Blueberries and E.B. White - July 11

Thursday, July 11, 2024

Today is Cheer Up the Lonely Day, Bowdler's Day, Make Your Own Sundae Day, World Population Day, Blueberry Muffin Day, Mojito Day, and National Swimming Pool Day.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Songs of the Day
National Park Month Resource of the Day
Ice Cream Month Resource of the Day
Today's Theme: Blueberries and E.B. White
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ON THIS DATE

• 1533 - England's King Henry VIII is excommunicated.
• 1798 - The U.S. Marine Corps is created.
• 1804 - Vice President Aaron Burr mortally wounds former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton in a duel.
• 1914 - Babe Ruth makes his MLB debut at Fenway Park as a pitcher for the Red Sox.
• 1960 - To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is published,
• 1995 - The U.S. normalizes relations with Vietnam.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1274 - Scottish King Robert I, the Bruce
• 1767- President John Quincy Adams
• 1899 - Author E. B. White
• 1920 - Actor Yul Brynner

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Fats Domino - Blueberry Hill - LISTEN
• Lin-Manuel Miranda - Hamilton At the White House Poetry Jam 2009 - LISTEN
  

NATIONAL PARK MONTH RESOURCE OF THE DAY

Great Sand Dunes, Colorado - GO

ICE CREAM MONTH RESOURCE OF THE DAY

NHPBS Video - Ice Cream Sundae Recipe - VIEW

THEME: BLUEBERRIES

• Grades PreK-1- Sesame Street - Leon Redbone sings "Blueberry Mouth" (2:21) -  VIEW
• Grades PreK-2 - NHPBS Video - Blueberry's Clubhouse Series - VIEW
• Grades PreK-2 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Molly of Denali - Make Blueberry Milk (Available in Spanish) (2:14) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 -  NHPBS LarningMedia - Elizabeth White: The Woman  Who Invented the Blueberry (1:27) - VIEW, READ,  and DO
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Super Fruit Scenario (6:00) - VIEW and DO

THEME: E.B. WHITE

• Grades K-4 - NHPBS Video - The Friday Zone - The Creeps (28:46) - VIEW
• Grades 2-6- NHPBS Video - Rainbow Readers - Charlotte's Web Book Review (0:39) - VIEW
• Grades K-5 - ReadWriteThink - E.B. White - READ and DO
• Grades 4-7 - NHPBS LearningMedia - The Great American Read - The Message of Charlotte's Web (1:44) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Great KTCA Readathon - Charlotte's Web (6:36) - VIEW

WATCH

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

NOVA -Secrets of the Forbidden City
Thursday, 7/11 from 3-4 pm NH EXPLORE
The Forbidden City is the world's biggest and most extravagant palace complex ever built. For five centuries, it was the power center of imperial China and survived wars, revolution, fires, and earthquakes. How did the Ming Emperor's workforce construct its sprawling array of nearly 1,000 buildings and dozens of temples in a little over a decade? NOVA Streaming Video

NH WORLD - 11.3 More Options

POV - After Sherman 
Thursday, 7/11 from 2-3:30 pm NH WORLD
Filmmaker Jon-Sesrie Goff returns to the coastal South Carolina land that his family purchased after emancipation. His desire to explore his Gullah/Geechee roots leads to a poetic investigation of Black inheritance, trauma, and generational wisdom, amidst the tensions that have shaped American history. In the wake of recent Southern violence. POV Streaming Video

INDEPENDENT LENS - Razing Liberty Square 
Thursday, 7/11 from 3:30- 5 pm NH WORLD
Liberty City, Miami, is home to one of the oldest segregated public housing projects in the U.S. Now with rising sea levels, the neighborhood's higher ground has become something else: real estate gold. Wealthy property owners push inland to higher ground, creating a speculators' market in the historically Black neighborhood previously ignored by developers and policy-makers alike. INDEPENDENT LENS Streaming Video

DISMANTLING DEMOCRACY - America: Land of the Free 
Thursday, 7/11 from 3:30- 5 pm NH WORLD
A history of democracy, its birth, and the United States' unique take on this form of government, including some uniquely American challenges that limit American democracy such as hyper-partisanship, negative partisanship, institutional constraints (gerrymandering, the Electoral College, voter registration) and more. DISMANTLING DEMOCRACY Streaming Video

AMERICA REFRAMED - A Woman On The Outside 
Thursday, 7/11 from 8-9:30 pm NH WORLD
After watching nearly every man in her life disappear into prison, Kristal Bush channels her struggle into reuniting other Philadelphia families divided by incarceration. But when her father and brother come home after decades behind bars, she confronts the greatest challenge yet - can she unite her own family without losing herself? AMERICA REFRAMED Streaming Video

Pressroom Contact

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