Pigeons - September 1

Thursday, September 1, 2022

• Today is Emma M. Nutt Day, Ginger Cat Appreciation Day, Pink Cadillac Day, and World Letter Writing Day.
  
  
• September is National Chicken Month, National Yoga Month, National Apple Month, National Square Dancing Month, National Food Safety Education Month, Classical Music Month, National Sewing Month, National Piano Month,  Library Card Sign-up Month, National Hispanic Heritage Month, National Save A Tiger Month, College Savings Month, and Be Kind To Editors & Writers Month.
  
  
• Daily Hispanic Heritage Resource of the Day: Hispanic Exploration in America
  
  
• Classical Music Resource of the Day: Why Don't Classical Musicians Improvise?

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme:  PIGEONS
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ON THIS DATE

• 1878 - Emma Nutt begins work at the Boston Telephone Dispatch Company and becomes the world's first female telephone operator.
• 1914 - Martha, the world's last known passenger pigeon, dies at the Cincinnati Zoo.
• 1939 - Nazi Germany invades Poland, starting World War II.
• 1952 - The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway is published.
• 1972 - American Bobby Fischer beats Russian Boris Spassky in Reykjavik, Iceland, and becomes the world chess champion.
• 1979 -  Pioneer 11 becomes the first spacecraft to fly by Saturn.
• 1982 - The U.S. Air Force Space Command is founded.
• 1983 - Korean Air Lines Flight 007 is shot down in Soviet airspace by a Soviet jet fighter killing 269  individuals including US Congressman Lawrence McDonald of Georgia.
• 1985 - An American-French expedition locates the wreckage of the Titanic.
• 2009 - A law allowing gay marriage goes into effect in Vermont.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1875 - Tarzan author Edgar Rice Burroughs
• 1946 - Musician Barry Gibb
• 1957 - Musician Gloria Estefan

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Gloria Estefan - Rhythm Is Gonna Get You - LISTEN
• Sesame Street - Hola Gloria! - LISTEN
• Bee Gees - Stayin' Alive - LISTEN

THEME: PIGEONS

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Bert Dances To Doin' The Pigeon (1:57) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street: Calling All Pigeons with Bert (3:25) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Elmo Scares the Pigeons with Bert (2:35) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street: Pigeons and Cookies and Trash (2:14) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-3 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Curious George - Pigeon Perch (2:05) - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-3 - Odd Squad - Agent Ohlm's Pigeon Song (2:13) - VIEW
• Grades 3-6 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Wild TV - Domesticated Pigeons (3:18) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-6 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Wild TV - City Pigeons (1:27) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS -  Wildlife Journal Junior - Columbiformes - Doves, Pigeons - READ
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS -  Wildlife Journal Junior - Rock  Pigeon - READ
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS -  Wildlife Journal Junior - Mourning Dove - READ
• Grade 6-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia -  Smithsonian Science How - Bird Extinctions: Time Travel through Lava Tubes (29:14) - VIEW
• Grade 6-12 - NHPBS Video - It's Okay to Be Smart - Pigeon Story: How the Rock Dove Became the Sky Rat (5:50) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nature - Extraordinary Birds: The Pigeon Express (2:34)  (Available in Spanish) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Quest - Reawakening Extinct Species -Passenger Pigeon, Woolly Mammoth (26:46) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Kentucky Afield - Passenger Pigeons (26:32) - VIEW 
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Chicago Tonight - From Billions to None (8:55) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - Audubon Magazine - Why the Passenger Pigeon Went Extinct - READ
• Grades 6-12 - Smithsonian - The Passenger Pigeon - VIEW and READ

Watch 

NHPBS  - 11.1   Comcast (802)   Live Stream   More Options
NHPBS EXPLORE  - 11.2   Comcast (801)   More Options
NH WORLD - 11.3   Comcast (965)  More Options
NH KIDS - 11.5  Schedule   Live Stream   More Options

XAVIER RIDDLE AND THE SECRET MUSEUM M-F 6 am and 4:30 pm NHPBS
9/1 - I Am Winston Churchill/I Am Cleopatra
XAVIER RIDDLE Streaming Video, Games, and Activities

WILD KRATTS M-F 7:30 am and 3:30 pm NHPBS
9/1 - Parrot Power
WILD KRATTS Streaming Video, Games, and Activities

HERO ELEMENTARY M-F 8 am and 3 pm NHPBS
9/1 - Bugging Out / Eager Beavers
HERO ELEMENTARY Streaming Video, Games, and Activities

LET"S GO LUNA M-F 2:30 pm NHPBS
9/1 - Hola Mariachi/Loco For Cocoa (Mexico City. Mexico)
LET"S GO LUNA Streaming Video, Games, and Activities

SEATS AT THE TABLE
Thursday, 9/1 from 3:30-5 pm NH WORLD
A unique college course at a maximum security juvenile correctional center teaches Russian literature and brings together University of Virginia students and incarcerated young adults to read classic novels such as Crime and Punishment, discussing their interpretation as equal participants around the table.

WELCOME TO COMMIE HIGH
Thursday, 9/1 from 7-8 pm NH WORLD
What happens when an experiment in public education works? "Welcome to Commie High" explores one of the sole survivors of America's "free school" movement of the 1970s, where "no" isn't the standard answer. WELCOME TO COMMIE HIGH Streaming Video

AMERICA REFRAMED - Pahokee
Thursday, 9/1 from 8-10 pm NH WORLD
In this nuanced portrait of the town of Pahokee, four teenagers experience the joys and heartbreaks of high school. Located in the Florida Everglades, this tightly knit community struggles with financial insecurity and pins its hopes for the future on its graduating seniors. Everyone is involved, the teachers, the coaches, the churches, and the families, in getting these seniors to graduation day and into college. Economic, academic, familial, and athletic pressures weigh on Na'Kerria, Jocabed, Junior, and BJ's shoulders as they strive to achieve their dreams. AMERICA REFRAMED Streaming Video

HEMINGWAY - A Writer (1899-1929)
Thursday, 9/1 from 9-10 pm NHPBS
Hemingway, yearning for adventure, volunteers for the Red Cross during World War I. He marries Hadley Richardson and moves to Paris, publishes The Sun Also Rises, and finds critical and commercial success with his second novel, A Farewell to Arms. HEMINGWAY Streaming Video

Pressroom Contact

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