CROSS COUNTRY

[Music] good evening ladies and gentlemen this is Jack Douglas everywhere USA was one of our America programs of several months ago a variety vacations show that gave us the chance to share with you many random places and things worth seeing throughout the 50 states and judging by your letters that particular half hour everywhere USA was one that you liked a great deal so tonight we present more variety in whirlwind fashion this is your armchair vacation and mine cross country our cross country tour starts in Georgia the flaming autumn colors of the leaves however are soon forgotten as we approach the flag at half-mast a temporary tribute to the passing of a national figure until 1864 this plot of ground was merely part of a railroad citing history remembers it as Andersonville Prison during the War Between the States Andersonville Prison was a stock aidid area of 30 or 40 acres and during 13 months of its existence as many as 30,000 prisoners were confined in the space of a few city blocks the death rate among the prisoners averaged 900 a month for 13 months the Union prison camps were not much better but Andersonville was the blackest spot of all Andersonville became a National Cemetery in July of 1865 when the government appropriated the land in one respect only Andersonville can be likened to Valley Forge no battle or even a skirmish was fought here yet thousands died at Andersonville as at Valley Forge without a shot being fired in battle the different states Iowa for example have erected memorials to their native sons who are buried here providence spring at the park relates to a true and inspiring story hungry and thirsty to the point of death the prisoners prayed for water and lo in the roaring Thunder of a rainstorm a spring of water gushed from the earth later when the story became known the spring was pipe and it flows to this day the unforgettable words of course--i from Lincoln's second inaugural address with charity to all and malice toward none one of the noblest and kindest thoughts ever expressed by mortal man a sunnier and a happier day finds us at the Juliette Gordon low house in Savannah Georgia a picturesque house owned and operated by the Girl Scouts of America and why the Girl Scouts well the answer is simply that Juliet lo founded the Girl Scout movement in the United States in 1912 this was an earlier painting of her shortly after her marriage in 1886 having no children of her own mrs. Lowe lavished her nieces with affection and gifts of sculpture they knew her as aunt Daisy and we met one of miss Lowe's nieces mrs. Daisy Gordon Lawrence this is the bus the Juliette Gordon low my aunt Daisy made of me when I was 12 years old when I was living in the country she came out and told me that she had made me a Girl Guide she's made made the first registered Girl Scout in the United States the low house in Savannah is the annual mecca for thousands of Girl Scouts and women who were once Girl Scouts and know the Juliet low story by heart and the story is one that both sexes can admire a vacationer soon learns that every building is not just like any other building this one is located in Luray Virginia and it's the entrance to of all things the Luray Caverns now hold on a second because not all caverns are alike either yes the cavern has the usual unusual rock formations and stalactites and stalagmites and an organ but have you ever seen an organ the uses reverberating stalactites to produce music here it is [Music] [Music] [Music] incidentally this nature-made chamber doesn't muffle the sound but instead gives it an almost stereophonic quality man and not nature created that civilized wonder known as New York New York and we're flying over the city and another man-made miracle a helicopter from the air at almost eye level the Statue of Liberty looks even bigger than we had expected and you know no matter how often you visit New York you discover new things worth saying for example I wonder how many New Yorkers have ever been in or even know about the museum of the city of New York on a hundred and third Street well inside you can see the original bedroom of john d rockefeller this bedroom was removed intact from the rockefeller home shown in this old print on West 54th Street the bedroom and it's furnishings large and small are important not only because they date back to Fifth Avenue's age of elegance but because they give an insight into the way of life of a man who in his time was the richest human being in the world see this flashback into the past at the Museum of the city of New York in a more whimsical mood let's saunter over to Central Park well apparently it's makeup time and we watched with mouthing curiosity as this young lovely a bright a fresh coat of lipstick and another saw to it that every strand of hair was just so because how can a gal play touch football without lipstick and a comb touch football yes and they play it for keeps the Broadway show girls versus the Playboy Bunnies [Music] she set off her crying out loud doesn't a guy get any blocking around here anyway for crying out loud or something like that all right the showgirls have the ball first and ten and listen block will you a bit of razzle-dazzle a pass play nice catch but there's no run back wait a minute pow-pow-pow she didn't touch me she practically tore me to pieces how about it ref but the ref is deaf or is he being bribed all right time out for repairs or is she plotting strategy the ref signals third down and what a sensational play an illegal forward pass which is adroitly caught by the ref another timeout and meanwhile the poor reps are fighting for their lives however you'll notice they're not fighting too hard because after all jobs like this don't grow on trees on our first visit to Boston we overlooked old Faneuil Hall an omission that was not intentional the Hall was gifted to the city by one Peter Faneuil and in respect to his wishes the street floor has remained a marketplace the second floor is a meeting house and the top floor houses the ancient and honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts and its famous collections of weapons here a pistol once owned by John Wilkes Booth next to hatchet once owned by George Washington and a foreign memento the hoof of a horse charger a horse from the charge of the Light Brigade at balaclava and this painting at Faneuil Hall is most unusual now fewer to inspect this painting closely the retreat from Bunker Hill you would notice that all of the faces are one and the same and no one knows why the painter Dennis Carter executed the work in this manner not many educational institutions qualify as tourist attractions but the school founded by John Harvard is certainly an exception and so is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology better known by its initial MIT not as well known but equally as interesting as the others is the Holy Cross Greek Orthodox theological school seemingly cut off from the outside world the school reminded us with its Byzantine architecture and mosaics but in America and especially in Boston the old world is not unwelcome in the new and as the Greek Holy Cross fire sang for our cameras this thought ran through my mind how God must love America to have given it as much as he has [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] when you're in Philadelphia go beyond the city limits 10 20 and even 30 miles and if you do you'll discover places like Howard's barn Howard's is a sort of open-air antique shop with an accent on Americana bric-a-brac anyway Susan Smith one of our producers was raised in the near Philadelphia so we gave her the assignment of browsing about the barnyard Suzy is a very conscientious girl and she looked at everything and looked and looked and looked and when she came back home we asked her well did you buy anything and she said no and why not well she said everything looked so old that's the way it is when you're in your 20s the town of New Hope just 30 miles northeast of Philadelphia's City Hall is a typical inland resort town it doesn't have access to the sea but it does have other interesting attractions among them a narrow canal which like the old Chesapeake and Ohio uses mules to pull commercial barges but New Hope's number one claim to fame is the renowned Bucks County Playhouse one of the most respected summer theatres in the world the vacation season finds many Broadway and Hollywood stars appearing in person at the Playhouse well they certainly picked the romantic spot for the theater overlooking the waterfall and the creek known as Inghams [Music] Greenfield Village in Dearborn Michigan is worth a visit any time of the year but in early September the Henry Ford Museum offers an added treat at Greenfield a festival of old carts this unusual festival brings together virtually every known make and model of antique cars not only America but many foreign countries as well and here are just a handful of nostalgic Dazzlers on review the camera bugs really clicked away when they unloaded this 1902 pen hard and those plastic covers were used to protect the brass headlamps while the car was in transit the horn tooting signifies that the drivers are ready the band strikes up the tunes and the grand parade is underway [Music] you know this was one of the strangest crowds we've ever seen they watched these antique buggies with a kind of reverence that we would display in a church [Music] the special events were next and the mood changed completely this contest required the participants to wrap up jump aboard then burst balloons on the way to the finish line this attractive miss is waiting to award the blue ribbon to the winner now actually we didn't see the winner because the next event was already underway jump out put on your shoes jump back in and now watch this well it happens and you can see it at Greenfield Village in early September throughout the western states from the Black Hills of South Dakota to the Texas Panhandle dude ranches such as the 40 guest ranch 24 miles from Rapid City are as numerous as pines and a ponderosa forest and each year a million or more people spend every precious minute of their two weeks vacation at a new ranch or a working ranch such as the forty now there must be a reason so we ask ourselves why is it the chance to meet live with and become friends with people from all parts of the country who are formerly strangers to each other perhaps perhaps it's the sight of lush green meadows and tall trees and the poetic murmur of meandering Brooks perhaps perhaps it's an identification with things we've seen on television and in the movies a ride on the old stagecoach are eggs and bacon and the sizzling pan well perhaps each to his own but I think there is something very basic about the appeal of a Western dude ranch I think it's purely and simply a revolt against too much civilization the pioneer days in America may have ended half a century ago but the pioneer spirit will be with us as long as we have places like 40 in the heart of the Dakotas the very next night we were at the Barbary Coast Club important Oregon one of the cleanest and nicest gay nineties plugs I've ever seen and this photo player really goes away back [Music] while we were here at the Barbary Coast everyone kept asking have you seen our babies at the zoo no we hadn't but we saw them the following morning meet packie and me to the first elephants born in captivity in America the birth of these mammals generated tremendous interest throughout the world and Oregonians are justifiably proud of Takia me too and there's ooh regarded as one of the finest zoos on earth there are many other attractions of the Portland Zoo which we'll save for our subsequent visit however look closely at this picture and you'll see two other baby elephants Dino and Hanako yes they were also born in captivity at the zoo about a year after and me too from Portland we traveled south to San Francisco to keep a promise to our youngsters the Steinhart aquarium and what an aquarium this is now from these close-ups it's impossible to visualize the size and the complexity of the overall aquarium it has more tanks of all sizes and more sections and subdivisions than a department store has counters and needless to say its collection of sea life and water reptiles could only be cataloged in a thick book here are just a few of the thousands of fascinating creatures at the superb aquarium we left San Francisco via the Golden Gate Bridge the bridge they said couldn't be built but as we know it's one of the longest man-made spans in the world Tom McHugh that brilliant cameraman of ours stayed behind to photograph these remarkable films of the Golden Gate as the hour approaches sundown and the fog rolls in from the sea I've seen this magnificent bridge a thousand times but never like this [Music] [Applause] and that once you've seen Hawaii you haven't seen enough [Music] here now is Honolulu's east-west Center at the University of Hawaii the center was established in 1960 by the government and the university to promote mutual understanding between the peoples of Asia the Pacific and the USA and during their visit there were more than 500 students enrolled from 24 different countries mostly from Asia and the Pacific the architecture is certainly impressive and so is the landscaping especially this Japanese garden and fish pond what a spot this is for daydreaming well at the home of mrs. H Alexander Walker we were treated to a tour of a floral garden that equals NE in Honolulu now to reach the gardens you walk across a lush green lawn roughly the size of two polo fields mrs. Walker has numerous gardens but her favorite is the arcade section now I can't even begin to pronounce the names of these orchids but perhaps you'll recognize most of them [Music] dear mrs. Walker's daughter ginger takes us to the blue garden where the blue flowers predominate and later at the Hawaiian Village flower shop the owner mrs. Francis Thompson gave us a demonstration on the arranging and care of cut Hawaiian flowers I have just completed making a loop by folding my Tea Leaf and using it as a brace for this Laura flower this arrangement I'm working on now is called a Hawaiian bouquet it's made up of our red ginger and cerium and the bird of paradise the three flowers have bloomed 12 months a year and represents our Hawaiian colors that's our steak color and also taken from the old feather capes and for representing royalty the most important thing for you to remember is that your flowers die from the stem up when your aunt areum's turns black of the bottom clip 1/2 inch or so off soak their heads upside down in a tub of water you can soak from one hour to two up to four hours it doesn't hurt them it only adds to their life in a week or so pull them out cut some more and then you can keep them going as much as five weeks the bird of paradise is one of our most popular flowers it can have its head soaked in water for 20 minutes or so and they don't open by themselves so you have to open the sheath and lift the flowers out and in that way you can enjoy all the blooms inside the sheath in that way you can enjoy twelve months of the year our Island flowers thank you mrs. Thompson this shuttle boat at Pearl Harbor has been called the saddest shuttle boat in America it carries its passengers to the USS Arizona Memorial the new memorial was dedicated in 1962 it is a semi enclosed bridge that spans the hull of the USS Arizona the bridge rests on two concrete girders but does not touch the rusting remains of the proud battleship the tomb of more than 1,000 officers and men who went down with her ship on that fateful 7th of December 1941 and in memory of those gallant men the United States Navy has never decommissioned the Arizona it is still listed on the maybe charts as a part of the Pacific Fleet a visit to this memorial is an emotional experience almost without parallel it is not easy as you look about you to hold back the tears first tears of sorrow then anger but finally of intense pride for Old Glory still flies above the Arizona and it'll still be there when you make your pilgrimage to Pearl Harbor on your journey cross-country [Music] ladies and gentlemen many of you have been very kind in your compliments on the colorful artwork we use to symbolize each of our weekly armchair occasions now in television we call these episode titles and ours are designed by mr. Chris Ortega of Los Angeles California we supply mr. Ortega with the title of each program and a rough idea of what each show is about he then takes over and delivers to us the completed illustration such as these that I've been showing now until next