On the Road With Charles Kuralt Episode Guide

Episode Guide

• Afton, Va./North Carolina/Idaho.

  The cookie lady; whistlers convention; Basque shepherds.

• Ala./Kan/Ind.

  Tuskegee Institute; steam whistles at a 'tootenanny'; mule trader; blind skiers; auctioneer.

• Alaska/Ark.

  Alaskan homesteaders; World Horseshoe Championships; barber-pole factory; Louisiana Purchase.

• Alaska; Pa./Ohio/Calif./Tenn.

  Totem poles; rainfall; Johnny Appleseed; Tennessee history.

• Alaska/Utah/Kansas

  Alaska's Russian past; sheep-shearing; long-lived light bulb; Carry Nation; medicine show.

• Arizona/Montana/New Mexico

  Stewart Udall; elderly teacher; gold prospector; Albuquerque (N.M.) Balloon Festival.

• Ark./Ill./Texas/Neb.

  Self-taught scholar; coffee shop; wheat harvesters; Cadillac sculpture; Nebraska farms.

• Beaufort, N.C./ Holtville Way, Calif./Ellis Island

  Singing North Carolina fishermen; road through the desert; Ellis Island.

• Bell Ringers/Unicycle School/National Anthem

  Handbell choir; teacher presents a unique challenge; campaign to change the national anthem; mountaintops.

• Bubble Blower/Becoming a US Citizen

  Becoming a citizen; bubble artist; junk-mail fuel; woodsman.

• Calif./Mass./Conn.

  Jogging 104-year-old waiter; cymbals; one-horse open sleigh; California's Mission Trail; Kentucky dialect.

• Calif./Pa./Ala./Texas

  California's Napa Valley; burglary target; barter festival; directing traffic; cowboys.

• California/New York/New Orleans/Memphis, Tenn./Va.

  Dominoes; advertising; wooden-boat builder; gardener.

• Chesapeake Bay; Ill.; Calif.; S.C.

  Toy maker; skipjack race; Chicago deli; memorial to a steam-engineer; Charleston, S.C.

• Chesapeake/N.D./Philadelphia

  North Dakota farmers; woman talks to Canada geese; 17th-century Spanish mission; Independence Hall.

• Chicago/Nev./Delaware River

  Jump-rope factory; Chicago firehouse; hood ornaments; houses made of bottles.

• Conn./Idaho/New England

  Poultry-shop owner fights corporate America; Salmon River; woodpiles.

• Fla./Calif./Mont./Okla.

  Oyster-shucking champion; flotsam art; mustangs; trailer rally; Sequoyah's alphabet.

• Fort Wort/Florida/Washington D.C/ New York

  Texas railway conductor; worm-grunting; pachyderms; baseball in 1941.

• Ga./Ind./N.M.

  Moonshining; small-town virtues; pet falcon.

• Georgia

  Sherman's march; Mississippi nightclub; blacksmiths; bathroom-scale tester.

• Germany/Ind./Mo.

  Family of photojournalists; youthful enthusiasm; toy soldiers; family doctor.

• Grand Rapids, Mich.; Sharon, Pa.; Buffalo, S.C.

  Champion shoe salesman; old-fashioned elixirs; 80-year-old cook; unique mailboxes.

• Ill./Mich.

  Grandfather Mountain Cloggers; 80-year-old pilot; tombstone; Ford and mass production.

• Ill./Texas/Maine

  Pistol-packing mayor; bullfighting barber; Allegheny orchestra; carousel horses; Maine schooners.

• Ill./Vt./Texas/Ind./Mont.

  Wild mushrooms; covered bridges; turkey festival; kite maker; Little Bighorn.

• Ill.; W. Va.; Ariz.; Ark.

  Gas-station poet; chewing tobacco; Navajo trading post; toy fair; janitor.

• Illinois/California/Vermont

  Lincoln's last trip; backyard bird sanctuary; maple syrup; driver Alice Ramsey; travelers' aide.

• Inventions/Hot Dog Thrower/Gap Creek

  Lillehammer, Norway; hot-dogging attorney; donkey-cart settler.

• Iowa/Calif./R.I.

  Iowa yacht builder; San Francisco fog; saw player; religious diversity in Rhode Island.

• Kan./Ore./Mich./Va.

  Barbed wire; fiddle maker; parking meter; National Voice Library; Monticello.

• Kentucky/Maine/South Carolina.

  Croquet-playing tobacco farmer; private railway car; thumb-twiddler; circus bandmaster.

• Ky./Tenn./Minn.

  Horse trader; mule-riding letter carrier; monarch butterfly migration.

• Madisonville, Ky./Bremen, Ohio

  Steam engine; toothpick creations; weather survey.

• Maine/Nev./Pa./Ky.

  Maine boat builders; Tubtubatl Indians; brandy-snifter music; dogwoods; Wilderness Road.

• Mass./Minn./Ill./Wis./Ariz.

  Yankee voices; 79-year-old road builder; ephemeral art; nuns.

• Md./Ill./Alaska/Fla./Ore.

  The National Road; Alaskan bald eagles; sand castles; raft race; Columbia River.

• Md./Kan./Neb.

  Chesapeake-Ohio Canal; hot-pepper eating contest; springtime; sod houses; gold-leaf signs.

• Md./La./N.C./Calif./Iowa

  Dowsing; one-room school; 93-year-old brickmaker; cable cars; Iowa farms.

• Mich./N.M./Alaska/Neb./Hawaii

  Coffee club; storm trackers; air rescue; edible weeds; Hawaiian history.

• Mich./N.M./S.C./Pa./Kan.

  Mackinaw Open, a stone-skipping contest; atomic bomb test-site; pothole day; champion cheerleaders; still life.

• Minn./Mississippi River/Utah

  Minnesota woodsman; old cemeteries; steam calliope; Huck Finn's viewpoint; Brigham Young.

• Minn./New York City/Miami/France/Germany

  Swedish traditions in Minnesota; photographer Pat York; blimps; French monument.

• Minn./Va./Del./Mo.

  Giant ball of twine; old-time fiddlers contest; the du Ponts; ferries; corncob pipes.

• Miss./Wis./Ohio/N.C.

  Family reunion; populist Robert M. LaFollette; Januarius MacGagan, liberator of Bulgaria; off-center locomotive.

• Miss./Wis./Ohio/Penn.

  Alex and Mary Chandler began their lives as sharecroppers.

• Mont./Wis./Wyo.

  Female railroad engineer; small-town Fourth of July; rib-bone player; Oregon Trail.

• N.C./Iowa/Ky./Wash.

  North Carolina farmers; 40-horse hitch; old-time religion; pioneer's grave.

• N.C./Minn./Colo./Ohio

  British graves; recipe for longevity; birch canoes; pumpkins; historic inn.

• N.C./Ohio River/La./Colo.

  The Rev. Pauli Murray; Delta Queen; fruit vendor; silver miners.

• N.C./W.Va.

  A Russian's gratitude; bean-shooter man; John Brown and Harpers Ferry.

• N.D./Neb.

  Theodore Roosevelt and the Badlands; World War II train-station canteen; 'gandy dancers.'

• N.H./Texas

  Balloons; oyster harvest; horn collection; Portsmouth, N.H.

• N.H./Va./Pa./Alaska/Manhattan

  Hand-mowing contest; the Santa Special; mushroom harvest; Manhattan's Lower East Side.

• N.H./Vt./Texas

  Pingpong champion; town meetings; Spanish-American War veterans; Wabash Cannonball.

• N.Y./Norway/N.C.

  New York Indian reservation; Norwegian countryside; elderly jailer.

• Nashua, N.H./Albertville, France/Stone Farm, Ky.

  Cowbell collector; maintaining an Olympic ice rink; gas stations; Secretariat.

• Neb./Fla./Pa.

  Arbor Day; Florida's history; copper kettles; shelling on Sanibel Island; weekly newspaper editor.

• Nev./Ariz/Wis./Ark./Md.

  Nevada silver; freshman wilderness-survival course; tubing; Arkansas diamonds; 300-year-old gristmill.

• Nev./Fla./Mississippi River

  Drive-in restaurant; community park; geese; bagpipe band; Mississippi River.

• New Mexico/South Carolina

  Clotheslines; New Mexico ranchers; unique mailboxes; midwife Maude Callen.

• New Orleans/Kan./Okla./Maine

  Steam-powered sawmill; Battle of New Orleans; windmills; revitalized town.

• New York/Bristol, Va./ Texas.

  Gold prospector; the McGuffey Reader; ponies; ice-cream social.

• New York/Ill./Ohio/S.D.

  Bike messenger; handmade lace; cicada invasion; Deadwood, S.D.

• Oil Baron/Lighthouses/Springfield, Ore.

  Oil baron; baubles found in an Oregon sewer; manned lighthouse.

• On the Fourth of July
• On the Fourth of July
• Ore./N.C./Calif./Fla./N.H.

  Coast Guard; North Carolina's coast; mule trains; student circus; autumn foliage.

• Oregon/Nebraska/Louisiana

  All-night library; Cajun country; small-town newspaper editor.

• Pa./Mo./Colo./Alaska.

  Hex signs; Mark Twain's home; wood-shop airplane; lone Christmas tree; living on the edge of a glacier.

• R.I./Conn./Blue Ridge Mountains

  Blue Ridge Mountains; door-and-window collection; witch hazel; folk-song collector.

• Seattle/Colo./St. Petersburg/Conn.

  Former convicts serve as parole officers; bell tower; rodeo; home of Noah Webster.

• South Carolina; San Francisco; Belmont, N.C.

  Ginger ale; builders of the Golden Gate bridge; bicycle man.

• Torchbearers/Skywatchers

  The 1984 Olympic flame; watching the sky; 160-room house; Alabama coon dogs.

• Vt./Utah/Mass./Slovenia

  Fourth of July birthdays; pioneer gravesite; building a pipe organ; Kuralt's Slovene roots.

• W.Va. Impresario/Cannon Player/Steeplejacks

  Cultural events in West Virginia; cannons; family of steeplejacks.

• Woody Guthrie/Norway's Liquor/Wildflowers

  Folk singer Woody Guthrie; Wyoming wildflowers; Norwegian liquor exports.

• Wyo./Kan./Wash./Calif.

  Hostile highway; Kansas farming, fishing; sponge harvest; bishop's simple life; Volkswagens.