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Media Update: Help Us Celebrate our 50th Anniversary with Your Memories of NPT
This September, NPT will celebrate its 50th Anniversary, and we want you to help us mark the occasion. From our humble beginnings as school board-licensed station WDCN, to our stature now as NPT and one of the most-watched public television stations in the country, a lot has happened in 50 years. You have made [...]
A Look at the Six Months Ahead at NPT
From new episodes in our Tennessee Civil War 150, NPT Reports: Children’s Health Crisis and Next Door Neighbors documentary projects, to a third volume of our popular 20th Century in Photographs series, to a public screening and event surrounding the Freedom Riders documentary, 2011 is going to be an amazing year of great programming and events [...]
It`s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas: A `Crossroads` Guide to Enjoying the Season
It’s no surprise that we at Tennessee Crossroads love to get out and enjoy all the unique people and places around the state. But we particularly love this time of year, because even those places that we seasoned travelers have visited time and time again offer a different experience during the month of December. We’re [...]
Tennessee Crossroads Gets a Taste of the Sweet Life with Sweet Treats Special
From the NPT Pressroom: Any mention of “sweet treats” brings to mind a wide array of tasty delights. Perhaps you think of your favorite candy, cookie or ice cream, or even something a bit nuttier like candied pecans. With a variety of “sweet” ideas of their own, Tennessee Crossroads sent Joe Elmore, Gretchen Bates, Tressa [...]
Tennessee Crossroads Thanksgiving Day Viewer`s Choice Marathon
As I have previously noted in another post, as part of the Tennessee Crossroads team, I am often responsible for answering a variety of questions about our show. I can’t count the number of times I have received emails and phone calls asking when we are going to be re-airing a particular Tennessee Crossroads episode. [...]
Revisit Tennessee Crossroads on our YouTube Channel
As part of the Tennessee Crossroads team, I am often responsible for answering a variety of questions about our show. For the most part these questions can be divided into two categories: questions relating to how one might go about watching, or rewatching, a particular Crossroads episode or segment, or requests for travel or entertainment [...]
Now You Can Shop NPT at ShopPBS
We’re proud to announce the launch of ShopNPT, where you can now purchase DVDs of some of our most requested programs. In partnership with ShopPBS, you can now order titles including Designed for Worship, Living on: Tennesseans Remembering the Holocaust and Memories of Nashville: High School. Fans of Tennessee Crossroads can pick up our “Meet [...]
Tennessee Crossroads Goes Inside Restored Governor`s Mansion
On this week’s Tennessee Crossroads, airing on Thursday, May 20 at 7:00 p.m. and Sunday 23 at 10:00 a.m., Ken Wilshire visits with First Lady Andrea Conte for a tour of the renovated Governor’s Mansion. Originally built for the William Ridley Wills Family in 1929, the mansion began a major renovation in 2003 under Conte’s [...]
Tennessee Crossroads Celebrates Artist Salvatore Palazzolo`s 101st Birthday
Tennessee Crossroads will profile and celebrate the birthday of Hendersonville artist Salvatore Palazzolo this week and weekend. Palazzolo, who turns 101 on January 31, will be featured on the venerable travel show airing on Thursday, January 28, at 7:00 p.m. and again on the artist’s birthday, Sunday, January 31, 2010 at 10:00 a.m. on NPT-Channel [...]
Tennessee Crossroads Welcomes Ken Wilshire
It’s about time we got some new blood around here! This week, Tennessee Crossroads is pleased to welcome Ken Wilshire to its stable of segment hosts crisscrossing the state in search of the people and places that make Tennessee unique. Ken’s debut is this Thursday, October 9, with a visit to blacksmith Joe Brown of [...]
