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 Intro Best of ShowReturn to index of stories... |
Hello, I'm Rebecca Reilly New Hampshire Outlook's Director. And I'm Jennifer Vachon the show's Line Producer. We've taken over this edition of New Hampshire Outlook, to bring you some of OUR favorite stories. We're just two of the faces behind the scenes that make the show come together. Each night you'll find Becky/Jen and myself, along with our crew - of camera operators, assistant directors and engineers here in the station putting together the program. So we thought we'd share some of the stories that touched us - made us laugh and yes made us laugh again. |
| Intro Clark Welch Return to index of stories... |
Many of us working on the show were children during Vietnam. So when producer Phil Vaughn brought us the story of Clark Welch we learned a great deal about history, how events unfolded on foreign battlefields and how one soldier had the opportunity to bring honor to those he fought with in Vietnam. |
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Shot of Pentagon Narr 1 - On April 25 at the Pentagon, a soldier was honored. Sound from ceremony Narr 2 - Lt. Colonel Clark Welch received the Distinquished Service Cross -- the country's second highest military honor. He was recognized for saving lives 36 years ago. It happened during an event the Army has tried to forget. Clark has been unable to. Dip to black Narr 3 - Durham is Clark's hometown. He graduated from Oyster River High School. At 17, he turned down a West Point education to enlist in the Army. A decade later, in 1967, Clark was in Vietnam. Clip - "I was a brave soldier…" "We were there…liberate." Narr 4 - Clark built and commanded Delta Company, a group of young and loyal soldiers. Clip - "I loved them…good at soldier business." Narr 5 - Clark's commander was Col. Terry Allen. He didn't know him well, but they fought together on a series of successful battles starting on Oct 8th. Clip - "Through the 16th things were going well." Narr 6 - Col Allen planned another attack the next day. Clark had concerns with his orders but Allen was insistent. Clip - "The order was tomorrow…ordered us to do." Narr 7 - For two hours, 142 American soldiers marched their way through suffocating jungle cover. They were heading for Ong Thanh. Clip - "The lead company radioed back…I thought there were probably 70 of them." Narr 8 - Clark was wrong. There were 1,400 enemy troops waiting for them. He had the opportunity recently to met with the enemy commander face to face. Clip - "He said you kept walking towards…walking towards us." Narr 9 - By that time, the Americans were surrounded and outnumbered 10 to 1. Clip - "They started shooting at 10…wounded couldn't move." Clip - "So at 10:15 we were shooting back…massacre." Narr 10 - By noontime, nearly half of Clark's soldiers were dead. The rest lay wounded on the jungle floor. Clark was shot five times - once through the lung. Clip - "I never said I would die…I was not going to die." Narr 11 - So he crawled the battlefield from soldier to soldier, helping those he could. Clip - "I would help guys…fewer guys to talk to." Narr 12 - Col Allen lived to witness the mistake he had made. Clip - "He was with us… … he was dead, I thought good." Narr 13 - Clark has held tightly on to the rage he felt for his commander that day. He blamed his colonel for what happened on Oct 17, 1967. A few years ago, Clark had the chance to meet the girls he saw on the battlefield that morning. Clip - "And looking at them…feelings washed away…angry at girl's father." Narr 14 - And now, thirty-six years later, the time had come for Clark to honor and remember his friends and fellow soldiers. Sound from ceremony Clip - "So what this means to me…that's good." Dissolve to Clark reading poem |
| Intro Fire Tower Return to index of stories... |
New Hampshire Outlook not only gives us the opportunity to bring you stories like that of Clark Welch but some of the granite state's other characters. Our favorite series here on Outlook is Steve Taylor's Real New Hampshire. The Commissioner of Agriculture along with series producer Chip Neal show us just what the real New Hampshire is all about. |
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THESE FIRE TOWERS ARE A LEGACY OF A FIRE INTERESTING TIME IN NEW HAMPSHIRE HISTORY. THIS TOWER HERE ON MOUNT PROSPECT IN LANCASTER CAN VIEW A STRETCH OF AS MANY AS 80 MILES. THERE'S A FIRE TOWER IN LANCASTER AT THE STATE PARK. MY MAIN DUTY IS TO DISCOVER SMOKE OUT THERE, AND THEN TRY SCN WHAT THE SMOKE IS. HOW BIG IT IS, WHERE IT IS, AND GOING FROM THERE DECIDE HOW TO TAKE CARE OF IT. SO YOU RELY ON THE NAKED EYE AND A PAIR OF BINOCULARS? THAT'S RIGHT. AND YOU SEE SMOKER EVERY DAY? WE HAVE PERMANENT SMOKE AT A COUPLE OF BURN PLANTS. AND A LOT OF OKAY. I GET -- QUITE OFTEN I GET CALLS IN THE SUMMER SAYING THERE'S A MOUNTAIN OVER THERE ON FIRE, AND IT'S THE RAILWAY GOING UP MT. WASHINGTON. SHE CAN TELL YOU MORE ABOUT THE TOWERS THAN ANYBODY ELSE IN THE WORLD. TELL US A LITTLE ABOUT THIS FIRE HOUR RIGHT HERE WHERE WE ARE TODAY. WELL, THIS FIRE TOWER IS PARTICULARLY SPECIAL AND IMPORTANT ONE BECAUSE OF ITS ASSOCIATION WITH JOHN LYNN GATES. AND HE CAME FROM AN OLD LANCASTER FAMILY, AND BUILT THIS ON THE SUMMIT OF MOUNT PROSPECT AS HIS SUMMER HOME, AND BUILT THE TOWER AS AN OBSERVATION POINT FOR HIMSELF, HIS FAMILY, AND FOR HIS NEIGHBORS. HE WAS ALWAYS VERY ANXIOUS THAT THE PUBLIC HAVE ACCESS TO HIS VIEW. AS YOU KNOW, HE WAS THE AUTHOR OF THE WEEKS ACT. SO THE EARLY MOVEMENT TO CONSTRUCT THESE FIRE TOWERS HAD TO HAVE BEEN COORDINATED BY THE COMING OF THE TELEPHONE, THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE TELEPHONE? NO. HOW WOULD THEY HAVE SIGNALED FROM THE MOUNTAINS TO SOMEBODY ON THE GROUND DOWN IN THE VALLEY TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT A FIRE? PROBABLY -- IN THE WEST, WE KNOW ONE FIRE OUTLOOK, A WOMAN, BY THE WAY, WHO WAS ASSIGNED TO LOOK FOR FIRES, AND IF SHE START R SPOTTED ONE, SHE WOULD GET ON HER HORSE AND RIDE TO THE NEAREST LUMBER CAMP. I COPY THAT. HOW DOES EVERYTHING LOOK FROM YOUR POSITION? EVERYTHING IS QUIET. IT'S GETTING QUITE HAZY. VISIBILITY AS DROPPED QUITE A BIT. NO SIGN OF TROUBLES ANYWHERE. NOW A DAY LIKE TODAY WHERE IT WAS VERY CLEAR EARLY, AND THEN A WEATHER FRONT COMES IN, AND IT BECOMES MORE HAZY OR FOGGY, YOU HAVE TO MAKE A CALL. YES, I DO. SOMETIMES I STAY HERE HOPING IT WILL CLEAR UP, AND IF THERE'S ANY HOPE OF IT ON THE HORIZON, OTHERWISE I MIGHT GO DOWN TO HEADQUARTERS IN LANCASTER AND FIND SOMETHING TO DO DOWN THERE. TWO OF THE EARLIER ARE THE ONES ON MT. ROSEBURG IS NOW GONE. IF IT PRE-DATES 1905, THEN IT'S CERTAINLY THE FIRST FIRE TOWER IN THE EAST, AND ONE OF THE FIRST FIRE TOWERS IN THE UNITED STATES. WELL, I THINK WHAT REALLY STRIKES YOU IS HOW LITTLE OF IT IS DEVELOPED, AND HOW LITTLE OF IT IS REALLY OPENED LAND. THE PRESIDENTIALS IN THE EAST ARE 18 TO 22 MILES FROM HERE. I CAN SEE 40 MILES TO THE SOUTH, AND 40 OR 50 MILES TO THE NORTH. LOOKING WEST OVER A TERRITORY THAT I DON'T NECESSARILY REPORT TO THE STATE OF VERMONT, THAT'S 85 MILES TO THE SHORES OF LAKE CHAMPLAIN. SO IT'S A BIG TERRITORY, BUT SURPRISINGLY ENOUGH, SMOKE SHOWS UP VERY MUCH, VERY EASILY ONCE YOU'RE USED TO LOOK AND SEEING CERTAIN SCENERY. I WAS A SCHOOL TEACHER AND WHEN I RETIRED I WAS LOOKING FOR A RESEARCH PROJECT TO KEEP MY MIND GOING UNTIL I STARTED IN ON SOMETHING ELSE. THE FIRE TOWERS LOOKED RELATIVELY SELF-CONTAINED. THAT WAS 1987, AND I'M STILL AT IT. I'LL TELL YOU THE HISTORY, AND A BEAUTIFUL VIEW. YOU CAN'T BEAT ONE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE'S FINEST TOWERS. CHECK THEM OUT. THEY'RE THE REAL NEW HAMPSHIRE. I'M STEVE TAYLOR, YOUR COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE. IS IT A LONG WAY UP THERE? NO, SIR. NO, I NEVER HAVE. MY WIFE WON'T LIKE TO HEAR ME SAY THAT. NO, I DON'T GET LONELY. I LOVE THE MOUNTAINS. I LOVE THE WOODS. I LOVE THE SCENERY. |
| Intro to Roundtable Return to index of stories... |
Week after week we bring together some of New Hampshire's top journalists. The people in the know on issues statewide. Not a week goes by when one of our guests doesn't shock, surprise, or make us laugh. Here's a look at some of the highlights. |
| Intro Roger the Potter Return to index of stories... |
It's not too often that you get the opportunity to laugh at your host. Roger Galuska of Rock Garden Pottery gave us just that chance when he offered to teach Ally McNair how to throw a pot. Oh by the way - we also got to find out more about Rogers work and see some of his beautiful pottery. |
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Roger Pottery Tape # 1 Water makes the clay very slick so you can work with it and pull it. Feel the edge of that. Ally: wow….That's amazing! Am I messing up the shape? Roger: No not at all, now actually take your thumb and move it up. Ally: Really? Roger: do you see the shape change? Ally: Oh Yeah! That's kind of neat. -- track Roger Galuska makes his pottery in the basement of his home in Rochester. He owns Rock Garden Pottery. For twenty years Roger was a journalist in California. At 40, he moved back home to New England. That's when he discovered his talent for pottery quite by accident. He had gone to the New Hampshire Farm Museum with his mother and that's where he met Potter Kit Cornell. -- I heard a voice say you look like a man who knows pots. So I turned around and it was Kip Cornell and it was like Ta Da!. She is embarrassed by this story but she was definitely in a ray of sun light she had on a blue stripped overalls and a really warm, kind outgoing face. Very gentle, and very attractive. So we started talking and she would you like to try and make a pot? And I said years ago I had a bad experience with that so I could never do that. So I said to her I have no faculty for that what so ever and bought one of her pots and left. I thought my mother might want to go home, but she said no and I said I'm going to try that and I went back up and made a bowl, or Kip made me think I I made the bowl. And I said that's a good teacher. -- vo We put Roger's teaching skills to the ultimate test, We asked him to show me how to make a pot. -- SOT The philosophy is clay is not really just a work or job its really a life style and philosophy. And something like that is reflected in the clay in the interconnectedness of everything. I mean I don't want to go to Zen but but…there is a lot of Zen connected with it. Clay is a living thing, its earth we go to that, we come form that. SO everything that brought me here, to this stage here, was connect to that whole earth clay thing. If that makes any sense to you. -- Roger: Would you like to try a little? Roger shows Ally how to make a pot -- Ally: Wow, look at the bottom. You did that, the little creases there… Roger: No, you did that. Ally: That's neat! Roger: Those are really your fingers in there! Ally: Really? Wow Roger: Yeah that little swirl That really is you. Ally: Really? Roger: Yeah. Ally: That's neat, are you sure that you didn't sneek that in there when I wasn't looking? Roger: No, because I don't know exactly how to do that, so I know it was you. Ally: Oh neat! Roger: That's your swirl Ally Ally: Yeah, I like that. Roger: All yours. -- Roger I thought that artist and musicians always mystified me because I never knew where it came from. And how they were able to do these things. And I always envied that ability to make something with your hands and I think that's why I went into this. My mother and my sister said they have never saw anyone take to anything like I did to this, and I did. I think part of it was that therapeutic aspect. -1:07:49 |
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Tonight on New Hampshire Outlook. educating homeless children in the Granite State. Join us tonight at 10:00 only on New Hampshire Outlook. |
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Tonight on New Hampshire Outlook. program producers share their favorite stories of 2003. Join us tonight at 10:00 only on New Hampshire Outlook. |
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Tonight on New Hampshire Outlook. journalists from around the state discuss the year's top stories. Join us tonight at 10:00 only on New Hampshire Outlook. |
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Tonight on New Hampshire Outlook. journalists from around the state look ahead to the New Year. Join us tonight at 10:00 only on New Hampshire Outlook. |
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Tonight on New Hampshire Outlook. one-on -one with General Wesley Clark. We'll learn where he stands on the issues Join us tonight at 10:00 only on New Hampshire Outlook. |
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Monday on New Hampshire Outlook. one-on -one with General Wesley Clark. We'll learn where he stands on the issues Join us monday at 10:00 only on New Hampshire Outlook. |
| key: Veterans / War Return to index of stories... |
NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTLOOK Air Date/Time: 12/31/03 22:00 HOST: Rebecca Reilly & Jennifer Vachon Length: 8:00 minutes In this edition of New Hampshire Outlook, NHPTV's nightly news magazine, we've taken over this edition of New Hampshire Outlook, to bring you some of our favorite stories. So we thought we'd share some of the stories that touched us - made us laugh and yes made us laugh again. Many of us working on the show were children during Vietnam. So when producer Phil Vaughn brought us the story of Clark Welch we learned a great deal about history, how events unfolded on foreign battlefields and how one soldier had the opportunity to bring honor to those he fought with in Vietnam. PRODUCER/REPORTER: Phil Vaughn NAME OF PARTICIPANTS: Clark Welch\Army Lt. Col. Retired |
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NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTLOOK Air Date/Time: 12/31/03 22:00 HOST: Rebecca Reilly & Jennifer Vachon Length: 6:00 minutes In this edition of New Hampshire Outlook, NHPTV's nightly news magazine, we've taken over this edition of New Hampshire Outlook, to bring you some of our favorite stories. So we thought we'd share some of the stories that touched us - made us laugh and yes made us laugh again. New Hampshire Outlook not only gives us the opportunity to bring you stories like that of Clark Welch but some of the granite state's other characters. Our favorite series here on Outlook is Steve Taylor's Real New Hampshire. The Commissioner of Agriculture along with series producer Chip Neal show us just what the real New Hampshire is all about. PRODUCER/REPORTER: Chip Neal NAME OF PARTICIPANTS: Ken Jordan\Fire Lookout, Iris Baird\Firetower Historian |
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NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTLOOK Air Date/Time: 12/31/03 22:00 HOST: Rebecca Reilly & Jennifer Vachon Length: 6:00 minutes In this edition of New Hampshire Outlook, NHPTV's nightly news magazine, we've taken over this edition of New Hampshire Outlook, to bring you some of our favorite stories. So we thought we'd share some of the stories that touched us - made us laugh and yes made us laugh again. New Hampshire Outlook not only gives us the opportunity to bring you stories like that of Clark Welch but some of the granite state's other characters. Our favorite series here on Outlook is Steve Taylor's Real New Hampshire. The Commissioner of Agriculture along with series producer Chip Neal show us just what the real New Hampshire is all about. PRODUCER/REPORTER: Chip Neal NAME OF PARTICIPANTS: Ken Jordan\Fire Lookout, Iris Baird\Firetower Historian |
| key: Media Return to index of stories... |
NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTLOOK Air Date/Time: 12/31/03 22:00 HOST: Rebecca Reilly & Jennifer Vachon Length: 3:00 minutes In this edition of New Hampshire Outlook, NHPTV's nightly news magazine, we've taken over this edition of New Hampshire Outlook, to bring you some of our favorite stories. So we thought we'd share some of the stories that touched us - made us laugh and yes made us laugh again. Week after week we bring together some of New Hampshire's top journalists. The people in the know on issues statewide. Not a week goes by when one of our guests doesn't shock, surprise, or make us laugh. Here's a look at some of the highlights. PRODUCER/REPORTER: Chip Neal NAME OF PARTICIPANTS: Norma Love\Associated Press, Lars Trodson\Portsmouth Times, James Pindell\PoliticsNH.com, Jeff Feingold\NH Business Review, Guy MacMillin\Keene Sentinel, Josh Rogers\NHPR |
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NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTLOOK Air Date/Time: 12/31/03 22:00 HOST: Rebecca Reilly & Jennifer Vachon Length: 6:30 minutes In this edition of New Hampshire Outlook, NHPTV's nightly news magazine, we've taken over this edition of New Hampshire Outlook, to bring you some of our favorite stories. So we thought we'd share some of the stories that touched us - made us laugh and yes made us laugh again. It's not too often that you get the opportunity to laugh at your host. Roger Galuska of Rock Garden Pottery gave us just that chance when he offered to teach Ally McNair how to throw a pot. Oh by the way - we also got to find out more about Roger's work and see some of his beautiful pottery. PRODUCER/REPORTER: Allison McNair, Jennifer Vachon NAME OF PARTICIPANTS: Roger Galuska\Rock Garden Pottery |
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