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Relax With Barbara On Wednesday 63

Feb-24-2010 By Barbara Zak

Today is my Birthday, so I’d like to share these few minutes with you! To me, there is nothing like the beauty of our world brought to you, and set to beautiful and relaxing music.  Enjoy!  🙂

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Relax With Barbara On Wednesday 60

Jan-27-2010 By Barbara Zak

Relax, take a deep breath and enjoy the soothing music, and beautiful scenes of Nature captured by Thundralight!  I found this to be very calming and refreshing..kinda like a spiritual renewal,or cleansing effect!  Enjoy 🙂

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The Treasure Of Our National Parks

Oct-9-2009 By Barbara Zak

Ken Burn’s highly-anticipated documentary THE NATIONAL PARKS: AMERICA’S BEST IDEA arrived in stores, on DVD and Blu-ray October 6, 2009 from PBS Home Video and Paramount Home Entertainment.  It is loaded with bonus material, including a behind-the-scenes making of a featurette, contemporary stories from the National Parks, outtakes and much more.

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Directed by Burns and co-produced with his longtime colleague Dayton Duncan, who also wrote the script, the 12-hour film epic, is the story of an idea that is uniquely American.  We are indeed fortunate, to have the most special places in the nation preserved, not for royalty or the rich, but for everyone. Filmed over the course of more than six years,it showcases,some of nature’s most spectacular locales — from Acadia to Yosemite, Yellowstone to the Grand Canyon, the Everglades of Florida to the Gates of the Arctic in Alaska.  It is a story of people from every conceivable background: rich and poor; famous and unknown; soldiers and scientists; natives and newcomers; idealists, artists and entrepreneurs; people who were willing to devote themselves to saving some precious portion of the land they loved, and in doing so, reminded their fellow citizens of the full and true meaning of democracy.
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