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WCTE’S EDUCATION OUTREACH PART OF THE WCTE FAMILY YET? Big News for MEMBERSHIP DRIVE Ready To Learn Nov. 26 ~ Dec. 6

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AUTISM IN LOVE WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11 5:30pm ~ 8pm COOKEVILLE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER 10 E. Broad Street, Cookeville, TN

After the 75 minute screening, there will be a discussion led by Moderator and WCTE-TV personality, Lee Wray.

This event is free but a R S V P n Autism in Love, four adults at different places on the autism is requested. spectrum open up their personal lives as they navigate dating and Send it to: Iromantic relationships. Eye-opening, first-person portrayals show that despite many challenges faced by those with autism, love can [email protected] find a way. Through these stories, we see that autism isn’t a one- size-fits-all disorder, and just like neurotypical people (those without developmental disabilities), those on the spectrum also experience For more information, go to: the complexity, heartache, and joy that all come when making a wcte.org/indielens romantic connection.

AUTISM IN LOVE premieres on Independent Lens on WCTE/PBS on Monday, January 11, 2016 Contents Staff & Management Public Television from the Upper Cumberland (931) 528-2222 or (800) 282-9283

WCTE Education Outreach Receives Becky Magura Samantha McCowan ~ Spe- 4 President & CEO cial Events Assistant Multi-Year Funding The Ready To Learn Mary Boring Avery Hutchins initiative, with the support of our partners, Engineering & Tech. Liaison Director of Development & Marketing able to continue making an impact. Reggie Brown Education & Community Jodi Pitts ~Auction & Special Engagement Associate Events Coordinator 6 Membership Drive Shows New Jacob Carr Director/Producer Cindy Putman ~ Ready to Learn Tools Facilitator and old, these shows are fan favor- Desirée Duncan Director of Content & Hannah Rawiszer ites, created especially for our pledge Digital Media Asst. to the CEO drives. Daniel Duarte Director/Producer Nathaniel Rich Programming and Master Allison Fox ~ Grant Manager/ Control Associate Development Assistant 8 Hippie Jack’s Outlaw Gospel Mu- Seth Stanger Craig Gray ~ Business Develop- Sales & Development Assistant sic Sanctuary Sharing and preserv- ment Producer Shannon Terry ing Americana music. Jenna Hillis ~ Special Events Membership Coordinator Support Ralph Welch One on One with Becky Magura Craig LeFevre Director of Engineering/ 9 Master Control Op Manager Featuring Sydney Lunn and Dr. Walter Technology Derryberry. Upper Cumberland Broadcast Council

Jere Hargrove, Chair Dr. Katherine Bertram On our cover Tom Janney, Vice Chair Marc L. Burnett Andrea Burckhard, Secretary Mona Copeland THE PILGRIMS Joe Albrecht, Treasurer Dr. Wali R. Kharif Lillian Hartgrove, Past Chair Nina Lunn This two-hour documentary endeavors to tell Becky Magura, Jack Stites the true story of the Pilgrims, a small group WCTE Pres. & CEO Kelly Swallows of religious radicals whose determination to Mike Galligan Dr. Alan Tatum establish a separatist religious community Community planted the seeds for America’s founding. Story on p. 22. Advisory Board

Dr. Steve Copeland, DVM Jack Barton Diana Baranowski Lissa Parks Dr. Carl Owens Ben Newman

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 Hutchins Quality PBS evening programs at 931.528.2222, ext 220 or [email protected] p.15

WCTE Close-Up is published bi-monthly. It is mailed to individuals, WCTE-HD Ch. 22.1, WCTE-WORLD SD Ch. 22.2 corporations and foundations who contribute $35 or more to WCTE annually. Third class postage at Cookeville, Tennessee. Phone: & WCTE-Create SD Ch. 22.3 931.528.2222. Schedule is subject to change without notice. Send address changes to WCTE, P.O. Box 2040, Cookeville, Tennessee 38502. Check out the schedule on the website at wcte.org. January/February 2014 | 3 WCTE EDUCATION OUTREACH RECEIVES MULTI-YEAR FUNDING

WITH OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS BACK ROW: Lee Wray, WCTE ; Cindy Putman, Putnam County Schools and WCTE; Ryan Williams, State Representative; Michael Detwiler, Office of Congressman Diane Black; Evan Freeman, Office of US Senator Lamar Alexander; Scott Eddins TTU Oakley STEM Center; Brenda Hughett, Putnam County Schools; Brent Carl Fleshman, WHUB AM 1400. FRONT ROW: Allison Fox, WCTE; Becky Magura, WCTE; Rafferty Cleary, Stonecom; Lehra Trobaugh, Stonecom; Michelle Castle, LBJ&C Head Start; Reggie Brown, WCTE; Sally Pardue, TTU Oakley STEM Center; Barbara Greeson, Putnam County Schools; Jill Ramsey, Putnam County Schools; Andrew Chaney, WHUB AM 1400.

by Allison Fox CTE has been a Ready To Learn Demonstration Sta- County School System for this initiative, retaining school tion, funded by the Corporation for Public Broad- system employee Cindy Putman as WCTE’s Ready To Learn casting through a grant from the Department of Project Manager during the next round of funding. W Education, since May 2014. Through this funding, WCTE has implemented over 130 early learning outreach activities, reaching over 12,000 Upper Cumberland children, families, and educators with quality educational PBS Kids content. WCTE recently learned that the station will receive another cycle of funding for this important early learning initiative, allowing the Upper Cumberland’s PBS station to continue our Ready To Learn work throughout the region. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and PBS recently announced their receipt of another Ready To Learn grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Innovation and Improvement. This grant will provide $19 million in year one of a five-year grant to fund CPB and PBS’ innovative science and literacy media initiative to support the learning needs of children in low-income communities. The grant will provide resources to 11 PBS stations across the country, including WCTE, to implement local partnerships in underserved communities in the Upper Cumberland. WCTE and Putnam County Schools are proud to work together on the “WCTE is honored to be a part of CPB and PBS’ Ready To Ready to Learn initiative. RTL Learning Tools Facilitator Cynthia Put- man and Putnam County Director of Schools Jerry Boyd presented at a Learn-funded project,” said Becky Magura, WCTE President conference in Washington DC and shared more about our projects. & CEO. “This grant will help WCTE continue to serve Upper Cumberland families with high-quality early learning content Along with Putnam County Schools, principal local partners and services to set them on the path for a successful future.” include L.B.J. & C. Head Start, the TTU Oakley STEM Center, In the 2014-15 round of funding, WCTE forged essential part- and the Highlands Workforce Development & Education nerships for the implementation of Ready To Learn activities. Committee. Several other community organizations serving This included training teachers to use high-impact PBS Kids high-need populations will benefit from WCTE’s involvement transmedia content, as well as teaching parents about the with Ready To Learn in 2015-2020. necessity of quality early learning opportunities, and carry- For more information about WCTE’s education initiatives, ing out hands-on learning activities with local children. WCTE visit wcte.org/education. is fortunate to have a strong partnership with the Putnam 4 | WCTE Close-Up by Allison Fox ver 3,000 free books were distributed to Upper Cumberland children this summer, thanks to the local Ready To Learn initiative, Read Up! events, and Opartnerships with great local organizations. The Children’s Reading Foun- dation and the Putnam County School System donated the new books to WCTE’s Ready To Learn project. In addition, attendees of WCTE’s Back-to-School Pool Party with Cat in the Hat in July donated over 300 gently loved books at the entrance to Gilley Pool in McMinnville.

Through all these generous donations, WCTE gave books to children at several Ready To Learn/Read Up! events throughout the summer, including the Putnam County Fair, Northside Community Center, various family engagement events at local schools, WCTE’s RTL Back-to-School Pool Party, and Stations of Imagination at Fall FunFest. Books were also donated to area Head Start centers. All of these Read Up! events were a joint effort of the Children’s Reading Founda- tion of the Upper Cumberland, Putnam County Schools, and WCTE’s Education and Special Events departments. “A big part of our Ready To Learn initiative is to encourage children and families to read at least twenty minutes a day,” commented Cindy Putman, WCTE Ready To Learn Project Manager. “We want parents to know that reading with their children, from the time those children are infants, encourages success in school and fosters lifelong learning.”

Airing Nov. 26 - 7pm; Dec. 6 - 11am; Dec .13 - 12:30pm; Dec. 20 - 4:30pm.

The fifth episode in WCTE’s American Graduate Growing Education documentary series focuses on the 8th-12th grade school years and issues facing students, putting them at risk of not graduating on time. WCTE interviews Upper Cumberland high school students, as well as educators and community members, on this topic.

This episode continues WCTE’s American Graduate’s focus on educating our area youth from their cradle to career. For more information about the Ameri- can Graduate initiative visit wcte.org/amgrad or contact Lee Wray, American Graduate Project Manager, at [email protected]

Nov/Dec 2015 | 5 A few highlights from our December Membership Drive , Nov. 26 ~ Dec. 6. ***For more December Membership listings, see the asterisked shows in the program guide, pages 14 -19.

ALABAMA/ANGELS AMONG US: Hymns & Gospel Music One of the most acclaimed country bands of our time, Alabama is a name synony- mous with tight harmonies, hit songs and the fabric of American music. With this special, Randy, Teddy and Jeff celebrate their love for gospel music. Nov 29 - 6:30pm, Dec 6 - 1pm

SONGBOOK STANDARDS: As Time Goes By Join host Jack Jones for a nostalgic hit parade of best-loved songs from the 1950s & 1960s. This all-star special features rare footage of Johnny Mathis, Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme, Rosemary Clooney, Nat King Cole, Patti Page, Perry Como, Peggy Lee and many more.

Nov 28 - 8pm Peggy Lee

BOCELLI: CINEMA

Andrea Bocelli pays musical tribute to the silver screen in a lush concert of beloved songs from the movies. Joined by Grammy-winning producer David Foster, the renowned tenor performs memorable favorites from block- buster classics including The Godfather, Scent of a Woman, Dr. Zhivago, Once Upon a Time in America, Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Nov 27 - 8pm

Support your Upper Cumberland PBS station by becoming a Sustaining Member today and make sure that your favorite programs stay on the air!

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Host Hugh Bonneville recalls the high points of the series storyline and its memorable cast of characters. Watch interviews with Julian Fellowes, Gareth Neame and the cast, clips from previous seasons and tanta- lizing previews of season six.

Nov 29 - 8pm & 9:30pm, Dec 3 - 7pm, Dec 5 - 6:30pm, Dec 6 - 11:30am

CARPENTERS: CLOSE TO YOU The show chronicles the Carpenters legacy for the 14 years they were with A&M Records, and the course that was charted getting there. Richard Carpenter is very candid and open about Karen’s anorexia, and even about his own chemical dependency problem in 1978. Highly recommended for any Carpenters fan.

Dec 1 - 7pm, Dec 5 - 8pm, Dec 6 - 7:30pm

Invest in WCTE during our Membership Drive by picking up the phone and calling1-800-818-2338 or go online to wcte.org/memberdrive

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rom the Hippie Jack farm in Overton County, Jam- The first season of shows at the Outlaw Gospel Music Sanc- min at Hippie Jack’s Americana music series has aired tuary opened on October 24 with Jimmy Davis followed by Fon WCTE since 2006, when WCTE President and CEO Dead Horses. The monthly series will be broadcast live online Becky Magura convinced ‘Hippie Jack’ Stoddart that this through a link on the Jammin at Hippie Jack’s website. roots music belonged on public television. Since then, ten seasons of Jammin at Hippie Jack’s have aired on WCTE All events at the Sanctuary will include transportation from and public television stations across the country. Out of Cookeville in the Hippie Bus, as well as dinner, refreshments, the television series grew the annual Jammin at Hippie and camping, if desired. There is an opportunity for propri- Jack’s Americana Roots Music Festival: a full weekend of etary membership into the Outlaw Gospel Music Sanctuary music, camping, and fellowship on the farm. Each festival series, with special membership benefits. weekend culminates in an “Outlaw Gospel” concert, featuring an intimate collaboration of artists singing from the Visit jamminathippiejacks.com/sanctuary for complete soul. From these soulful sessions and an infatuation with schedule and ticket information. And stay tuned for more songwriters, a new building and concert series is information on broadcasts of Outlaw Gospel Music Sanctuary blossoming on the Hippie farm. on WCTE Upper Cumberland PBS!

Construction of the new Sanctuary building was complet- ed in November 2014. With superior acoustics, the warm Nov 21st ~ Leonard Anderson & Sam Lewis wood and church pews create an ambiance of reverence, as well as an extremely effective listening space. It is a place Dec 12th ~ Blue Mother Tupelo of music and a place of peace, with a capacity of a mere 65 Jan 16th ~ Daniel Kimbro people. All events at the Sanctuary are designed to provide Feb 13th ~ Josh Daniel with Mark Schmick the highest quality musical experience in the most intimate April 16th ~ Jay Clark of listening environments. May 7th ~ GiGi Dover

8| WCTE Close-Up One On One with Becky Magura Daytime Thursdays at 8:30pm Schedule OUR NOVEMBER GUEST ~ SYDNEY LUNN Weekdays & Ready to Learn (Program Changes - Shows in Brackets After Nov. 16) A Tennessee native, Sydney grew up in Cookeville and gradu- 5:00 AM Sit and Be Fit 1:00 PM Sesame Street (Curious George) ated from Cookeville High School in 1989. After attending Smith 5:30 AM Classical Stretch College and the University of Minnesota, graduating with a 1:30 PM Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About degree in Theater, she began to work almost immediately in film. 6:00 AM Odd Squad (Wild Kratts) That (Curious George) 6:30 AM Wild Kratts Starting with Fargo in 1995, she has worked on a number of film 2:00 PM Clifford The Big Red Dog (Arthur) and television projects, including The Green Mile, The Rainmaker, 7:00 AM Curious George D3- Mighty Ducks, Hustle and Flow and October Sky. She started 7:30 AM Curious George 2:30 PM Curious George (Arthur) working on ABC/Lionsgate show Nashville with the pilot, con- 8:00 AM Daniel Tiger 3:00 PM Arthur (Odd Squad) tinuing to today on Season 4. She splits her time between Nash- 8:30 AM Daniel Tiger 3:30 PM Odd Squad ville and Cookeville, where her mother Nina continues to reside. 9:00 AM Sesame Street 9:30 AM (Peg + Cat) 4:00 PM Wild Kratts OUR DECEMBER GUEST ~ DR. WALTER DERRYBERRY 10:00 AM Dinosaur Train 4:30 PM Wild Kratts In 1966, Dr. Derryberry became Cookeville’s first medical special- 10:30 AM Space Racers 5:00 PM Mathline/ 11:00 AM Peg + Cat (Super Why) ist. He founded Ob-Gyn and delivered obstetrical care to over The Watson Brown Show (Wed.) 7,000 patients. Nurses who worked with him described Walter as 11:30 AM Peg + Cat (Thomas & Friends) 5:30 PM Nightly Business Report “calm and reassuring, attentive to the patient’s comfort and pain, 12:00 PM Super Why (Peg + Cat) respectful, thoughtful, dapper, “quite a sense of humor” and “he’s 12:30 PM Thomas & Friends (Cat in the Hat) 6:00 PM PBS NewsHour the best doctor at delivering babies that I’ve ever worked with.” Walter ‘s community involvement has contributed immensely to Saturdays the betterment of Cookeville. Walter is also the son of Dr. Everett Derryberry, the longest reigning President of Tennessee Tech, and 5:00 AM Thomas & Friends 12:00 PM Great British Baking Show - Joan Derryberry, an accomplished musician. 5:30 AM Bob the Builder November; 6:00 AM Daniel Tiger Martha Bakes - December Protecting What Is Ours 6:30 AM Daniel Tiger 12:30 PM Lidia’s Kitchen - December 7:00 AM Curious George 1:00 PM A Chef’s Life

Thank you for an incredible year at WCTE! We are proud to be the PBS station of the Upper 7:30 AM Curious George 1:30 PM Tennessee Crossroads Cumberland, bringing you content that educates, inspires and entertains. 8:00 AM Wild Kratts 2:00 PM Tennessee Wildside 8:30 AM Wild Kratts 2:30 PM Live Green Tennessee As we close out 2015, we continue to tell the stories of our beautiful region with locally produced series and specials like Discover the Upper Cumberland, Live Green Tennessee, 9:00 AM This Old House 3:00 PM Volunteer Gardener Growing Education, Inner Peace on the Plateau, Bluegrass Underground, The Smithville Fid- 9:30 AM Ask This Old House 3:30 PM P. Allen Smith’s dlers’ Jamboree and Jammin at Hippie Jacks. 10:00 AM Hometime 4:00 PM America’s Heartland In the past year, PBS provided us with rollicking good tales from Masterpiece including 10:30 AM Various Woodworking 4:30 PM Motorweek Shows Downton Abbey, Wolf Hall, Mr. Selfridge and recently Indian Summers as well as an entire 5:00 PM Sewing w Nancy year of amazing programming in all genres. 11:00 AM Rick Steves’ Europe 5:30 PM Fons and Porter’s WCTE is much more than just a TV station. We are involved in our communities with educa- 11:30 AM Martha Stewart’s Cooking Love of Quilting tional initiatives. We host fun, informative events, participate in others and tell the stories of School (Jacque Pepin Heart & the Upper Cumberland, bringing them to the world. The love our staff and trustees have for Soul - Dec. only) 6:00 PM Lawrence Welk this region and its people resonates in everything we do on-air, online and in the communi- Sundays ties we serve. 5:00 AM Sid the Science Kid 10:30 AM Odd Squad WCTE is truly your Upper Cumberland PBS station, and we must protect what is ours! 5:30 AM Peg + Cat 11:00 AM Dr. Bob Show To that end, please consider an end of year contribution that will ensure that WCTE will re- 6:00 AM Curious George 11:30 AM McLaughlin Group main a vibrant and vital resource for the Upper Cumberland for generations to come. Your 6:30 AM Curious George 12:00 PM Charlie Rose: The Week end of year gift could last all year long by making it a sustaining contribution. 7:00 AM Daniel Tiger Maybe you are already a member of WCTE and contribute during our on air membership 7:30 AM Daniel Tiger 12:30 PM To the Contrary with campaigns, or contribute monthly. I am asking that you consider increasing that monthly 8:00 AM Sesame Street Bonnie Erbe amount, or make an end of year gift that will help sustain your Upper Cumberland PBS sta- 8:30 AM Dinosaur Train 1:00 PM Lawrence Welk Show tion in the future. 9:00 AM Dinosaur Train Thank you again for your viewership, your membership, your loyalty and for caring about 9:30 AM Peg + Cat 2:00 PM Classic Gospel our future work together. 10:00 AM Cat in the Hat 3:00 PM - 7:00 PM - Various PBS Shows

Nov/Dec 2015 | 9 Primetime / Nov. 1 - 11 *Schedule subject to change

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MAKING NORTH AMERICA November 4, 11 & 18 Mighty, elemental forces molded North America. Fiery eruptions, titanic floods, the grinding of great ice sheets, and massive impacts from space all shaped our land. Now, for the first time, NOVA presents a bold and sweeping three- billion-year biography of our continent and how it came to be in an epic new three-hour series. Hosted by renowned paleontologist Kirk Johnson, this spectacular road trip through our nation’s tumultuous deep past sets out to answer three fundamental questions: How was the continent built? How did life evolve here? And how has its spectacular landscape shaped human lives and destinies. Nov. 4 ORIGINS See the epic 3-billion-year story of how our continent came to be. From palm trees that once flourished in Alaska to huge eruptions that nearly tore the Midwest in two, discover how forces of almost unimaginable power gave birth to North America. Nov. 11 LIFE Discover the surprising intertwined story of life and the landscape in North America—from origins to iconic dino- saurs to giant marine reptiles swimming in an ancient sea that once split the continent in two. Nov. 18 HUMAN From Ice Age to oil boom, discover the challenges faced and the wealth uncovered as humans take over the continent. How did we turn rocks into riches? And what catastrophic natural disasters could threaten the civilization we’ve built?

Nov/Dec 2015 | 11 Primetime / Nov. 12 - 22

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AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: American Commandante November 17 When he was executed outside a Havana prison on March 11, 1961, the strange story of William Morgan seemed to vanish from the popular imagination as quickly as it had appeared. But recent scholarship, based on thousands of newly declassified government documents, has brought Morgan’s story back into the public eye. Like something out of a dime store novel or a Hollywood Cold War thriller, the story of William Alexander Morgan has it all — adventure and romance, mobsters and spies, and a cast of characters that includes J. Edgar Hoover, Chè Gue- vera, and Fidel Castro. Told through eyewitnesses, including Morgan’s widow and several Cubans who fought alongside him, as well as journalists and biographers, the film is a quintessential American story of a man who reinvented himself, transforming from a failure to a hero and celebrity.

Nov/Dec 2015 | 13 Primetime / Nov. 23 - Dec. 3

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November 23

Eddie Murphy is the most commercially successful African- American actor in the history of the motion picture business, and is one of the industry’s top-five box-office -per formers overall. Murphy is on the very short list of actors who have starred in multiple $100 million pictures over the past three decades, from Beverly Hills Cop to Daddy Day Care. He is also the voice of Donkey in the Oscar®-winning animated film Shrek and its sequel, Shrek 2, which is the top-grossing animated film of all time.

Murphy began his career as a stand-up comedian 25 years ago. In 1980, at the age of 19, he joined the cast of Saturday Night Live, and has since gone on to establish a successful career on the big screen. His films have been among the highest-grossing comedies in the industry, including 48 Hrs., Trading Places, Dr. Dolittle, Coming to America and the Beverly Hills Cop franchise. Murphy garnered Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Actor in a Comedy for his per- formances in Beverly Hills Cop, Trading Places and 48 Hrs.

In 1989, Murphy made his directorial debut with Harlem Nights, a period comedy he also wrote and starred in, opposite Richard Pryor and Redd Foxx. In addition, Murphy starred in and produced the hit comedy Life co-starring Martin Lawrence, and starred opposite Steve Martin in the comedy Bowfinger. He was also the voice of Mushu the Dragon in the successful animated epic Mulan. In 2007, Murphy received rave reviews and critical acclaim for his portrayal of James “Thunder” Early in the Dreamworks film Dreamgirls, a performance which would garner him the Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild and Broadcast Film Crit- ics Association Awards for Best Supporting Actor in a Mo- tion Picture as well as earning him his first Academy Award nomination in the same category.

Eddie Murphy is the 18th recipient of The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.

Nov/Dec 2015 | 15 Primetime / Dec. 4 - 14

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PLEDGE EVENT

A TRIBUTE TO TOUSSAINT December 6 A Tribute to Toussaint, captures an April evening in 2013 for which fans and collaborators gathered to mark Allen Tous- saint’s 75th birthday year. Among the performers at the Harrah’s New Orleans Theater concert were Irma Thomas, Elvis Costello, Jon Cleary, Cyril Neville, Dr. John, Deacon John Moore and Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews. Toussaint performed during the show as well, after arranging the music and overseeing rehearsals. Interview sequences with the performers were filmed around the concert, a benefit for New Orleans Artists Against Hunger & Homelessness (NOAAHH), a charity Toussaint co-founded with Aaron Neville in 1985.

Nov/Dec 2015 | 17 Primetime / Dec. 15 - 25

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CHRISTMAS WITH THE MORMON TABERNA- CLE CHOIR FEATURING SANTINO FONTANA AND THE SESAME STREET MUPPETS December 21 - 9pm Renowned star of stage and song Santino Fontana and the Muppets® from Sesame Street® join the world-famous Mor- mon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square for a magical holiday extravaganza.

49th ANNUAL COOKEVILLE CHRISTMAS PARADE December 18 - 8pm, 20 - 5:30pm & 24 - 7pm Join host Lee Wray as WCTE brings you all the joy and excite- ment of Cookeville’s Christmas Parade, complete with floats, bands, a Downton Abbey theme from WCTE and Santa!

MASTERSINGERS MANY MOODS OF CHRISTMAS December 18 - 9pm, 24 - 9pm & 25 - 7pm Pour some egg nog, put on your comfy slippers, snug- gle up on the couch and enjoy one of the best choral groups in the Upper Cumberland as they sing you into the Christmas spirit.

Nov/Dec 2015 | 19 Primetime / Dec. 26 - 31

New Shows Thursdays at 7pm on Nov. 19 & Dec. 17 Encore presentations: Sunday Nov. 1 - 12:30pm; Sunday Nov. 8 - 6pm; Sunday, Nov. 22 - 12:30pm; Friday Nov. 27 - 10pm

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Premiering Saturday, Aug. 29

THE MANNERS OF DOWNTON ABBEY December 27 Hovering just off camera on the set of Downton Abbey is the man who watches the actors’ every move. The director? No, it’s the historical advisor, Alastair Bruce, guaranteeing that the behavior above stairs and below stairs is true to the period of 1900s Britain. A treat for Downton Abbey fans or anyone who loves history, this MASTERPIECE goes behind the scenes during the filming of Season 5 with Bruce to explore the elaborate code of conduct that governed British life. In The Manners of Downton Abbey, interviews with leading cast members such as Hugh Bonneville, Michelle Dockery, Laura Carmichael, Elizabeth McGovern, Brendan Coyle, Joanne Froggatt, and Lily James add perspective about the demanding norms that rule their characters’ lives.

Drop by the WCTE Lobby at 229 East Broad St., Cookeville, to check out L i n d a J o h n so n ’ s new figurative work NOVEMBER 13-14

Nov/Dec 2015 | 21 Bringing to Life the Stark, True Story of America’s Early Radical Settlers

THEAiring PILGRIMS November 24 & 26

rguably one of the most fateful and resonant events of the last half millennium, the Pilgrims’ journey west across the AAtlantic in the early 17th century is a seminal, if often misun- derstood episode of American and world history. THE PILGRIMS explores the forces, circumstances, personalities and events that converged to exile the English group in Holland and eventually propel their crossing to the New World; a story universally familiar in broad outline, but almost entirely unfamiliar to a general audi- ence in its rich and compelling historical actuality.

“From childhood on Americans are taught to think of the voy- age of the Mayflower and the coming of the Pilgrims as the true founding moment of America,” said Ric Burns, “and we honor them as such every year on Thanksgiving – even though they came thirteen years after the founding of Jamestown in 1607. The real months were marked by a skirmish with the native people. But in story of the Pilgrims -- who they were, what drove them on, what their first spring, out of mutual desperation, the Pilgrims and the happened to them in the new world, how they succeeded and Wampanoags—who were also vulnerable to attacks from other how they failed and why we remember them as we do – is far tribes—agreed to support each other. Tisquantum, the sole sur- more gripping, poignant, harrowing and strange – and far more vivor of the former village the Pilgrims now inhabited, lived with revealing – than the Thanksgiving myth we think we know.” them to act as an interpreter and help them plant their crops.

THE PILGRIMS also features a gripping performance by the late In the fall of 1621, under Tisquantum’s supervision, the Pilgrims’ actor Roger Rees as William Bradford, the governor of Plymouth crops yielded a considerable harvest. To celebrate the bounty and Plantation for more than 30 years and who wrote the definitive an end to the hardships that had nearly killed all of them off, they history of the early colony. Drawn from Bradford’s written account, held a three-day celebration of games and food. Massasoit, the Rees’s monologue provides the spine of the Pilgrims’ narrative, Wampanoag’s leader, and 90 of his men joined them, contributing from the early formation of a separatist Protestant sect in England five deer they had killed to the feast. The event was not recorded to a colony in the New World whose hard-fought success after a by Bradford, and only a few paragraphs describe it in another ac- decade would trigger a massive influx of colonists throughout count, which never uses the words “thanks” or “giving.” More than New England. Rees’s performance was his last on film before he two centuries later it would be imbued with new meaning and passed away on July 10, 2015. inspire a national holiday.

While Bradford’s account, written over 20 years, is a source of Despite their peace pact with the Wampanoags, the Pilgrims’ much of the narrative for the story, his incomplete telling of their relationship with other tribes remained tense. Much to the dismay tale is filled in by other Pilgrims’ writings and by court testimony of John Robinson, for years they kept a decapitated head of a that include some of the more harrowing and morbid details of native person—a trophy from a bloody sneak attack the Pilgrims their journey and settlement. Beginning in Scrooby, England in plotted—on a pike outside their village to instill fear in those who the early 17th century, the film traces the story of a small group might attack them. of Protestants—led by minister John Robinson—as they decided to separate themselves spiritually, philosophically and physically After years of struggle, the Pilgrims would eventually turn a profit from the Church of England and the British monarchy. for their investor, Thomas Weston, encouraging more and more colonists—Puritans, but not separatists—to venture to New In the months following the Pilgrims’ arrival in the New World in England, where, in 1630, a trading port called New Boston was 1620, they would face rampant starvation, disease and death. With established. Within 15 years of Bradford’s death in 1657, approxi- people dying faster than they could be buried, they would prop up mately 70,000 English settlers arrived in New England, overwhelm- their sick and dead in the forests to appear as sentries to ward off ing the Native population of between 11,600 and 20,000, and the potential attacks from native peoples—a transgression left out of Wampanoag population of only 1,000. In 1675, Metacom, the son most Pilgrims’ written accounts. of Massasoit, who took the name “King Philip” in honor of the posi- tive relationship his father forged with the Pilgrims, led an armed The Pilgrims’ relationship with the indigenous population was effort to drive out the colonists from Wampanoag land. In the end complex. They built Plymouth Plantation on a site littered with the more than 600 colonists and at least 3,000 Native Americans died. human remains of the Wampanoags who had been wiped out by Metacom was killed and the colonists placed his head on a pike a plague that originated with European fishermen. They believed over the Plymouth meeting house. They declared a “day of thanks- that God had cleared the ground for them to settle. Their first giving” to celebrate his defeat.

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Allergy Associates Cumberland County Stonehaus Winery The Dr. Bob Show Playhouse Prime Time Prime Time Appalachian Center TDEC Radon Aware- for Craft Assorted DeKalb Animal Clinic ness Live Green Programming Charlie Rose: The Tennessee BB&T Legge Insur- Week and Nature ance Charlie Rose: Tennessee Depart- The Week DeKalb Community Hospital Assorted ment of Agriculture Beltone The Lawrence Programming Live Green Tennessee Welk Show (Sat.) and Classic Gospel Frontier Commu- Tennessee Division of nications Assorted Ben Lomand Connect Forestry Programming Bluegrass Under- Assorted Programming ground Grade-A Catering Prime Time Cannon Cty Chamber Tennessee Lottery The first 30 minutes of our new radio show covers all things of Commerce Blue- Historic Rugby TTU Football grass Underground WCTE-TV. Special segments include hosts of local shows, Tennessee Crossroads The Law Offices of (Thurs,) (Th.) guests from local programming, highlights from the up- Galligan & Newman City of Cookeville Home Caregivers Assorted Programming coming TV shows, short clips from One on One with Becky Prime Time Assorted Programming Magura, and much more. City of Crossville Jackson County The Little Gym of Prime Time Cookeville Assorted Chamber of Com- The second 30 minutes is a new segment called Get Ready Companion CPA merce Tennessee Children’s Program- Group Crossroads (Sat.) ming To Learn with Project Manager Cindy Putman. Masterpiece and Jackson Mountain PBS NewsHour Homes Bluegrass The Magical Muse Gallery Live Green Ready To Learn is an effective children’s transmedia pro- Cookeville-Putnam Underground (Mon.) Cty Chamber of McMinnville Electric Tennessee (Sat.) and gramtargeted toward America’s most at-risk kids, but Commerce System Bluegrass One on One with madeavailable to all families and children across the country. Prime Time Underground (Thurs.) Becky Magura (Th.) Cookeville Regional MidSouth Sewing Twin Lakes Tele- Together with WCTE’s educational partners, Cindy talks Medical Center As- Sewing with Nancy phone Cooperative sorted Programming about issues in education and what the Ready To Learn pro- R-Cubed Environ- Assorted Programming Corporation for mental Solutions gram is doing for our kids right here in the Upper Cumber- Public Broadcasting Prime Time Uplands Village land. Parenting tips, media reviews, and information about Growing Education Security Federal Sav- Assorted Programming WCTE’s PBS kids programming and learning opportunities Cumberland Auto ings Bank Bluegrass Underground (Mon.) USDA Discover the will be shared. Center Tennessee Upper Cumberland Crossroads (Sat.) and Silver Angels As- Rick Steves’ Europe sorted Programming You can find WCTE on the Radio on Zimmer Broadcasting - 107.7 FM and 1400 AM The Hub - for an hour every Satur- day morning at 9am. Annual WCTEMembership at Tennesee Levels Tech’s $35 Basic Membership $120 Producer Directors’ Circle $60 Patron $240 Engineer Jim & Mickie Akenson Michael & Rhonda Jack & Donna Matson $90 Associate $365 Dollar A Day Club communitycinema.org Bob & Janice Allen Galligan Mike McCloud Dr. Max & Patti Atnip Eddie & Frida Gaw Michael McDearman Bill & Jane Gray Studio Club Derek & Diana Larry & Janice McDonald Baranowski Hal & Elisabeth Harder Payless Family Dr. Katherine Bertram Jere & Rebecca Hargrove Joe & Connie Albrecht Steve & Joyce Glover Dr. Jere Mitchum Pharmacy Duane & Norah Allen Jack Hood Steve & Connie Boots Robert & Lisa Harrison Carl Owens Ottis & Cindy Phillips Andrea Burckhard Ken & Lillian Hartgrove Loren & Jan Aschbrenner Mark & Avery Hutchins J.D. & Lissa Parks Bob & Kat Rust Glenn James Philip & Jane Burnett Jim Hughes Budd & Julia Bishop Thomas & Darlene Roberts Robert & Germaine Bird Thomas & Patricia Janney Leon & Julie Burns Morris & Linda Irby Scott & Julie Shanks Charles & Candace Thomas Rick Bowman Randall & Melinda Keifer Jeff & Kathy Callahan John & Barbara Jackson Pauline Sherrer Jack and Mary Stites Steve Chapman & Ken & Connie Leslie Richard Castle Harry Johnson Ron & Melinda Swann Harry & Eileen Stuber Don & Joyce Jorgensen Donna Simpson Dr. Scott Little Pritindra & Sharon Alan & Joyce Tatum Fred & Louise Culp Terry & Rosalyn Little Bob, Glenda & Jordan Terry Chowdhuri Wali & Shakura Kharif TN Race Timing DeKalb Animal Clinic Sydney Lunn Charles & Candace Thomas Ciphertek Mike & Ellie Lenhart Angelo & Jennette City of Crossville Luna & Herren Volpe Thank you for helping us make a difference Companion CPA Group Investment Group Scott & Mona Copeland Nina Lunn Vianney & Regina Villaruz Entrenched in the Upper Cumberland, WCTE is making a difference Dr. Steve Copeland Jimmy & Shirley Mackie Michael Welch through educational, informational, entertaining programming, as Steven Douglas Becky & Max Magura Chuck & Sally Womack well as through many outreach events. 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