Spectacular blend of history, botany and story.
One of a series of short films produced by KERA Television in Dallas over the past few years, this one by veteran filmmaker Rob Tranchin. A lot more details here — and frankly, the video quality is vastly superior at KERA’s site — go view the film there.
I hope it’s available on DVD for classroom use, especially around Dallas, soon.
Hundreds of historic trees grace America’s cities and countryside. We could use a dozen more films this good to tell their stories.
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub 
In 2019, sadly, the Million Dollar Monarch came down. Its light carries on.
Story from CBSDFW (Channel 11).
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[…] name, but couldn’t find it. KERA has a couple of other films I really like, inc;uding “The Million Dollar Monarch,” and “The Chip that Jack Built,” a joyful honorific to the Jack Kilby who invented the […]
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God bless you Mrs. Bernarda,
I wondered the same thing.
Ask God for an explanation for those beautiful plants we are so blessed to enjoy. I Live by the White Rock Aboretum!
He will give you answer that will bring you to your knees in thanksgiving and praise. Thats what he did for me. I could not explain, I just enjoy.
Jesus loves you more than you know.
God bless you and Mr. Tranchin.
Al
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A film that needs to be seen is on the history of flowering plants, “First Flower” which was on Nova. I have not seen creationists try to explain away the evolution of plants, so this is another big problem for them.
http://www.amazon.com/NOVA-First-Flower-Nova/dp/B000PWQPBG
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/flower/about.html
http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/04/17/154931.aspx
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Sharing it was easy — let’s thank Tranchin for making it!
I’ll bet every state has at least one tree that could benefit from similar filmmaking. The Wye Oak (may it rest in peace) in Maryland; the chesnut on the White House grounds; the General Sherman sequoia; the Treaty Oak in Austin. Is there a peach tree, or oak, or pine, in Georgia that’s famous?
Thanks for dropping by, David.
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Nice video, Ed. Thanks for sharing it.
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