic (2020)
• Hobart, a tiny town in upstate New York, where bookstores rule (2024)
• A moving bookstore finds helping hands – hundreds of them (2025)

MARATHON: Masters in architecture (YouTube Video)
Enjoy these “Sunday Morning” profiles of some of the leading architects of the 20th and 21st centuries. Featuring: 

• Chicago’s towering architectural landmarks
• Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas
• I.M. Pei on designing the JFK Presidential Library
• E. Fay Jones’ chapels in the Arkansas woods
• The soaring simplicity of Mies van der Rohe
• The Glass House of Philip Johnson
• Jean Nouvel, making his mark on the New York skyline
• The modernist works of Zaha Hadid 
• Roth’s whimsical, living architecture in the Mexican jungle 
• The ornamental architecture of Chicago’s Louis Sullivan 
• The legacy of Los Angeles architect Paul R. Williams 
• Relocating a Frank Lloyd Wright house across country 
• “Parkitecture”: The designs within Grand Canyon National Park by architect Mary Colter
• Moshe Safdie skyscrapers, inspired by (among other things) Lego
• Training a new generation of architects at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West in Arizona
• The pods of Tokyo’s modular Nakagin Tower  

MARATHON: All things birds (YouTube Video)
“CBS Sunday Morning” flies around the U.S., watching fascinating birds and learning about our feathered friends. Featuring:  

• Tagging migrating whimbrel shorebirds
• Good news for the protection of migrating birds
• New methods, designs aim to cut down on bird strikes
• Christian Cooper, the “extraordinary birder”
• Student’s unique talent that’s for the birds
• A composer transcribes bird songs
• Merlin Bird ID app works magic
• Art, music and birdsong
• Bird illustrator David Allen Sibley

FROM THE ARCHIVES: “Once” songwriter Glen Hansard (Video)
Irish singer-songwriter Glen Hansard, an Oscar-winner for “Once” (which became a Tony Award-winning musical), died July 29, 2026 at age 56. In this March 17, 2013 “Sunday Morning” profile, Hansard talked with Anthony Mason about growing up as a street performer in Dublin, and his meteoric rise to fame as a member of the rock band The Frames and (with Markéta Irglová) half of the duo The Swell Season. Also: A web extra featuring Hansard busking on the streets of New York City. 

GALLERY: Notable deaths in 2026
A look back at the esteemed personalities who’ve left us this year, who’d touched us with their innovation, creativity and humanity.

GALLERY: Summer music highlights of 2026
Summer is the time to enjoy live music, indoors and out. Scroll through our gallery of some of 2026’s leading musical acts, featuring images by CBS News photojournalist Jake Barlow and photographers Ed Spinelli and Kirstine Walton.

The Emmy Award-winning “CBS News Sunday Morning” is broadcast on CBS Sundays beginning at 9:00 a.m. ET. Executive producer is Rand Morrison.

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