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Green Acres was another 1960s sitcom with a recognizable theme. It was a reversal of The Beverly Hillbillies: Rich urbanites moved to the simplicity of a rural setting. This show had an element of surrealism about it. Oliver Douglas was often the only sane person among a group of crazies. It is reputedly Conan O'Brien's favorite TV show.
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Added: 30th September 2007
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One of the most despicable incidents in the era of the Jim Crow South occurred in the summer of 1955. Emmett Till, a 14-year-old black boy from Chicago, was visiting a great uncle in rural Money, Mississippi. Till, who was unused to the Deep South's severe racial segregation policies, made the fatal mistake of flirting with Carolyn Bryant, an attractive married white woman who ran a general store in Money with her husband, Roy. Depending on which version of the story you believe, Till may have whistled at Carolyn Bryant, grabbed her wrist, asked her for a date, or playfully called her 'baby.' Whatever the case, the incident resulted in vigilanteism. At least two men took Till from his uncle's home at gunpoint, beat him severely, shot him, weighted down Till's body, and tossed it into the Tallahatchie River. It was found by fishermen three days later. Two men (Roy Bryant and his half-brother J.W. Milam) were brought to trial. They were found not guilty by an all-white jury that deliberated for a little more than an hour. The two suspects later admitted to the crime after being paid $4,000 by Look Magazine for their story. Till's mother put her son's grotesquely bloated and battered body on display in an open casket before his funeral. Pictures of Till's corpse appeared in many newspapers around the world. Some estimates say that 50,000 mourners filed past his casket. Many historians claim the uproar surrounding the Emmett Till case instigated the Civil Rights movement. Milam and Bryant both died of cancer in the early 1990s. They remained unrepentant about the crime until their deaths.
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Added: 29th November 2007
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The famous headline that appeared on the front page of Variety on July 17, 1935. (The translation from showbiz lingo to English is that rural audiences were rejecting movies about country bumpkins.)
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Nix
Hick
Pix
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Added: 11th February 2008
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During the Great Depression, many rural automobile owners could not afford gasoline. These resourceful folks just hitched up their horses to their vehicles. The unusual vehicles were derisively called Hoover Wagons after president Herbert Hoover, who was America's chief executive when the Great Depression began.
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Added: 1st April 2008
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Toronto's Arthur Irwin was the man who invented the baseball gove. In 1884, while playing with the National League's Providence Grays, Irwin broke two fingers on his catching hand. In order to keep playing, he wore a carriage driver's glove filled with cotton. At first Irwin was derided as a sissy, but within a decade almost all major leaguers were wearing gloves in the field. However, Irwin is most famous for the double life he led as a bigamist--one that only became known after he died. On July 16, 1921, Irwin was aboard a New York to Bston ship, the Calvin Murphy. He told a fellow passenger he was going home to Boston to die. The next morning, Irwin was nowhere to be found. It was surmised that he either jumped or fell overboard. Irwin left behind a grieving wife and family in Boston--and a grieving wife and family in New York City! Neither family had any inkling of the other's existence. Irwin's body was never found, leading to speculation that he had faked his death. For years there were rumors he was living in rural Georgia under an assumed name. Irwin's sister answered the accusations by saying, 'With Arthur, you never know.'
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Added: 16th August 2008
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Seen through the lense of some of this country finest photographers of the
20th Century as commissioned by Farm Security Administration.
These are among the most famous documentary photographs ever produced. Created by a group of U.S. government photographers, the images show Americans in every part of the nation. In the early years, the project emphasized rural life and the negative impact of the Great Depression, farm mechanization, and the Dust Bowl.
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Library of Congress
The Documenting America
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome....
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love theme from bridges of madison county
Christopher Peacock
10,000 miles
Mary Chapin Carpenter
three fisherman
a land filled with wonder
Mark Isham
conceived and produced by Dale Caruso
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Added: 25th September 2008
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Before there were cell phones and super highways, drive-up or drive through, SUVs, DVDs, or MP-3s, before there was politically correct, and children as "friends;" before broad band, e-mail, and chat rooms; mini-malls, mega-stores; downsizing, upgrading, or out-sourcing; fast food or fast lane; walk-in's or take-out's; long before the next ten miles didn't seem to be a photocopy of the last ten miles, there was
The Real America
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The Library of Congress
Documenting America
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the moment that could not last
Mark Isham
the old house
J.A.C. Redford
our town
Aaron Copeland
conceived and produced by
Dale Caruso
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America
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Added: 25th September 2008
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It was a time, when kids found plenty to do outside the house. It was County Fairs, quiet streets, wish lists, community barbeques, things paid for with cash, if you couldn't afford it you probably didn't need it. A time of neighbors and neighborhoods, of real friends. It was a time of family.
And it has become, a paradise lost.
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Library of Congress
Marjory Collins
Jack Delano
Russell Lee
Louise Rosskam
John Vachon
music by
Thomas Newman
That Next Place
Meet Joe Black
Judy Garland
Somewhere Over The Rainbow
conceived and produced by
Dale Caruso
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1940's
Rural
America
Added: 25th September 2008
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Before we called them - "Buddy" or "Pal" ... They were our children.
In hard times or good times - they were at our side. We talked with them, listened to radio together, we read to them, laughed with them, played and worked with them.
Today, we teach our "Buddies" and "Pals" to work hard, to get a good job ... so you can buy good things on credit - I wonder what our father's father was taught by his parents????
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Documenting America
The Library of Congress
Music
Leader of the Band
Dan Fogelberg
Winter
Tori Amos
The High Road
Mark Isham
Conceived and Produced by
Dale Caruso
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Families
Children
Fathers
Mothers
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1940s
Depression
Rural
America
Americana
Added: 27th September 2008
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