September 2021 TPT Member Magazine

September 2021 TPT Member Magazine

SEPTEMBER 2021

SEPTEMBER 2021

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Twin Cities PBS President and CEO: Sylvia Strobel BOARD OF TRUSTEES: Rotolu "Ro" Adebiyi, Mary Lynn Carver (Vice Chair), Kit Dahl, Scott A. Dillon, Wayne L. Ducheneaux II, Joe Fleming, Peter S. Hatinen, Kristy Howe, Amy L. Jensen, Martha MacMillan, Dr. Fayneese Miller, Victor Miranda, MD, Michael Monahan, Somia Mourad, Robert P. Rinek, Robert Sit (Chair), Darrell Thompson, Sandra Vargas, R. Kirk Weidner, Donna Zimmerman Volume 48 Number 9 TPT magazine (ISSN 1059-9657) is published twelve times a year, in: Jan., Feb., Mar., Apr., May, June, Jul., Aug., Sept., Oct., Nov., and Dec. by Twin Cities Public Television, Inc., 172 East Fourth Street, St. Paul, MN 55101, a nonprofit corporation. Copyright © 2021. List Exchanges: To assist in building membership, Twin Cities Public Television on occasion may exchange names and addresses of its members with other organizations that may solicit or make contact with you by mail. If you do not want your information shared, please notify the membership department at 651-229-1300 or 866-229-1300. All rights reserved. TPT magazine is sent to those who contribute annually to TPT. Basic memberships are $50. Periodicals postage paid at St. Paul, Minnesota, and additional mailing offices. Postmaster: Please send change-of-address information to: Membership Department, Twin Cities PBS, 172 E. Fourth Street, St. Paul, MN 55101.

Muhammad Ali Don’t miss this new eight-hour, four-part documentary directed by acclaimed filmmaker Ken Burns. The new series, which was in development for six years, was also written and co-directed by Sarah Burns and David McMahon, whose previous collaborations with Burns include The Central Park Five (2012), Jackie Robinson (2016) and East Lake Meadows: A Public Housing Story (2020). Muhammad Ali brings to life one of the best-known and most indelible figures of the 20th-century, a three-time heavyweight boxing champion who captivated millions of fans throughout the world with his mesmerizing combination of speed, grace, and power in the ring, and charm and playful boasting outside of it. Ali insisted on being himself unconditionally and became a global icon and inspiration to people everywhere.

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A NOTE FROM SYLVIA For the past sixty-four years, Twin Cities PBS has been a leader in public media and we have been honored and uplifted by the support of many generous members and donors. This month, we are thrilled to announce the largest philanthropic gift in our history, a $9 million gift from the estate of William Wells. Dr. Wells was a devoted supporter of TPT for two decades, and he and his family have always believed in the power of public media. During his lifetime, he was an anonymous supporter of TPT-produced programs like SciGirls and Hero Elementary that encourage lifelong learning. This generous donation will establish the William D. Wells Fund for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) Education, and is the lead gift established under TPT's endowment campaign. Dr. Wells donation will

support continued innovation in creating and distributing media content and projects related to STEM. Through investments, this gift will grow in size and impact and be used in perpetuity. The fund also honors TPT's legacy of national leadership in science and Dr. Wells’ desire to endow TPT's bright future in this field. We are beyond grateful for this generous and thoughtful gift from Dr. Wells, and we use it as to sustain and grow TPT’s STEM programming. Further, we hope his focused philanthropy will serve as a powerful example of what can be achieved through planned gifts and endowments and the immense impact they can make.

For more information on Dr. Wells and his legacy, please visit tpt.org/drwells .

Best Regards, Sylvia Strobel President and CEO, Twin Cities PBS

Dr. William D. Wells

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TPT LEARN: EDUCATION & INNOVATION

And we’re BACK! School year 2021-2022 is (already) upon us. Here’s hoping the summer offered some well-deserved moments of sunshine, relaxation and connection with family, pets and pals. Your friends at TPT Learn have been beating the heat by doing what we love: dreaming up new ways to share standards-based, award-winning and fun PBS media and activities! In partnership with Minnesota’s diverse communities, we are striving to become the premiere media resource for educators and parents statewide. You might wonder: why TPT? Can a television station provide educational content? In a word, yes! But only by partnering with local and national teachers, afterschool program leaders, researchers, parents and other caring adults who are committed to K-12 education. In fact, TPT has relied upon this collaborative approach for over 35 years, employing it to produce long-running PBS favorites like Newton’s Apple , Dragonfly TV , SciGirls and Hero Elementary . And of course all of these series reach beyond the television screen and into classrooms and communities, providing professional development for educators, hands-on programming for children and enrichment for parents.

The TPT Learn team sharing educational innovation across multiple platforms:

On-Air: The television shows Camp TV and Let’s Learn , accompanied by widely distributed TPT Learn Activity Kits, provide at-home learning opportunities. And of course, children and parents can always tune into or stream their favorite PBS Kids series 24/7! Online: TPT’s new and existing standards-based educational content is crafted into PBS Learning Media Collections focused on History and Civics, Art and Culture and STEM, reaching over 2 million educators annually. Check out these free resources at www.pbslm.org . On-the-Ground: TPT Learn will offer professional development online and in-person workshops to engage thousands of Minnesota teachers and informal educators. We will also collaborate with TPT colleagues and peer non-profit educational organizations to create and disseminate standards-based activities and initiatives. To discover more about TPT Learn, and to sign up for educator and parent/caregiver newsletters, visit tpt.org/learn . Together, we can leverage the power of public media to educate, enrich and LEARN!

Best wishes, Kristin Pederson Vice President, Education

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HIGHLIGHTS SEPTEMBER 1-5

Future of Work The New Industrial Revolution

Illuminates disruptions to the world of work AI, robotics, globalization, labor practices. The pandemic is a new driver of change, with unemployment flipping from lowest in 50

years to highest in a century. Part 1 of 3. TPT 2 Wednesday, September 1, 9 p.m.

Masterpiece Guilt Returning intoxicated from a

Midsomer Murders The Ballad of Midsomer County Could a ballad made famous by late, lamented folk singer Johnny Carver be an inspiration for murder? Did someone want to kill Toby Winning for threatening to take the Little Crosby Folk Festival away fromMidsomer — or is the true motive something

wedding, Jake and Max run down an old man and decide to tell no one. Their coverup quickly snowballs in complexity, and the detective closes in on damaging evidence. Part 1 of 2. TPT 2 Sunday, September 5, 8 p.m. TPT LIFE Wed., September 8, 8 p.m.

hidden for 20 years? Part 1 & 2 of 2. TPT 2 Saturday, September 4, 8 p.m.

EVENING SEPTEMBER 1-5

7:00 7:30 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30 10:00 10:30 11:00 11:30

1 Wed

Nature: Natural Born Rebels: Survival Lucy Worsley’s Royal Myths & Secrets: Henry VIII’s Reforma- tion (Part 4 of 6)

NOVA: Nature’s Fear Factor

Future of Work: The New In- dustrial Revolution (Part 1 of 3)

How We Got to Now with Steven Johnson: Light

Life from Above: Moving Planet

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Wicked In Concert

BBC World News

Amanpour and Company

David Ruben- stein Show: Peer to Peer.. Making It Up North

LIFE

MN Original

Postcards

This Is Minnesota Orchestra: Disarmed and Unfinished

Minneapolis Sculpture Garden

Greatest Generation Show- case 2: The War

Almanac: Hands-On History Eastenders

MN

2 Thu

This Old House: Gen- eration Next

Death In Paradise

Shakespeare & Hathaway- Private Investigators: See Thyself Devil Minnesota Experience: Restoring The People’s House

Royal Wives at War

Eastenders

Ask This Old House: Rethink- ing A Garden

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African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross: Into The Fire (1861-1896)

The Dictator’s Playbook Saddam Hussein

BBC World News

Amanpour and Company

Articulate with Jim Cotter

LIFE

MN Original

Let’s Go Min- nesota!

Parks for the People

State Fair Traditions

Cost of Cli- mate Change In Minnesota

Future Earth: Thriving on a Full Planet

Minnesota’s Deadliest Tornadoes

Off 90

MN

3 Fri

Almanac

Antiques Roadshow: Churchill Downs Racetrack Hour 2

Great Performances: Yannick - An Artist’s Journey

Front and Center: Dustin Lynch

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Somewhere South: How Do You Cue?

Washington Week

Firing Line with Margaret Hoover

Frontline

BBC World News

Amanpour and Company

Gzero World with Ian Bremmer Prairie Mosaic

LIFE

MN Original

Postcards

Rise and Fall of the Nonpar- tisan League: Storms on the Horizon

Scams, Se- niors & MN's Response

Cost of Cli- mate Change In Minnesota

Almanac

State of Repair

MN

4 Sat

The Indian Doctor: The Fete (Part 5 of 5) American Masters: Margaret Mitchell: American Rebel

Midsomer Murders: The Ballad of Midsomer County (Parts 1 & 2 of 2)

Halifax: Retribution (Part 2 of 8) Thou Shalt Not Kill Episode 12

Lowertown Line

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American Masters: Harper Lee

MN Original

POV: The Song of the But- terflies

Objects and Memory

LIFE

Backroads

Prairie Musi- cians

Health Focus: One Commu- nity’s Effort

Unequal Distribution of Health

Make It Ok

Make It Ok

Getting There

Elder Victims: Abused, Ex- ploited, Alone

Discovered Truth: A Health Care Journey

Prescription Overload: Man- aging Meds

MN

5 Sun

Guilt on Masterpiece (Part 1 of 2)

Professor T: Other People’s Happiness

State Fair Stories

Lucy Worsley’s Royal Myths & Se- crets: Kings George III and IV & The Napoleonic War (Part 5 of 6) Nature: Natural Born Rebels: Survival

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NOVA: Nature’s Fear Factor

Hacking Your Mind: Living On Auto-Pilot

Front and Center: Dustin Lynch

Austin City Limits: Ray Wylie Hubbard

LIFE

In This Place

Women Outward Bound

Lowertown Line

Lowertown Line

Art and Life of George Mor- rison

People of the Big Lake

MN

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TPT PARTNERSHIPS PRODUCTIONS

Uncovered: Minnesota’s Dental Crisis

Ranking near the bottom of all states for Medicaid reimbursement, Minnesota faces an oral health crisis. More than a million Minnesotans cannot get the dental care they need. Uncovered: Minnesota’s Dental Crisis focuses on solutions, featuring three successful Critical Access Dental providers whose innovations, if adequately funded, could overcome barriers and eliminate health disparities. Produced with Apple Tree Dental. TPT 2 Saturday, September 12, 8 a.m.

State Fair Traditions Generations of Minnesotans have gone to the Fair every year, competing for ribbons, discovering the latest in new foods and fads, and connecting with the traditions whose roots go back to the family farm. Produced with the MN State Fair Foundation

TPT MN Thursday, September 2, 9 a.m. TPT MN Thursday, September 2, 3 p.m.

Living with Lyme Disease Lyme disease affects people differently and is widely

Soul Creatures Age, treatable illness, disability, and other challenges affect the lives of both animals and people. Learn how at-risk animals go on to live full lives and see how they have a profound impact on the lives of human beings who have also faced great hardships. Discover how these at-risk animals are helping at-risk people demonstrate the power of compassion in action. Produced with Home for Life Animal Sanctuary.

misunderstood. After years of pain, fatigue, and various treatments, we follow the stories of Minnesotans living inspiring lives are Lyme disease diagnoses. Coproduced with Minnesota Lyme Association. TPT.ORG | tpt.org/lymedisease

TPT MN Saturday, September 11, 9:30 a.m. TPT MN Saturday, September 11, 9:30 p.m.

TPT Partnerships Our award-winning TPT Partnerships team relentlessly pursues the stories that inspire, educate, and shine spotlights on local communities. Since 2003, our team has partnered with more than 250 organizations to create almost 900 programs and multi-media projects that span a spectrum of topics and issues that are relevant to Minnesotans. For more information, visit tptpartnerships.org.

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HIGHLIGHTS SEPTEMBER 6-12

The Dictator's Playbook Francisco Franco

Future of Work Futureproof How can we predict job growth, training needs and the role of education to prepare for the work of the future? What are the challenges and consequences of the pandemic and America's racial and economic disparities? Part 2 of 3. TPT 2 Wednesday, September 8, 9 p.m. Learn how Francisco Franco used the tactics of colonial war to win control of Spain. Driven by a deeply conservative vision, he used torture, murder and incarceration to transform Spanish society. A Twin Cities PBS original production. TPT 2 Monday, September 6, 9 p.m. TPT LIFE Thur., September 9, 8 p.m.

Minnesota Experience Made In St. Paul: Stories from the Ford Plant

Built in 1925, the Twin Cities Ford Plant was famous for its classical architecture, onsite hydropower and glass manufacturing. Get the inside story about its role in WWII, the labor movement, the evolution of the city, and the relentless pressure of the assembly line. Produced in partnership with Highland District Council. A Twin Cities PBS original production. TPT 2 Monday, September 6, 8 p.m. | TPT LIFE Thusday, September 9, 9 p.m. Frontline America after 9/11 How 9/11 ushered in an era of fear, mistrust, and division in America. The compromises and consequences for American democracy from the terror attacks, through four presidencies, wars abroad, and ultimately insurrection at home. TPT 2 Tuesday, September 7, 8 p.m.

Masterpiece Guilt

Spurred by Angie, Jake probes Max's control of his finances. Jake also grows suspicious of Angie. Roy tightens the screws on Max by threatening Jake. With facts surrounding Walter's death increasingly in question, Max risks all to come out on top. Part 2 of 2. TPT 2 Sunday, September 12, 8 p.m. TPT LIFE Wed., September 15, 8 p.m.

Midsomer Murders A Vintage Murder

The fizz goes out of a sparkling wine launch when the glasses are laced with poison. Who is targeting the Midsomer Vinae Winery and what does the attack have to do with the death of a child in a hit-and-run accident? Parts 1 & 2 of 2. TPT 2 Saturday, September 11, 8 p.m.

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EVENING SEPTEMBER 6-12

7:00 7:30 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30 10:00 10:30 11:00 11:30

Antiques Roadshow: Churchill Downs Racetrack Hour 3 Escape to the Chateau

Minnesota Experience: Made In St. Paul: Stories from the Ford Plant

The Dictator’s Playbook Francisco Franco

POV: Roll Red Roll

Reel South

6 Mon

2

Pavlo Live In Kastoria

Blenko Glass: The Collectors

BBC World News

Amanpour and Company

Start Up

LIFE

MN Original

Postcards

Telling Project: Minnesota Remembers Vietnam

Native Report Native Report Ethics of Cyber Security

Minnetonka to Ghana, Bridg- ing An Ocean

Postcards

MN

Finding Your Roots: Unfamiliar Kin

Frontline: America After 9/11

NOVA: Nature’s Fear Factor

Forces of Nature: Color

7 Tue

2

Shakespeare & Hathaway- Private Investigators: See Thyself Devil

Halifax: Retribution (Part 2 of 8) Cobra Episode 3

BBC World News

Amanpour and Company

Chavis Chronicles Common Ground

LIFE

MN Original

Let’s Go Min- nesota!

Stage: Art Is....Healing

Lowertown Line

Homesteading

We’re In This Together

Treasures Collected, Trea- sures Shared

MN

Nature: Natural Born Rebels: The Mating Game Lucy Worsley’s Royal Myths & Se- crets: Kings George III and IV & The Napoleonic War (Part 5 of 6)

NOVA: Extreme Animal Weapons Guilt on Masterpiece (Part 1 of 2)

Future of Work: Futureproof (Part 2 of 3)

How We Got to Now with Steven Johnson: Cold

Life from Above: Colorful Planet

8 Wed

2

BBC World News Honor Most Proud

Amanpour and Company

David Ruben- stein Show: Peer to Peer... Making It Up North

LIFE

MN Original

Postcards

This Is Minnesota Orchestra: Remembrance and Reflection

Stop, Look, Art

Through A Soldier’s Eyes

Almanac: Hands-On History Eastenders

MN

This Old House

Ask This Old House

Agatha Christie’s: Poirot The Peril at End House (Part 1 of 2) The Dictator’s Playbook Francisco Franco

Shakespeare & Hathaway- Private Investigators: The Sticking Place Minnesota Experience: Made In St. Paul: Stories from the Ford Plant Richard Alley’s Climate Adventures Betty White: First Lady of Television

Eastenders

Lucy Worsley’s Royal Myths & Se- crets: Kings George III and IV & The Napoleonic War (Part 5 of 6)

9 Thu

2

African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross: Making A Way Out of No Way (1897-1940)

BBC World News

Amanpour and Company

Articulate with Jim Cotter

LIFE

MN Original

Let’s Go Min- nesota!

Wild and Sce- nic St. Croix

Superior’s Isle Royale

Saving Wheat: Rusts Never Sleep Lives Well Lived

Farm Fresh Road Trip

Off 90

Farm to School: Growing Our Future

MN

Almanac

Antiques Roadshow: Win- terthur Museum, Garden & Library Hour 1

Front and Center: Brantley Gilbert

10 Fri

2

Great Estates Scotland Dumfries

Washington Week

Firing Line with Margaret Hoover

Trusted Messenger

BBC World News

Amanpour and Company

Gzero World with Ian Bremmer Prairie Mosaic

LIFE

MN Original

Postcards

Rise and Fall of the Nonparti- san League: Resurgence

Make Money Work

Make Money Work

Almanac

Minnesota in the ‘70s

MN

The Indian Doctor - Season 2: Foreign Bodies (Part 1 of 5)

Midsomer Murders: A Vintage Murder (Parts 1 & 2 of 2)

Halifax: Retribution (Part 3 of 8) No Second Chance

Lowertown Line

11 Sat

2

TBA

Great Performances: The Arts Interrupted

Dream In Doubt

POV: Roll Red Roll

Reel South

LIFE

Backroads

Prairie Musi- cians

Media Coverage and Female Athletes

Soul Crea- tures

Ready for the Future

Getting There

Working Dogs: Innovations In Healthcare

Everyday Trauma: Kids’ Mental Wellness

Understanding Mental Illness In Children

MN

Guilt on Masterpiece (Part 2 of 2) NOVA: Extreme Animal Weapons

Professor T: Murder On Prescription

Betty White: First Lady of Television Austin City Limits: The Very Best of John Prine

Lucy Worsley’s Royal Myths & Se- crets: The Romanovs & The Russian Revolution (Part 6 of 6) Nature: Natural Born Rebels: The Mating Game

12 Sun

2

Hacking Your Mind: Weapons of Influence

Front and Center: Brantley Gilbert

LIFE

Our Invisible Guardians

Lowertown Line

Lowertown Line

Through The Iron Curtain - from Romania

Restoring The People’s House Bound By Earth: Archaeology In Minnesota

Steamboats on the Red: A Story f Buccane rs

Nature: Walking with Emerson & Thoreau

MN

*The monthly programming schedule may change due to PBS and TPT's programming needs. Please refer to tpt.org/schedule for updated information.

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NEXT AVENUE - SPECIAL SECTION

WELCOME TO THE NEXT AVENUE SPECIAL SECTION

Hummingbirds: More Than Little Blurs at Your Birdfeeder By Craig Miller

Jon Dunn summed up his passion for hummingbirds succinctly. "You're dead inside if you don't like hummingbirds," he says. The 48-year-old naturalist and photographer’s paean to the tiny flying gems, "The Glitter in the Green," chronicles Dunn's far-flung travels to find and photograph the birds he describes as being "dipped in rainbows."

the natural world as a resource to be used by us. Generally, in the wild we can't get that close to things, but hummingbirds are different. Even in the wild they'll feed, relatively unconcerned by our approach. They just do not perceive us as a threat. And I think that deep down that's really reassuring for us. Next Avenue: They're also some of the most remarkable little machines in the animal kingdom. They really are. Their hearts can beat a thousand to one thousand and two hundred times a minute, which, when you think that our average heartbeat is about eighty beats per minute, that's amazing in itself. And at night, of course, they've got to sleep and they can't feed. And so, the whole hummingbird kind of shuts down and they enter a state of torpor and they slow their heartbeats right down to under a hundred beats per minute, so its energy requirements are just pulled right back. And then when day breaks and the hummingbirds awaken, they effectively reanimate and come back to life. Next Avenue: And somehow, they have the energy to migrate thousands of miles every year.

Next Avenue tracked down Dunn at his lair in the Shetland Islands (just north of Scotland) and asked him to share some insights from his book. Next Avenue: You've photographed and written about all manner of wildlife, but hummingbirds are the only species to which you've devoted an entire book. It seems from your writing that it's their tenacious personality as much as their color that attracts you. Jon Dunn: Yeah, my theory is that we're used to a lot of wildlife treating us with caution and we've given them ample cause to do so. You know, we've had millennia now of treating

Yeah, that's right. The rufous hummingbird -- it's one of the smaller

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hummingbirds -- a female was ringed (banded) in Tallahassee, Florida and recovered up in Alaska. She'd covered almost three and a half thousand miles. That's a huge migration by any standards, but for a bird which weighs effectively the same as a penny, that's just mind-boggling to me. And also, you know, for a bird which is largely fueled on sugar. That's amazing, too. What these birds are doing is kind of surfing the advent of spring, where they're trying to move north just as stuff is starting to come into bloom, which they can feed on because they don't really have fat reserves to speak of. They're not like some birds, which plump up massively, and then just go for it with a really long migration and just burn that body mass. Next Avenue: Speaking of eating, there's a fascinating account in the book of how they eat — and it's probably not how many of us imagined. They're not using their bills as straws?

Hummingbirds feed at flowers, and what the hummingbird's tongue actually does when it's immersed in nectar, it blooms, it flowers for itself.

So, lots of tiny little flaps along the length of the tongue open up as it's immersed in liquid. And then when the tongue is retracted out of the liquid, the flaps close and they trap the nectar within. The entire feeding process — the dipping in and out of the tongue — is feeding passively on the nectar, is not having to lap it like a cat.

It's an incredibly efficient way of feeding, because the hummingbird isn't expending any particular energy in doing this.

Next Avenue: Do you have any parting tips for backyard birders who want to attract more hummers?

Obviously if you're going to put a hummingbird feeder up, make sure you clean it regularly. Don't let that thing get stale and stinky, because hummingbirds need clean, fresh, sugar water. Use refined sugar rather than unrefined sugar. It needs to be the stuff which isn't good for us — the pure white stuff. It's great for hummingbird feeders. But most important, if you've got a backyard, plant some native wildflowers, and nectar-bearing plants. Audubon has a native plants >Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Page 12 Page 13 Page 14 Page 15 Page 16 Page 17 Page 18 Page 19 Page 20 Page 21 Page 22 Page 23 Page 24 Page 25 Page 26 Page 27 Page 28

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