Merry-Go-Rounds, Maxfield Parrish, and Puerto Rico - July 25

Thursday, July 25, 2024

Today is Merry-Go-Round Day, National Hot Fudge Sundae Day, Hire A Veteran Day, National Wine and Cheese Day, Chili Dog Day, Intern Day, and Drowning Prevention 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: Merry-Go-Rounds, Maxfield Parrish, and Puerto Rico
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ON THIS DATE

• 1952 - Puerto Rico became a self-governing commonwealth of the U.S.
• 1965 - Bob Dylan goes electric at the Newport Folk Festival, shocking his fans.
• 1975 - 5-6-7-8 - "A Chorus Line" opens on Broadway.
• 1978 - Louise Joy Brown, the first baby conceived by in-vitro fertilization, is born in England.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1750 - Revolutionary War general and first Secretary of War Henry Knox
• 1870 - Artist and NH resident Maxfield Parrish

SONG OF THE DAY 

• Joni Mitchell - The Circle Game - LISTEN
• The Hollies - On a Carousel - LISTEN
• Blood, Sweat & Tears - Spinning Wheel -LISTEN

NATIONAL PARK MONTH RESOURCE OF THE DAY

National Park of American Samoa - GO

ICE CREAM MONTH RESOURCE OF THE DAY

Martha Speaks Operation Ice Cream Game - PLAY

THEME: MERRY-GO-ROUNDS

• Grades PreK-2- Pinkalicious & Peterrific - The Zebra Merry Go Round! -  VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - Teaching Ideas for Langston Hughes' Poem "Merry Go Round"  - VIEW and DO

THEME: MAXFIELD PARRISH

• Grades 4-12 - National Museum of American Illustration - READ and VIEW 
  
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Shakespeare Uncovered - Twelfth Night (2:44) - VIEW
  

THEME: PUERTO RICO

• Grades PreK-2 - Alma's Way - Alma Goes to Puerto Rico (45:15) - VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - PBS LearningMedia - SciGirls - Dr. Amelia Merced - Biologist in Puerto Rico (In Spanish) (3:38) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 5-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Barrios de Puerto Rico: Indieras de Maricao (In Spanish) (2:07) - VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Barrios de Puerto Rico: Machete de Guayama (In Spanish) (2:05) - VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Barrios de Puerto Rico: Almirante Norte y Almirante Sur en Vega Baja (In Spanish) (2:26) - VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Barrios de Puerto Rico:  San Salvador de Caguas (In Spanish) (2:04) - VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Barrios de Puerto Rico: Barrio Guaraguao de Guaynabo (In Spanish) (2:06) - VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Barrios de Puerto Rico: Barrio Guardarraya de Patillas (In Spanish) (1:58) - VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Barrios de Puerto Rico: Barrio Guilarte de Adjuntas (In Spanish) (1:34) - VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Barrios de Puerto Rico: sector de Aguirre, en Salinas (In Spanish) (2:05) - VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Barrios de Puerto Rico: Hato de Rey (In Spanish) (2:45) - VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Barrios de Puerto Rico: Barrio Guilarte de Adjuntas (In Spanish) (1:34) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Puerto Rico's Bomba, A Dance of The African Diaspora (6:33)  -VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Craft in America - Mosaic Artist Rebuilds His Community in Puerto Rico (4:42) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - The Island Next Door: Puerto Rico and Connecticut After Hurricane Maria (26:48) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Culture Quest - Puerto Rico (27:59) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Frontline - Blackout in Puerto Rico (54:47) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - POV - Landfall: Lesson Plans - Disaster Colonialism in Puerto Rico (4:27) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Global Perspectives - Luis Martinez-Fernadez - History of Cuba and Puerto Rico (26:46) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - The Migrant Kitchen - Puerto Rico: Food Sovereignty (26:47) - VIEW

WATCH

NHPBS - 11.1 Comcast (2/802) More Options

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN - Join or Die (1706-1774) 
Thursday, 7/25 from 9-11 pm NHPBS
After building a printing empire in Philadelphia with his wife Deborah, Benjamin Franklin gains worldwide fame from electricity experiments, then spends years in London trying to keep Britain and America together as his family comes apart. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Streaming Video

NH WORLD - 11.3 More Options

AMERICAN MASTERS - Moynihan
Thursday, 7/25 from 3-5 pm NH WORLD
Daniel Patrick Moynihan was the quintessential American poet-politician. He alone infused public policy with a language, literature, and lyricism that no American public figure in the latter half of the twentieth century could match. AMERICAN MASTERS Streaming Video

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