Ken Burns

Watching history together: Goffstown event pairs Ken Burns film on the Revolution with community dialogue

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Ringing in the country’s 250th anniversary means connecting the dots between our past and present. To that end, Goffstown Public Library has received support from New Hampshire Humanities to participate in US@250: Big Watch, a statewide series of community events based around a shared “watch” and discussion of a segment of THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, a new film directed by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein and David Schmidt.

Ken Burns’ Dec. 4 stop at The Colonial Theatre is sold out but we picked his brain about his new ‘American Revolution’ series

read more…: Ken Burns’ Dec. 4 stop at The Colonial Theatre is sold out but we picked his brain about his new ‘American Revolution’ series

If you’ve grown up in public schools, or attended a history class in college since the ‘90s, chances are that you’ve seen a documentary made by Ken Burns. The same can be said if you’ve ever tuned into your local PBS affiliate, which has been the central outlet for the Brooklyn, New York, native and current Walpole resident since his documentary on The Civil War first came out in 1990.

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