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- Each week, the Pell Center produces episodes of "Story in the Public Square," a public affairs television series. The show features interviews with today's best print, screen, music and other storytellers about their creative processes and how their stories impact public understanding and policy.
- SLATERSVILLE: AMERICA'S FIRST MILL VILLAGE is a historical documentary series told across eleven episodes that retraces the two-hundred-year history of the first industrialized mill village created in Rhode Island, America.
- In the decade since the attacks on Sept. 11th, 2001, more than 6000 American lives have been lost in the War on Terror. Thousands more have returned with psychological damage - forever changed. Leading up to the ten-year anniversary of the War on Terror, The Providence Journal launched an effort to examine the war's impact on veterans and their families. The result was an eight-part series, which ran in the paper and on the web from Oct. 2, 2011, to Nov. 7, 2011, and culminated in a feature-length video documentary about four veterans. These veterans share stories of their combat experiences and the lives they have led since returning to a civilian world, far removed from the battlefield. Their experiences and the insight of health-care professionals illustrate the human toll of a war fought by a tiny fraction of Americans serving in an all-volunteer military. On Dec.18, the last American combat troops left Iraq, but some 91,000 U.S. troops remain in Afghanistan. The war on terror continues. So, too, do the needs of veterans -- and they are growing. Projections show that by the year 2020, nearly 1.5 million veterans of the war will be enrolled in the nationwide VA health-care system, more than double those enrolled in 2011. In The War on terror: Coming Home, Army veteran Derek Pelletier and National Guard veterans John DiRaimo, Brian Santos and Sean Judge describe the difficulties of reentry into civilian life. Massachusetts native Pelletier, twice honored with the Bronze Star, continues to suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder. DiRaimo, of Rhode Island, has found help from the Providence VA Medical Center. And Judge and Santos, who served together, have followed two different paths. It is their voices and personal stories that bring home the aftermath of war, to a public largely removed from the price of a nation at war.
- 2022– 58mNot RatedTV EpisodeOur story begins in Belper, England, the birthplace of Samuel Slater, who is known as the "Father of the Industrial Revolution" in America but a traitor to his native land. After the Blackstone Valley Tourism Council connects with folks in the Derwent Valley, Belper artists who were once less than familiar with Samuel Slater find ways to creatively rediscover his story, while researchers dig up long lost information on the man they label "Slater the Traitor." After Samuel makes his way to America, he establishes a partnership with Moses Brown and William Almy in Pawtucket, Rhode Island and sends for his brother John with plans for greater expansion.
- 2022– 57mNot RatedTV EpisodeWhen brothers Samuel and John find a location in northern Rhode Island to create and control their own village, they transform the landscape by building a whole new mill, utilizing water power from the Branch River, constructing houses, and forcing those in an agricultural lifestyle to conform to their time-punching needs for manufacturing. John's wife Ruth plays a prominent role over the villagers. Through houses of worship, rules of temperance, and child labor, they struggle to control the lives of their rebellious workforce.
- 2022– 57mNot RatedTV EpisodeAs factory life establishes a profound ripple effect throughout the Blackstone Valley and beyond, one of its most massive by-products is found in Lowell, Massachusetts, where Slatersville native Dr. Elisha Bartlett becomes the city's first Mayor. Following his life in politics, Dr. Bartlett writes prolifically about medicine, poetry and teaching, becoming one of the world's most respected doctors of the era. As brothers Samuel and John, and his wife Ruth, approach the ends of their lives, their excruciating hardships of loss are felt, as their village must adapt to changing times. As French-Canadians immigrate to the neighboring city of Woonsocket during the Civil War, their population spills into to Slatersville, transforming its community into a foreign-sounding and multi-cultured village.
- 2022– 55mNot RatedTV EpisodeAfter William Smith Slater and John Fox Slater have spent decades building their family fortunes in the second generation, the brothers make conscious decisions on the distribution of their wealth for both family and country. Their presence is largely felt between Providence and Warwick, Rhode Island and Jewett City and Norwich, Connecticut. The lives of their own children are heavily considered, while the education of African Americans following the Civil War is systematically weighed. Despite the controversial means by which they built their estates, they each execute constructive paths for their monies to be spent, the ripple effects of which are still felt today throughout America.
- 2022– 1h 15mNot RatedTV EpisodeUpon inheriting his father's fortune, John Whipple Slater, owner of Slatersville, becomes an absentee landlord and embarks on extravagance. His excursions on multiple grand tours, big spending and bad behavior makes the national headlines, while his nephew Rufus Waterman III is invited to take over the family business and manage a mounting pile of problems on the home front. Through Rufus's thorough record keeping of diary entries and family letters (hidden for over seven decades), this period is dramatically reconstructed. With dying relatives, striking workers and negligent supervisors, the village descends into chaos and ruin as the Slater and Waterman families struggle to hold onto the foundation built by their fathers, leaving the future of Slatersville in peril.