PSA / DVR Alert: PBS Nat'l Parks starts tonight

[l00p]

Tonight on PBS at 8 p.m. Eastern Standard time, the six part series directed by Ken Burns on National Parks in the U.S. starts.

Here is the description per the PBS website:

The National Parks: America's Best Idea is a six-episode series directed by Ken Burns and written and co-produced by Dayton Duncan. Filmed over the course of more than six years at some of nature's most spectacular locales – from Acadia to Yosemite, Yellowstone to the Grand Canyon, the Everglades of Florida to the Gates of the Arctic in Alaska - The National Parks: America's Best Idea is nonetheless a story of people: people from every conceivable background – rich and poor; famous and unknown; soldiers and scientists; natives and newcomers; idealists, artists and entrepreneurs; people who were willing to devote themselves to saving some precious portion of the land they loved, and in doing so reminded their fellow citizens of the full meaning of democracy.

And here is your link to the site itself:
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I think it will be a magnificent series and one literally for the whole family. It could be a great thing to have your kids watch and get excited about and maybe plan vacations to the parks with their interest already obtained. Just don't tell them there are no video arcades there.

Anyway, I am excited about this series and forgot it started tonight until I got reminded.

 

[CMA 5.110]

DVR is set!! Thanks for the heads up!

 

[snow leopard27]

Really enjoyed the 1st episode, can't wait for the rest.

I always think of the 19th century as the time when the american west was either developed or exploited, depending on your point of view. It was cool to hear the voices of those early consevationists, thinking of the long term future.

I liked the story of the dude that got lost on one of the early Yellowstone expeditions and the flight of the Nez Perce; we were in YNP this past summer and I remember both Nez Perce creek and the Chief Joseph highway.

 

[accuratehorn]

I enjoyed the first episode as well. I knew much of what was shown, but great photography in national parks is reason alone to watch. And there were some stories I was unaware of, like the nearsighted guy lost in Yellowstone for (was it) 39 days without food, matches, or cell phone.

 

[YeaTexasFight]

There are people in major metropolitan areas today that couldn't survice without a cell phone for 39 days...