PBS Show Fort Richardson, the Trailblazer & Lavaca Lessons, #2604
Program 2604. Air dates November 5-11, 2017 & May 6-12, 2018 Fort Richardson, the Trailblazer & Lavaca Lessons
Fort Richardson State Park History is the highlight at Fort Richardson, where buildings of this North Texas frontier fort continue to loom large. But even if today’s travelers aren’t settling the West, many still come to pitch tents and blaze trails.
The Trailblazer We meet a trail building legend in El Paso. The Franklin Mountain range is the largest sustained mountain range in Texas, and it has some of the best mountain biking trails in the state. We’ll meet the man that has built many of those trails, and he’s doing it at the spry age of seventy nine.
Lavaca Bay, The $130,000,000 Clean Up In the 1980’s, fishing in Lavaca Bay was all but closed when deadly levels of contamination were found in the surrounding waters. Today, over twenty years and a hundred million dollars later, the clean-up is almost complete. We’ll tell you how government agencies and private industry set aside their differences …all for the good of the bay.
Postcard From Texas A campfire sparkles at South Llano River State Park.
The Americas and the Generative Power of Fire: Panel Discussion and Exhibition Opening
Friday, April 28, 2017 John Carter Brown Library, Brown University Providence, RI
Panel: The Americas and the Generative Power of Fire Exhibition Opening: The Americas on Fire
The Americas and the Generative Power of Fire was a special panel discussion and a feature of the IBES event What Fire Does. This discussion was organized by Lenore Manderson (Brown University/University of the Witwatersrand) and chaired by JCB Director and Librarian Neil Safier. The panel featured presentations by Andrew Scherer of Brown University (Ceremonies of Smoke and Flame among the Ancient Maya), Matt Liebmann of Harvard University (When the Little Firekeeper Ran Away: Pueblo People, Franciscan Missions, and Wildfires in 17th Century New Mexico), Guilhem Olivier of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (The New Fire Ceremony: Religion and Power in Ancient Central Mexico), and Alessandra Russo of Columbia University (Fury and Beauty: Fire in the Limits of Conquest). Following the panel discussion, Jake Frederick (Lawrence University) presented the exhibition The Americas on Fire, co-curated with Júnia Furtado (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais).