Mail and Aldous Huxley - July 26

Tuesday, July 26, 2022

Today is Aunts and Uncles Day and Americans With Disabilities Day

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

National Natural  Wonder of the Day - Idaho - Hagerman Fossil Beds

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Mail and Aldous Huxley

ON THIS DATE

• 1775 - The Second Continental Congress establishes the first post office and names Benjamin Franklin Postmaster General.
• 1948 - President Truman signs Executive Order 9981, desegregating the U.S. military.
• 1990 - President George H.W. Bush signs the Americans with Disabilities Act.
• 2016 - Hillary Clinton becomes the first woman selected as the presidential candidate of a major party.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1856 - Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw
• 1875 - Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung
• 1894 - English writer Aldous Huxley
• 1923 - Author and illustrator Jan Berenstain
• 1943 - Musician Mick Jagger
• 1945 - Actor Helen Mirren
• 1956 - Figure skater Dorothy Hamill
• 1964 - Actor Sandra Bullock

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• The Marvelettes - Please Mister Postman - LISTEN
• Elvis Presley - Return to Sender - LISTEN
• Wilco - Box Full of Letters - LISTEN
• Fats Waller - I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter - LISTEN
• Rolling Stones - Start Me Up - LISTEN

THEME: MAIL

• Grades PreK-1- Sesame Street - Mailman in Appalachia (2:15) -  VIEW
• Grades PreK-1- Sesame Street - M is for Mail (0:16) - VIEW
• Grades K-3 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Post Office Field Trip (7:14) - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-3 - NHPBS LearnijgMedia- Blossom and Snappy Go to the Post Office (26:41) - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-5 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Arthur - Post Office Activity - DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - John Held Jr.: Mail Art (9:06) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - KQED Art School - Mail Art with David Wilson (5:06)- VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Teaching with Primary Sources - The Pony Express - READ and DO
• Grades 9-12 -  PBS LearningMedia - Japanese 233 - At the Post Office (26:43) - VIEW, READ and DO

THEME: ALDOUS HUXLEY 

• Grades 7-12- NHPBS Video  - Blank on Blank - Aldous Huxley on Technodictators (6:04) -  VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - National Endowment for the Humanities - The Talented Mr. Huxley - READ

Pressroom Contact

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