Deer, Lakes, and Lucy Stone - August 13

Saturday, August 13, 2022

• Today is Celebrate Your Lakes Day, National Bowling Day, International Lefthander's Day, and National Prosecco Day.
• August is National Wellness Month, National Sandwich Month, National Golf Month, National Water Quality Month, Black Business Month, International Pirate Month, and National Crayon Collection Month
  
  
• Health and Wellness Resource of the Day: Sesame Street: Hurray for Broccoli Song
  
  
• Sandwich of the Day: Soul Food Sandwich by Chef Gerald Klass

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Deer, Lakes, and Lucy Stone
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ON THIS DATE

• 1521 -  Hernando Cortez captures what is now Mexico City from the Aztecs
• 1918 - Opha May Johnson becomes the first woman to enlist in the U.S.Marine Corps.
• 1941 - The Disney film Bambi premieres at Radio City Music Hall.
• 1961 - East Germany seals the border between east and west Berlin.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1818 - Abolitionist and suffragist Lucy Stone
• 1860 - Sharpshooter Annie Oakley -  NHPBS Video - American Experience - Annie Oakley Chapter 1 - VIEW
• 1899 - Director and producer Alfred Hitchcock
• 1926 - Cuban politician Fidel Castro
• 1948 - Opera singer Kathleen Battle
• 1951 - Musician Dan Fogelberg

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Annie Get Your Gun - Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better- LISTEN
• Dan Fogelberg - Leader of the Band - LISTEN
• Kathleen Battle - Rossini: Una voce poco fa - LISTEN

THEME: DEER

• Grades K-4 - Wild Kratts - Deer Power (2:10) - VIEW
  
• Grades K-4 - Wild Kratts - Not All Deer Are Reindeer (1:04) - VIEW
  
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Wildlife Journal, Junior - Cervidae - Deer, Elk, Moose - READ
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Wildlife Journal, Junior - White-tails in Winter (7:43) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nature - Mule Deer Migration (2:52) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nature - Living with Mule Deer (4:24) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - RARE: How Humans Impact the Key Deer Population (3:37) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - When Giant Deer Roamed Eurasia (6:53) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Georgia Outdoors - Oh Deer!  (26:57)  - VIEW

THEME: LAKES

• Grades 3-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Spot On Science - Lake Effect Snow (1:58) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS - Wildlife Journal Junior - Lakes - READ
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Tapping the Great Lakes (26:46) - VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - USGS - Water Science School - Lakes and Reservoirs - READ
• Grades 5-12 - NH Department of Environmental Service - NH River and Lakes - READ
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Great Lakes Now: An Exploration of the Great Lakes Collection - VIEW and DO

THEME: LUCY STONE

• Grades 3-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Know Ohio - Lucy Stone and Oberlin College (3:17) - VIEW
• Grades 4-12  - American Experience - The Vote - The Early Suffragists (1:29) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - National Women's History Museum - Lucy Stone - READ
• Grades 6-12 - WGBH - History At Play - I Now Pronounce You Lucy Stone (48:41) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - National Park Service - Women's Rights National Historical Park - Luy Stone - READ

Watch 

WONDERS OF MEXICO - Mountain Worlds
Saturday, 8/13 from 7-8 pm NH WORLD
Mexico is a vast country, dominated by a great chain of mountains, the Sierra Madre. Journey down this rocky spine and you'll discover an amazing diversity of life and culture. WONDERS OF MEXICO Streaming Video

P.O.V. - Two Towns of Jasper
Saturday, 8/13 from 9-10:30 pm NH WORLD
After the brutal murder of African-American James Byrd, Jr. by three white supremacists in Jasper, Texas, friends Whitney Dow, who is white, and Marco Williams, who is black, made a film about their town. P.O.V Streaming Video

Pressroom Contact

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