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Norm & Company: Ted Curtis On-Demand

Edward “Ted” Curtis, founder of Corn Hill Navigation, the non-profit company that operates Sam Patch and Mary Jemison, shares memories of growing up on East Avenue, working as a spy for the CIA, how his grandmother saved Cobs Hill Park with help from her friend George Eastman, and how he started Corn Hill Navigation.

Mr. Curtis chaired WXXI’s Board of Trustees in 1970, and has a long history of public service, including serving as interim City Manager. He has been instrumental in developing Rochester’s waterways, and in 2011 the City of Rochester named the point of land where the Genesee River and the Erie Canal meet – Curtis Point.

Norm & Company is hosted by WXXI President Norm Silverstein, who speaks with long-time Rochesterians as they recount fascinating stories about their lives in the community.

Space Education Resources: (K-12)

WXXI Education has pulled together educational support resources related to learning about Space for K-12.

Connect to PBS LearningMedia for Space Resource Collections & Solar Eclipse Resources

Eclipse Explainer: During the eclipse, the moon passes in front of the sun, until it covers the sun's light. This makes a shadow on the earth, and the eclipse can only be seen in the places where the shadow falls.

PBS KIDS Solar Eclipse Digital Kit for PreK-2nd grade (from WXXI Education)

Solar Eclipse Games and Activities from NYS Libraries

NASA Solar Eclipse Site

Bringing the Universe to America's Classrooms

Space Collection: Resources organized by grade levels. (K-2) (3-5) (6-8) & (9-12) Note particularly the Solar Eclipses Lessons & Interactives for 6-8 and 9-12 Bringing the Universe to America’s Classrooms: Engage K–12 students with phenomena and science practices using this collection of supplementary digital media resources created by GBH in collaboration with NASA. The resources align with key NGSS Earth, space, and physical science disciplinary core ideas. To ensure that science content is accessible for all students, supports are included for students with disabilities or who are English learners; many resources have Spanish translations.

Eclipses: CrashCourse

Space Time: A PBS LearningMedia Collection for 6-12

Space Time PBS LearningMedia Collection: Join astrophysicist Matt O’Dowd on a journey through the deepest, darkest, coolest corners of the universe. Math, physics, and astronomy can’t get much bigger than this.

On the acclaimed PBS Digital Studios series Space Time, Matt explores the outer reaches of space, the craziness of astrophysics, the possibilities of sci-fi, and anything else you can think of beyond Planet Earth. Visit the series home on YouTube for new weekly episodes and challenges that prompt your classroom to think differently about physics and push the rules of space and time to the limit.

NOVA: The Great American Eclipse

Scientists prepare new experiments to study the solar eclipse. Length: 60 Minutes

See the Great American Eclipse Video (From 2017)

Norm & Company: Tom Judson On-Demand

Tom Judson, Chairman and CEO of The Pike Company joins WXXI President & CEO Norm Silverstein on this episode of Norm & Company, where long-time Rochesterians recount fascinating stories about their lives in our community. Tom shares what it was like growing up in Brighton, how he got started in the family business, and what it’s like to have built one of the most successful construction firms in New York State.

While attending Yale for undergrad and then Cornell for his MBA, during his summer breaks Tom worked as a laborer and carpenter apprentice for John B. Pike Son, Inc, a general contracting company founded by his grandfather in 1873. As soon as he earned his MBA, he began working for the company full-time, moving up the ranks and was named President in 1975. In 1985 he established The Pike Company.

Norm & Company: George W. Hamlin IV. On-Demand

George W. Hamlin, IV, Chairman, Trust Officer, and Senior Policy Advisor for Canandaigua National Bank & Trust joins WXXI President & CEO Norm Silverstein on Norm & Company. Mr. Hamlin talks about his time served in the United States Air Force, his work as an attorney, and his final move to join the family business.

Born and raised in Canandaigua, Mr. Hamlin served as President & CEO Canandaigua National Bank & Trust from 1979 to 2011. His great grandfather founded the bank in 1887 and it has remained a family run business to this day. A decorated Vietnam War veteran of the U.S. Air Force, George is still an avid aviator to this day. He currently serves as Director of the New York State Wine & Culinary Center and Director of Constellation Brands – Marvin Sands Performing Art Center (C-MAC). He is also Chairman of the Board of Managers of the Eastman School of Music, and a member of its National Council, and a Trustee and Vice Chair of the Rochester Museum and Science Center.

In this episode of Norm & Company, Mr. Hamlin shares his love of flying, his belief in locally-run businesses being vital to a community, and his thoughts on what lays ahead for the development of the Finger Lakes region.

Norm & Company is hosted by WXXI President & CEO Norm Silverstein, who speaks with long-time Rochesterians as they recount fascinating stories about their lives in the community.

Norm & Company: James Norman On-Demand

Norm & Company features James Norman, past President & CEO of Action for a Better Community.

James Norman, a leader, advocate, and role model, has served as the President & CEO of Action for a Better Community (ABC) for the past 25 years. As he heads into retirement, he plans to continue his work as a change agent in our community.

James talks about what inspired him to dedicate his life work to helping people, how he secured the position at ABC and the challenges he faced when he first took the helm. He shares his unique approach to community leadership and his thoughts on how to address the fundamental issues of poverty. He also discusses how to combat structure racism, something he has dedicated his life’s work to doing.

Norm & Company is hosted by WXXI President & CEO Norm Silverstein, who speaks with long-time Rochesterians as they recount fascinating stories about their lives in the community.

Norm & Company: Garth Fagan On-Demand

Garth Fagan, founder and artistic director of Garth Fagan Dance, joins WXXI President Norm Silverstein for an episode of Norm & Company.

Fagan shares stories of growing up in Jamaica, his time spent working on The Lion King, and what he loves about Rochester.

Critics have called Garth Fagan “a true original,” “a genuine leader,” and “one of the great reformers of modern dance.” Fagan has worked as artistic director for various companies throughout his career, including The Lion King in 1997. He also served as Assistant Associate Professor at SUNY Brockport from 1972-85, and as a professor from 1985-86 before becoming a Distinguished University Professor in 1986.

Unstoppable The Road to Womens’ Rights E-Fieldtrip:

Take an e-learning field trip through history: Unstoppable: The Road to Women’s Rights to learn about the suffrage movement. elected. Additional Resources available in PBS LearningMedia UnStoppable collection

Watch On-Demand:

This interactive live-streamed educational event focuses on the Women’s Suffrage Movement, the struggle for Women’s Equality and the role of Women in politics today. Unstoppable brings the history of the Women’s Suffrage Movement and its impact on resulting legislation to the classroom. Watch this e-field trip through history on-demand as we chart the path from the hundreds of women that tried casting votes before it was legal to the hundreds of women that make up the most diverse Congress ever elected. Also available in PBS LearningMedia UnStoppable collection Access Connected Learning Resources (from APTV)

Description: Unstoppable follows two young hosts as they visit Seneca Falls, NY, and Washington, D.C., to learn about the women that came before them in the fight for women’s rights. We begin with The Road to Suffrage, where we visit the site of the Seneca Falls Convention, which took place in July 1848. Here we learn about the establishment of suffrage groups and the fallout and disagreements around the 15th Amendment, the Women’s Voting Rights Amendment and the fights for racial and gender equality. Our hosts will also explore civic engagement today with 1st Amendment 1st Vote at the site of the first women’s rights convention in the United States. Next we visit Washington, D.C., and, with the help of the White House Historical Association, place ourselves in the exact location that suffragists gathered to protest in support of the passage of the 19th Amendment. We examine the constitutional arguments and final push leading to passage of the 19th Amendment by the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate, and its ratification by the states in August 1920. Lastly, we tour the U.S. Capitol building with Congresswomen Terri Sewell to discuss Women in Politics and where we stand today. During the live interactive segments, the audience will have the opportunity to interact with Coline Jenkins, author and great-great-granddaughter of women’s rights pioneer Elizabeth Cady Stanton.