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Yosemite ranger unexpected star of Burns' national parks series

Pasadena : TX : USA | 2 months ago  
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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 heads -- historians, writers, environmentalists,...
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  • 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...
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  • Blog Source: npt08.wordpress.com
    They include Shelton Johnson, an African American who grew up in Detroit, where the national parks seemed distant, unreachable places until he later became a park ranger; Gerard Baker, a Native-American park superintendent whose tribe ...
  • Blog Source: www.concernedinsa.com
    This Sunday marks the beginning of the latest Ken Burns series “The National Parks: America's Best Idea.” It's a six-episode series that chronicles how the National Park Service came to be and explores some of the major parks across the ...
  • Blog Source: www.travelmuse.com
    Burns profiles an assortment of people who've played key roles in the development of the national parks, from biologists to naturalists to park rangers, and parallels historical accounts with contemporary tales of people whose lives ...
  • Blog Source: communities.canada.com
    Ken Burns, who's brought us massive, and massively good documentaries on the Civil War, baseball and jazz, now looks at the United States' national parks. In addition to clocking the history of their creation, the 12-hour, six-night The ... Links to
  • Blog Source: the44diaries.wordpress.com
    Horace Albright, then Yellowstone's superintendent, dining with friends in 1922 in an image from Ken Burns's series, “The National Parks,” which begins on Sunday on PBS. New York Times/Mike Hale—Ken Burns's new opus for public ...
  • Blog Source: weblogs.baltimoresun.com
    I got to see Ken Burns on an interview this morning on the Today show, it was good. I think it is a great idea that he included people in his documentary. These people are instrumental because they have been a part of the beauty of ...
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