Statue of Liberty and Spoonerisms - July 22

Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Today is Mango Day, Casual Pi Day, National Hammock Day, Rat-catchers Day, and Spoonerism Day.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
National Park Month Resource of the Day
Ice Cream Month Resource of the Day
Today's Theme: Statue of Liberty and Spoonerisms

ON THIS DATE

• 1587 - An English colony is established on Roanoke Island off the coast of what is now North Carolina. The colony became known as the Lost Colony when the colonists disappeared. 
• 1893 - Katharine Lee Bates writes "America the Beautiful."
• 1937 - The U.S. Senate votes down FDR's proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1844 - Scholar William Archibald Spooner
• 1849 - Poet Emma Lazarus
• 1882 - Painter Edward Hopper
• 1887 - Physicist Gustav Hertz
• 1898 - Sculptor Alexander Calder
• 1898 - Poet Stephen Vincent Benet
• 1923 - Politician Bob Dole

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Neil Diamond - America  - LISTEN
• Ray Charles - America the Beautiful - LISTEN

NATIONAL PARK MONTH RESOURCE OF THE DAY

Agate Fossil Beds, Nebraska - GO

ICE CREAM MONTH RESOURCE OF THE DAY

PBS Food - Fresh Strawberry Ice Cream - MAKE

THEME: STATUE OF LIBERTY

• Grades 3-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Ken Burns in the Classroom - The Statue of Liberty Collection - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Learning Media - Explore It - The Statue of Liberty - READ and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Poetry in America - The New Colossus (5:22) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-12 - National Park Service - Statue of Liberty - READ
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Antiques Roadshow - Field Trip: Statue of Liberty Sculptures (2:37) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 -  NHPBS Video - 10 Monuments That Changed America (54:56) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Ken Burns - The Statue of Liberty  - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video -  Reactions - Why is the Statue of Liberty Green? (3:45) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12- NHPBS LearningMedia - Funding the Statue of Liberty - Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People (3:04) - VIEW and DO

THEME: SPOONERISMS

• Grades K-4 - Minds In Bloom - Fun With Spoonerisms - DO
• Grades 7-12 - PBS Digital Studios on Instagram - Spoonerisms - VIEW
• Grades Adult - NPR - Shel Silverstein's 'Runny Babbit' Tales Review (8:10) - LISTEN

Pressroom Contact

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