News Source: The News Journal
| 2 months ago
But compelling personal stories offer heartwarming drama during the 12-hour, six-episode documentary that begins airing tonight on public broadcasting stations here and across the country. Co-produced with Burns' longtime associate Dayton Duncan, "...
News Source: Denver Post
| 2 months ago
Hour after poetic hour, the tone ranges from reverential to rhapsodic, the images from sublime to glorious. The whole enterprise isn't just about how America came to set aside certain beautiful spaces as national parks, but about how the embrace of...
News Source: Contra Costa Times
| 2 months ago
Shelton Johnson, one of the few African-American national park rangers in the United States, was thrilled to see President Barack Obama and his family visit Yellowstone last month. Now he wants another big-name celebrity to return to nature. "If...
News Source: Contra Costa Times
| 2 months ago
Ask the acclaimed filmmaker about his new opus on America's national parks and watch what happens: His eyes widen, his hands dart about and lyrical words gush forth like a mountain stream after a robust winter runoff. "I just feel it," he says,...
News Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
| 2 months ago
Hill Collection, Minnesota Historical Society A Blackfoot Indian at St...The Blackfeet were pressured to give up part of their reservation in Montana to create a national forest that eventually became Glacier National Park. Then the Great Northern...
News Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
| 2 months ago
Filmmaker Ken Burns should be the best ambassador for his new film, "The National Parks: America's Best Idea." But Shelton Johnson, a ranger at Yosemite National Park and one of Burns' interview subjects, may have him beat. TV, features many talking...