Post by pontiac1940 on Jan 17, 2020 0:43:54 GMT
Well, you will have to watch a TV show to see them ...
I don't watch TV other than the evening news, but recently have been watching a show my wife has been recording. We get PBS Spokane as it serves Alberta as well. They have a current series called "Country Music"
www.pbs.org/kenburns/country-music/
It is a multi-series history of roots/country music in the USA. It is well written and very enlightening even if you don't like old country/roots music.
Many of the black and white photos shown are so good.. so good. Touching. Well composed. Lovely tones. They ooze sentiment. The promo photos on the webpage show stars, but the good photos are of the people in the 20s and 30s and later...the hillbillies and Okies and share croppers...the poverty-stricken unemployed in the 30s. The hardships. Amazing pictures and some just break your heart.
Yes, it is American and I am Canadian, but my grandparents were poor dirt farmers in Alberta in the early 1900s too ... same stories, just colder here.
If you get PBS it is worth watching as it is a most entertaining story ... and the old photos are great.
Clive
I don't watch TV other than the evening news, but recently have been watching a show my wife has been recording. We get PBS Spokane as it serves Alberta as well. They have a current series called "Country Music"
www.pbs.org/kenburns/country-music/
It is a multi-series history of roots/country music in the USA. It is well written and very enlightening even if you don't like old country/roots music.
Many of the black and white photos shown are so good.. so good. Touching. Well composed. Lovely tones. They ooze sentiment. The promo photos on the webpage show stars, but the good photos are of the people in the 20s and 30s and later...the hillbillies and Okies and share croppers...the poverty-stricken unemployed in the 30s. The hardships. Amazing pictures and some just break your heart.
Yes, it is American and I am Canadian, but my grandparents were poor dirt farmers in Alberta in the early 1900s too ... same stories, just colder here.
If you get PBS it is worth watching as it is a most entertaining story ... and the old photos are great.
Clive
