Teri L Sullivan
WKNO
Promotions Manager
901-325-6518
tlsullivan@wkno.org
September 10 , 2009
For Immediate Release
WKNO and the Sierra Club Host
Free Screening of “The National Parks: America’s Best Idea”
WKNO and the Chickasaw Group of the Sierra Club are holding a special screening of the upcoming, highly anticipated documentary series The National Parks: America’s Best Idea – A Ken Burns Film. This event is free and open to the public and will be held on Wednesday, September 16 at 7:30 p.m. at the Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library, 3030 Poplar Avenue.
This screening will feature a sixty-minute preview that presents highlights from the twelve-hour film, set to premiere Sunday, September 27 at 7:00 p.m. on WKNO/Channel 10.
The National Parks: America’s Best Idea, a six-part documentary series directed by Ken Burns and co-produced with his longtime colleague, Dayton Duncan, who also wrote the script, is the story of an idea as uniquely American as the Declaration of Independence and just as radical: that the most special places in the nation should be preserved, not for royalty or the rich, but for everyone.
Filmed over the course of more than six years in 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 documentary is nonetheless a story of 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.
The broadcast of The National Parks: America’s Best Idea on WKNO is sponsored by Outdoors, Inc.
The National Parks: America’s Best Idea is a production of Florentine Films and WETA Washington, DC. National funding is provided by General Motors; Evelyn & Walter Haas, Jr. Fund; Corporation for Public Broadcasting; The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations; Park Foundation, Inc.; Public Broadcasting Service; National Park Foundation; The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation; The Pew Charitable Trusts; and Bank of America.
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