www.wgby.org Sunday, September 27, 8pm This new Ken Burns documentary series traces the birth of the national park idea and its evolution for nearly 150 years. It is the uniquely American idea of preserving extraordinary places in the country for the enjoyment of everyone.
The winter season in the park is winding down. A couple of special visitors who saw the wonders of winter in Yellowstone this year are the principals behind a new documentary about our national parks that will air nationally this fall on PBS. Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan have delved deeply into the Civil War, the sport of baseball and World War II among many other subjects. A January visit to Yellowstone was Burns first winter tour of the park:
www.pbs.org When Congress failed to appropriate money for the park’s protection in 1886, General Philip Sheridan sent the US Cavalry to Yellowstone to maintain order in the park. This story of the parks’ first protectors appears in Ken Burns’s newest film, THE NATIONAL PARKS: AMERICA’S BEST IDEA, premiering Sunday-Friday, September 27-October 2, 2009, at 8 pm ET/PT. For more information on the film, visit www.pbs.org
www.pbs.org Author Bill Cronon discusses the impact that cars had on family vacations taken in the parks in the 1950s in this clip from Ken Burns’s newest film, THE NATIONAL PARKS: AMERICA’S BEST IDEA, premiering Sunday-Friday, September 27-October 2, 2009, at 8 pm ET/PT. For more information on the film, visit www.pbs.org
www.pbs.org Iwao Matsushita, a Japanese citizen who moved to Seattle in 1919, organized outings to nearby Mount Rainier National Park, where Matsushita not only took still photographs, but also created home movies and kept a small journal to record his adventures. Matsushita experiences in the park are featured in Ken Burnss newest film, THE NATIONAL PARKS: AMERICAS BEST IDEA, premiering Sunday-Friday, September 27-October 2, 2009, at 8 pm ET/PT. For more information on the film, visit www.pbs.org
www.pbs.org Ken Burns’s The National Parks: America’s Best Idea is made possible in part by viewers like you. We’d love your help in spreading the word about the public’s role in keeping Ken Burns’s stories on PBS. Go to pbs.org to make a contribution and/or share the donation form via Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn or email. You can even grab code to embed a National Parks giving widget on your blog or Web site.
www.pbs.org Ken Burns’s newest film, THE NATIONAL PARKS: AMERICA’S BEST IDEA, premiering Sunday-Friday, September 27-October 2, 2009, at 8 pm ET/PT, features a John Wesley Hill quotation that asks what inspires love of the flag, that tunes the ear of America to sing, My country, tis of thee. For more information on the film, visit www.pbs.org
www.pbs.org Cowboys searching for stray cattle in southwestern Colorado came upon the ruins of an ancient city tucked into the side of a cliff. Ken Burnss newest film, THE NATIONAL PARKS: AMERICAS BEST IDEA, premiering Sunday-Friday, September 27-October 2, 2009, at 8 pm ET/PT, reveals how Mesa Verde, the largest concentration of cliff dwellings ever found, was discovered and went from fascinating to controversial. For more information on the film, visit www.pbs.org
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