Merry-Go-Rounds, Maxfield Parrish, and Puerto Rico - July 25

Monday, July 25, 2022

Today is Merry-Go-Round Day, National Hot Fudge Sundae Day, Hire A Veteran Day, and National Wine and Cheese Day 

July is National Parks & Recreation Month and National Ice Cream Month.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Merry-Go-Rounds, Maxfield Parrish, and Puerto Rico

ON THIS DATE

• 1952 - Puerto Rico became a self-governing commonwealth of the U.S.
• 1965 - Bob Dylan goes electric at the Newport Folk Festival, shocking his fans.
• 1975 - 5-6-7-8 - "A Chorus Line" opens on Broadway.
• 1978 - Louise Joy Brown, the first baby conceived by in-vitro fertilization, is born in England.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1750 - Revolutionary War general and first Secretary of War Henry Knox
• 1870 - Artist and NH resident Maxfield Parrish

SONG OF THE DAY 

• Joni Mitchell - The Circle Game - LISTEN
• The Hollies - On a Carousel - LISTEN

THEME: MERRY-GO-ROUNDS

• Grades PreK-2- Pinkalicious & Peterrific - The Zebra Merry Go Round! -  VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - Lesson Plan for Langston Hughes Poem Merry Go Round  - VIEW and DO

THEME: MAXFIELD PARRISH

• Grades 4-12 - National Museum of American Illustration - READ and VIEW 
  
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Shakespeare Uncovered - Twelfth Night (2:44) - VIEW
  

THEME: PUERTO RICO

• Grades 5-12 - PBS LearningMedia - SciGirls - Dr. Amelia Merced - Biologist in Puerto Rico (In Spanish) (3:38) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 5-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Barrios de Puerto Rico: Indieras de Maricao (In Spanish) (2:07) - VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Barrios de Puerto Rico: Machete de Guayama (In Spanish) (2:05) - VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Barrios de Puerto Rico: Almirante Norte y Almirante Sur en Vega Baja (In Spanish) (2:26) - VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Barrios de Puerto Rico:  San Salvador de Caguas (In Spanish) (2:04) - VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Barrios de Puerto Rico: Barrio Guaraguao de Guaynabo (In Spanish) (2:06) - VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Barrios de Puerto Rico: Barrio Guardarraya de Patillas (In Spanish) (1:58) - VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Barrios de Puerto Rico: Barrio Guilarte de Adjuntas (In Spanish) (1:34) - VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Barrios de Puerto Rico: sector de Aguirre, en Salinas (In Spanish) (2:05) - VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Barrios de Puerto Rico: Hato de Rey (In Spanish) (2:45) - VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Barrios de Puerto Rico: Barrio Guilarte de Adjuntas (In Spanish) (1:34) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Puerto Rico's Bomba, A Dance of The African Diaspora (6:33)  -VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Craft in America  Mosaic Artist Rebuilds His Community in Puerto Rico (4:42) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - The Island Next Door: Puerto Rico and Connecticut After Hurricane Maria (26:48) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Culture Quest - Puerto Rico (27:59) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Frontline - Blackout in Puerto Rico (54:47) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - POV - Landfall: Lesson Plans - Disaster Colonialism in Puerto Rico (4:27) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Global Perspectives - Luis Martinez-Fernadez - History of Cuba and Puerto Rico (26:46) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - The Migrant Kitchen - Puerto Rico: Food Soverenity (26:47) - VIEW

Pressroom Contact

Carla Gordon Russell
Director of Communications
crussell@nhpbs.org
(603) 868-4339