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As a son Frank Kovac Jr. fell in love with stargazing, painting glow-in-the-dark constellations on his bedroom wall structure and appealing friends with an observatory he built in his Chicago backyard. As he reached adulthood, Kovac didn't forget about his youth dreams of reaching the stars. He started scheming to bring the universe home. While working at a newspaper mill as a man, Kovac tirelessly built a 22-foot rotating globe planetarium in the woods. Despite failures and collapses, the amateur astronomer singlehandedly built a North Woods treasure, painting more than 5,000 glowing stars-dot by dot in glowing paints. Today, Kovac and his unique planetarium take people to the superstars every day. The Man Who Coated the World: THE STORYLINE of the Planetarium in the Center of the North Woods introduces listeners to the mild-mannered astronomy aficionado whose creativity, ingenuity, fervor, and strength realized a dream of galactic proportions. The story of the stargazer from Wisconsin's North Woods so inspired two newspapermen, writers Ron Legro and Avi Lank, that they sought to document the storyline of the Kovac Planetarium for a fresh technology of stargazers and dreamers.
