Mr. Thoreau takes a trip; A week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

Better than the guide which conducted the footsteps of the first traveler they are the constant lure and they flow by our doors this enterprise and adventure. They are the natural highway of all nations. Not only leveling the ground and removing obstacles from the path of the traveler but conducting him through the most interesting scenery and the most populous portions of the globe. I have often stood on the banks of the Concord watching the last of the current weeds at the bottom gently bending down stream shaking by the watery when the shining pebbles were objects of singular interest to me and at last I resolved to launch myself on its bosom and to float with bear me. And. So at length on Saturday the last day of August 1839

we two brothers and natives of Concord way to anchor in this river. To. You. This is Interstate highway 495 at the point where it intersects with the Concord river. Just about ten miles northwest to the birthplace of Henry David Thoreau in Concord Massachusetts. Today you can drive the sixty miles from Concord Massachusetts to Concord New Hampshire in about an hour and a half. It's a pleasant drive almost any time of year. Superhighways almost all the way. Plenty of green trees and

rolling hills and very few billboards. Back in the 1830s of course there were no super highway chief route connected to Concord consisted of two rivers the Concord and Merrimack in 1839. Henry thorough and his brother John sailed the two rivers from Concord to conquer. In all the river trip took about a week interrupted by an overland hike to New Hampshire's White Mountains. So had begun keeping a personal journal in 1837. At the suggestion of Ralph Waldo Emerson during the trip on the Concord and Merrimack bureau recorded his impression that journal almost ten years later these were to become the basis for his first book a week on the Concord and Merrimack River. In 1845 Thoreau made his now famous decision to spend two years in a

cabin here on the shores of Walden Pond near Concord. It was here that Torro wrote a week on the Concord and BARMAK rivers the most famous result of these two years of course was walled in the work that has earned him a permanent place in American letters in contrast to Walton's popularity. A week has been largely forgotten. Nevertheless it has much to tell us about Thoreau in his times and more important it has much to say about the times in which we live. And so you are cordially invited to join Henry and John Thoreau for a week on the Concord and Merrimack River. Unfortunately many things have been omitted which should have been recorded in our journey for that we made it a rule to set down all our experiences there and get such a resolution is hard to keep for the important experience rarely allows us to

remember such obligations and so endeavour to get recorded. While that is frequently neglected it is not easy to write in a journal of interest at any time because the writing is not with interest. Actually Thoreau did record much of what he saw in his trip and much more as well for a week is not just a travel book. Instead with a basic plan of the five days on the river it's framework. The book becomes as one biographer put it in organized history of the imagination of Henry David Thoreau a float in its pages. We find his thoughts on many subjects. Art Religion Politics genius and geology. But above all else thorough write movingly and perceptively about nature in the book he says. Most books belong to the house street only in the fields. Their leaves feel very thin. They are bare and obvious and have no halo about

furrows. We felt very much at home in the fields and along the rivers for these provided a unifying force that held all his philosophical speculations together and down to earth. Much of what we saw along the Concord and Merrimack River can be seen by the river traveler there today. The modern traveller would be hard pressed to find better words to describe what he sees there. As we sailed under this canopy of leaves we saw the sky which Ching's and as it were the meaning and idea of the tree stands in a thousand hieroglyphics from the heavens. The universe is so aptly fit into our organization that the eye wanders and reposes at the same time on every side there is something to soothe and refresh the sun. Look up at the tree tops and see how finely nature finishes off there. See how the Pines fire without end. Make a graceful fringe to the

leaves are of more various forms than the alphabets of all languages put together. The pinnacle is a small wooded hill which rises very abruptly to the height of about 200 feet near the shore it looks for. Hill affords the best view of the river. You can see up and down the Merrimac several miles each way. The broad and straight river full of light and life with its sparkling and boming falls. The island which divides the stream the village of Hooksett on the shore almost directly under your feet so near that you could converse with its inhabitants or throw a stone into which you Hard's the woods would like it its western base and the mountains in the north and northeast all make a scene of rare beauty and completeness which the travellers should take pains to be.

Berro was no passive observer and recorder of nature with the same stubbornness that drove him as he says in Waldon to work in wages downward through the mud and slush of opinion of delusion and appearance to a hard bottom. We can call reality. Thoreau looked at the appearances of nature and saw the reality that lay beneath. After we had supped we sat up to write a journal of this voyage or listened to the wind and the rippling of the river. Sleep over took us there and we lay under an oak on the bank of the stream near to some farmer's corn field getting sleep forgetting where we were. A great blessing and we are obliged to forget our enterprise every 12 hours. And do we live in the present Hope brought along. I sit now on a stump whose rings number centuries grow. I look around I see that the soil is composed of the remains of just stumps

ancestors. The earth is covered with mould. I trust this stick many acorns deep into its surface and with my heel make a deeper furrow and the elements have fallen here for a thousand years. If I listen I hear the people from which is older than the slime of Egypt. Why what we would call you is not Kindi beer it is not yet stained by it. It is not the fertile ground which we walk on but the leaves which flutter over our heads. The news is but the old is made visible to our sense. A. Week on the Concord and Merrimack River is hardly a financial success. Theros publisher printed a first edition of 1000 copies. Only 214 were sold. Another 80 were given away. The remaining 706 copies were finally delivered to morrow of ruefully wrote in his journal. I now have a library of nearly nine hundred books.

Over seven hundred of which I wrote myself. It is not well that the author should be the fruits of his labor. In his book Thoreau's says nothing was ever so unfamiliar and startling to a man as his own. Sorrows thoughts are often unfamiliar and startling and thought provoking. Consider for instance. His comments on a visit to the grave of General John Stark hero of the American Revolution. His monument suggested how much more impressive than the landscape in the tomb of a dead hero and the dwellings of the Laureate living. With most dead a hero by whose monument you stand over the son whom you never heard. The graves of Indians as a kind of way and one the lines that are

marked by no monument on the bank of their native river. Every town which we pass if you may believe together here have been the residence of some great man. But though we knocked at many doors and even made particular inquiries we could not find that there were any. Now. A week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers has many books and one it is a picture of America's past. Past. That is perhaps irretrievably lost. It is a declaration of Florida's love affair with nature. But it is not merely a travel book for a naturalist's Journal. Before I was made concerned as for a man. What he is what he ought to be how he should live his life and it is this aspect of a week that speaks most directly to modern readers. The book contrasts what we are with what we were.

It identifies a part of the American dream that we have lost chiefly because we are forgotten that it ever existed. Pharaoh was troubled by the changes he saw coming over his country increasing numbers of men he reported in Waldon live lives of quiet desperation even in the years between his trip on the concrete and the Merrimac and the publication of a week Durrow noted changes that threatened to mar the peace. Their rivers and discard the men who live along. The Merrimack is navigable for the birds. For about 20 miles or canal boats by means of Lawks as far as Concord New Hampshire. About 75 miles from its mouth a small steamboat once climbed between Lowell and Nashua before the railroad was built in the ten years since our voyage. However the railroad on the bank has been extended and there is

little boat in the Merrimack. The lot are fast wearing out and so will be impassable since the tolls will not pay the expense of repairing and so in a few years they will be in the motor room. The river's true vessels a railroad car and its true and main stream flowing by an iron channel farther south maybe traced by a long line of vapor amid the hills which no morning wind ever disperses. The whistle of the steam engine is now or arousing a country to its progress. It is tempting to call for a prophet to claim that he foresaw with remarkable clarity all the social ills of our time. The fact is that Zorro was no prophet but rather a perceptive sensitive human being who saw the future dangers inherent in the conditions of his time certain that he could not have foretold of frightening proportions of the problems created by

modern industrialization. Problems like air and water pollution. But attuned as he was to nature could see the disastrous effects the infant industries of New England might have on the sparkling clarity of the waters. He sailed on. That summer of 1839. Salmon shad and alewives were formerly abundant here. And taken in weird by the Indians who taught this method to the right. Until the dam and afterward the canal of Billerica and the factories it LOL put an end to their migration. Though it is thought that a few more enterprising Shad may still occasionally be seen in this part of the river. Still patiently almost pathetically. With instincts not to be discouraged. Not to be reasoned with. The Shaad revisit their old home. As if their stern faith would relent. Still they are met by the cooperation of the dam.

Muashar where is Tiger still wandering the sea when quite humbly at the mouths of rivers that man has perchance left them free for the winter. Armed with no sword with no electric shock but merely armed only with innocence and a just cause who hears the fishes when they cry. Perchance after a few thousands of years of the fishes will be patient and pass their summers elsewhere. Meanwhile nature will have levelled at a time and a lot of factories and the grass grown river will run clear again. Obviously 130 years bring many changes. Nowhere are the physical changes along the Merrimack more apparent than in this contrast between Suros description of Manchester New Hampshire of 1839 and the reality of today. Not long after we we this got a cog river emptying and at our left we heard before the damage skeg above just above the mouth of this river we passed the

artificial fall where the canals of the Manchester manufacturing company discharging themselves into the Marillac the waterfalls 30 or 40 feet or seven or eight feet terraces of stone probably to break its course and is converted into one mass of foam. This canal water did not seem the worse for wear foam than this purely wound the savage leaves and impressively as a mountain tarn and it came from under a factory. We saw a rainbow here. But we did not carry here making haste to get past the village collected and out of the hearing of the hammer which was laying the foundation of another low on the bank. At the time of our boys. Manchester was a village of about two thousand inhabitants. But now nine years later as I have been told and as I have seen myself

it contains fourteen thousand and. From a hill on the road between Goffstown and four miles. I have seen the sun shine on a city there where I had landed in the field nine years before. 130 years of change into town and on the road side that border the rivers give to Thoros descriptive passages and unintentional but none the less tragic irony. The air was so elastic and crystal and that it had the same effect on the landscape. The glass had given an ideal remote perception. The landscape was closed in the mild and bright light in which the one Fender's record and I mentioned it with new regularity. And rough and an even feel stretched away with long like movements to the horizon and a

cloud finally distinct and picturesque scene the drapery to hang over fairyland. The world seemed decked for some holiday or prouder pageantry with silken streamers flying. In the course of our lives to wind down before us like a lane into a country may at the season when fruit trees are in broth. Should not like and it seems to be actually very interesting. All our lives but a suitable background. Be open and sunny intervals still stretched away from the river to the distant hill country. Sometimes we saw the river road quarter or a

half mile distant and the party colored Concord cope with its cloud of dust band of earnest traveling faces and its rear of dusty trunk. Reminding us that the country had its places of rendezvous for Restless Yankee and. Bagwell's along at considerable distance as on this interval a quiet agricultural and pastoral people. There. They lived on these new england people. Farmer lives. Father and Grandfather and great grandfather. On and on without noise keeping up tradition and expecting besides fair weather and abundant harvest. We did not learn what. They were contented to live since it was so contrived for them and where their lines for

the contrast between what we were and what we have become a story is the story of an inexorable process which some call the ugly fixation of America in the name of progress American since those time has disfigured the face of America has polluted overcrowded and bulldozed have paved over and superhighways have replaced woodland meadows and quiet farms with junkyard factories and shopping plaza. So could not have foreseen the shopping plazas. He did understand only too well the mediocrity and meanness of spirit a lack of sensitivity that has permitted the despoiling of nature so new and loved so

well. We are people who live in a bright light and houses of hurling and porcelain and drink only light wine whose teeth are easily set on edge by the natural cellar. If we had been consulted the backbone of the Earth would have been made not have granted but a Bristol spot. Our present senses are but the rudiments of what they were destined to become. Big ears were made to hear not for such trivial uses as men are one to suppose but to hear celestial sounds. The eyes were not made for such graveling uses as they are now put to and worn out by. But to behold beauty invisible in this like a vision. This inability or unwillingness of man to be what he will not hear and right what he will never read. Lies The roots of the changes that have befallen the conquered and the Baron. And the larger canvas that is America. And in a week sorrow urges upon man the courage of a new spirit.

Certainly there is a life of the mind but the wants of the body and independent of. Often the body is worn but the imagination is torpid. The body is fat but the imagination is lean and shrunk. But what avails all other wealth is wanting. Imagination is the air of the mind in which it lives and green. Men. Nowhere. East or West. Yet a natural light from which the vine clings and which the elm willing the shadow man would desecrated by his touch. And so the beauty of the world remains veiled to him. He needs not only to be spiritualized but naturalized on the soil of the earth. The wind should be his breath the seasons his mood and he should impart of his serenity to nature herself. There is only necessary a moment's sanity and sound sensors to teach us that there is a nature beyond the ordinary. We live on the outskirts of that region. Let us not my friends be

we've all been cheated into good behavior to earn the salt of our eternal porridge. Whoever they are that attempt to. Rot is the heaven which they expect if it is no better than they suspect. Are they prepared for better than they cannot imagine. Here or nowhere in our heaven. Pharaoh's vision of the spiritualized non-euro a wise man is not an easy one to grasp or extend. Modern man will argue that the world vision of this nineteenth century naturalist is impossible to dehumanised computerized life of the twentieth century. That the inevitability of world destruction turns Thoros west beyond the ordinary into an exercise in futility. To those who would despair for the future of mankind. All relates this parable of hope. Or as my experience goes. Travellers generally

exaggerate the difficulty of the way. Like most evil the difficulty is imaginary. If a person lost. We conclude that after all he is not long he is not to find so. Much standing in his own old shoes on the very spot where he and I for the time being he will live there at the places that have known him they are lost. How much anxiety and danger. I am not alone. If I stand by myself. There has always been a certain amount of messages that Henry Thoreau has for modern man. But this much is clear. This 30 something beyond the ordinary need not be conducted in a $28 hunt by the shores of Walden Pond or in a 15 foot boat on the Merrimack River. The cultivation of the human spirit is a daily project which every man conducts whenever

and wherever he finds himself. His generation has come into the world fatally late from Enterprise. Where he will on the surface the thing men have been there before the lives of men no more extended laterally in their range are still as shallow as ever. Undoubtedly men generally live over about the same surface. Some live long and narrow in others lives brought in. But it is all superficial living. Man's frontiers are not east or west north or south but wherever a man from back even though that could be his neighbor there is an unsettled wilderness between him and Canada between him and the setting sun between him and it let him build himself a log house with the bark on where he is running it and wait there an old French war with seven or seventy year with Indians and Rangers or whatever else may come between him and the reality and let him say that he

can. Do. When this program was produced through an award grant from the Reader's Digest foundation. Meet Louise McNamara. Chances are you probably never heard of her unless you have a youngster in

the second grade. Certainly your youngster knows his MacNamara's for the past 15 years he's been one of the favorite teachers of millions of American schoolchildren. She's been the teacher who has come into their classroom via television and taught them about science and health and read it. And come this September. Louise McNamara will be making friends with many brand new first graders. That's when her new series up close and natural produced here in New Hampshire by channel 11. Makes its national debut on more than 140 public television stations across the nation. Louise McNamara is one of a very special breed of teachers. They teach new Hampshire children your children every day right here on Channel 11. We're going to meet some of those teachers and find out more about them and perhaps will help you discover that here at Channel 11. Television. Television is following a special look at Channel 11 school television service. Good evening. I'm Bill Brady. I'm director of instructional services here at Channel 11.

And that title means that among other things I'm responsible for Channel 11. School programming that TV programs that teach stuff to school kids we call it instructional television ITV and that's what we do here at Channel 11. Four hours a day five days a week thirty two weeks a year when schools are in session. You've never heard of ITV you say. Well I'm afraid you're not alone in that. And that's what this program is all about to introduce you to this special kind of television and tell you something about it to explain why Channel 11 broadcast these instructional programs this ITV to New Hampshire schools to tell you about the educational goals. These ITV programs are designed to serve to show you how these television lessons are used in New Hampshire classrooms. First let me introduce you to some of channel elevons faculty the television teachers whose voices and faces are familiar to so many New Hampshire schoolchildren. Louise McNamara whom you've already met best known for her health

series all about you for more than 10 years the best known and most widely used TV series in America. John Robbins artist writer producer teacher of more than 250 TV lessons including five series viewers regularly in New Hampshire schools. New Hampshire's own Kelvin Dalton science teacher former school principal Kelvin's ITV series like primary science are watched in classrooms all over the country and here are a few more of the TV teachers who prove that here on Channel 11 television is learning. Tony Selatan teacher musician let's all sing. I'm. John Rocker featured in two series finding our way and the brand new American legacy. Connie Chung the network news anchor person and TV teacher on Terra Your World team teachers on the Science Alliance Judy Haliday and Rex Haken and two very

unusual faculty members slim Goodbody on the health series The Inside Story of slim Goodbody and our de-bug of the right channel. We'll come back and meet some of these folks again in just a few moments. But first we have a few important questions to ask and answer about this thing called iTV such as Why do all these talented teachers not to mention the hundreds of writers educators production professionals and technicians take the time and trouble to design and develop these television lessons. And why do 250 public television stations across America broadcast them every week. Newspaper and magazine articles reflect the concern that many people especially parents feel about television. They worry about TV's influence on their kids. They think their kids watch too much TV at home and they're probably right and the TV their kids do watch seems to be doing nothing more than selling them the stuff sugary cereals junk foods junk toys. Not to mention violence and

bad manners and a kind of mindless passivity that's most disturbing of all. And parents ask the schools if our kids are watching so much TV so much bad TV at home why should they be required to watch more TV in school. Well that's a fair question and it deserves a thoughtful answer. The first part of that answer is this the TV your kids watch at home the TV you read about in those newspapers and magazine articles the TV that you understandably worry about is not the same TV or kids watch in school instructional television ITV is different in style and content different in its aims and objectives and most important of all different in its attitude toward its young viewers. How is it different. Well let's look at a sample segment from one of our ITV series. The subject is map and globe skills teaching and fourth and fifth grade youngsters how to read and interpret maps. It's a basic social studies and survival

skill grows in the US. Remember how map reading was taught in your school floor with a teacher and a pointer and a role model. Maybe an atlas or two there. And if you were real lucky an occasional filmstrip most math or now television allows the classroom teacher and her students to get out into the real world and discover how map and globe skills are applied in real life situations. There are maps for almost every purpose that we can think of. Some even to show us where to go to have a good time like this topographical map. Have you ever tried water skiing. It looks fun doesn't it. So does sailing a boat using the wind and the sail to take you around the lake. Grad's can tell us where to go on the earth service to find such recreational areas and once we're here they are very helpful in pointing out picnic areas. The boat ramp. Even the bicycling walking trail where I am I will notice that piece of land that juts out into the lake that's located here on the map.

I've marked my position just south of it by a red duck. Actually this lake is also a reservoir. Can you tell why. Notice along one side that engineers have built a large dam to block or store the water in case of too much rain which can cause a bad flood. The damage shown on the map extending along here in which direction it north is toward the top of the map. Then the dam makes an angle with my finger about half way between North any what we call NE is right. If NE is in this direction north must be in this direction east is to my right. West is to my left South is directly behind me. The damn act is kind of a landmark to help Line-Up our cardinal directions here on the map with those in the field of a sandbar over there helps to pinpoint my position here on the map. It's is called orienting ourselves to the map. Orientation is very important in order to be able to read or understand what and at

such a topographical map is very useful because it has such a great amount of detail on it. The United States has accused the Soviet Union of using chemicals as weapons in Afghanistan and Southeast Asia. Secretary of State George Shultz submitted a report to the United Nations and Congress presenting evidence of chemical warfare. A sign that the world brings the people and events of World and national news to the classroom in a fast paced informative weekly newsmagazine a series that elicits hundreds of letters drawings and photographs every week from children all over the United States. However this is the second report in a year that presented evidence against Russia finding our way and assignment the world to Syria. That demonstrates some of the ways that ITV is different from the television kids watch at home. But perhaps the most important difference of all the one that runs like a thread through all ITV is this ITV cares about kids. ITV respects them for what they

are and what they can become to ITV. Children are not little customers. Not fair game for a commercial sales pitch. ITV regards its young viewers as very precious human beings each with an individual potential to be realized with minds and emotions to be challenged and encouraged to develop and grow. ITV cares about kids cares about their feelings their problems their sense of worth and their sensitivity to others and ITV uses the intense emotional appeal of the medium to get kids deeply involved. While it holds up a mirror to life allowing students to see themselves through the experiences of others and by doing so. Children learn a bit more about themselves and how to live with others even. As they view TV lessons like this one from the series Inside Out. Children find out that parents have feelings too and that even in the most loving families sometimes this can lead to misunderstanding and conflict.

Try to keep going because you might not I'm on Tony. OK OK lets get together at my work. I just want to read that he have been working all day and. I. Am sure to hear mommy. You see all these papers work on me and not a lot of drunk get out. I don't know you can hear. Instructional television is different. It looks at real life family

situations and help kids understand that the growing pains their suffering are shared by most kids their age and the bewilderment their parents sometimes feel is shared by the parents of most grown children and the children discover that emotions like love hate anger and fear are very much a part of life very much a part of being human. No one doubts that TV can deal effectively with emotional values. But what about TV's ability to deal with the basics with reading and writing math and science. Well lets start with readings since learning how to read and what to read is fundamental to the education of every child. Critics of television see it as a major obstacle preventing kids from learning how to read. And yet ironically television can help children to learn how to read. If the television is instructional television one way to encourage youngsters to read is to introduce them to good books early to get them hooked on books right from the start. That's what the channel

11 produced looks at books is all about they. Nellie Wofford and dog paddle during the war. In the evening when the tide is high you get. All the guests who've gone. You roll around to the point. Feeling lonely and Gyllenhaal asks a question. A heron croaks the answer. A seal sniffs softly as he recognizes you and eider ducks and fish hawks all are listening all are watching as you roll. By the rock. You shine a light down into the water. There is a crab in the bottom where you were playing this afternoon. He took two sideways through the castle gate and disappears into his want to reach. You snap off the light and roll toward the door. As the stars are blazing down. Your reflections gazing out in the quiet of the night. One hundred pairs of eyes are watching you. Why one pair of eyes

is watching over all. I know you're used to reading a book in a certain way starting at the beginning and then going straight through to the end. But I have two books for you today you can't read that way. The first one is deadwood city by Edward Packard and it says right in the beginning of the book do not read this book straight through from beginning to end. These pages tell about many adventures you might have in the Old West but the adventures you actually do have will be affected by the decisions you make. So you're a character in the story and there are 37 different endings. That means there are 37 different stories. The thing you have to do is be careful and make the right decisions because there's a bad guy out to get you his name is Kurt Loy. Imagine yourself on horseback riding along a desert train home and into. In the distance you can see the snow capped peaks of the Rocky Mount. As students improve their reading skills and mature in their reading tastes I

TB's job is to continue to spark a lively interest in reading to help them discover the worlds of adventure knowledge and fun that await them between the covers of a book. In this segment from the series read it was John Robbins introducing students to a new type of book one in which the reader writes his own stories. The streets are nearly deserted. And the few people you see seem nervous tense. You wonder what to do. You might gone over to Salumi see what's happening there. You know in a western town is no better place to pick up the news at the saloon. Maybe maybe you ought to go local to. The clerk. The front desk can probably tell you what to do when it dead wood city. Besides you need a place to stay for the night. Then again my going to the sheriff's office. Is trouble with city sheriffs like we did know about.

If you decide to go to the city turn to page 8. If you decide to go to the hotel. Turn to page 9. If you decide to go to the sheriff's office turn to page 10. What about writing. Well New Hampshire students in grades 3 and 4 have a most remarkable composition teacher. His name is R. de-bug and he's just a few inches high and he works as an apprentice reporter at TV station w o r d is GOODFRIEND news director red green is helping him learn how to write interesting sentences. Oh. Yes. Oh yes.

What do you do there. I was looking for my pencil. I see it. Thank God I was too big to fit under the desk. Sometimes being small has its advantages. Now I am sure it is the star player. Now I have a problem. The tablet makes the lock on he can dribble under people below. He can do it easily. You lives now by a person's name always starts with a capital letter. Now lets make those sentences better. Ok how about joining the most of it. No life is short. It is the star player that has the talent and the talent make the crowd loved him.

He can throw a ball no no joining sentences with and is OK but the point of learning to write sentences different ways is to make your writing more interesting. You should use lots of different ways to join your sentences in every story you write instead of just joining them all with your right read Mel. Life is short. What is the star player. No. 5 Who is short is the star player. Not bad. At the end of each. Right channel lesson. But ask the viewers to write a news story based on events they've seen on the TV screen. The producers of the series tell us that they received many letters each week from aspiring New Hampshire journalists can television help children read and write effectively. There's no doubt that instructional television can. Science is another major area of study in which ITV can play a special role in the classroom science series like Terra community of living things and primary science. Bring the natural world to the

classroom with compelling visual beauty and with a vivid sense of reality that keeps students watching and learning. Here is Louise McNamara. Up close and natural as you can see. You can find out study no matter where you are. Animals are everywhere for example once you leave them in the sack we'll see this fall. When I was a little girl and saw this foam on blades of grass or clover I call it snakes. I didn't discover that this was the little green Fox until I looked inside. Here it is. This is the name pedophile. The. Phone for text from its creditors until it becomes an adult and has wings. Break out of the foam and fly away from the miniature world of spittle bugs to more familiar scenes right here in New Hampshire. History is a part of every school curriculum in the Granite State. New Hampshire history has been an essential

part of Channel 11 school service ever since 1959. Or in New Hampshire which is the current version of our state history course is the most widely viewed instructional Series in our schedule. Why. Here's a segment from our lesson on Washington over and croppers notch. They were certainly not going to be out done so in 1865. Work was begun on a cog railway to carry passengers up to the top. It was an ambitious undertaking but when it was finished in 1869 the tourist trade it brought to the Western Valley rivaled that of the glen house when it comes notch. The track followed an old Reidel cut by Ethan Allen Crauford back in 1821. The entire cog railway after the first quarter was built on the. This elevated track was just two feet from the ground at its lowest places on Jacob's Ladder rose 30 feet in the air. With all this traffic going up and down the mountain carriages on trains and on foot. It was inevitable that someone would

build some kind of accommodation on the summit. The first to try was even Crawford but his series of tents and shacks were all demolished in short order by the winds and storm. The first summer house was opened in 1852 to host the carriage patrons. It was such a success that the Tip-Top house was built the following year. They were mostly crude affairs that offered only basic room and board. But the second son in the house completed in 1873 held 150 guests served to formal dinners and even had its own Mount Washington Symphony Orchestra. There was even a newspaper among the clouds printed daily to keep the visitors informed of what was happening in the small Disney World at Mt. Washington summit. It was the only newspaper ever printed at the top of. Our new Hampshire. Up close and natural inside out looks at books. Just a few of the 50 TV courses that taken together make up what we call the New Hampshire School of the air. It's an ITV school that's in session for more than

50000 New Hampshire children from September through May every year for the past 24 years. ITV lessons in reading and science and social studies and a dozen other subjects. And these teachers study guides that you're seeing now point up another difference between commercial television and instructional television. ITV is not passive television. ITV gets kids actively involved in learning the television lesson itself is just one part of three major parts of a well connected TV lesson in the classroom before the TV lesson the teacher prepares the students for what they're about to view during the TV broadcast. The teacher sees that the students are actively involved in the lesson and after the ITV lesson the teacher leads the class in some kind of related activity. Let's see how this three step process really works in the classroom. First the teacher prepares her class for the ITV lesson. They were about to see a lesson from all about you with Louise MacNamara's.

Well the best thing. Ever. That. May be different tune when you're really angry at someone. They. Sometimes end up being you from a. Few days later. Make. Up for what you have despite your disagreement with varying degrees. Let. Us. Say. What. You might be the first person to say what. You want. One good way. Out you can. Try.

To make. Sound. That's. A very good way to find it. That's been a few days I've thought about it way to make friends with you today. We're going to have some more time to take a look at. The TV lesson begins and the students primed by the pre telecast discussion. Listen to what the television teacher has to say. This is television viewing with a purpose television for learning. This is what makes ITV so special so different from commercial television. Why are these kids so attentive. Well television is their medium. They're very comfortable with it as a way of learning the ideas generated by the pre lesson discussion and the personality of the television teacher. Add to the appeal and this television program unlike those on commercial television has been written especially for youngsters their age. And as our class watches the TV lesson the teacher watches her class. Are they following the

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And don't forget to bring the kids. When Henry Ford gave the world its first inexpensive automobile he also gave the world a new pastime. Auto touring and driving around in the car looking at things. In fact some of the first automobiles were called. Touring Cars. You remember the family on Sunday afternoon taking the drive.

Well consider this an invitation to do an old fashioned thing like an auto tune. Our tour is special. Because we were going to places in New Hampshire that very few visitors ever see. We're going to start in key gold due north on route 12. So sorry then on to all Studd and then east on 1:23 the mall and then we'll take Route 10 salt back to. Less than 40 miles in all. We're going to start and end here in Keene. Because Keene has terrific for us. It has great shopping. It has gas stations. And if you pack a picnic lunch. And leave before noon and 15 or 20 minutes you can be in surgery at the Army Corps of Engineers down. So it's right off Route 12. You can't miss it. The view is spectacular and the picnic area clean and neat and there's camping and in the summer swimming this beautiful body of water however was not made with out a log of all evil. You see a good deal of the town of Surrey used to be

right down there when they built the dam. The town would have been under water. We've had a flood. So they moved most of the houses from the area over there. Up into this area. So what was once the village is now just gone but it's a nice place to explore. Mary forcer is right. Her Tano Suri is a nice place to explore and it's darn pretty in the graveyard. There are some very mysterious storms and there's an abandoned gold mine on sori market right behind the town. Mary told me a local legend about the mine. But a farmer who owned a section of the mountain didn't want it any more so he took a shotgun shell that full of gold pellets. And dead down into the mountain and shot them into the bay. Then took some went up to. And so. The land for a lot of money it's called salting a mine. They even built roads

up there and a dormitory. And of course all the investors lost their shirt. Way way up in that gap where it gets down there there is a lily pond. It's seven hundred and fifty feet up in the air and it has been measured to be 80 feet deep. A real freak of nature. I've hiked up there and I've got to tell you it's spooky six miles up the highway from Syria's center all stead. This is the first part of three parts of Alstead will visit Central all said it has a wonderful old green and the first Congregational Church. More on that later. The town of all staed proper is four miles further up the road. It has a wonderful library a fascinating historical society museum in the old Universalist Church the third Congregational Church. More on that later. And an amazing assortment of Greek Revival home. I asked Dorothy Walker of the historical society

about them and most of them. Where. They went after the Civil War and at least two by Mr. Prentice including mine was Marvin. None of them was a lot more more to the point what kind of people were there. As you know Stuart keep pace. With the business man of the county. And now. That belonged to. The Masonic lodge. And I'd. Like to. Say. Those. Bloggers are very. Much. Part of the social life. Building. From Wall Street proper We travel east on Route 123 past mill hollow to east all stared with its lovely second Congregational Church now that makes three Congregational churches in one small town and all three churches have their own minister. All said is probably the most congregational lies town in

America and there's a wonderful photo opportunity here. The East all staed mailboxes. We are about three miles down Route 123 from East Austin and about a half a mile outside of the town of Marlow. All this area you see behind me was once a giant forest. It's very young now and the reason for that is because back in 1943 there was a terrible forest fire burned thousands of acres around here. And when it was done when the fire was put out the astonished firemen looked up and saw this Mollo profile. The profile has no nickname. Just call the Mollo profile. Somebody will think it looks like Richard Nixon. The mountain that it's on is called Bald Mountain but to call a profile old Baldy would in my estimation be terrible taste. And this is Mollo looks like a movie set doesn't it.

All the buildings are placed about perfectly. Now I wondered about that and it turns out it's not a mistake. Like Sury this town was simply moved here it seems. Back in the mid 1900s when most of the citizens of this town moved two miles down by the river here to work in the mills they decided to bring the town buildings with them. Well that's it. You follow route 10 back to Keene or home. If you go through get some stop at the general store and get a soda pop. Happy Motoring. This is the swinging bridge in Milford New Hampshire. It is the first of a number of

attractions we're going to visit on our driving tour today. We're going to start here in Milford and travel northwest on a wonderful old winding road nine miles to libros center relend traveled three miles south. To route 31 and Salz line büro and then we'll go east on Route 31 to Wilton and then back here to Melford on route 101. It's a short trip only 22 miles in all. But we start here at the swingeing bridge. Now this is a suspension bridge it was built in 1885. To get the workers to work at the old so he can cotton mills which used to be up there. It's a footbridge although it is wide enough to accommodate a Model A Ford and I know that. Because my mother told me that she once illegally rode across this bridge in a walkway for young. Kids love this bridge. They fish off the side you can tell that. Because of these power lines up here they have about a thousand bits of fish line con in them. Now it's called the swinging break. It doesn't really swing. You see what it does is it

bounces. Hey that's all kids want. Drop bombs on aspirin. How to get on with our tour. First Eagle hall the original town hall topped appropriately enough with an eagle and the center of medal for the oval shops restrooms stores. We leave downtown Milford via Route 13 going west. 200 yards out of town is the American stage festival. Milford's summertime professional theater company shows plays art exhibits. Just up the road Route 13 veers to the right. But we're not going that way we're going left following the signs the line Berl. There's no route number here but you will find this road on all gas station maps. After all this is the only paved road to libros borough Center another mile or so and we come to the John Hutchinson homestead of the time of the

Civil War. The Hutchinson family was the most noted singing group in the nation. They were the Peter Paul and Mary of their day. They sang songs of temperance and emancipation and women's suffrage for the Hutchinson family owned this house. It was a tavern built in 1777. Today the home is owned by Mr. and Mrs. Harold Gorman. P.T. Barnum is famous midget General Tom Thumb and his bride honeymooned in this house and it's reported that they drove a team of horses and a carriage down the front hall and out the front door. This was also a stop on the Underground Railroad and it's reported that there is a tunnel that runs from the basement of this house under the road down to the river. Just up the road from the Hutchinson homestead is the Milford fish hatchery. Here's where many of the trail

you catch in New Hampshire start their lives. This is fun for the kids and it's open daily from 8:30 to four and there are tours. Met Online Burrough Sutter and this great view of PAC and North PAC Monadnock mom and Chaz was a terrific photographs of the graveyard the old meeting house and the public pound. This is the place where in colonial times people brought stray animals. If you lost an animal chances are if you came here you'd find it. Just half a mile down the hill from libros Center. We come to Monument corner where we find this monument which reads Mrs. C-g wife of a Woodward was thrown from a wagon and killed on this spot. May 8 1852. Legend has it that it was her wedding day. Kind of tugs at the heart

even now. And now to a South line borough or a libation at the general store and maybe a video. Videos videos. General Store is not a place for videos. General Store is a place for woodstoves and crackers and Cracker Barrel and Old Man and. Well now here is a video of the fireplace fire. You take it home you put it on your video player and you sit around the TV you watch the fire pretend it's the old days. Actually I'm making that up. This is. This is all that is left of the famous line Burle glass factory between 1866 and 1888. This factory turned out the finest quartz glass in America and all that is left now is this ruined damn sight where only by the way about a mile

from South Lybrel and if you'd like to find this place I guess the best way would be to ask directions at the general store. Four miles down Route 31 from south line borough is Wilson Wilton has two noted attractions. The first is the Wilton town hall movie theater. This is the kind of a movie theater they used to have 50 years ago and nothing has changed from nothing. You walk in here and it's 1936. You know it's worth the price of admission just to sit in this movie theater. Bring the grandchildren. Show them how it used to be. As we have Hala it used to be. Listen to this. A complete meal including potato vegetable and rolls with Swedish meatballs one dollar and eighty five cents a Knockwurst dinner for one dollar and seventy five cents. No these are not the prices of 20 years ago. These are the prices that they are getting today.

Right now we're at the older Wilson diner. The New Hampshire Times calls this the best diner in the state. And in my opinion Miss Ford Field Anderson is the best corner. Thank you very much. Is this delicious. There. Is. The. Essence. Well that's it. A 1936 movie house a diner with prices not to be believed a monument to a dead lady. An animal pound and the swinging age all in twenty two miles. Irresistible. Hey. Happy Motoring. Course the school house is all

over the state. I think had the same kind of a wood stove and it was quite long it would take. I don't think it would take a three foot log but at least two foot IMO. If you sat near the windows it was extremely drafty and cold. So in the. Winter when it was real cold the teacher would get let it roll that sat there as the stoves did that for a while and then they would have to exchange with the rose by the window with two rollers so that that was the way she kept. Rotating as the Son of man grown I got a job with a portable sawmill and all Hosh an and I

was earning $15 a week which was pretty good money then and the job was still gone when it was time to go back to school. So word forced apparently urge me to go back but they were pretty good to me. So I didn't want to show I keep on working. So there was a teacher in Deerfield that a grade it be a few parade and then the fifth sixth seventh and eighth down to diffuse center. So the teacher at that school she'd see me going up mornings and I forced her father in a horse and sleigh to work. And she got her figured out I was too young and I was only 15 and you had to go to school. You were 16 at that time. So she did some investigating and eventually the authorities came to parents that it brought her back into school. So I back to school went

for some reason it came to me nice that I passed with flying colors and get out of there but I was getting to be too big to have around the school for that time. Well there was an outhouse and it was out in the back of that elementary school and it was there was a there was a petition between it that theoretically separated the boys and the girls but there was an awful lot of holes in the petition. The door was never manage to close very well so that in the wintertime the snow man and there would be three or four inches of snow on the floor. And then on the seats too of course. And they were all one hallways.

No one ever thought of providing anything more than a catalog for paper because toilet tissue was not that common at the time. But children were reluctant shall we say to use it to use the services but they do sometimes. And so they did. But the little people in the office Gray they oftentimes put it off too long. Living in the camp. It was hard in some ways but everyone worked with you.

No lights flash lights. We have one room in the whole camp we had 54 buildings and one we could light and keep the peace. We had an emergency but everything else is there. So you went to bed and it was on a Monday night. We just had fun it was volleyball swim. We can do everything in the field so I don't know if we can get them into bad habits or not. But one late night meant a lot of fun and staying up late. We flew a base CEO back to his base from Pueblo Colorado. And it was a training base where they were training. Men. For military flying this B-26 pulled and all other cadets came running out to take a look at this plane. And as we dropped out of it they took one look and they said girls. And they turned around and left. It wasn't so interesting after they thought girls could fly that plane.

I took in this thing this family and there were three girls. Erika Sheelah and Cleo a beautiful little campers. But if an airplane went over Can't we lose some bands for now. They would be all right in the bush. We were away from where the plane went over the Lindis in there. What is Hoovervilles win. Because they were there when do they have any leads that they had lived through and they were afraid to death of planes. When we got ready to land the plane I couldn't rev up the engines the way I usually do. Something was wrong but we got it in. And this CEO told everybody back at my base what a wonderful pilot I was because we had all this emergency and I had taken the plane down and it really wasn't anything that was so hazardous. This is the first time you've

ever flown with a woman and that was the reason that I took him down there because he wanted to see what these women could do with a B-24. And then I had this emergency and that he thought was Boy what a wonderful pilot. This woman asked when peace was declared. We have a place in the woods we call this frantic of where we stuck. A campfire and we close camp at the end of the campfire and we never used it any other time except when peace was declared and we kept the fire going all night. And it was a family of tears and laughter and we scrambled in the morning and we felt very grown up and really going through it. It was a grueling experience something I had to think to be good. We had to go through something not war but something to be basic Iggy on about because you had you couldn't have television or radio or anything like that. We made a room and made a lot of it.

From Washington. They gave out the ultimatum that we could not fly in an aircraft either as a pilot or on a crew. None of the girls could. We were in there for what they call the duration of the emergency. And as soon as fellows had finished their tours of duty overseas they were coming back. So they were using these fellows to do the jobs that the girls that they didn't really want us around but there were an awful lot who really wanted to stay. And I was one of them.