Nov. 19, 2015
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New Jerry Apps Wisconsin Public Television Program Invites Viewers on a Walk Through the State’s Seasons
The Land With Jerry Apps Premieres 7 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 2 on WPT
"Learn to look in the shadows, and listen for the whispers, because the extent to which you do that is the extent to which you will know nature, and know it deeply." -Jerry Apps, The Land With Jerry Apps
This December, celebrated Wisconsin author and historian Jerry Apps returns to Wisconsin Public Television (WPT) for an all-new special, The Land With Jerry Apps.
The Land With Jerry Apps premieres 7 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 2 on WPT. Encore presentations will be broadcast 5 p.m. Saturday Dec. 5 and 7 p.m. Monday, Dec. 7. The full program is also available to watch online now: http://video.wpt.org/video/2365600489/
In the new special, viewers will join Apps at his central Wisconsin farm for a walk through the seasons with his grandsons, as he passes along lessons that can be gleaned from listening to The Land. With a wit and wisdom inherited from his father as they worked the land together, Apps recalls stories that unite the generations by informing a shared appreciation for the world around us.
A companion to Whispers and Shadows: A Naturalist's Memoir, Apps' new book from the Wisconsin Historical Society Press, The Land follows two popular WPT productions, Jerry Apps: A Farm Story and A Farm Winter With Jerry Apps.
Funding for The Land With Jerry Apps is provided in part by Holiday Vacations, Ron & Colleen Weyer, the Stanley J. Cottrill Fund, Carol Gainer, the Wisconsin History Fund (Supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities) and Friends of Wisconsin Public Television.
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