SCREENtime, TV By, For and About the Heartland, is a weekly series on KCPT Thursday nights at 8 p.m. Each week KCPT brings you programs with “local flavor” — it might be about the history of the region, or an issue facing it, a profile of an artist or musical performer, or even a showcase for one of the people making high quality independent films around here.
Screentime airs on KCPT most Thursdays at 9 p.m. Check listings for full schedule information.
Between 1854 and 1929, an estimated 200,000 orphaned, abandoned and runaway children, primarily from industrialized cities in the East, boarded trains bound for Midwestern farming communities in search of a better life. Experts consider this period of mass relocation, often referred to as the Orphan Train Era, as the precursor to the modern foster care system. PLACING OUT: THE ORPHAN TRAINS bring this seldom-heard story to the forefront. The hopeful, sad and frequently poignant reminiscences from surviving riders, their descendants, historians and local officials put a human face on the Orphan Train Era.
Watch SCREENtime Thursday, August 23, 2012 at 8pm.
Produced by Smoky Hills Public Television in Bunker Hill, Kansas.
Tune to KCPT Thursday, July 28, 2011 at 8:30pm for “Return to PrairyErth.” The documentary celebrates William Least-Heat Moon’s 1991 best-seller “PrairyErth: A Deep Map,” which explores the stories, people and landscape of Chase County, Kansas. Decades after its publication, director John O’Hara returns with Heat-Moon to the Flint Hills to reconnect with the land and residents of Chase County.
Tune into KCPT July 14, 2011 at 9pm for a look back at the immigrant experience that brought so many Germans from Russia into the upper Midwest in the latter part of the 19th century. It’s All Earth and Sky from Prairie Public Broadcasting gets its name from the reaction of one German-Russian immigrant when she arrived on the plains of the Midwest.
Tune into KCPT June 30, 2011 at 8:30pm for a look at what the Kansas City sound is all about. Kansas City Jazz & Blues: Past, Present and Future recognizes past music greats as well as Kansas City’s current crop of musical talent.
Director Sue Vicory spent spent three years chasing down everyone from Bobby Watson and Myra Taylor to David Basse, Marilyn Maye and Chuck Haddix to talk about and illustrate Kansas City’s musical tradition.
