WTVP partners with Peoria Riverfront Museum and Peoria Public Library to present… Free Sneak Preview of Ken Burns’ THE DUST BOWL
Join WTVP Monday, November 12th at 6:30pm for a free
preview of acclaimed filmmaker Ken Burns’ latest American epic THE DUST BOWL.
Join WTVP Monday, November 12 at 6:30 p.m. for a free preview of acclaimed filmmaker Ken Burns’ latest American
epic THE DUST BOWL. The 40-minute preview will be shown in stunning high definition in the Giant Screen Theater
at the newly-opened Peoria Riverfront Museum. A special presentation by Dr. Amy Scott of the Bradley University
History Department will immediately follow the screening.
Major sponsorship for the event comes from Sid Paul Ruckriegel / SIDAL, Inc. / Papa John's Pizza.
The event is free and open to the public. Seating is limited to 200.
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THE DUST BOWL, chronicles the environmental catastrophe that, throughout the 1930s,
destroyed the farmlands of the Great Plains, turned prairies into deserts and unleashed a pattern of massive,
deadly dust storms that for many seemed to herald the end of the world. It was the worst manmade ecological
disaster in American history—and a period everyone seems to familiar with, but no one seems to know about. That
all changes with THE DUST BOWL. The new two-part, four-hour documentary by Ken Burns and long-time collaborator
Dayton Duncan, premieres Sunday-Monday, November 18-19, from 7:00-9:00 p.m. on WTVP-HD.
