{"id":4664,"date":"2018-12-11T07:31:16","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T15:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/?p=4664"},"modified":"2020-06-24T20:40:24","modified_gmt":"2020-06-25T03:40:24","slug":"thoreau-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/meditations\/thoreau-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoreau Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was driving a remote Oregon road, trying to find something on the radio, when I heard a familiar voice speaking immortal lines from Thoreau’s Walden<\/em>. I knew the lines well because I’d read the book six times. <\/p>\n

How in the world was this on radio? I listened to the entire program and realized Thoreau is more relevant today than he was in his time. If only preachers preached Walden like scripture instead of the Bible. It would make for a great country instead of a dying one.
\nI had to know the story of this show. I am loathe to Google anything these days because I hate enriching a monolithic corporation with sham progressive ideals. But what choice did I have? That’s how they’ve chained us.<\/p>\n

My discovery: the program was part of an Armed Forces Radio series called American Masters<\/em>, produced in 1968 that lasted one year.
\nI recognized the voice of Thoreau because it was the real voice of John Forsyth, the actor who voiced Charley in Charley’s Angels<\/em>!!<\/p>\n

See mind blowing information from a web site about the series below. The full story is at http:\/\/64.27.7.35\/DigitalDeliToo\/dd2jb-An-American-Gallery.html<\/p>\n

\u201cThe premise of the series was both compelling and unique. Each of the thirteen weeks would provide a biography of either historic or contemporary Americans whose stories were a particularly compelling narrative of the unique promise the American way of life has afforded every citizen no matter how humble–or great–his or her origins. The series offered treatments of the following great Americans:
\n1. Louis Armstrong
\n2. Will Rogers
\n3. Cecil B. DeMille
\n4. (John) Gutzon Borglum\u00a0and Mt. Rushmore
\n5. George Gershwin
\n6. Thomas Wolfe
\n7. Matthew Brady
\n8. Frank Lloyd Wright
\n9. Frederic Remington
\n10. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
\n11. Henry David Thoreau
\n12. Dr. Lee De Forest
\n13. Walt Disney<\/p>\n

Given the selections for the thirteen weeks, one might well imagine how fascinating a continuation of the series might have been. But the goodness doesn’t stop there . . .<\/p>\n

To spice up the offering, and give these remarkable Americans their due, the production has thirteen of the biggest names in Entertainment introducing and hosting each episode:<\/p>\n

Bing Crosby\u00a0introducing\u00a0Louis Armstrong
\nBob Hope\u00a0introducing\u00a0Will Rogers
\nCharlton Heston\u00a0introducing\u00a0Cecil B. DeMille
\nLorne Greene\u00a0introducing\u00a0Gutzon Borglum
\nJohn ‘Bubbles’ Sublett\u00a0introducing\u00a0George Gershwin
\nIrving Stone\u00a0introducing\u00a0Thomas Wolfe
\nRaymond Burr\u00a0introducing\u00a0Matthew Brady
\nAnne Baxter\u00a0introducing her\u00a0grandfather,\u00a0Frank Lloyd Wright
\nEdward G. Robinson\u00a0introducing\u00a0Frederic Remington
\nRaymond Massey\u00a0introducing\u00a0Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
\nBill Cosby\u00a0introducing\u00a0Henry David Thoreau
\nEdgar Bergen\u00a0introducing\u00a0Dr. Lee De Forest
\nDick Van Dyke\u00a0introducing\u00a0Walt Disney
\nI know this sounding like a\u00a0Ronco commercial, but it gets even better . . .\u00a0<\/p>\n

Portraying the main characters in these docudramas were some of Hollywood’s biggest names:
\nD’Urville Martin and\u00a0Sam Laws\u00a0as\u00a0Louis Armstrong
\nPat Buttram\u00a0as\u00a0Will Rogers
\nSebastian Cabot\u00a0as\u00a0Cecil B. DeMille
\nEd Begley\u00a0as\u00a0Gutzon Borglum
\nRoss Martin\u00a0as\u00a0George Gershwin
\nMichael Anderson\u00a0as\u00a0Thomas Wolfe
\nRichard Crenna\u00a0as\u00a0Matthew Brady
\nHenry Fonda\u00a0as\u00a0Frank Lloyd Wright
\nRichard Widmark\u00a0as\u00a0Frederic Remington
\nDan O’Herlihy\u00a0as\u00a0Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
\nJohn Forsyth\u00a0as\u00a0Henry David Thoreau
\nGlenn Ford\u00a0as\u00a0Dr. Lee De Forest\u201d<\/p>\n

To download the Thoreau program, go to:
\nhttps:\/\/www.oldtimeradiodownloads.com\/drama\/american-gallery\/american-gallery-afrs-xx-xx-xx-11-to-hear-a-different-drummer<\/p>\n\n

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