www.pbs.org Ken Burns’s newest film, THE NATIONAL PARKS: AMERICA’S BEST IDEA, premiering Sunday-Friday, September 27-October 2, 2009, showcases hypnotic footage of glowing lava from a Hawaiian volcano in as it streams into the ocean. Writer Dayton Duncan describes the exhilarating experience of witnessing this creation of new land. For more information on the film, visit www.pbs.org
www.pbs.org Buy the DVD: www.shoppbs.org Historian Paul Schullery and former National Park Service director George Hartzog describe the power of the national parks in Ken Burns’s newest film, THE NATIONAL PARKS: AMERICAS BEST IDEA, premiering Sunday-Friday, September 27-October 2, 2009. For more information on the film, visit www.pbs.org
www.pbs.org For writer Ruth Kirk, one of the best ways to truly experience the Grand Canyon is to float down the Colorado River and view the magnificent canyon from within. In Ken Burns’s newest film, THE NATIONAL PARKS: AMERICA’S BEST IDEA, premiering Sunday-Friday, September 27-October 2, 2009, she describes the impact the Grand Canyon has had on her and why she is always struck by its beauty. For more information on the film, visit www.pbs.org
www.pbs.org Over the course of nearly 30 years, park enthusiasts Margaret and Edward Gehrke from Lincoln, Nebraska, made pilgrimages to national parks across the country. As seen 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, Margaret would record the start of every trip as “the day of days” in her journal. Edward would bring along his Kodak camera, snapping pictures Margaret would later carefully place in photo albums to commemorate their adventures. For more information on the film, visit www.pbs.org
www.pbs.org Writer Dayton Duncan discusses the practice of collecting parks and introduces Tuan Luong, a climber and photographer who was so captivated by the splendor of the national parks that he decided to continue his studies in California just to be near El Capitan and Yosemite National Park, in Ken Burns’s newest film, THE NATIONAL PARKS: AMERICA’S BEST IDEA, premiering Sunday-Friday, September 27-October 2, 2009. Luongs passion for the parks and photography inspired him to taken photographs in all 58 national parks. For more information on the film, visit www.pbs.org
www.pbs.org For journalist Juanita Greene, Everglades National Park is a magical place. She believes that a national park is a place where people have an opportunity to be a part of nature. In Ken Burns’s newest film, THE NATIONAL PARKS: AMERICAS BEST IDEA, premiering Sunday-Friday, September 27-October 2, 2009, she describes floating around in a little boat on the tranquil waters and watching the birds as the closest thing to heaven on earth. For more information on the film, visit www.pbs.org
www.pbs.org As explored in Ken Burns’s newest film, THE NATIONAL PARKS: AMERICA’S BEST IDEA, premiering Sunday-Friday, September 27-October 2, 2009, many American families have a national park that is special to them. For writer Terry Tempest Williams and her family, Grand Teton is the park that has a special place in their hearts; she shares the stories of her family’s connection to the landscape from generation to generation. For more information on the film, visit www.pbs.org
www.pbs.org Over a montage of images of the country’s most spectacular landscapes — from the Grand Canyon to Yosemite — writer Dayton Duncan talks about the notion that is at the heart of the park idea: namely that the people own the land. As discussed 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, the magnificent views of mountains, waterfalls and canyons belong not to an exclusive few, but to everyone and this is what makes it a truly democratic idea. For more information on the film, visit www.pbs.org
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