NPTPressroom

Contact Information

Joe Pagetta
Director of Media Relations and Online Strategies
Nashville Public Television (NPT)
(office) 615.259.9325 ext. 211
161 Rains Ave
Nashville, TN 37203
This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
http://www.wnpt.org
Twitter: @npt8
Facebook: nashvillepublictelevision

News Archive

Nashville Public Televisions Explores ‘Visions of the American West’ (video/photo)

Thursday, 06 October 2011
New documentary, coinciding with Cheekwood Exhibit, frames Western expansion around art and the life of Buffalo Bill Cody; Premieres Thursday, October 20 at 8:00 p.m. NASHVILLE, Tennessee -- October 6, 2011 -- “The west of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness can never be blotted from my mind,” the man known the world over as Buffalo Bill Cody once said towards the end of his career. “Nor can it, I hope, be blotted from the memory of the American people, to whom it has now become a priceless possession.” He was correct in his assertion. America has never gotten over its fascination with the West, or the “Wild West,” and the reason may be Cody himself. Consider it a self-fulfilling prophecy. Nashville Public Television (NPT) will explore Cody’s legacy as part of a survey of iconic images and artifacts of the American West, in “Visions of the American West,” premiering Thursday, October 20 at 8:00 p.m. The half-hour documentary, written, directed and produced by Ed Jones (“Beautiful Tennessee: Parks & Preservation,” “Tennessee Civil War 150: Secession”) coincides with the opening of a new exhibit at the Cheekwood Museum and Botanical Gardens, “Visions of the American West: Masterworks from the Buffalo Bill Historical Center.”
Last Updated ( Saturday, 18 February 2012 )
Read more...

[ Back ]