Poignant post from my friend Judy Washington.
I am an avid watcher of Public TV. My senior year in HS, my English teacher was such a brilliant man. We were reading Shakespeare’s plays. One assignment was King Lear. I so enjoyed the play but it came to life for me when the PBS Great Performances series aired the play with James Earl Jones as King Lear, Ellen Holly as Reagan, Rosalind Cash as Goneril and as Cordelia. It was my first to experience an all-Black cast performing Shakespeare. I was mesmerized. PBS has provided many memorable experiences for me such as Dance in America: Martha Graham Dance Company, Brideshead Revisited, and The Six Wives of Henry VIII. I watched Upstairs, Downstairs and even Poldark I. Who could forget How Green Was My Valley and Madame Bovary?
Public TV has always been part of my life. I watched those early cooking shows with Julia…
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