In these humorous and affectionate television poems, humorist Jean Shepherd celebrates America in all its richness and diversity -- from cars to candy, baseball to beer, motels to money. Each week a different aspect of our national psyche is explored as Shepherd travels to the Okefenokee Swamp, Death Valley, Milwaukee, the Old South, and other far-flung locations -- using the PCP-90 portable camera.
The phantom of the open hearth lives -- somewhere in indiana
...one man's version of heaven is a super howard johnson's with 28 flavors and no lines for the rest room
...the end of an era -- riding the 'city of los angeles' on its last journey across the american west
A bunch of the boys were whooping it up at the malamute saloon
There's more to life than a hostess twinkie
And the bad guys are back on the shore, shaking their fists
The perpetual swish of windshield wipers is the soundtrack of our lives
It won't always be this way
...from its golden, ice-cold depths come the echos of lost battles, the sound of ancient victories, the noise of a million ball games
I might even snag one for old ahab himself
When there's no place to go but up
Like all great inner-tube specialists, he finally made the classic mistake
Make school or die
Mosquitoes and moon pies
Filthy rich at last
Bourbon and major wilkes' rocking chair
The great american tourist trap
Cha-cha lessons on c deck at 9am
Down in death valley
The devil on the bayou
I love cars, so there, ralph nader!
Chicago, chicago, that toddlin' town
Here today, guam tomorrow
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