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In The Americas with David Yetman
| Website: | http://www.intheamericas.com/ |
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| Next Airing: | Thu, Apr 18th, 2024 at 3:30 AM on UEN-TV |
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IN THE AMERICAS WITH DAVID YETMAN takes a fresh look at the lands that make up much of the Western Hemisphere. The 10-part series showcases the landscapes, peoples and history of the Americas - from the stories of a small village of Japanese immigrants in the Amazon to descendants of poor Italians in Chile, from Mayan temples in Guatemala to ancient fortresses in Mexico, and from the frigid, glacier-carved barrens of northern Canada to the timeless villages of the altiplano in Peru. By raft, boat, ferry, horse and motorcycle, host David Yetman journeys to parts of Cuba mostly unknown to the outside world, the wild mountains of western Argentina, festivals in Columbia and the often ignored Great Lakes of the United States. Along the way, he meets people from all walks of life - natives and immigrants, islanders and mainlanders, pastoralists and city-dwellers - and hears their stories. David Yetman, longtime host of The Desert Speaks (also distributed through APT Exchange) works as a research social scientist at the Southwest Center of the University of Arizona. Yetman is also a nationally known author of numerous books and articles and an accomplished photographer.
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Brazil's Land of Sand
Vast sand dunes, some of them the size of small mountains, line long stretches of Brazil's northeast coast. Their color, shape, and composition, and their relationship with wind, provide a striking variety of landscapes, each with its own ecological character.
Next Airing: Thu, Apr 18th, 2024 at 3:30 AM on UEN-TV Length: 00:26:46 Usage rights: 4/5/2014 to 4/4/2026 -
Lake Superior: Circling The Sweet Water Ocean
Straddling the U.S.-Canadian border, the largest lake in the world supports thousands of residents along its forested shores. Its icy waters also harbor a remote national park, Isle Royale. David learns about the vibrant indigenous cultures that lived there long before the arrival of Europeans.
Next Airing: Thu, Apr 25th, 2024 at 3:30 AM on UEN-TV Length: 00:26:46 Usage rights: 4/5/2014 to 4/4/2026 -
Nicaragua: Land of the Shaking Earth Emerges
For 200 years, Nicaragua endured both earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, and military and political interventions. Today, a democratic Nicaragua promotes its diversity of cultures, Spanish colonial heritage and natural wonders, including its lakes, forests and volcanoes. Miskito Indians from the Caribbean coast and the descendants of Aztecs still flourish within the country.
Next Airing: Thu, May 2nd, 2024 at 3:30 AM on UEN-TV Length: 00:26:46 Usage rights: 4/5/2014 to 4/4/2026 -
Pernambuco: Brazil's Other Carnival
The megapolis of Recife, Brazil's fifth largest city, lies within the state of Pernambuco. Recife's carnival, along with celebrations in its colonial suburb Olinda and in the cities of Bezerros and Nazarene da Mata, features a flamboyant, joyous, boisterous week of elaborate parades, dances and costumes.
Next Airing: Thu, May 9th, 2024 at 3:30 AM on UEN-TV Length: 00:26:46 Usage rights: 4/5/2014 to 4/4/2026 -
Cuetzalan: The Celebration of San Francisco
More than 500 years ago, Franciscan priests journeyed to the remote city of Cuetzalan in Puebla State. Although less remote now, the traditions and languages continue in a town where they venerate fiestas and perpetuate ancient rituals like the acrobatic voladores.
Next Airing: Thu, May 16th, 2024 at 3:30 AM on UEN-TV Length: 00:26:46 Usage rights: 4/5/2014 to 4/4/2026 -
Alaska: The Wilderness of the Volcanoes
In this episode, David visits two of Alaska's vast national parks, Lake Clark and Katmai, each with a heritage of volcanic activity. Their thriving ecosystems illustrate nature's ability to recover from cataclysmic events. The villages of Native Americans continue as well, along with their traditions.
Next Airing: Thu, May 23rd, 2024 at 3:30 AM on UEN-TV Length: 00:26:46 Usage rights: 4/5/2014 to 4/4/2026 -
Reefs, Ruins, and Revivals: Belize's Melting Pot
Belize has a decidedly different history and culture from the rest of Central America. English is the first language of this small nation, reflecting its British ancestry, yet Belize retains deep historic connections among its many residents of Mayan ancestry, and is proud of its strong African roots among the Garifuna people. Belize also has world-class archaeological sites, vast tracts of intact rain forest, and some of the world's richest marine treasures.
Next Airing: Thu, May 30th, 2024 at 3:30 AM on UEN-TV Length: 00:26:45 Usage rights: 7/4/2015 to 7/3/2027 -
Yakima: The Quest for Hops
The explosion of craft beer brewing across the United States has created a widespread interest in the process of beer making. A beer festival in Tucson, Arizona, leads to some local brewers and sends David on a quest to the origin of what makes beer different - hops. Nearly all of the hops in the U.S. are cultivated around Yakima, Washington where the team follows the annual harvest and sample as many products of hop production as possible.
Next Airing: Thu, Jun 6th, 2024 at 3:30 AM on UEN-TV Length: 00:26:46 Usage rights: 7/4/2015 to 7/3/2027 -
Panama's Wild West
An hour or so distant from Panama's burgeoning capital and its great canal, a broad peninsula juts into the Pacific Ocean. The Azuero Peninsula is home to traditions, landscapes, and people different from those of the capital and its suburbs. Residents of Azuero celebrate what sets them off from the rest of Panama. And they are huge fans of baseball.
Next Airing: Thu, Jun 13th, 2024 at 3:30 AM on UEN-TV Length: 00:26:46 Usage rights: 7/4/2015 to 7/3/2027 -
Argentina's Route 40: from the Steppes to the Lake
Argentines maintain that Patagonia begins at the Rio Colorado in the Province of Neuquen. Traveling south, they cross that river on Ruta 40 (Route Forty) in a volcanic landscape amidst a vast desert, the majestic peaks of the Andes always present on the right. Within the slopes of the Andes are myriad lakes and towns constructed by European immigrants and expatriates, but never far from the arid, windswept steppes of Patagonia. More secluded are the Mapuches - Indians who resisted the European onslaught and today struggle to retain their culture. In Patagonia, all roads lead to San Carlos Bariloche, the crown jewel of Ruta 40, a Swiss-type resort on the shores of the great Lake Nahuel-Huapi. On a sailboat, David travels westward, passing from desert scrub on the shoreline to the lush rainforests and snows of the Andes.
Next Airing: Thu, Jun 20th, 2024 at 3:30 AM on UEN-TV Length: 00:26:46 Usage rights: 7/4/2015 to 7/3/2027 -
Heart of the Wilderness: Wyoming's Wind River Rang
The Wind River Range in western Wyoming is the state's largest mountain range, nearly one hundred miles from north to south. With dozes of massive peaks, it is also home to the wildest country in the lower 48 states. Much of it is protected in wilderness, which David and his team commemorate on the 50th anniversary of the passage of the Wilderness Act of 1964. On arriving, they visit ancient foothill sites where Shoshone Indians left examples of their art, historic locations of Indian battles, and scars of mines and ghost towns before plunging deep into the wilds of the Wind Rivers - on foot.
Next Airing: Thu, Jun 27th, 2024 at 3:30 AM on UEN-TV Length: 00:26:46 Usage rights: 7/4/2015 to 7/3/2027 -
From Vaquejada to Jangada: Into Rural Ceara, Brazil
A small state in Brazil's dry northeast, Ceara is home to a variety of traditions not found in the rest of the vast country. The inland bush, called the sertao, is home to cowboys and and odd rodeo, while the coast supports fisherman whose wooden boats are little changed over the last several centuries. Ceara is home to Brazil's most important religious shrine, its last lace-weavers, and a startling array of tropical fruits.
Next Airing: Thu, Jul 4th, 2024 at 3:30 AM on UEN-TV Length: 00:26:46 Usage rights: 7/4/2015 to 7/3/2027 -
Bogota to the Amazaon: A Trip Across Columbia
From the urban capital city of Bogota and its famous cicolvia dedicated to bicycles, this sprawling nation offers an unexpected variety of cultures and urban landscapes. David and his team hop from the mountains to the extreme southern tip of the country to see wildlife and to visit indigenous villages of the people who live in the heart of the Amazon jungle.
Next Airing: Thu, Jul 11th, 2024 at 3:30 AM on UEN-TV Length: 00:26:46 Usage rights: 7/4/2015 to 7/3/2027 -
Gift of the Andes: Mendoza, Argentina, and Its Wines
Argentina's nostalgic Ruta 40 passes along the base of the Cordillera of the Andes from the extreme north to the southernmost road in the nation. On its way Ruta 40 meets the famed wine capital of Mendoza, whose dedication to Malbec wine is recent, but whose win production dates to colonial times. David lingers in the vineyards and bodegas, sampling the varieties of Malbec and Argentine food. Farther south, Ruta 40 penetrates the northern reaches of Patagonia, a windswept desert boarded on the west by the incomparable Andes, and massive pre-Andean volcanoes.
Next Airing: Thu, Jul 18th, 2024 at 3:30 AM on UEN-TV Length: 00:26:46 Usage rights: 7/4/2015 to 7/3/2027 -
Coffee and Culture In Oaxaca
The state of Oaxaca is home to 16 different Indian groups among whom can be found more than 60 different languages. Each group retains much of its ancient culture. They visit a Zapotec market, navigate the mangrove watercourses on the coast, and participate in the harvesting, drying and roasting of coffee in the fog forest.
Next Airing: Thu, Jul 25th, 2024 at 3:30 AM on UEN-TV Length: 00:26:46 Usage rights: 7/4/2015 to 7/3/2027 -
1492: Americans Discover Europe
Americans, perhaps thirty million strong, did not submissively accept the rule of Europeans. Their resistance and reception of the foreigners varied greatly. We visit Dominican Republic, where Columbus established a beachhead and then to the Mexican port of Veracruz where Hernan Cortes landed 28 years later. We follow his route across lofty mountain chains to Tenochtitlan of the Aztecs, today's Mexico City, where the final showdown took place. Along the way we show some of what Cortes encountered.
Length: 00:26:46 Usage rights: 4/1/2023 to 3/31/2026 -
Abc Islands: The Dutch Legacy in the Caribbean
The last vestiges of the once-mighty Dutch empire live on in the Caribbean islands of Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao. David visits Curacao, now independent, and wanders the streets of Willemstad, its capital city. In its colonial buildings, he finds hints of a past glory made possible by the slave trade. In Bonaire, still a colony, he dons Scuba gear to mingle with its incomparable marine life. Then, he witnesses the extraction of tons of salt from Bonaire's tidal flats. Finally, David treks into a national park home to dense groves of tall cacti, hordes of lizards and tranquil flamingos.
Length: 00:26:46 Usage rights: 4/5/2014 to 4/4/2026 -
Bahian Reconcavo of Brazil: Quilombos, Candomble, and the Mata Atlantica
The region known as Reconcavo supports a distinct culture and heritage. Over the centuries, slaves escaped their owners and founded their own towns. They, along with other colonists, shaped the local society and exploited its tropical riches. Recently, a local company took on the challenge of preserving and restoring the once-great Atlantic Forest, the Mata Atlantica.
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Christopher Columbus, His Time and His Plans
Columbus spent nearly a decade in Spain lobbying for his expedition. More than anywhere else, he remained in Huelva, a port on Spain's southwestern coast. With him on his voyages he brought the heritage of his surroundings and their many assumptions. His quest shaped his mission and the sailors he chose were of critical importance to the success or failure of his mission. Understanding them and their times helps clarify the influence- and the destruction they would heap on the Americas.
Length: 00:26:46 Usage rights: 4/1/2023 to 3/31/2026 -
Colombia: Capital & Coffee
Bogota serves as Colombia's capital and its social, cultural and economic center. To help decrease traffic congestion and air pollution, Bogotans created an extremely effective mass transit system called Cyclovia: each Sunday they cordon off their downtown and turn it over to bicyclists and pedestrians. While traveling to Zona Cafetera, the source of most Colombian coffee, David explores the history of the world's most popular beverage.
Length: 00:26:46 Usage rights: 4/5/2014 to 4/4/2026 -
Colon's Spain and the Quest for Western Lands
Christopher Columbus set out from Huelva, on Spain's southwest coast, in 1492 in a quest to chart unknown lands with hoped-for riches. With him he brought three ships and a cultural impact that changed the world forever in the space of thirty years. Huelva and its surrounding area reveal a wealth of cultural and historical influences, from Romans through Moors to Spaniards, from technology to disease, through Italians and (perhaps) Portuguese ancestry that Columbus and subsequent would-be conquerors carried with them. They would transform the Americas into a European province.
Length: 00:26:46 Usage rights: 4/1/2023 to 3/31/2026 -
Sierra Nevada and the Making of California
The product of earthquakes, the mighty Sierra Nevada mountain range influences much of California's weather and produces most if its water. Tectonic geologist Eldridge Moores helps host David Yetman decipher the mysteries of the range's origins and describes the Sierras' importance.
Length: 00:26:46 Usage rights: 4/5/2014 to 4/4/2026