We donate to Wisconsin Public TV and we receive the paper schedule called "Airwaves" in the mail. Sometimes, we search for something we want to stream in the evenings and sometimes we have an oversupply. Airwaves had a layout of coming programs that might be of interest:
Day Date Time Title
Mon 7-Sep 9:00 PM Portraits and Dreams
Wed 9-Sep 7:00 PM Human Nature
9:00 PM Hacking Your Mind: Living on Auto-Pilot
Mon 14-Sep 9:00 PM Love Child
Wed 16-Sep 7:00 PM Islands of Wonder - Madagascar
8:00 PM Secret Mind of Slime
9:00 PM Weapons of Influence
Sun 20-Sep 4:00 PM Art in the Twenty-First Century: London
Mon 21-Sep 9:00 PM In My Blood It Runs
Wed 23-Sep 7:00 PM Islands of Wonder - Borneo
8:00 PM How Writing Changed the World, Part I
9:00 PM Us v. Them
Sun 27-Sep 5:00 PM Art in the Twenty-First Century: Beijing
Mon 28-Sep 9:00 PM Our Time Machine
Wed 30-Sep 7:00 PM Islands of Wonder - Hawaii
8:00 PM How Writing Changed the World, Part II
9:00 PM The Wings of Angels
We are just beginning to explore what there is and what we like on Public Broadcasting System and Wisconsin Public TV. We watched the first program listed last night: "Portraits and Dreams". Moving, eye-opening, enriching, memorable. I guess the way they work it, the show is on broadcast tv on schedule and is then available for streaming.
The program tells of Wendy Ewald, a young Kentucky art teacher in the 1970's who arranged for her elementary upper grade students to have cameras, to be assigned to take pictures and to learn to develop and print them. She recently re-visited the now-adults who took pictures of what interested them and featured in their lives and interests. The pictures and the story are in the book "Portraits and Dreams". The program is educational in a deep sense.
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=portraits+and+dreams+documentary
You can imagine the impact of seeing their teacher from years back, looking at the pictures again, viewing life then from the position of now. Today, with digital photography, many of us can use smartphones, iPads and other equipment to quickly and easily take some pictures. You may want to do a bit of that if you view the program. Sept. 23 and 30 will be the days of "How Writing Changed the World" which it certainly did and continues to do. Photography, taking pictures, sharing pictures and using pictures to remember are mighty powerful, too.
