Four episodes of the documentary film series “The National Parks: America’s Best Idea” by Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan will be shown this month at Rocky Mountain National Park.
The movies will be presented free on Saturdays starting at 7 p.m. at the Beaver Meadows Visitor Center. The visitor center is west of Estes Park on U.S. 36, just before the park entrance.
A list of the programs
Jan. 8: “Going Home: Smoky Mountains” – Writer Horace Kephart and Japanese immigrant George Masa push to protect the Smoky Mountains by establishing a park.
Jan. 15: “Great Nature: Franklin D. Roosevelt” – The president expands the national park idea to
include battlefields and other historic sites. He fights to create national parks on the Olympic Peninsula,
in Florida’s Everglades, in Wyoming’s Teton Mountains and in California’s High Sierra.
Jan. 22: “Great Nature: Artists Capture the National Parks” – In Seattle, artists Iwao and Hanaye Matsushita fall in love with Mount Rainer National Park. Ansel Adams photographs Yosemite and other national parks.
Jan. 29: “The Morning Creation: Following World War II” – A nation that grows increasingly mobile and wealthy places greater demands on its national parks, putting them in danger of being loved to death.
The movies will be presented free on Saturdays starting at 7 p.m. at the Beaver Meadows Visitor Center. The visitor center is west of Estes Park on U.S. 36, just before the park entrance.
A list of the programs
Jan. 8: “Going Home: Smoky Mountains” – Writer Horace Kephart and Japanese immigrant George Masa push to protect the Smoky Mountains by establishing a park.
Jan. 15: “Great Nature: Franklin D. Roosevelt” – The president expands the national park idea to
include battlefields and other historic sites. He fights to create national parks on the Olympic Peninsula,
in Florida’s Everglades, in Wyoming’s Teton Mountains and in California’s High Sierra.
Jan. 22: “Great Nature: Artists Capture the National Parks” – In Seattle, artists Iwao and Hanaye Matsushita fall in love with Mount Rainer National Park. Ansel Adams photographs Yosemite and other national parks.
Jan. 29: “The Morning Creation: Following World War II” – A nation that grows increasingly mobile and wealthy places greater demands on its national parks, putting them in danger of being loved to death.
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