Program Nine: Milestones

Life’s big events can be painful or productive, but they’ll be memorable.

“On the Verge,” a film by Tami Yeager, follows graduating high school students as they head out into the world.

Filmmaker Mary Beth Kirchner chronicles her mother’s difficult adjustment to widowhood.

“Butter Sculptures,” by Academy Award-winner Stephen Okazaki, goes to Minnesota’s Dairy Princesses beauty pageant, in which the entrants are sculpted in butter.

“My Adoption” tells an unusual story of adoptive parents and adopted child.

Music from Five for Fighting. Michel Martin hosts.