Charles Kuralt's American Moments
by Kuralt, Charles; Freundlich, PeterEdition: Large
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1999-04-01
Publisher(s): Thorndike Pr
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Summary
Charles Kuralt is a national treasure, a reporter and man of the world who was to many the real and true voice of America. To several generations Kuralt was the Mark Twain of television, a wanderer transfixed by the richness and greatness that he found in practically every corner of the country.
Author Biography
Charles Kuralt, who worked for CBS News for thirty-seven years, won many honors for his "on the road" journalism as well as his work on Sunday Morning. He died on Independence Day, 1997.
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. 11 |
| Forword | p. 15 |
| American Emblems | |
| The Cords of Winter | p. 20 |
| Wind and Water | p. 22 |
| Fun on the Hoof | p. 25 |
| Under the Big Top | p. 26 |
| The Little Red Wagon | p. 28 |
| The Once and Future Fair | p. 31 |
| The Last of the Red, White, and Blue | p. 32 |
| Sentinels of the Desert | p. 34 |
| Proof Through the Night | p. 36 |
| A Stone Wall | p. 38 |
| Still Humming Along | p. 39 |
| Fenders and Flaps | p. 41 |
| Candy Clouds | p. 42 |
| For Whom the Bell Tolls | p. 44 |
| The Great American Hat | p. 46 |
| American Originals | |
| Landing for Lunch | p. 50 |
| Our Great Woodsman | p. 53 |
| Upright Announcements | p. 54 |
| No Large Envelopes, Please | p. 57 |
| The Heights of Technology | p. 58 |
| At the Market | p. 60 |
| Lucy | p. 62 |
| A New Dish | p. 64 |
| The Lincoln Highway | p. 67 |
| A Burst of Speed | p. 68 |
| The Barbershop Blues | p. 70 |
| American Portraits | |
| A Man of the Road | p. 74 |
| Lions and Tigers and Bears | p. 76 |
| Mending Their Majesties | p. 78 |
| The Sounds of Silence | p. 80 |
| A Man of Parts | p. 82 |
| Home, Tiny Home | p. 84 |
| The Swift Completion | p. 86 |
| Big Ship, Small Shed | p. 89 |
| Cold, and Colder Still | p. 90 |
| American Shrines | |
| Sullivan's Island | p. 94 |
| Noah Webster's House | p. 96 |
| Mr. DeLeo's Monument | p. 98 |
| The Czar's America | p. 100 |
| When Shots Rang Out | p. 101 |
| Grant's Tomb | p. 102 |
| At the Pump | p. 104 |
| The Store That Was | p. 106 |
| The Ups and Downs of the Everglades | p. 109 |
| Hanauma Bay | p. 110 |
| Land's End | p. 113 |
| A Railroad Palace | p. 114 |
| Rain Above, River Below | p. 116 |
| American Makers | |
| The President's Shoes | p. 120 |
| Swept into Office | p. 122 |
| Philip Simmons of Charleston | p. 125 |
| A Maker of Whirligigs | p. 126 |
| Master of the Victrola | p. 128 |
| A Tune on the Chopping Block | p. 130 |
| A Cymbal of America | p. 131 |
| Turning Back the Clock | p. 132 |
| Dragonflies, Indeed | p. 134 |
| A Brush with the Past | p. 136 |
| The Strength of Sweet Grass | p. 138 |
| The Fiddler of America | p. 140 |
| American Dreamers | |
| With Hope in Hand | p. 144 |
| Trombone Shorty | p. 146 |
| Play Ball! | p. 148 |
| And Then the Curtain Fell | p. 150 |
| By the Billion | p. 153 |
| Flowers That Fly | p. 154 |
| A Gift of Wisdom | p. 157 |
| His Big Small World | p. 158 |
| The Call of the Wild | p. 160 |
| American Sights | |
| Snow Geese | p. 165 |
| The Valley of the Eagles | p. 166 |
| Giants in the Earth | p. 169 |
| In the Shallows | p. 170 |
| Windblown Seeds | p. 171 |
| Key Deer | p. 172 |
| Among the Swans | p. 174 |
| A World of Ice | p. 177 |
| The Unstoppable Sand | p. 178 |
| Bundles of Blooms | p. 180 |
| Stone New Yorkers | p. 182 |
| Brief Beauty | p. 185 |
| American Heirlooms | |
| Heavenly Windows, Hellish Hate | p. 188 |
| Hoppin' John | p. 190 |
| Let There Be Light | p. 192 |
| America's Sunrise | p. 194 |
| The Weight of Progress | p. 195 |
| The Devil's Rope | p. 196 |
| Ink in the Blood | p. 198 |
| Elephants of the Harbor | p. 201 |
| The Last of Jesse James | p. 202 |
| Wind Your Bobbin | p. 204 |
| Good Things Come in Big Boxes Too | p. 206 |
| The Towers Atop the Towers of New York | p. 208 |
| Scratched in the Landscape | p. 210 |
| American Ways | |
| Skipping Stones | p. 214 |
| The Ferry at Los Ebanos | p. 216 |
| The Blessing of the Fleet | p. 218 |
| A Rite of Spring | p. 220 |
| Miss Indian World | p. 221 |
| Of Horse and Man | p. 222 |
| Pilottown | p. 225 |
| The Canal | p. 226 |
| Dog Power | p. 228 |
| Little Fish, Big Buildings | p. 230 |
| Roll, Cross, and Flip | p. 231 |
| American Notions | |
| The Right Tool | p. 234 |
| All Downhill from Here | p. 236 |
| A Click Heard 'Round the World | p. 238 |
| Smoke Signals | p. 240 |
| And the Cares That Hung Around Me Through the Week | p. 243 |
| The Music of the Map | p. 244 |
| Seeing the Light | p. 246 |
| Squinting Scientists | p. 248 |
| Winter's Wild Rides | p. 250 |
| About Time | p. 252 |
| On Paper Wings | p. 253 |
| The Road Less Traveled | p. 254 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 256 |
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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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