The National Parks: America’s Best Idea: is a six-episode series on the history of the national parks, directed by Ken Burns and written and co-produced by Dayton Duncan. Showing on PBS started last night on Sunday, Sept. 27, 2009. Check you local listing for the episode showing tonight and the rest of the week.
Really enjoyed the first episode and looking forward to the next five.
Worth your time!
Carlton Watkins landscape of Three Brothers with the Merced River in the foreground. Yosemite National Park, circa 1861.
Theodore Roosevelt and John Muir at Glacier Point, Yosemite National Park, 1903
PBS website for more details.
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.
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