Butterflies - April 27

Saturday, April 27, 2024

Today is Babe Ruth Day, Eeyore's Birthday Day, Independent Bookstore Day, Marconi Day, Sculpture Day, Morse Code Day, Day of Puppetry, Go Birding Day, Prime Rib Day, Save the Frogs Day, Woody Woodpecker Day, and Tapir Day.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Poem of the Day - April is National Poetry Month
Today's Theme: Butterflies
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ON THIS DATE

• 1861 - President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus.
• 1981 - Xerox PARC introduces the computer mouse.
• 2006 - Construction begins on a 1,776-foot building on the site of the World Trade Center in New York City.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1759 - English women's rights advocate Mary Wollstonecraft
• 1791 - Inventor Samuel Morse
• 1822 - General and 18th President Ulysses S. Grant
• 1898 - Children's author and illustrator Ludwig Bemelmans
• 1899 - Animator and director Walter Lantz
• 1927 - Civil rights activist Coretta Scott King
• 1975 - Baseball player and Exeter, NH native Chris Carpenter
• 1988 - Singer Lizzo

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Dolly Parton - Love Is Like a Butterfly - LISTEN
• Iron Butterfly - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida - LISTEN

POEM OF THE DAY 
Emily Dickinson - The Butterfly's Day 

THEME:  Butterflies

• Grades PreK-12 - Florida Museum - Butterfly Rainforest Canopy Cam - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Little Butterfly Friend Song (1:45) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - 11 Butterflies (1:18) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-2 - NHPBS Learning Media - If I Was a Butterfly (5:31) - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-2 - NHPBS LearningMedia - KidVision - A Day with a Butterfly Expert (9:00) - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-3 - Dinosaur Train - All About Butterflies (1:39) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-3 - Nature Cat - Butterfly Garden (2:17) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-3 - NHPBS Video - Crafts for Kids - Make a Butterfly Costume (3:01) - VIEW
• Grades K-6 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Science Trek - Butterflies: They Taste With Their Feet (4:06) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 2-6- SciGirls - Butterfly Diaries (26:10) - VIEW
• Grades 4-6 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Dragonfly TV - Butterfly Wings (7:04) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Wildlife Journal Junior - Moths and Butterflies - READ
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Video - Wildlife Journal Junior - Karner Blue Butterfly (8:26) - VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Deep Look - Glasswing Butterflies Want To Make Something Perfectly Clear (5:24) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia -  Quest - Fire and Butterflies (5:00) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - It's Okay to Be Smart - The Mystery of the World's Greatest Butterfly Migration (9:12) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - It's Okay to Be Smart - Using Gene Editing To Repaint Butterfly Wings  (11:13)  - VIEW

WATCH

NH EXPLORE- 11.2 Comcast (11/801) More Options

EVOLUTION EARTH - Heat
Saturday, 4/27 from 11 am-12 pm NH EXPLORE
Islands are like miniature simplified Earths, where evolution is playing out at superspeed right before our eyes. Journey from the Galapagos to the edge of Antarctica to seek out animals responding to our changing planet in extraordinary ways. EVOLUTION EARTH Streaming Video

NH WORLD - 11.3 More Options

POETRY IN AMERICA - Phillis Wheatley: To the University
Sunday, 4/28 from 7-7:30 pm NH WORLD
In 1770s Boston, Phillis Wheatley was at the same time enslaved and an international celebrity: a writer who mastered the most persuasive rhetoric of the day to publish enduring arguments about freedom. Inaugural poets Amanda Gorman and Richard Blanco, writer Clint Smith, and scholars Glenda Carpio and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. join host Elisa New to read two of Wheatley’s poems for public occasions. POETRY IN AMERICA  Streaming Video

POETRY IN AMERICA - Six Years Later, Epitaph for Centaur
Sunday, 4/28 from 7:30-8 pm NH WORLD
Russian-born poet Joseph Brodsky wrote about the centaur as a Cold War self-portrait: a divided global refugee, created by a geopolitics of shifting borders and cultures. Theater of War productions artistic director Bryan Doerries, writer Yelena Akhtiorskaya, and scholars Sven Birkerts, Zakhar Ishov, Jonathan Brent, and Joseph Ellis read two poems by Brodsky: one about love; the other, exile. POETRY IN AMERICA  Streaming Video

AMERICAN MASTERS - Ailey
Saturday, 4/27 from 8-9:30 pm NH WORLD
Discover the legendary choreographer Alvin Ailey whose dances center on the Black American experience with grace, strength, and beauty. Featuring previously unheard audio interviews with Ailey, interviews with those close to him, and an intimate glimpse into the Ailey studios today. AMERICAN MASTERS Streaming Video

Pressroom Contact

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