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Program
Prairie Crosses, Prairie Voices: Iron Crosses of the Great Plains
Producing Organization
Prairie Public Broadcasting, Inc.
Contributing Organization
Prairie Public Broadcasting (Fargo, North Dakota)
AAPB ID
cpb-aacip/102-881jx2g6
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Description
Description
Iron Crosses stand as sentinels on the prairie landscape, framed by huge expanses of grass and sky. Though they stand silent, behind each one is a story. Prairie Crosses, Prairie Voices evokes these stories, memories of the Germans from Russia, a frugal and tenacious people whose blacksmiths used wagon-wheel rims and scrap metal to fashion markers for the graves of the dead. Prairie Crosses, Prairie Voices follows the traditional iron art form that crossed continents and oceans and survived famine and war, to be reborn on the Great Plains in Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, Montana, South Dakota, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan. NETA version. Closed caption = Yes
Asset type
Program
Topics
History
Rights
Standard PBS broadcast rights of 4 plays in 3 years
Media type
Moving Image
Credits
Producing Organization: Prairie Public Broadcasting, Inc.
Publisher: Prairie Public Broadcasting, Inc.
AAPB Contributor Holdings
Prairie Public Broadcasting
Identifier: PDMASTER090053 (Prairie Public Broadcasting, Inc.)
Format: DVCAM
Generation: Master
Duration: 00:56:30
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Citations
Chicago: “Prairie Crosses, Prairie Voices: Iron Crosses of the Great Plains,” Prairie Public Broadcasting, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed June 27, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-102-881jx2g6.
MLA: “Prairie Crosses, Prairie Voices: Iron Crosses of the Great Plains.” Prairie Public Broadcasting, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. June 27, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-102-881jx2g6>.
APA: Prairie Crosses, Prairie Voices: Iron Crosses of the Great Plains. Boston, MA: Prairie Public Broadcasting, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-102-881jx2g6