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From: Patrice Miller <>
Subject: [GV] Germans from Russia documentaries air in March on PBS stations
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 20:25:53 -0800


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Patrice Miller
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The mew documentary, "Prairie Crosses, Prairie Voices: Iron Crosses of
the Great Plains" and the other Germans from Russia documentaries,
appears on the following PBS stations:

KDCK, KOOK, KSWK, Hays, western Kansas area
Tuesday, 18 February 2003 - 7 pm - "Prairie Crosses, Prairie Voices"

Prairie Public Television
Saturday, 1 March 2003 - 12 noon (CST) - "Schmeckfest: Food Traditions
of the Germans from Russia"

Saturday, 8 March 2003 - 9:30 am (CST) - "Schmeckfest: Food Tradtions of
the Germans from Russia"

Tuesday, 11 March 2003 - 7 pm (CST) - "Prairie Crosses, Prairie Voices"

Tuesday, 11 March 2003 - 8:30 pm - "Germans from Russia: Children of the
Steppe, Children of the Prairie"

South Dakota Public Television
Sunday, 30 March 2003 - 2 pm (CST) - "Prairie Crosses, Prairie Voices"

"Prairie Crosses" aired on KENW PBS station, Albuquerque/Santa Fe,
New Mexico on 2 February 2003 at 1 pm.

Note: Persons will need to contact their local PBS station directly
regarding the local broadcast schedule for any of the above Germans from
Russia. If the documentaries are not scheduled, encourage the local PBS
station program manager and staff to contact Bob Dambach, director of
programming and productions, Prairie Public Television, Fargo, ND about
broadcasting these programs: 1-800-359-6900.
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MEDIA RELEASE
January 15, 2003

"It's Happening at State"
Office of University Relations
North Dakota State University, Fargo

"Prairie Crosses" documentary wins national awards --
Prairie Public Television's documentary

Prairie Public Television's documentary "Prairie Crosses, Prairie
Voices: Iron Crosses of the Great Plains" has been honored with two
prestigious "2002 Communicator Awards." The national recognition
includes
the "Crystal Award of Excellence" in the broadcast television
documentary
category and an "Award of Distinction" in the creativity/videography
category.

Timothy J. Kloberdanz, associate professor of sociology and
anthropology,
wrote and narrated the documentary. The program is the third in a
series
of collaborations between executive co-producers Bob Dambach, PPTV,
and
Michael Miller, NDSU Libraries bibliographer.

The "Communicators Awards" recognition is an international
competition
that recognizes outstanding work in communications. There were 3,242
entries from 48 states, the District of Columbia and nine other
countries
in video competition.

The program follows the history of traditional iron cemetery grave
markers
as the art form migrated from Germany to Russia and Ukraine and
eventually
to the Great Plains of the Dakotas, Kansas and Canada.

Major funding for the documentary was provided by the North Dakota
Humanities Council, NDSU Libraries, the North Dakota Council on the
Arts,
which receives funding from the state legislature and the National
Endowment for the Arts, and the members of Prairie Public
Broadcasting. The program has been distributed to PBS stations
across the
nation.
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"Prairie Crosses, Prairie Voices: Iron Crosses of the Great Plains"

Videotape documentary, a co-production of Prairie Public Television
and
the North Dakota State University Libraries, Fargo, North Dakota,
2002,
60 minutes.

Dr. Timothy J. Kloberdanz, Writer and Narrator

"The wrought iron grave crosses of the German-Russians-with their
unbroken
hearts of metal, brightly painted stars, endless circles,
banner-waving
angels, exquisitely formed lilies, and rose blossoms that rust but
never
wilt-evoke the defiant spirit of their mortal makers."

--- Dr. Timothy J. Kloberdanz

"Iron Crosses" stand as sentinels on the prairie landscape, framed
by huge
expanses of grass and sky. Though they stand silent, behind each one
is a
story.

"Prairie Crosses, Prairie Voices" evokes these stories-memories of
the
Germans from Russia, a frugal and tenacious people whose blacksmiths
used
wagon-wheel rims and scrap metal to fashion markers for the graves
of the
dead.

"Prairie Crosses, Prairie Voices" follows the traditional iron art
form
that crossed continents and oceans and survived famine and war-to be
reborn on the Great Plains in Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota,
Montana,
South Dakota, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, Manitoba and
Saskatchewan.

Contains bonus video in addition to the 60-minute documentary.

For more information about the Germans from Russia videotape
documentaries, consult the following websites:

Prairie Public Broadcasting, Inc., Fargo, North Dakota:
http://www.prairiepublic.org

Germans from Russia Heritage Collection, North Dakota State
University
Libraries, Fargo, North Dakota at the Media section, Video
Documentary and
Other Projects: http://www.lib.ndsu.nodak.edu/grhc
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Order Form
"Prairie Crosses, Prairie Voices"

The price of "Prairie Crosses, Prairie Voices" is $25 for each
videotape
plus postage and handling ($4 for shipping in the U.S. for each
videotape; $5 for shipping to Canada for each videotape; and $8 for
shipping via air mail outside the U.S. and Canada for each
videotape). All
videotape orders must be in U.S. dollars. Check or money order
payable to
NDSU Library.

Videotape orders to Europe and other foreign countries will be in
the PAL
video format. Cost for PAL videotape is $35 each plus $8 air mail
postage. Payment must be made only with International Money Order.

Name

Address

City State/Province ZIP/Postal Code

Daytime phone number E-mail

Number of videotapes ordered

Total enclosed $

Mail to:
Germans from Russia Heritage Collection
Prairie Crosses Videotape
NDSU Libraries
PO Box 5599
Fargo, ND 58105-5599 USA

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