Lobsters and Rivers - September 25

Sunday, September 25, 2022

• Today is Math Story Telling Day, One-Hit Wonder Day, World Pharmacists Day, World Rivers Day, National Lobster Day, International Day of the Deaf, National Cooking Day, National Bakery Day, and National Food Service Workers Day.
  
  
• September is National Square Dancing Month, National Food Safety Education Month, Classical Music 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.
  
  
• Hispanic/Latino Resource of the Day: Latino Americanos
  
  
• Classical Music Resource of the Day?: 2015 Seattle Rock Orchestra Summer Intensive

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme:  LOBSTERS AND RIVERS
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ON THIS DATE

• 1237 - The signing of the Treaty of York establishes the border between England and Scotland.
• 1775 - Ethan Allen is captured by the British after an attack on Montreal.
• 1789 - The U.S. Congress passes 12 amendments to the Constitution and sends them to the states for ratification. The 10 that were ratified by the states became the Bill of Rights.
• 1957 - With the support of federal troops, nine Black students are admitted to Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.
• 1974 - Dr. Frank Jobe performs the first ulnar collateral ligament replacement surgery,  more commonly known as Tommy John surgery, on - wait for it - pitcher Tommy John.
• 1981 - Sandra Day O'Connor is sworn in as the first female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1897 - Author William Faulkner
• 1903 - Artist Mark Rothko
• 1906 - Russian composer Dmitry Shostakovich
• 1929 - Journalist Barbara Walters
• 1930 - Poet and illustrator Shel Silverstein
• 1944 - Actor Michael Douglas
• 1968 - Actor and rapper Will Smith (Sesame Street Fresh Prince Parody)
• 1969  - Actor Catherine Zeta-Jones
• 1983 - Actor, writer, and singer Donald Glover

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• B-52s - Rock Lobster - LISTEN
• Joni Mitchell - River - LISTEN
• Creedence Clearwater Revival - Proud Mary - LISTEN
• Talking Heads - Take Me To The River - LISTEN
• Down By the River - Neil Young - LISTEN
• River of Dreams - Billy Joel - LISTEN
• Blue Danube Waltz - Johann Straus II  - LISTEN
• Moon River - Andy Williams - LISTEN
• I Am a River - Foo Fighters - LISTEN
• The River - Bruce Springsteen - LISTEN
• Cry Me a River - Julie London - LISTEN
• Dirty Water - The Standells - LISTEN
• Paul Robeson - Showboat - Old Man River -LISTEN

THEME:  RIVERS

• Grades PreK-K - NHPBS LearningMedia - Between the Lions - River Story (8;03) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-K - NHPBS LearningMedia - Peep and the Big Wide World - Making Rivers (1:03) - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-3 - Dinosaur Train - River Run Game - DO
• Grades PreK-3 - Storyline - The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister, Read by Ernest Borgnine - VIEW
• Grades K-4 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nature Cat - Stream and Shout (12:05) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-6 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Dragonfly TV - Rivers (9:02) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-6 - NHPBS - Wildlife Journal Junior - Rivers and Streams - READ
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Wonders of the Watershed (6:12) - VEIW

THEME: LOBSTERS

• Grades K-4 - Wild Kratts - How to Activate Your Lobster Creature Powers (8:08) - VIEW
• Grades K-4 - PBS LearningMedia - Wild Kratts - Swimming with the Lobster (2:06) - VIEW
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS - Wildlife Journal Junior -The Secret Life of Lobsters (7:20) - VIEW
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS - Wildlife Journal Junior - Northern Lobster - READ
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - It's Okay to Be Smart - You Are an Upside-Down Lobster (4:01) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia -The Shape of Life - Marine Arthropod Animation: Body Plan (1:30) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video  - Conversations with the Lobster Lady (29:55) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour - How Rising Water Temperatures Could End Maine's Lobster Boom (8:34) - VIEW

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ON STORY - A Conversation with David Callaham
Sunday, 9/25 from 6-6:30 am NH WORLD
Dave Callaham discusses his work on Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Wonder Woman 1984, and Jean-Claude Van Johnson and the role of personal experience and self-exploration while developing and navigating big budget blockbusters ON STORY Streaming Video and Podcast

Pressroom Contact

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