The Roosevelts: an Intimate History September 14~20

Sept/Oct 2014 . Vol 29 #5. wcte.org

KEN BURNS’S THE ROOSEVELTS: AN INTIMATE HISTORY SEPTEMBER 14~20

PLUS: WCTE’S STATIONS OF IMAGINATION SEPTEMBER 5 & 6 〉 READY TO LEARN USING PBS “TRANSMEDIA” TO PREPARE CHILDREN FOR SCHOOL

Staff & Contents Management Public Television from the Upper Cumberland (931) 528-2222 or (800) 282-9283

Becky Magura Craig LeFevre 4 Stations of imagination Our free an- President & CEO Master Control Operations nual event for kids and kids’ families at Celeste Bennett Manager Account Manage Avery Owens Cookeville’s FalFunFest! Mary Boring Director of Advancement Asst. to the CEO/Special Projects Ready to Learn How PBS’s “Trans- Jodi Pitts 6 Reggie Brown Auction Coordinator media” and community partners can Education & Community Nathaniel Rich help your children be better prepared Engagement Associate Programming and Master for school. Desirée Duncan Control Associate Director of Contentr Seth Stanger 8 Community Cinema Free preview Allison Fox Sales & Development Grant Manager/Development Assistant screenings from an award-winning Assistant Ralph Welch series that has communities coming Craig Gray Director of Engineering/ together to learn and discuss issues. Business Development Producer Technology Sonja Higgenbotham Rick Wells 9 American Graduate: Let’s Make It Membership Manager Senior Producer/Director Happen Addressing the high school ***Cindy Putman ~ Ready to Learn Tools Faciliator dropout crisis right here in Tennessee Upper Cumberland and the Upper Cumberland. Broadcast Council Lillian Hartgrove, Chair Andrea Burckhard On our cover Jere Hargrove, Vice-Chair Marc L. Burnett Dr. Wali R. Kharif, Secretary Ken Burns’s Mona Copeland Tom Janney, Treasurer Morris Irby Becky Magura, The ROOSEVELTS: WCTE Pres. & CEO Nina Lunn An intimate History Mike Galligan Jack Stites Ken Burns tells us that the Roosevelts “had a Dr. Kathy Bertram Dr. Alan Tatum simple idea which is that we all do well when we Community all do well. And that appeals directly to what all Americans feel. … We share in common a sense Advisory Board

of fairness and a sense of obligation to those less Dr. Steve Copeland, DVM Jack Barton fortunate, and that was precisely what Theodore, Diana Baranowski Lissa Parks Franklin and Eleanor were about.” Story on p.22. Kelly Swallows Ben Newman Dr. Carl Owens

Program guides

9 Daytime Programming Hal L. Harder - Managing Editor Ready to Learn and weekend guide [email protected] For on-air, print and website advertising and 10 Primetime Programming promotion information, contact Avery Owens at Quality PBS evening programs 931.528.2222, ext 220 or [email protected] 19 WCTE Close-Up is published bi-monthly. It is mailed to individuals, corporations and foundations who contribute $35 or more to WCTE WCTE-HD Ch. 22.1, WCTE-WORLD SD Ch. 22.2 annually. Third class postage at Cookeville, Tennessee. Phone: 931.528.2222. Schedule is subject to change without notice. Send address & WCTE-Create SD Ch. 22.3 changes to WCTE, P.O. Box 2040, Cookeville, Tennessee 38502. Check out the schedule on the website at www.wcte.org. January/February 2014 | 3 Friday Sept 5, 5pm - 7pm & Saturday Sept 6, 10am - 5pm

For the nineteenth year, WCTE’s Stations of Imagination will be bringing some of PBS’s favorite characters to life at Cookeville’s annual Fall FunFest.

On September 5 and 6, children of all ages will have the opportunity to meet walk-around characters Daniel Tiger from Daniel Tiger’s Neighbor- hood and Buddy from Dinosaur Train.

Adorable characters Peg +Cat will also make a special appearance at WCTE’s debut Transmedia The- ater, where kids will learn how to play the newest PBS APPs on iPads — and even receive a free APP of their very own.

The Governor’s Books from Birth Foundation touring bus will make a special appearance on Saturday, September 6 from 1pm – 5pm, giving parents the opportunity to sign up their children for the program that delivers one free book per month for kids from birth until age five. Headlining the Family Entertainment Stage is Farmer Jason (aka: Jason Ringenberger), the Emmy award- winning performer whose songs and performances highlight the wonders of nature and farm life.

So come join WCTE and build a house from blocks, ride the cow train, get your face painted, create a mask, and much, much more at another great year of Stations of Imagination.

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It’s Fun To Be A Kid in the WCTE Kids’ Club!

Members who contribute $60 annually ($5/month) are eligible to enroll children in the WCTE Kids’ Club! Benefits include:

~A birthday shout-out that features your child’s name on-air & on our website (with permission).

~A special birthday card with goodies.

~An official WCTE Kids’ Club member card.

~Special members-only PBS character meet and greet in September, as well as a Christmas activity and Spring event.

~Quarterly e-Newsletter – with exclusive information about great kid-friendly events & programs.

Each additional child enrolled in the WCTE Kids’ Club will be an extra $15 dollars per year per child ($2/month). For more information call the membership manager: 931-528-2222 ext. 215 or [email protected] WCTE’s Kids’ Club brought to you in part by:

and Sept/Oct 2014 | 5 Ready To Learn Using PBS “Transmedia” to Prepare Children for School by Allison Fox

Standing L-R: WCTE’s Allison Fox & Becky Magura; Community Partners V.P. Highlands Workforce Development & Education; Dr. Tammy Knipp, Putnam County Schools Assistant Director, Support & Opera- tions; Barbara Greeson, Putnam County Schools Early Literacy; Brenda Hughett, Putnam County Schools Extended Learning Programs Coordina- tor; Cindy Putman, Putnam County Schools Ready To Learn Learning Tools Facilitator; and Dr. Sally Pardue, TTU S.T.E.M. Center Director.

Front Row L-R: Beth Johnson, Highlands Workforce Develop- ment & Education Coordinator; Michelle Castle, L.B.J. & C. Head Start Family Engagement Specialist; Pam McPherson, L.B.J. & C. Head Start Division Manager; Debbie Thomas, L.B.J. & C. Head Start Early Childhood Education/Profes- sional Development Manager.

CTE recently joined an alliance of 21 public televi- Theater, sponsored by TTU’s Millard Oakley STEM Center, to sion stations nationwide as part of the Corporation showcase new apps and games and give kids a chance to Wfor Public Broadcasting’s newest Ready To Learn try them out. SOI attendees will also meet some of PBS Kids’ initiative. Both an honor and tremendous opportunity for our newest characters, Peg + Cat! In addition, on Facebook and station, this Ready To Learn grant funds the expansion of early Twitter, WCTE has launched a social media campaign called learning and school-readiness projects, focusing on children UConnected, to connect parents, educators, and childcare ages 2-8 from low-income communities. Your PBS station is providers with resources to increase school readiness. You can collaborating with community-based educational partners check it out by searching the hashtag #UConnected! who serve children in school, after school, and throughout the summer. Our partners include L.B.J. & C. Head Start centers, the Putnam County Schools’ LEAPs program, the TTU Millard Oakley STEM Center, Putnam County Library and the Highlands Workforce Development and Education Committee. Through engagement activities and training sessions, WCTE funnels Ready To Learn educational media to the audiences served by each partner.

“Transmedia” is the key word of this initiative, and that is just what PBS Kids and Ready To Learn specialize in: taking one story experience across multiple platforms. A child can watch L to R: WCTE’s Allison Fox, Desirée Duncan, Becky Magura, Director of Schools Dr. Jerry Boyd, a program, such as Peg + Cat, an award-winning show with a Reggie Brown and Assistant Director of Schools Denette Kolbe focus on math, then play a corresponding game on a mobile device to reinforce the skills learned in the show. After that, the WCTE could not have made this project a reality without a child can do a related hands-on activity. The wonderful thing close partnership with the Putnam County School System. about this transmedia approach is that the content already ex- The school system has placed Cindy Putman, a 21-year class- ists online and continues to be created by PBS Kids and Ready room teacher and 14-year Community Engagement and Edu- To Learn. WCTE’s goal over the next year is to get this informa- cation Associate of WCTE, on special assignment as the Ready tion to as many educators, caregivers, and parents as possible, To Learn Learning Tools Facilitator for this grant period. Since as well as distribute free app codes so children can take advan- July, Cindy has been working hard to get the word (and the tage of this fun and educational media. Our annual Stations apps!) out to the educators, parents, and children who need of Imagination event will feature an Interactive Transmedia them most. Cindy is delighted to be in this new role, and she is passionate about the potential of this grant: 6 | WCTE Close-Up Standing, L to R: Cara Sheets--Cane Creek Recreation Center, Krista Hamilton--Putnam County Schools, Jen Webb-- Cane Creek Rec Center, Brenda Hughett--Putnam County Schools, Barbara Greeson--Putnam County Schools, Larry Smith--National Summer Learning Association, Cindy Putman--Putnam County Schools, Matt Knieling--Putnam County Library, Dr. Pam Johnson--Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Sitting L-R: Amanda Yother and Stacie Netherton (both from the Putnam County Library)

“Ready To Learn provides us with all the tools necessary to train parents on ways to be their child’s first teacher. Par- ents, grandparents, childcare providers, aunts, uncles, and siblings must realize the importance of their role in prepar- ing children to enter school ‘ready to learn.’ Data shows that a child who has been read to 20 minutes a day from birth to entering school has a higher vocabulary, greater number sense and a head start on being a successful student. The Ready To Learn transmedia suites are designed to make learning happen anytime, anywhere by teaching early literacy and math skills for kids ages 2-8. I am delighted to take the skills I gained from my 21 years of elementary teaching into the RTL grant. Our partners are so committed L to R: to the mission of increasing the early literacy skills that are Cindy Putman, Dr. Pam Johnson (CPB), Mae Fowler (Supervisor of Continuous Improve- vital for all children throughout the Upper Cumberland. I ment, Putnam County Schools), Assistant Director of Schools Denette Kolbe, Larry Smith, believe with my whole heart that all children deserve the Becky Magura & Reggie Brown right to quality early learning experiences. This Ready To Learn grant will provide researched-based materials, excel- For more information about training and Ready To Learn, lent on-air and on-line content, professional development, contact Cindy Putnam, Ready to Learn Tools Faciliator and resources to make those experiences happen.” at [email protected] or 931-528-2222.

Sept/Oct 2014 | 7 You are invited to free screenings and discussions presented by WCTE for films from the Emmy Award- winning PBS series Independent Lens. Held throughout the year from September to June, members of our Upper Cumberland communities are invited to come together to learn about and discuss key social issues of our time showcased in the films. This year Community Cinema has a new venue -- the Cookeville Performing Arts Center (CPAC). With the new venue comes different screening times, moving fromAug 12Tuesday - 7pm, Aug evenings 17 - 10am, to Sunday afternoons. Aug 17- 9:30pm Former NASA Chief Astronaut Peggy Whitson Our September/October screenings/discussions offer 3 feature films from the Makers series (see page 17 for descriptions). The episodes featured in September will be Women in Comedy and Women in Hollywood. October’s featured episode will be Women in Space. “In the last half-century, women have fought their way into nearly every sphere of American life, from the battlefield to the comedy club, the soundstage to the Sen- ate. In each field, women have pried open, and profoundly reshaped, the central institutions of American life and culture. Through intimate interviews with trailblazing women known and unknown, viewers will be given a rare glimpse—sometimes funny, sometimes sad, and always candid—of what it was like to be pioneers in their fields.”

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Weekdays & Ready to Learn 5:00 AM Classical Stretch: (June) 5:30 AM Sit and Be Fit 1:30 PM Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About 6:00 AM Arthur (May) Wild Kratts That 6:30 AM Wild Kratts 7:00 AM Curious George 2:00 PM Clifford The Big Red Dog 7:30 AM Curious George 2:30 PM Curious George 8:00 AM Peg + Cat 3:00 PM Arthur 8:30 AM Dinosaur Train 9:00 AM Sesame Street 3:30 PM Arthur 10:00 AM Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood 4:00 PM Wild Kratts 10:30 AM Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood 4:30 PM Wild Kratts 11:00 AM Dinosaur Train 11:30 AM Dinosaur Train 5:00 PM Martha Speaks MWF 12:00 PM Super Why Maya and Miguel TR 12:30 PM Caillou (May), Thomas & Friends 5:30 PM Nightly Business Report

1:00 PM Super Why! (May), Peg & Cat 6:00 PM PBS NewsHour

Since 2002, Tennessee’s high school graduation rate has gone from 59.6% to Saturdays hover around 80%. 5:00 AM Barney & Friends 12:00 PM America’s Test Kitchen

While the improvement is great news, the flipside is that approximately 20% 5:30 AM Angelina Ballerina: 12:30 PM Chef John Besh’s The Next Steps of our high school students still drop out. Their decision to drop out also Family Table impacts their communities, resulting in higher crime rates, unemployment 6:00 AM Curious George 1:00 PM Movable Feast and homelessness. 6:30 AM Cat in the Hat Knows 1:30 PM Tennessee Crossroads A child’s decision to drop out of school does not happen overnight. It is a slow a Lot About That process of disengagement over time so our commitment to accelerate aca- 7:00 AM Peg + Cat 2:00 PM Tennessee Wildside demic achievement must be over the long haul. 7:30 AM Dinosaur Train 2:30 PM Live Green Tennessee 8:00 AM Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood WCTE is proud once again to be working with a grant from the Corporation for 3:00 PM Volunteer Gardener 8:30 AM Super Why! Public Broadcasting (CPB) as part of American Graduate: Let’s Make It Happen, 3:30 PM P. Allen Smith’s a public media initiative to address the high school dropout crisis. Striving to 9:00 AM This Old House 4:00 PM America’s Heartland improve youth outcomes across the nation, the American Graduate initiative 9:30 AM Ask This Old House is building awareness and understanding around the importance of properly 10:00 AM Hometime 4:30 PM Motorweek supporting youth throughout the pre-K to post-secondary education pipeline. 10:30 AM Various Woodworking 5:00 PM Sewing w Nancy Shows With this grant funding, we will do our part to identify the challenges and 5:30 PM Fons and Porter’s solutions related to the high school dropout crisis. In conjunction with the 11:00 AM Rick Steves’ Europe Love of Quilting station’s receipt of a CPB Ready To Learn grant, WCTE is working to align our 11:30 AM Martha Stewart’s early childhood learning initiatives with our American Graduate efforts. Cooking School 6:00 PM Lawrence Welk As a professional media outlet and education advocate, we will join up Sundays with state and local Departments of Education, as well as community and workforce partners, to produce documentary and public affairs 5:00 AM Sesame Street 10:30 AM Martha Speaks programming. By doing so, we can raise awareness, inspire meaningful 6:00 AM Curious George 11:00 AM Dr. Bob Show discussions and try to be a catalyst for positive change in our region. 6:30 AM Cat in the Hat 11:30 AM McLaughlin Group 12:00 PM Moyers & Company Our station will be involved in national American Graduate Day activities. We 7:00 AM Peg + Cat will create an American Graduate website to tell our local stories, and inform 7:30 AM Dinosaur Train 12:30 PM To the Contrary with the public about local issues and opportunities through our television channel 8:00 AM Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood Bonnie Erbe 8:30 AM Super Why! and social media outlets. 1:00 PM Lawrence Welk Show 9:00 AM Sid the Science Kid 2:00 PM Classic Gospel If you are a parent or teacher or just interested in this worthy cause, we encour- 9:30 AM Wild Kratts 3:00 PM - 7:00 PM - age you to find out more about “American Graduate: Let’s Make It Happen” by 10:00 AM Arthur Various PBS Shows visiting americangraduate.org. Check out the initiative and the research, listen to some of the testamonials and find out what you can do to help. Sept/Oct 2014 | 9 Primetime / September 1 - September 11 *Schedule subject to change

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Thursdays at 8:30 Join host, Becky Magura, as she interviews fascinating guests with fascinating stories from right here in Middle Tennessee.

In September...

Commissioner Susan Whitakker

Commissioner Susan Whitaker, Tennessee Depart- ment of Tourist Development. Named the 2013 National Tourism Director of the Year by the U.S. Travel Association’s National Council of State Travel Directors, Commissioner Whitaker is responsible for marketing Tennessee’s large tourism industry domestically and internationally.

In October...

Judge Leon C. Burns photo credit Deuel’s Photography At the end of August, after 38 years, Judge Leon Burns retired as a criminal court judge in the 13th Judicial District of Tennessee, (Clay, Cumberland, DeKalb, Overton, Pickett, Putnam and White counties). Prior to his legal career, he served in the U.S. Army and as a production manager and sales representative for Adams Plastics. He has also worked as an Administrator at Cookeville General Hospital. Sept/Oct 2014 | 11 Primetime / September 12 - September 22

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Finding your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Tuesdays, Sept. 23 - Nov. 25 The basic drive to discover who we are and where we come from was at the core of the first season of the PBS series Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. In the second, 10-part season, Professor Gates, the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard University and director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, continues his journey into the past to illuminate the familial histories of 30 of today’s most recognizable names in sports, music, film, television, theatre and literature. including: Ben Affleck, Jessica Alba, Khandi Alexander, Tom Colicchio, Tina Fey, Sally Field, Derek Jeter, Stephen King, Nas, Anna Deavere Smith, Sting, and Courtney Vance.

New advancements in DNA testing since the first season allow Gates and his team to use genetic genealogy to make unprecedented discoveries about the past in season two. Working closely with leading U.S. genealogists and ancestry experts from around the world, Gates and his production team comb through family stories to discover unknown histories and relatives the guests never knew existed. When paper trails end for each story, the team turns to top geneticists and DNA diagnosticians to analyze each participant’s genetic code, tracing his or her bloodlines and taking guests back further in time than ever before.

Sept/Oct 2014 | 13 Primetime / September 23 - October 3

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Fridays starting Sept. 26

Sept. 26 - LIVE FROM LINCOLN CENTER’S 40th Anniversary Season - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street’ In Concert with the New York Philharmonic. tells the story of a barber who, with his romantically inclined landlady, Mrs. Lovett the piemak- er, seeks vengeanceDavid Suchet on what as Herculehe considers Poirot a merciless world. Oct. 3 - AUSTIN CITY LIMITS CELEBRATES 40 YEARS - A star-studded two-hour special celebrating the trailblazing music series’ 40th anniversary. With guest hosts Jeff Bridges, Sheryl Crow and Matthew Mc- Conaughey. Oct. 10 - LIVE FROM LINCOLN CENTER’S 40th Anniversary Season - “The Nance” stars Nathan Lane as gay headliner Chauncey Miles, who faces a changing world and his own self-loathing during the fading twilight of burlesque in 1930s New York

Oct. 17 - THE GERSHWINS’® PORGY AND BESS SM FROM SAN FRANCISCO OPERA (by George Gershwin, DuBose and Dorothy Heyward, and Ira Gershwin). The turbulent story of a disabled man, the headstrong woman he loves and the community that sustains them both. Oct. 24 - GREAT PERFORMANCES - Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga: Cheek to Cheek LIVE! From the stage of Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater in New York City performing selections from their collaborative classic jazz recording

Oct. 31 - MICHAEL FEINSTEIN AT THE RAINBOW ROOM - Two-time Emmy and five-time Grammy- nominated entertainer, Michael Feinstein head- lines this all-star evening. Sept/Oct 2014 | 15 Primetime / October 4 - October 14

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Tuesdays starting Sept. 30 MAKERS is a landmark television and digital-video initiative that aims to be the largest and most dynamic collection of women’s stories ever assembled.

Sept. 30 - Makers: Women in Comedy - Tracking the rise of women in the world of comedy, from the “dangerous” comedy of ‘70s sitcoms like Maude to the groundbreaking women of the 1980s American comedy club boom and building to today’s multifaceted landscape. Oct. 7 - Makers: Women in Hollywood - Showcas- ing the women of showbiz, from the earliest pioneers to present-day power players, as they influence the creation of one of the country’s biggest commodities: entertainment

Oct. 14 - Makers: Women in Space - Tracing the history of women pioneers in the U.S. space program.

Oct. 21 - Makers: Women in Politics - Profiling women in public office who were “firsts” in their fields. From the first woman elected to Congress in 1916 to a young woman running for Detroit City Council in 2013, we explore the challenges confronting Ameri- can women in politics.

Oct. 28 - Makers: Women in Business - Told by fe- male business leaders themselves, this is a candid ex- ploration of what it takes to make it and a celebration of the extraordinary individuals who, over the course of 50 years, have proven—on Wall Street, in corporate America or business empires of their own—that a woman’s place is wherever she believes it to be.

Nov. 4 - Makers: Women in War - the program looks at American women’s increasing participation in war—from Vietnam to the present—as nurses, sol- diers, journalists, diplomats and spies.

Join the discussion by attending free screenings of “MAKERS” at WCTE’s Community Cinema this Fall at Cookeville’s CPAC (see page 8).

Sept/Oct 2014 | 17 Primetime / October 15 - October 25

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Joanna Vanderham as Denise in “The Paradise, Season 2

Sundays starting Sept. 21

Sept. 21 & 28 - Miss Marple Acclaimed British actress Julia McKenzie (Cranford) returns as spinster sleuth Miss Marple in three new episodes of the popular Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple series – A Caribbean Mystery, Greenshaw’s Folly and Endless Night.

Sept. 28 - Nov 6 - The Paradise, Season 2 Every fairy tale has its sequel. On the brink of happiness at the end of last season, retail genius John Moray and his “little champion,” Denise, find true love a bumpy ride indeed, as Katherine and her new husband scheme to wreck their lives. Joanna Vanderham stars as Denise, with Emun Elliott as Moray, Elaine Cassidy as Katherine and Ben Daniels as Katherine’s moody, malevolent spouse. Caption Joanna Vanderham as Denise.

Oct. 5, 12 & 19 - Inspector Lewis, Season 7 Kevin Whately and Laurence Fox return for a 7th season of the beloved Inspector Lewis series. Hathaway has been pro- moted to Inspector after an extended break from the force, and Lewis is enjoying retired life until he’s asked to team up with his old colleague again. With their partnership renewed under altered circumstances, the duo continues to solve crime in the seemingly perfect academic haven of Oxford.

Oct. 26 & Nov 7 - Death Comes to Pemberly An adaptation of P.D. James’ witty and inventive continua- tion of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice picks up the story six years after the marriage of Elizabeth and Darcy. As prepa- rations are being made for a ball at their Pemberley home, the discovery of a corpse brings an abrupt and shocking halt to the proceedings — and a threat to all that the Darcys hold dear.

Sept/Oct 2014 | 19 Primetime / October 26 - October 31

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How We Got To Now Wednesdays starting Oct 15 The 6-part series looks at the little-known stories of the men and women who came up with revolutionary innovations that have had far reaching consequences beyond their original intent and play a role in just about every aspect of our daily lives.

Oct. 15 - CLEAN - Dirty water has killed more humans than all the wars of history combined, but in the last 150 years, a series of radical ideas, extraordinary innovations and unsung heroes have changed our world.

Oct. 15 - TIME - Board a submarine to discover what a lack of natural light means for a sailor’s working day Highland Haunts and visit Heathrow, the world’s busiest airport, to try Friday, Oct. 31 to get timings right at air traffic control. There are stories we hear as we grow up that Oct. 22 - GLASS - Consider how the invention of the stay with us. There are legends that spark our mirror spurred on the Renaissance, how glass lenses imagination about the unknown. And there are allow us to reveal worlds within worlds and how, be- neath the ocean, glass is essential to communication. truths that get in the way of a good story. There are stories throughout the Upper Cum- Oct. 29 - LIGHT - Hear about Edison’s light bulb, which berland of ghosts, hauntings, and things that he didn’t actually invent, and learn how an 18th- century shipping community discovered a source of go unexplained. For years, these stories have illumination by putting a kid inside a whale’s head. been told and retold. Now, we dig into the true history behind these tales, follow the legends Nov. 2 - COLD - Only in the last 200 years have hu- as they grow through time, and try to uncover mans learned how to make things cold. From IVF to what is really going on. food, politics and Hollywood to human migration, the unsung heroes of cold have led the way. Is there a rational explanation behind these stories? Has the truth simply been exaggerated Nov. 12 - SOUND - Journey with Steven Johnson to for amusement? the Arcy sur Cure caves in northern France, where he finds the first traces of the desire to record sound — Or is it something far more ominous? 30,000 years ago and how big an impact sound has made on our working lives, race relations, saving lives and the radical alteration of cities. Sept/Oct 2014 | 21 Ken Burns’s THE ROOSEVELTS: An Intimate History Sunday - Saturday, Sept 14 - 20, 9pm - 11pm, encore 11pm - 1pm

HE ROOSEVELTS weaves the become the 26th president of the United Theodore Roosevelt and Edward Her- stories of Theodore, Frank- States, and his beloved niece, Eleanor, rmann, two-time Emmy Award nominee lin and Eleanor Roosevelt, would marry his fifth cousin, Franklin, for his performance as Franklin Roosevelt, three members of one of the who became the 32nd president. To- as the voice of FDR. Rounding out the gether, they redefined the relationship cast are Patricia Clarkson, Adam Arkin, most prominent and influential families in American politics. The series marks the Americans had with their government Philip Bosco, Keith Carradine, Kevin Con- firstT time their individual stories have been and with each other, and redefined, as way, Ed Harris, John Lithgow, Josh Lucas, woven into a single narrative. well, the role of the United States within Carl Lumbly, Amy Madigan, Carolyn Mc- the wider world. Cormick, Pamela Reed, Billy Bob Thornton “In THE ROOSEVELTS, Ken delves into and the late Eli Wallach. these three larger-than-life figures in a The 14-hour series encompasses all the history the Roosevelts helped to make In addition to the PBS broadcast begin- way that’s never been done before, explor- — the creation of National Parks and the ning September 14, THE ROOSEVELTS ing not only the characteristics that made digging of the Panama Canal, the New will be available to viewers in its entirety them such tremendously influential and Deal and the defeat of Hitler, and the on multiple digital platforms, including strong leaders, but also their interpersonal postwar struggles for civil rights at home the PBS Video Portal, OTT devices such relationships and human, vulnerable quali- and human rights around the world in as Xbox, Roku and Apple TV, the PBS ties,” said Paula Kerger, president and CEO which Eleanor Roosevelt played a cen- mobile apps for iPhone, iPhone and iPad of PBS. “It’s a wonderful story and we’re tral role. But it is also an intimate human Touch and on digital media stores such very excited to present it to our viewers.” story about love, betrayal, and family. as iTunes, Amazon Instant Video, Google Play and Vudu. The film follows the family’s story for more Legendary actress Meryl Streep portrays than a century, from Theodore’s birth in Eleanor Roosevelt in readings from her Episodes will be available on-demand 1858 to Eleanor’s death in 1962. Over the personal letters and writings. Joining beginning the morning after the broad- course of those years, Theodore would Streep are Paul Giamatti as the voice of cast and for the following two weeks.

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