a film by Kunhardt Productions ; executive producers, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., William R. Grant, Peter W. Kunhardt ; written by Henry Louis Gates. Jr. ; series producers, Graham Judd, Leslie D. Farrell ; a production of Kunhardt Productions, Inc. and Thirteen/ WNET New York.
ISBN
1415716943
Edition
Widescreen format.
Place of Publication
[Alexandria, Va.] : Hollywood, Calif
Publisher
PBS Home Video ; distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment,
Date of Publication
[2006]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (ca. 240 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Notes
Originally broadcast as a four-part television series in 2006.
Host: Henry Louis Gates, Jr.; features Oprah Winfrey, Chris Tucker, Quincy Jones, Sara-Lawrence-Lightfoot, Mae Jemison, T.D. Jakes, Ben Carson, Whoopi Goldberg.
Contents
Listening to our past / producer and director, Jesse Sweet; editors, Eric Davis, Michael Weingrad -- The promise of freedom / producer and director, Leslie Asako Gladsjo ; editors, Joanna Kiernan, Geeta Gandbhr -- Searching for our names / producer and director, Leslie D. Farrell; editors, Merril Stern, Kathryn Moore -- Beyond the middle passage / producer and director, Graham Judd; editors, Kate Hirson, Stefan Knerrich.
Summary
A compelling combination of storytelling and science, this series uses genealogy, oral histories, family stories and DNA to trace roots of several accomplished African Americans down through American history and back to Africa.
xxi, [3] 25-365 p. front, illus. (incl. facsim.) plates. 24 1/2 cm.
Notes
Inns of Lancaster, Pa. mentioned on p. 157-161.
Bibliography: p. 311-315.
Contents
Chapters: Inns from New York City to Springfield, Massachusetts /// From Springfield To Boston, Deerfield and Hadley /// Taverns In and Near Boston /// Another Route From New York To New Haven And On To Rhode Island /// Old Inns of New Hampshire and Vermont /// A Few Old Maine Inns /// Long Island, Staten Island , and New Jersey Inns /// Pennsylvania Inns /// Old Inns of Philadelphia and Vicinity /// Other Pennsylvania Inns /// Delaware and Maryland Inns /// Old Southern Ordinaries /// Inns In Ohio and Erie County /// Inns of New York State /// Some Middlewest Inns /// Kentucky and Missouri Inns with One In Kansas
Egle lists the names of tavern owners. At that time, present day Dauphin and Lebanon counties were still part of Lancaster County. He also comments that such men were sometimes disabled veterans of the American Revolution and the pursuit of this profession was deemed honorable.
