Charles Kuralt's American Moments,9780684859033

Charles Kuralt's American Moments

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ISBN13: 9780684859033
ISBN10: 0684859033
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1998-11-01
Publisher(s): Simon & Schuster
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Summary

Hailed by "Time" as "the laureate of the common man", the Mark Twain of television, Charles Kuralt represented the real and true voice of America. This book, based on his last television and book project, glimpses the heart and soul of the nation that Kuralt knew so well. Illustrations.

Author Biography

In his thirty-seven years with CBS News, Charles Kuralt won many honors, including thirteen Emmy Awards and three Peabody Awards for his work both "on the road" and on Sunday Morning. He was the author of six previous books, including the bestselling On the Road with Charles Kuralt, A Life on the Road, and Charles Kuralt's America. He died on Independence Day, 1997.

Table of Contents

Preface 11(4)
Foreword 15(5)
Charles Osgood
American Emblems
20(30)
The Cords of Winter
20(2)
Wind and Water
22(3)
Fun on the Hoof
25(1)
Under the Big Top
26(2)
The Little Red Wagon
28(3)
The Once and Future Fair
31(1)
The Last of the Red, White, and Blue
32(2)
Sentinels of the Desert
34(2)
Proof Through the Night
36(2)
A Stone Wall
38(1)
Still Humming Along
39(2)
Fenders and Flaps
41(1)
Candy Clouds
42(2)
For Whom the Bell Tolls
44(2)
The Great American Hat
46(4)
American Originals
50(24)
Landing for Lunch
50(3)
Our Great Woodsman
53(1)
Upright Announcements
54(3)
No Large Envelopes, Please
57(1)
The Heights of Technology
58(2)
At the Market
60(2)
Lucy
62(2)
A New Dish
64(3)
The Lincoln Highway
67(1)
A Burst of Speed
68(2)
The Barbershop Blues
70(4)
American Portraits
74(20)
A Man of the Road
74(2)
Lions and Tigers and Bears
76(2)
Mending Their Majesties
78(2)
The Sounds of Silence
80(2)
A Man of Parts
82(2)
Home, Tiny Home
84(2)
The Swift Completion
86(3)
Big Ship, Small Shed
89(1)
Cold, and Colder Still
90(4)
American Shrines
94(26)
Sullivan's Island
94(2)
Noah Webster's House
96(2)
Mr. DeLeo's Monument
98(2)
The Czar's America
100(1)
When Shots Rang Out
101(1)
Grant's Tomb
102(2)
At the Pump
104(2)
The Store That Was
106(3)
The Ups and Downs of the Everglades
109(1)
Hanauma Bay
110(3)
Land's End
113(1)
A Railroad Palace
114(2)
Rain Above, River Below
116(4)
American Makers
120(24)
The President's Shoes
120(2)
Swept into Office
122(3)
Philip Simmons of Charleston
125(1)
A Maker of Whirligigs
126(2)
Master of the Victrola
128(2)
A Tune on the Chopping Block
130(1)
A Cymbal of America
131(1)
Turning Back the Clock
132(2)
Dragonflies, Indeed
134(2)
A Brush with the Past
136(2)
The Strength of Sweet Grass
138(2)
The Fiddler of America
140(4)
American Dreamers
144(21)
With Hope in Hand
144(2)
Trombone Shorty
146(2)
Play Ball!
148(2)
And Then the Curtain Fell
150(3)
By the Billion
153(1)
Flowers That Fly
154(3)
A Gift of Wisdom
157(1)
His Big Small World
158(2)
The Call of the Wild
160(5)
American Sights
165(23)
Snow Geese
165(1)
The Valley of the Eagles
166(3)
Giants in the Earth
169(1)
In the Shallows
170(1)
Windblown Seeds
171(1)
Key Deer
172(2)
Among the Swans
174(3)
A World of Ice
177(1)
The Unstoppable Sand
178(2)
Bundles of Blooms
180(2)
Stone New Yorkers
182(3)
Brief Beauty
185(3)
American Heirlooms
188(26)
Heavenly Windows, Hellish Hate
188(2)
Hoppin' John
190(2)
Let There Be Light
192(2)
America's Sunrise
194(1)
The Weight of Progress
195(1)
The Devil's Rope
196(2)
Ink in the Blood
198(3)
Elephants of the Harbor
201(1)
The Last of Jesse James
202(2)
Wind Your Bobbin
204(2)
Good Things Come in Big Boxes Too
206(2)
The Towers Atop the Towers of New York
208(2)
Scratched in the Landscape
210(4)
American Ways
214(20)
Skipping Stones
214(2)
The Ferry at Los Ebanos
216(2)
The Blessing of the Fleet
218(2)
A Rite of Spring
220(1)
Miss Indian World
221(1)
Of Horse and Man
222(3)
Pilottown
225(1)
The Canal
226(2)
Dog Power
228(2)
Little Fish, Big Buildings
230(1)
Roll, Cross, and Flip
231(3)
American Notions
234(22)
The Right Tool
234(2)
All Downhill from Here
236(2)
A Click Heard 'Round the World
238(2)
Smoke Signals
240(3)
And the Cares That Hung Around Me Through the Week
243(1)
The Music of the Map
244(2)
Seeing the Light
246(2)
Squinting Scientists
248(2)
Winter's Wild Rides
250(2)
About Time
252(1)
On Paper Wings
253(1)
The Road Less Traveled
254(2)
Acknowledgments 256

Excerpts


Chapter One

A Stone Wall

If you go for a walk in the woods in any northern place in America, sooner or later you'll come across what we came across in these woods -- an old stone wall. Fifty or a hundred or two hundred years ago, somebody clearing a field picked up every one of these stones and carried them a distance and made a wall of them here. Whatever else he did here, the forest shrugged off long ago. But the wall remains.

Other countries have ruined castles, pyramids, and Parthenons. We have these grown-over monuments to forgotten farmers. The wall names no names, but whispers much about what must have been. There must have been a homestead and apple trees, a barn, children playing once their chores were done. All that must have been, or why this wall?

With enough research into local history, I might have been able to tell you who built that stone wall. But I like leaving the history there in the woods where the moss and the dragonflies know it, and the rain and the snow know it, even if we don't.

Copyright © 1998 Estate of Charles Kuralt. All rights reserved.

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