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The Dusters
Relive the first years of hockey in Binghamton and celebrate the
team that won the heart of our community. Produced by Brian Frey.
DVD $19.95 |
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Glenn Curtiss: The Forgotten Eagle
The Forgotten Eagle highlights the life of Southern Tier native,
Glenn Hammond Curtiss. This is the first documentary ever produced
on one of aviation's key founding fathers. DVD
$19.95
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Cornell: Birth of the American University
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Produced by Brian Frey. Winner of a NYSBA award. The story
of Ezra Cornell, A. D. White, and the founding of
Cornell. DVD $19.95
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Binghamton: Building the Parlor City
Produced by Brian Frey. The story of Binghamton's beginnings, from
the time of Native Americans through the industrial age and into
the 1960's.
DVD $19.95 |
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The Flood of '35
Produced by Brian Frey. Winner of two NYS Emmy
awards and a NYS
Broadcasters' award.
On Sunday evening July 7, 1935 the skies north of the Southern Tier
opened up, dumping more than 11 inches of rain in some areas and
inundating the rivers, lakes and streams through out the valley.
The terrible chain of events that followed would devastate small
towns and cities alike, destroying hundreds of homes and property
and claiming more than 50 lives. It would become the worst natural
disaster in the history of the Southern Tier.
DVD $19.95 |
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We Don't Say Goodbye: Southern Tier People
Remember the Holocaust
Produced by Bill Jaker. Features "Shoah Foundation" videos of local
holocaust survivors' stories. This program is available only as a
thank you gift when you become
a member supporting WSKG at the $95 level (DVD) or $65 level
(VHS). Mention in the "comment" field that you want the "We Don't
Say Goodbye"
DVD $19.95 |
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Watkins Glen: The Street Years
(2002)
Produced by Brian Frey. This is the story of the first five years
of racing at Watkins Glen, when the cars raced through the streets
of the village. Told through personal accounts from the race's
founder, the drivers and residents of Watkins Glen, utilizing
dozens of archival photographs and newsreel footage.
DVD $19.95 |
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"Helmira"
1864-1865 : The Andersonville of the
North"
Produced by Bill Jaker. The program focuses on the controversial
Elmira, New York Civil War Prison Camp, where over 3,000
Confederate prisoners died of disease and starvation from
1864-1865. "HELMIRA" (a nickname bestowed by prisoners) looks back
at the personal and political attitudes that led to much of the
controversy over the camp, as well as how the city of Elmira dealt
with this chapter in its history. Much of the story is told in
pictures and accounts preserved from the 1860s, as well as comments
from local historians and descendants of those who played a role in
the life of the prison camp and the community.
VHS $19.95
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The
Southern Tier Memory Store I
Offering a nostalgic look at the Southern Tier of New York's
landmarks and institutions and how they have changed or simply "are
no more." Included in program #1 are the Triplets baseball team,
the Lackawanna Train Station, Ithaca's Mutt Dog Parade of the
1930s, the Triple Cities-area Pig Stand restaurants and WNBF-TV
(the original Channel 12).
(set of all three Memory Stores on VHS $45);
DVD $19.95
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The
Southern Tier Memory Store II
A series of remembrances of extraordinary events and
everyday life in the Southern Tier of New York featuring: Elmira's
Eldridge Park, once called "the playground of he Southern Tier";
Lackawanna Railroad Trains on the Ithaca-Owego line that negotiated
the hills via an unusual double switchback; more than 1,000 people
paddling home-made rafts 11 miles down the Susquehanna River in the
Owego to Nichols raft race; and Rothschild's department store in
Ithaca.
(set of all three Memory Stores on VHS
$45); DVD
$19.95
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The
Southern Tier Memory Store
III
Preserves in word and image an abundance of objects and events. In
the third program in the eries: "46-Quart Cans and some
Passengers"- the milk trains; "The Standard Herbal Remedies"- Dr.
Kilmer's Swamp Root and other medicinal products; "Hi, Sweety"- Mr.
Willoby and Igy; and "Another Side of the Tracks"- Oneonta's
Delaware and Hudson Railroad's Susquehanna Division. (set of all
three Memory Stores on VHS $45);
DVD $19.95
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Link: The Quiet Genius
Produced by Brian Frey. From theatre organs to flight trainers
to undersea exploration, Edwin A. Link was an inventor and
entrepreneur like nobody else.
DVD $19.95 |
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Our Rocks & Rolling Hills
Produced by Bill Jaker. Earth scientists guide us from the
Devonian Period through the Ice Age and the time of the mastodons
to the relatively recent arrival of humans 12,000 years ago... in
what is today the Southern Tier of New York State. DVD
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Water's Way
Produced by Tom Milligan. Water's Way is an exploration of the
metaphysical side of water: changeless and ever-changing, fragile
and powerful, scarce in its abundance, nuanced in its motion,
dissolving everything even as it creates everything. Combining
images captured from throughout the WSKG viewing area with spoken
word and music from classical to Celtic to traditional American,
Water's Way evokes the very spirit of water. VHS
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The Crystal City
Produced by Tom Milligan. Explores the art glass tradition in
Corning, New York, "arguably the glass capital of the world."
The Crystal City features numerous images from displays at the
Corning Museum of Glass, focusing particularly on its art history
collection. There's also a look behind the scenes at the making of
Steuben Glass and the Museum's Hot Glass Stage.
VHS $19.95 |
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Cayutaville
Co-produced by Diana Crone Frank and WSKG. The film focuses
on two extended families, the Chapmans and Soules in Cayutaville,
New York. The viewer comess to understand the emotional complexity
of life in this remote hamlet, where faith is challenged, hard work
is capriciously rewarded and a community can and does turn against
itself.
VHS$19.95
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Like
Anybody Else
Produced by Gary Reinbolt. The program explores what the term
"learning disabilities" has meant to four families and how they
successfully dealt with problems encountered within both family and
society.
VHS $19.95 |
