MARCH 2021 GUIDE

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© 2021 by WQPT–TV. All rights reserved. USA. wqpt.org/kidsclub GREETINGS It's hard to believe it has been a year since the pandemic began having a dramatic impact on our lives. On behalf of all of us at WQPT PBS, I hope you, your family and friends are healthy and safe—and have been able to adapt in these challenging times.

For those who may not recognize me, I'm Dawn Schmitt, Interim General Manager. I have been with the station since 2010, serving as Business Manager. It's my pleasure and honor to help guide WQPT PBS, along with our Community Advisory Board, through these dynamic and changing times.

One resounding theme we keep hearing from our viewers and community partners is WQPT PBS is now more important than ever. Here's a brief look at our efforts.

Informing and Entertaining. Thanks to your ongoing support, you can rely on us to stay informed with COVID-19-related programming and online resources; find points of connection through ongoing projects like PBS' national storytelling project, American Portrait; and enjoy new programming like All Creatures Great and Small, Hemingway, and later this Spring, an exciting new children's program—Donkey Hodie, inspired by Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. In addition, we are finding new TRANSMITTER ways to connect through virtual screenings, children's camps, UPDATING AND educational trainings and additional resources. RESCANNING AT HOME Helping Children Succeed. The Coronavirus crisis has turned Viewers who currently the education landscape upside down. We are proud that receive WQPT over the we have responded to this need by offering creative new air, as well as any cable/ solutions based on the good work we’ve been doing all along. satellite providers will Leveraging Technology. The simple act of watching television not need to rescan or isn’t so simple anymore. Today we deliver content across our re-acquire the signal. airways and cable, on-demand with WQPT PBS Passport and Viewers who are currently the PBS app. In addition, we added LIVE TV streaming, which unable to receive WQPT allows you to watch virtually anywhere. We have expanded over the air, but will benefit our efforts with new local content and educational shorts. from the additional power and antenna height will Last month we raised our broadcast antenna, placing it need to scan to acquire the 300 feet higher on the tower in Orion, Illinois. Later this month WQPT signal. we will install a new more powerful television transmitter to dramatically improve our signal strength throughout the Learn more at wqpt.org viewing area. Once the new transmitter is installed, our promise to offer greater access to better serve our viewers and the entire regional will be delivered.

Private support from donors like you provides the revenue that makes our outsized impact possible. Whether tuning in to our televised programming, donating or volunteering, engaging with us online, or using WQPT PBS Passport, thank you for being part of our family! MARCH 2021 HIGHLIGHTS DOLLY PARTON I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU Celebrate the beloved singer-songwriter’s career from her early days to her success as a crossover pop superstar. Performances include “Coat of Many Colors,” “Here You Come Again,” “Islands in the Stream” (with Kenny Rogers) and “9 to 5.”

TUESDAY, MARCH 2 | 8:00 PM

STOUT HEARTED GEORGE STOUT AND THE GUARDIANS OF ART The story of George L. Stout, the art student from Winterset, Iowa, who became the leader of the Monuments Men during World War II. This group, a military special-forces unit, were assigned the mission of retrieving stolen art from the Nazis.

THURSDAY, MARCH 19 | 9:00 PM wqpt.org

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE VOICE OF FREEDOM On Easter Sunday, 1939, contralto Marian Anderson stepped up to a microphone in front of the Lincoln Memorial. Inscribed on the walls of the monument behind her were the words “all men are created equal.” Barred from performing in Constitution Hall because of her race, Anderson would sing for the American people in the open air.

SUNDAY, MARCH 28 | 8:00 PM

NOVA BEYOND THE ELEMENTS David Pogue sets out on a worldwide quest to find the key molecules and chemical reactions that have paved the way for human civilization, life, and even the universe as we know it.

BEGINS SUNDAY, MARCH 21 | 7:00 PM

FAUCI THE VIRUS HUNTER An in-depth look at Dr. Anthony Fauci's life story and career. Informative and engaging on-camera interviews with many of Dr. Fauci's colleagues and friends. An expansive view of the true depth and breadth of his contributions and service to the and the world.

SUNDAY, MARCH 21 | 8:00 PM MARCH 2021 PRIMETIME 10:00 American 1 MONDAY 3 WEDNESDAY Spiritual Ensemble 7:00 Andy Williams: 7:00 Suze Orman’s Greatest Love Songs Ultimate Retirement Guide Enjoy the romantic crooner’s biggest With essential advice on planning hits and best-loved ballads. for and thriving in retirement, Suze 8:00 All Creatures Great provides key steps for anyone trying and Small on Masterpiece to achieve their ultimate retirement. 9:00 Miss Scarlet & the Duke on Masterpiece The Case of Henry Scarlet: Forgery, Enjoy performances of classic murder and false accusation spirituals, jazz, Broadway show strain Eliza’s forensic skills as she tunes, and other music reflecting gets to the bottom of her father’s the spiritual tradition. death, aided by the Duke and her 11:00 Eat Your Medicine: underworld friend Moses. The Pegan Diet with 10:00 Bee Gees Mark Hyman Episode 7: Siegfried hosts a One Night Only Learn all about reversing FLC (Feel Christmas Eve party, with an even Like Crap) syndrome, along with bigger event to follow the next day. many other chronic diseases, using Helen accompanies James on an the most powerful drug on the planet. emergency house call. 10:00 Overcoming Anxiety, Depression, Trauma, and 5 FRIDAY Grief with Daniel Amen, MD 7:00 Doo Wop to Pop and Tana Amen Rock: My Music Celebrates Learn how to feel happier, more 20 Years Celebrate 20 years of positive and more in control of Enjoy the group’s 1997 concert greatest hit songs from the 50s your own emotions. at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, to the 70s featuring legendary one of the very few Bee Gees performers The Kingston Trio, performances ever filmed. Glen Campbell, Aretha Franklin, 2 TUESDAY 11:30 3 Steps to Engelbert Humperdinck, Judy 7:00 Urban Forge: Pain-Free Living Collins, Davy Jones, Mel Carter, Ozark Artistry Eliminate the root cause of many Patti Page and more. painful conditions with this easy 9:30 Rick Steves to follow plan from neuromuscular Facism in Europe therapist, yoga instructor and pain Rick Steves travels back a century specialist Lee Albert, who teaches to learn how fascism rose and five simple exercises to correct then fell in Europe-taking millions muscle imbalance. of people with it. 11:00 Energy Paradox THURSDAY with Steven Gundry, MD 4 Learn about the source of our Discover the tools and techniques 7:00 The Cities dating back centuries, and the exhaustion and the simple steps craftsmanship it takes to produce 7:30 Whitney Reynolds we can take to reclaim our youthful functional works of art. Moving Mountains energy in this program. 8:00 Dolly Parton: I Will 8:00 The Black Church Always Love You Celebrate the beloved singer- 6 SATURDAY songwriter’s career from her early 7:00 It’s What’s days to her success as a crossover Happening Baby pop superstar. 9:00 Joe Bonamassa: 9:30 Rick Steves’ Europe: Live from the Ryman Great German Cities Travel expert Rick Steves explores five of Germany's most important Episode 2: Discover how the cities: Hamburg, Dresden, Leipzig, Black church expanded its reach Frankfurt, and Nürnberg. to address social inequality and 11:30 5 Day Rapid Reset minister to those in need, from with Dr. Kellyann the Jim Crow South to the heroic A plan on losing weight, gaining phase of the civil rights movement, energy, and reclaiming your and the Black church’s role The Blues Rock Superstar performs joie de vivre. in the present. his brand-new music for fans.

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10:30 Suze Orman’s 8:00 It’s What’s Ultimate Retirement Guide TUESDAY Happening Baby The acclaimed personal finance 9 7:00 Rick Steves’ 10:00 Ken Burns: expert offers essential advice on The Civil War planning for and thriving in retirement. Heart of Italy 7 SUNDAY 6:00 Moments to Remember Patti Page and Nick Clooney co-host performances and archival classics from the late 50s and early 60s pop era with fellow co-hosts Rick delves deep into the Italian Celebrate the 25th anniversary of Peter Marshall, Wink Martindale heartland—the place where the award-winning landmark series and Mary Lou Metzger. "la dolce vita" is a way of life. with this in-depth overview of the iconic documentary. 8:30 Carpenters: 9:00 Eat Your Medicine: Close to You Pegan Diet with Mark Hyman Learn all about reversing FLC (Feel Like Crap) syndrome, along with 12 FRIDAY many other chronic diseases, using 7:00 Carpenters: the most powerful drug on the planet. Close to You A music-filled documentary tracing 11:00 Aging Backwards 3 the Carpenters’ career. with Miranda Esmonde-White 8:30 John Denver: Country The former ballerina uses ground- Roads, Live In England A music-filled documentary tracing breaking science to develop a the Carpenters’ career. practical six-point plan anyone can use to keep their minds sharp and 10:00 Overcoming Anxiety, their bodies active using gentle Depression, Trauma, and daily movement. Grief with Daniel Amen, MD and Tana Amen Learn how to feel happier, more WEDNESDAY positive and more in control 10 of your own emotions. 7:00 Moments to Remember Join one of the best-loved recording Join co-hosts Patti Page and Nick artists of the 20th century at a Clooney for highlights from the concert filmed in 1986 in the UK. late 50s and early 60s pop era. 8 MONDAY 10:00 John Sebastian 7:00 Masterpiece: 9:30 Dr. Fuhrman’s Presents: Folk Rewind 50 Fabulous Years! Food As Medicine A special featuring the greatest Learn how to use food to help singers and songwriters of prevent disease and improve with the classic 50s & 60s folk era, the latest scientific research and with historic footage and new practical, easy-to-follow advice. performances. 11:30 3 Steps to Pain-Free Living The Best of WQPT PBS

Join Alan Cumming to celebrate the iconic series that introduced generations of viewers to the delights of British drama. SAT MAR 13 | 7:00 PM 8:30 Suze Orman’s SUN MAR 14 | 7:00 PM Ultimate Retirement Guide The acclaimed personal finance Eliminate the root cause of many MON MAR 15 | 7:00 PM painful conditions with this easy expert offers essential advice on Tune in for an outstanding variety planning for and thriving in retirement. to follow plan from neuromuscular therapist, pain specialist Lee Albert. of viewer favorites during our 10:30 Energy Paradox March Membership Drive. with Steven Gundry, MD Learn about the source of our THURSDAY Your support of quality television exhaustion and the simple steps 11 makes a huge difference! 7:00 The Cities we can take to reclaim our youthful wqpt.org/donate 800-796-2430 energy in this program. 7:30 Whitney Reynolds

STERLING/ROCK FALLS MUSCATINE SAVANNA 10:00 A Conversation with 9:00 Inspector Morse TUESDAY Henry Louis Gates Jr. Episode 1: The Dead of Jericho: 16 Discover the cases of author Colin 7:00 Rick Steves’ Europe Dexter’s prickly, eccentric Oxford The Majesty of Madrid sleuth, whose passions include 7:30 Great Scenic ale, crosswords and, of course, Railway Journeys a good mystery. The Boone and Scenic Valley 11:00 Jamestown Railroad in Iowa. Season 2, Episode 5: Farlow returns 8:00 Samantha Brown’s with an alchemist in tow, which Places to Love leads to an unusual revelation. Vienna, Austria: It’s a city that simply An interesting and rarely seen inside stuns in its beauty. A rich, physical look into the life and career of the expression of history and tradition, well-known Harvard professor THURSDAY yet at its heart a destination of and historian. 18 7:00 The Cities comfort, friendliness and ease. 11:00 Waging Change 7:30 Whitney Reynolds 8:30 Two for the Road Learn about the challenges faced by restaurant workers trying to feed Hunger themselves and their families off tips 8:00 Legacy List and the growing movement to end with Matt Paxton the tipped minimum wage. 17 WEDNESDAY 7:00 Antiques Roadshow Vintage Spokane Hour 1: A 1905 Costa Rica and Panama Spokane bird’s-eye view lithograph, 9:00 Cycle Around Japan Abraham Lincoln letters and signed carte-de-visite, and a yellow 9:30 Illinois Adventure diamond and platinum ring. Matt Paxton helps individuals and Illinois & Michigan Canal, Civil War families catalogue their heirlooms Grain Elevator and much more. 8:00 New Tricks and valuables. Dead Man Talking DAYTIME SCHEDULE SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY 6:00AM Autoline Dinosaur Train 6:30AM America’s Heartland Pinkalicious & Peterrific 7:00AM Hero Elementary Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum 7:30AM Xavier Riddle Daniel Tiger 8:00AM Curious George Daniel Tiger 8:30AM Daniel Tiger Let's Go Luna 9:00AM Daniel Tiger Daniel Tiger 9:30AM Arthur Elinor Wonders Why 10:00AM Woodsmith Shop Sesame Street 10:30AM American Woodshop Pinkalicious & Peterrific 11:00AM Ask This Old House Am. Test Kitchen Jamie's Ultimate Veg Milk Street Moveable Feast 11:30AM This Old House Cook’s Country Jacques Pepin How to Cook Well Lidia’s Kitchen 12:00PM Rick Steves Europe Motorweek Love of Quilting Garden Smart Paint This 12:30PM Illinois Adventure Fishing... Lines It’s Sew Easy A Greener World Joy of Painting 1:00PM Milk Street Chicago Tonight Chicago Tonight 1:30PM Lidia’s Kitchen The Cities 2:00PM Am. Test Kitchen Sesame Street 2:30PM Cook’s Country Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum 3:00PM Jaques Pepin Odd Squad 3:30PM Nick Stellino Wild Kratts 4:00PM The Cities Curious George 4:30PM Whitney Reynolds Nature Cat 5:00PM Arthur Antiques Roadshow 5:30PM Chicago Tonight Chicago Tonight 6:00PM The Cities Finding Your Roots 6:30PM BBC World News WQPT KIDS PROGRAMS 9:00 Stout Hearted: George Stout & The FRIDAY SATURDAY Guardians of Art 19 20 7:00 America’s Test Kitchen 7:00 Classic Gospel Crêpes Two Ways Bradley Walker: Blessed 7:30 Cook’s Country 8:00 Austin City Limits Herbaceous Chicken and Potatoes Steve Earle & The Dukes: 8:00 Essential Pepin A Tribute to Guy Clark: An hour with American star playing the songs 8:30 Pati’s Mexican Table of his mentor, Texas songwriter Cooking for my Crew in Sonora Guy Clark. Accompanied by 9:00 Christopher Kimball’s a variety of special guests. The story of Iowa Native George Milk Street Television 9:00 Song of the Stout and his impact on the fields Indian Classics at Home Mountains of Art Conservation and Monument 9:30 Lidia’s Kitchen Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver Protection. Stout’s innovative The 1970s Italian American 10:00 Meet Carl Jackson methods of art conservation, 10:00 Ask This Old House created some 90 years ago, are Precast Concrete, New Lamppost still used today around the world. 10:30 This Old House 10:30 Georgia O’Keeffe: Cold Weather Landscape A Woman On Paper This documentary highlights the 11:00 Austin City Limits artist’s career while focusing on the little-known story of O’Keeffe’s time spent in Columbia, South Carolina as an art instructor 11:00 Rick Steves’ Europe at Columbia College. Why We Travel 11:00 Native Art Now! 11:30 Great Scenic Examine the evolution of Native Railway Journeys contemporary art presenting personal The Great Smoky Mountains perspectives from internationally Paty Griffin, The Revivalists Railroad in North Carolina acclaimed Native modern artists.

DAYTIME SCHEDULE THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY Dinosaur Train Mister Rogers Pinkalicious & Peterrific Wild Kratts Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum Hero Elementary Daniel Tiger Xavier Riddle Daniel Tiger Curious George Lords of Water Let's Go Luna Daniel Tiger Daniel Tiger Daniel Tiger Elinor Wonders Why Elinor Sesame Street It’s Sew Easy Pinkalicious & Peterrific Fons and Porter Moveable Feast Simply Ming When every drop counts: Water is essential Antiques Roadshow Lidia’s Kitchen New Orleans Kitchen for life—but it is in short supply. Particularly Paint This Ask This Old House when unbridled greed could lead to the Joy of Painting This Old House prospect of our life elixir running dry.

Chicago Tonight Banks, investment and hedge funds are pouncing on anything related to the blue Sesame Street Masterpiece gold. But should water become a resource & Mysteries Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum subject to market forces? Odd Squad Wild Kratts Lords of Water – Necessity or Commodity? Curious George examines the global struggle over the Nature Cat driving force of all nature. Arthur Starting Monday March 22 Lawrence Welk Chicago Tonight Lawrence Welk BBC World News wqpt.org/schedule Schedule subject to change without notice. 10:30 Seaside Hotel 11:00 Jamestown SUNDAY Season 2, Episode 6: Yeardley 21 reveals a new potentially devastating 7:00 NOVA threat to the colony, while Massinger Beyond The Elements: Discover the finds himself in a vulnerable position. chemical reactions that constantly transform our world. Like one that enables us to feed billions but when reversed, is explosive. And lock-and- 25 THURSDAY key molecules that put the heat in 7:00 The Cities hot peppers or make deadly Seaside Hotel is a story about the 7:30 Whitney Reynolds venoms useful to medicine. guests and staff at a beach hotel Special Needs Housing 8:00 Fauci: Virus Hunter by the North Sea. (In Danish with 8:00 Legacy List English subtitles.) with Matt Paxton 11:30 Georgia O’Keeffe: Don’t Go in the Basement A Woman On Paper 9:00 The Four Sons and All Explore the artist’s career while Their Sons: A Passover Tale focusing on the little-known story of Explore one of the most beloved and O’Keeffe’s time spent in Columbia, intriguing stories in the Haggadah, South Carolina as an art instructor. the book read and sung at the Passover Seder. An in-depth look at Dr. Anthony 10:00 Independent Lens Fauci’s life story and career. 23 TUESDAY 7:00 Rick Steves’ Europe 9:00 Breaking Through Highlights of Castile: Toledo and The Clouds: The First Salamanca Women’s National Air Derby In August of 1929 twenty women 7:30 Great Scenic pulled on britches, snapped on Railway Journeys goggles and climbed into their The Texas State Railroad cockpits to race across the country. 8:00 Samantha Brown’s 10:30 American Experience Places to Love Supergirl: Meet Naomi, a seemingly Amelia Earhart: Explore the life Southern Finger Lakes, New York ordinary Orthodox Jewish preteen of the trailblazing pilot who broke 8:30 Two for the Road from New Jersey whose talent, records but then mysteriously One Crazy Day In Hanoi breaking world powerlifting records, disappeared over the Pacific Ocean 9:00 Cycle Around Japan turns her into an international on a solo flight around the world. phenomenon in this unique An enduring American hero, 9:30 Illinois Adventure coming-of-age story. Wheels O’ Time Museum, Earhart was the first woman to 11:30 NOVA fly solo across the Atlantic. Pere Marquette Sp Grafton, Papers of Lincoln Beyond The Elements: Reactions: 11:30 Amazing Grace Discover the chemical reactions The story of Missouri Attorney 10:00 Finding Your Roots that constantly transform our world. Grace Day who was the lone Write My Name in the Book of Life: woman in her law school class in Guests include musician 1948 and endured torment from Pharrell Williams and filmmaker FRIDAY Kasi Lemmons. 26 her professors and peers. 7:00 America’s Test Kitchen 11:00 American Experience Rustic Italian Fare MONDAY 7:30 Cook’s Country 22 Italian Comfort Food 7:00 New Tricks Dead Man Talking 8:30 Pati’s Mexican Table Sabores Norteños 8:00 Prime Suspect: Tennison on Masterpiece 9:00 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television Quick Pasta Amelia Earhart: Explore the life 9:30 Lidia’s Kitchen of the trailblazing female pilot. A Day at the Market 10:00 Ask This Old House 24 WEDNESDAY 7:00 Antiques Roadshow Episode 1: Jane Tennison isn’t on Vintage Spokane Hour 2: a Jon the force for long before she starts Stefansson landscape oil, a Lonny to learn the cold facts of police work. Frey pro baseball collection, and a Rolex Bubbleback watch. 9:30 Poldark on Masterpiece 8:00 New Tricks Season 3, Episode 4: Ross takes It Smells Like Blood: The team Automated Landscape, a desperate gamble. Drake joins reinvestigate the death of a Modern Bench university professor. Ross’s mission after his heart is 10:30 This Old House broken. George jockeys for 9:00 Inspector Morse Tommy’s in the Kitchen a triumph in politics. The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn

DEWITT GALESBURG FRUITLAND SAVANNA 11:00 Austin City Limits 10:00 American Experience Steve Earle & The Dukes: TUESDAY A Tribute to Guy Clark 30 7:00 Rick Steves’ European Easter Taking you on a spring journey 27 SATURDAY through Spain, Slovenia, Italy, and 7:00 Classic Gospel Greece, Rick Steves’ European A Few Good Men Easter celebrates this 2,000-year- 8:00 Austin City Limits old story in a variety of cultures. Maggie Rogers: After ten years of Roads to Memphis: The wildly 8:00 Samantha Brown’s writing and producing music, Maggie disparate yet fatefully entwined Places to Love Rogers’ career has culminated in stories of an assassin, James Earl Auckland, New Zealand her bestselling major label debut Ray, and his target, Dr. Martin Luther Heard It In a Past Life. 8:30 Two for the Road King, Jr., against the backdrop of Adventure in Iceland 9:00 Song of the Mountains the seething and turbulent forces 9:00 Cycle Around Japan Jeff Parker & Company, The King in American society that led these James Boys, Billy Droze two men to their violent and tragic 9:30 Illinois Adventure Spurlock Museum, Maeystown, 10:00 Bluegrass Undergrond collision in Memphis, Tennessee. Randolph County Museum, 10:30 The Songwriters 11:00 Fannie Lou Hamer: Weaver Ridge Rodney Crowell: Host Ken Paulson Stand Up interviews the singer-songwriter Follow the life of civil rights legend 10:00 Finding Your Roots who among other stories recalls the Fannie Lou Hamer, offering first- days when Nashville was run by hand accounts by those who knew "characters," not corporations. her and worked side by side with her in the struggle for voting rights. 11:00 Rick Steves’ Europe 11:30 Penny: Champion of the Marginalized A portrait of the celebrated criminal defense attorney, art collector, supporter of female artists, and Country Roots: Guests include protector of the underdog. icons Clint Black and Rosanne Cash. MONDAY 11:00 American Experience 29 Roads to Memphis The Majesty of Madrid: Studded 7:00 New Tricks with riches from its glory days. It Smells Like Blood 11:30 Great Scenic 8:00 Prime Suspect: WEDNESDAY Railway Journeys 31 Tennison on Masterpiece 7:00 Antiques Roadshow The Boone and Scenic Valley Episode 2: Tennison and Bradfield Railroad in Iowa. Vintage Louisville 2021 Hour 1: continue their work on the murder A Dirk Van Erp lamp from around case of a young girl, but a breach of 1910, a J. Falter “Listening to police protocol complicates matters. the Sea” illustration and a 1919 28 SUNDAY 9:30 Poldark Cincinnati Reds championship 7:00 NOVA on Masterpiece baseball. Beyond The Elements: Indestructible: Scientists have created virtually 8:00 New Tricks indestructible versions of glass, Left Field: The team reinvestigates rubber and plastic. But are they too the case of a missing five-year-old tough? As the environmental impact when a recently released prisoner, of the quest for durability becomes John Davies, confesses to his clear, scientists look for ways to abduction and murder. maintain utility but minimize harm. 9:00 Inspector Morse 8:00 American Experience Season 3, Episode 5: Frogs drive George to the breaking point, leading him to set a trap for Drake. 10:30 Seaside Hotel Men’s Visit: The Count of Ditmar and his parents arrive at the hotel, and he seems to be looking for a business partner. Episode 3: Service of All the Dead: it 11:30 Harpists’ Legacy: appears that the church warden has Voice of Freedom: Explore the Ann Hobson Pilot and been killed for the collection money, fascinating life of celebrated singer the Sound of Change Marian Anderson. In 1939, after but Morse decides the case is not Follow Ann's trailblazing journey as that simple. being barred from performing at the first black female principal player 11:00 Jamestowns Constitution Hall because she in a major symphony orchestra and was Black, she triumphed at the Season 2, Episode 7: When Maria’s also as an international soloist, trust is betrayed, she runs away Lincoln Memorial in what teacher, mentor and driving force became a landmark moment into the wilderness, leaving a life behind music-education programs hanging in the balance. in American history. for underserved minorities.

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CORPORATE FUNDING FOR HEMINGWAY WAS PROVIDED BY BANK OF AMERICA. MAJOR FUNDING WAS PROVIDED BY THE ANNENBERG FOUNDATION, THE ARTHUR VINING DAVIS FOUNDATIONS, AND BY ‘THE BETTER ANGELS SOCIETY,’ AND ITS MEMBERS JOHN & LESLIE MCQUOWN, THE ELIZABETH RUTH WALLACE LIVING TRUST, JOHN & CATHERINE DEBS, THE FULLERTON FAMILY CHARITABLE FUND, THE KISSICK FAMILY FOUNDATION, GAIL M. ELDEN, GILCHRIST & AMY BERG, ROBERT & BEVERLY GRAPPONE, MAUREE JANE & MARK PERRY; AND BY THE CORPORATION FOR AND PBS. From an original photograph by Yousuf Karsh ALL CREATURES GREAT &SMALL RICK STEVES' THIS MONTH PARTON EUROPE DOLLY

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