Title

Charles Kuralt's America

Description

A television journalist chronicles his travels and memoirs--the people, places, and events encountered in his life.

Identifier

552428

399140832

Creator

Kuralt, Charles

Source

Brian Lamb Booknotes Collection

Gift of Brian Lamb, 2011.

Catalog record

Language

eng

Date

1995

Program air date: December 31, 1995

Publisher

G.P. Putnam's Sons

George Mason University. Libraries. Special Collections & Archives

Text

Transcription of Annotations

Notes on front endpaper: Glacier Bay Alaska--most depressing place in America. Stand up and be counted-Straford, V.T.. Food-p. 246. Product of Puritan work ethic-seemed wrong not to be working. Andy Johnson, Robert E. Lee, Calvin Coolidge, Woodrow Wilson, Jesse Helms, L. Mendal Rivers, Abe Lincoln, John C. Calhoun. Lamb checks the chapter titles of 10 of 12 chapters on the Contents page. Underlinings/Notes: Underlinings: Kuralt's relationship with CBS, decision to leave. Lamb underscores tidbits of information on the people, places and things Kuralt sees, observations, history, and things amusing. Notes: "Love of CBS," "poor people, crooked pols.," "kitchen," "Phil Johnson," "Puritan work ethic," "Christian," "mob and music," "Andy Jackson," "no regrets," "Speak French," "New Orleans and Mardi Gras," "Cholly and Molly," "newsstand," "Hemmingway," "runaway kid...what could I have done?" "nonsense to society," "North Carolina native," "humble," "Gedney Howe III," "carpenter killed a relative," "Robert E. Lee's house," "John C. Calhoun," "black people," "1947 Judge Waring," "Magnolia Gardens," "kite flying," "my daffodil," "awards...daughters," "Hugh Morton," "great happiness," "3 weeks in the cabin," "Senior citizens discount," "Avery v. Jackson duel," "honest congressman," "summer people v. mountain people," "dance," "bear trips," "burning purpose," "sister in Seattle," "Barbecue," "Jesse Helms," "hunger for worldly success," "most dazzling," "high tides," "totem poles," "25 years ago 'On the Road' 35 yr. old Kuralt," "Gustavus," "Best National Park Lodge," "blue whale," "Great-grandson Richard Harris," "go to a lonely place," ""Lower Seetheart Lake," "bought a canoe," "environmentalist," "Mike Hillman," "suicide in the mines," "Slovenian grandfather," "wolf center," "full moon and wolves," "2000 wolves," "packsackers," "Ridge runner," "2 weirdo limit," "Bob Cary," "deer stealing," "billfold under pillow," "Voyageurs," "drink the water in Lake," "cover photo," "jokes," "does your dog bite," "Walter Cronkite," "boat dream," "Hugh Glass," "Lewis and Clark," "no celebrities," "Delmar Rowe," "I'm for the ranchers," "prarie dogs better than humans," "fishing," "turned 60, Garrison Keillor," "father died," "sister Catherine, brother Wallace," "stand up and be counted," "Lawrence Rockefeller," "Calvin Coolidge," "Justin Morgan horse grave," "Steve never got into television," "som much of the rest of America has become," "old folks," "4 rolls of film," "lost American males," "Looky-looks," "Rio Grande," "hot air balloon," "falcons," "Santa Fe dissatisfied me," "loony new age spirituality," "Bill Mangold, The New Yorker," "the circus," "400 tubas," "Scrooge," "my sister, brother."

Subject

"Kuralt, Charles, 1934-1997--Travel--United States."

Relation

Original Booknotes interview

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