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WPBS-TV has extended their partnership with the Antique Boat Museum in Clayton, NY to bring a year-long outreach campaign to our local community entitled History at the Helm. A grant from the National Center for Outreach will allow us to extend the newly-produced documentary about the Antique Boat Museum, The Antique Boat Museum: Preserving North America’s Boating Heritage, into the community more visibly. This grant will allow the partners to offer various film screenings of the local documentary at the Antique Boat Museum. There are several film screenings in conjunction with the Harbor Inn Restaurant in Clayton, NY planned for the 2006-2007 season. For educators, WPBS-TV will produce a Teachers Guide that will accompany the local documentary. This Guide, along with the DVD of the video, will be distributed to all local schools and libraries in 2007. The video will also be digitized and uploaded to an online digital library for teachers across NYS to access. Two teacher workshops will be held to demonstrate how local resources can be used in classrooms to continue to preserve local history. A new website will be developed to contain these components and much more. All activities are under the umbrella of, History at the Helm. WPBS-TV is also airing a series entitled Cruising America’s Waterways Tuesday nights at 7:30pm on WPBS-TV until October 2006. Another three-part series entitled Sailing with Confidence will be airing this September. Tune into WPBS-TV History at the Helm airings and activities.
WPBS-TV and the Antique Boat Museum are proud to present this local history outreach
project with the intention that the resources created will be longstanding and useful to
our educators and community at-large. Join WPBS-TV and the Antique
Boat Museum When: Monday, June 11th,
at 4:30 - 6:00 pm at the Antique Boat Museum, Clayton, NY
Broadcasts: Cruising
America’s Waterways (Tuesday Nights at 7:30 pm) #201 The Erie Canal: Albany to Buffalo (Part 1) The first episode explores the history of New York State's Erie Canal,the world's most successful canal. Opened in 1825, the canal today is a recreational and historic waterway lined with cultural and scenic opportunities. The program describes lift bridges, features an interview with the captain of a boat that practically goes under Niagara Falls and visits the waterfronts of the Tonawandas, Lockport and Buffalo. Along the way, the crew tours a unique underground cave, cruises on the Black Rock Canal and samples world-famous Buffalo chicken wings at their "birthplace."
#202 The Erie Canal: Albany to Buffalo (Part 2) In this episode, crewmember Nancy boards the Emita II to cruise along the western section of the Erie Canal, its famed locks from Lockport to Rochester. Along the way, there are charming canal-side communities to visit, including Brockport, Albion and Holly, before arriving in the Rochester area, where Nancy explores the remains of a canal aqueduct and visits some of the area's attractions, including the former home of George Eastman, founder of Kodak. There's surf biking in Fairport and shopping in Pittsford, known as the Queen of Canal Ports. Crewmembers Juan and Jerry learn how easy it is to captain a canalboat as they cruise the waters near Palmyra and Newark.
#203 The Erie Canal: Albany to Buffalo (Part 3) It's a quick trip through the rest of the Erie, beginning near Rochester and ending at the canal's eastern terminus near Albany. En route there are visits to Baldwinsville, where crewmember Nancy samples salt potatoes and learns how a guard gate works; and Syracuse and its Erie Canal Museum before stopping to see how Italian bread and Syracuse china are made. After crossing Oneida Lake, there's a quick stop in Sylvan Beach, the site of the only amusement park on the canal, before continuing east to Rome, Utica and Little Falls at Lock 17, the highest lift lock on the canal. Continuing east past Amsterdam, the crew arrives in Waterford, whose five locks help boats reach the Hudson River, and Troy, where this voyage on one of America's great waterways concludes.
#211 Boatcamp: Basic Training for Boaters (Part 1) This entertaining program provides basic information for anyone who operates or travels as a guest on a recreational vessel - from yachts to personal watercraft and sailboats. The programs explore the fundamentals related to safety, the law, operation and the language of boating. Captain Marc and his young crew, with the help of a state-certified marine educator, cover the basics of fueling, personal watercraft usage, anchoring and some of the language of boating in a comprehensive look at this wonderful sport.
#212 Boatcamp: Basic Training for Boaters (Part 2) Enjoyable boating is tied to knowledge, experience and attitude. In this second of three episodes, Captain Marc and his young crew cover the basics of docking, marine radio usage, locks, trailering and PFDs, and explain some of the laws specific to boating in a comprehensive look at safely enjoying this wonderful sport.
#213 Boatcamp: Basic Training for Boaters (Part 3) Enjoyable boating is tied to knowledge, experience and attitude. In the third of three episodes, Captain Marc and his young crew, with the help of members of the U.S. Coast Guard, Coast Guard Auxiliary and sailing instructors, cover the basics of navigation, boating safety, knot-tying, sailing, vessel safety checks, Coast Guard enforcement and some of the language of boating in a comprehensive look at safely enjoying this wonderful sport.
#209 The Intracoastal Waterway: Charleston to Jacksonville
(Part 1) An early spring voyage with Roberta and Bill on a 100-passenger ship, the Nantucket Clipper, along a stretch of the Intracoastal Waterway includes visits to Charleston and the second-oldest town in South Carolina, Beaufort. While in Charleston, the crew visits Fort Sumter and the South Carolina Aquarium, and sails aboard the Schooner Pride. They receive pointers on cooking fish and preparing a local dish, she-crab soup, and marvel at the architecture during a carriage ride before departing Charleston for Beaufort and its charming waterfront.
#210 The Intracoastal Waterway: Charleston to Jacksonville
(Part 2) CRUISING AMERICA'S WATERWAYS continues its Intracoastal Waterway adventure in Beaufort, South Carolina, with a visit to the Marine Corps Recruit Depot at Parris Island. Then, it's on to Savannah and its beautiful Tybee Island Lighthouse before docking along shrimp boats in Brunswick, Georgia, the perfect departure point for exploration of several of Georgia's barrier islands, including Jekyll Island, the winter home of many of America's wealthiest of the Gilded Age, and St. Simons Island, whose natural beauty was studied by Audubon. The charming community of St. Mary's, Georgia, is convenient to nearby Cumberland Island, the largest of the state's barrier islands. The ship docks in Jacksonville, Florida, a city built on the water. Roberta and Bill tour the Cummer Museum of Art, visit the nation's first Red Cross life-saving facility and go kayaking on nearby Amelia Island.
Sailing with Confidence SAILING WITH CONFIDENCE (2nd RELEASE) is a three-part series designed to give those with little or no sailing experience the knowledge and skills needed to sail with confidence. Using proven techniques which combine sailing theory with extensive preparation, each program provides the novice sailor with a head-start to safe and pleasurable sailing experience. Episodes include: Getting Started; Helmsmanship and Maneuvers; Heavy Weather Sailing and Flying Spinnakers Saturday, March 24 at 7:30 am
The
Antique Boat Museum: A look at the history of boating in the 1000 Islands and a visit to the Antique Boat Museum in Clayton, New York, to see what's being done to preserve our boating heritage. Sunday, March 25 at 2:00pm
Fore more information contact Leslie O’Hara at WPBS-TV 315.782.3142 ext. 314 or email: lohara@wpbstv.org
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