Farmers and Sight - October 12

Thursday, October 12, 2023

Today is National Farmer's Day, World Arthritis Day, National Gumbo Day, Pulled Pork Day, and World Sight Day.

Animal Cam of the Day: San Diego Zoo - Condor Cam
Dessert of the Day: The First Pumpkin Pie (sort of)
LGBT History Resource of the Day: The History of Gender Pronouns

On This Date
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme:  
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ON THIS DATE

• 539 - The army of Cyrus the Great of Persia takes Babylon, and ends the Babylonian empire.
• 1492 - Christopher Columbus' first expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean.
• 1692 - The Salem witch trials end.
• 1810- The citizens of Munich hold the first Oktoberfest.
• 1901 - President Theodore Roosevelt officially changes the name of the Executive Mansion to the White House.
• 1918 - The Cloquet fire in northern Minnesota kills 453 people.
  1960 - Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe on a desk at a session of the  U.N. General Assembly.
• 2000 - An al-Qaeda suicide bombing kills 17 sailors on the Navy destroyer Cole in Aden, Yemen.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1908 - Writer Ann Petry. Her debut novel, The Street, was the 1st novel by a Black woman to sell more than a million copies.
• 1916 - Writer and actor Alice Childress
• 1932 - Comedian and civil rights activist Dick Gregory
• 1935 - Italian opera singer Luciano Pavarotti

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Luciano Pavarotti - Nessun Dorma from Turandot - LISTEN
  
• Van Morrison - Brown-eyed Girl - LISTEN
• Kim Carnes - Bette Davis Eye - LISTEN
  
• Jackson Browne - Doctor My Eyes - LISTEN
• Jimmie Cliff - I Can See Clearly Now - LISTEN

THEME: FARMERS

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Elmo, Abby's, and Grover's Farm Party (25:58) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Monster On the Street (Farmer in the Dell) (1:49) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Big Bird Visits a Farm (3:48) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - From the Market to Your Table (4:05) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - NH PBS LearningMedia - Clifford - Farmer: Community Helper Collection - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-1 - NH PBS LearningMedia - KidVision - Farmers Market (7:33) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NH PBS LearningMedia - Career Connections - Farmer (4:53) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Learning Media - Innovative Female Farmers (2:45) - VIEW, READ, DO

THEME:  SIGHT

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Abby and Prince Charming Go to the Eye Doctor (1:23) - VIEW
  
• Grades K-4 - Wild Kratts -Techno Googly-Eyes (2:51) - VIEW
• Grades K-4 - PBS LearningMedia - Wild Kratts - Eight-eyed Monster (3:04) - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-4 - PBS LearningMedia - Wild Kratts - Night Primates (1:33) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 2-6 - PBS LearningMedia - A-Z Career Lab - Ophthalmologist (5:34) - VIEW
• Grades 3-8 - PBS LearningMedia - National Institutes of Health - Ask a Scientist - Eyes and Sight Collection (1:55)  - VIEW
• Grades 4-6 - PBS LearningMedia - Science Trek - Eyes Collection - VIEW
• Grades 4-6 - NHPBS Video - Science Trek - Eyes: Seeing is Believing (4:10) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Nova - How Sharp Are an Eagle's Eyes? (2:45) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMEdia - Physics Girl - Could You Replace Your Eye with a Camera? (5:37) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - It's Okay to Be Smart - Can Evolution Make an Eye? - 12 Days of Evolution #4 (1:47) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - It's Okay to Be Smart - Is Your Eye Color Real? (5:21) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Reactions - What Are Eye Boogers? (1:47) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Dissection 101: Detailed Cow Eye Dissection Video Part 1 (4:17) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia -Dissection 101:  Detailed Cow Eye Dissection Video Part 2 (11:18) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Ask the Doctors - Eyes and Vision (57:58) - VIEW

Watch 

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BASEBALL - The National Pastime
Thursday, 10/12 from 2:58-5 pm NHPBS
The sixth "inning" leads off with the baseball season of 1941, one of the most exciting of all time. Joe DiMaggio hits in 56 straight games, the longest hitting streak in history. Ted Williams becomes the last man to hit .400. The Brooklyn Dodgers win their first pennant in 20 years. Then the war intervenes and baseball's best players become soldiers. On their return, the game - and the entire country -- are changed forever: Branch Rickey integrates baseball on April 15, 1947, when Jackie Robinson takes the field for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Baseball finally becomes what it had always claimed to be: America's national pastime. BASEBALL - Streaming Video

SIDETREK - Mount Washington
Thursday, 10/12 from 9-9:30 pm NHPBS
Join Julio and Sparky as they explore the highest peak in the Northeast, Mount Washington. When hiking turns out to be more difficult than expected, the duo must find another way to the summit in this blend of culture, adventure, and humor. SIDETREK - Mount Washington Streaming Video

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SECRETS OF SACRED ARCHITECTURE
Thursday, 10/12 from 3-4 pm NHPBS EXPLORE
For most of America's history, sacred buildings represented our greatest feats of innovative engineering and artistic design. For a time, America's tallest structure and its largest-capacity building were churches, and a Maryland church organ stood as the most complex machine ever built. SECRETS OF SCARED ARCHITECTURE Streaming Video

Pressroom Contact

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