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Producer/videographer: Gale Worth |
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Harness, Hooves, Handling, and Hay? 4-H horse camp Actually, the 4 H’s in 4-H are head, heart, hands, and health. But in this segment, some young participants in one of the youth development organization’s many programs are learning all about caring for horses. As these kids from Falmouth and Carrollton learn “the ropes” of equine care, they also learn responsibility and maturity. In Kentucky, 4-H is a program of the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture’s Cooperative Extension Service. Hundreds of thousands of Kentucky youngsters—only about 17% of them from rural areas, according to 2001 figures—participate in its wide range of projects designed to help kids explore careers, exercise thinking and decision-making skills, raise their own self-esteem, and develop concern for others and for community. Nationally, 4-H celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2002. |
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Producer: Charlee Heaton Pagoulatos |
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Looming Large Churchill Weavers The small town of Berea in Madison County is a regional center of arts and crafts, where visitors can buy the things they’ve watched being made by hand. This profile visits one of the best known of the town’s enterprises, Churchill Weavers. Founded by David Carroll Churchill and his wife, Eleanor, in 1922, Churchill Weavers is known for its beautiful hand-loomed goods, especially blankets and throws. David, an inventor of some note (he is credited, for instance, with the first retractable landing-gear system for airplanes), had built several hand looms as a way of boosting the local economy while doing missionary work in India. When he and his wife later settled in Kentucky, he continued refining his loom design, while Eleanor created her own designs in thread. Our tour guide for this visit was then-owner Lila Bellando. She has since sold the company to Three Weavers, based in Lafayette, IN. |
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Producer: Charlee Heaton Pagoulatos |
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Inspirational Music The Freedom Singers Our third segment presents a glimpse of the history of the civil rights movement—not to mention some rousing music. During the 1960s, the Freedom Singers traveled throughout the South spreading the message of unity through song. Today, they are still traveling, performing songs of the movement and talking about the struggle to a new generation of young people.
This segment is from the hour-long KET production Sing Out for Freedom, which airs occasionally on our school channel. |
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Producer: Megan Moloney |
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A Gift of Nature Bernheim Forest The Bernheim Forest and Arboretum were created out of rolling Central Kentucky farmland. The preserve represents the vision of I.W. Bernheim, an immigrant who made good in Louisville and wanted to create a beautiful park as a gift to his adopted community. As brought to life by architects from the famed Frederick Law Olmsted firm, Bernheim is a place where people can go and meditate, stroll among gardens and works of art, or just enjoy the outdoors. Bernheim Forest is located in Bullitt and Nelson counties. To get there, take exit 112 off Interstate 65. This segment was taped in 1995. Kentucky Life made a return visit to Bernheim Forest a few years later, for Program 818. |
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The lineup of singers seen in this performance, taped in Louisville, includes Charles Neblett, Rutha Harris, Cleo Kennedy, Betty Mae Fikes, and Cordell Reagon. Neblett, the group manager, lives in Logan County, where he also was the first African American elected magistrate. He, Harris, and Reagon were founding members of the Freedom Singers, created in 1962 to help raise money for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
