Category Archives: Program Highlights

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE

PLAGUE AT THE GOLDEN GATE

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26 @ 6:00PM

More than 100 years before the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the world and set off a wave of fear and anti-Asian sentiment, an outbreak of bubonic plague in San Francisco’s Chinatown in 1900 unleashed a similar furor. It was the first time in history that civilization’s most feared disease — the infamous Black Death — made it to North America.


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THIS OLD HOUSE

NASHVILLE | SUSTAINABLE SIDING

THURSDAY OCTOBER 24 @ 9:00PM

Charlie Silva and Mark McCullough make a guest appearance. Charlie meets with factory manager Chandler Delinks to learn about the process of making siding from rice hulls. Meanwhile Kevin O’Connor discusses an indoor panel upgrade with electrician Ricardo Hernandez. Later, Charlie and Kevin help homeowners Rachel and Adam put up siding. Mark begins brick repair for the home office.


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EXTINCTION

THE FACTS

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24 @ 6:00PM

With a million species at risk of extinction, Sir David Attenborough explores how this crisis of biodiversity has consequences for us all, threatening food and water security, undermining our ability to control our climate and even putting us at greater risk of pandemic diseases.


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SECRETS OF THE DEAD

THE CIVIL WAR’S LOST MASSACRE

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23 @ 8:00PM & 11:00PM

Originally a supply depot for Union forces in Kentucky, Camp Nelson became the site where 10,000 Black soldiers trained in the Civil War. But in the war’s last months, these soldiers were attacked by bitter Southerners. Their remains have never been found, and a team is dedicated to finding them to memorialize their service and heroism.


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