Glazier Bay Lodge

GREAT LODGES OF THE NATIONAL PARKS

Episode 2

Aired Wednesday, July 2 at 8:00 p.m. on CPTV

Rocky Mountain National Park is just outside the back door of the grand and graceful Stanley Hotel, which may look familiar to fans of Stephen King’s The Shining. At Jackson Lake Lodge, the magnificent views were personally selected by John D. and Laurence Rockefeller when they built this modern masterpiece at the foot of Grand Teton. Visitors can breakfast like a cowboy on an early morning mountain trail ride. Then it’s on to Alaska, where rivers of ice march into the ocean and bears fish from the water’s edge at Glacier Bay Lodge; North America’s highest peak greets visitors each day in their cozy cabin at the wild and remote Camp Denali. visit the website...

Alexander Hamilton

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE

Alexander Hamilton

Aired Wednesday, July 2,  at 9:00 p.m. on CPTV

One of the most controversial men of his age, Alexander Hamilton was a gifted statesman brought down by the fatal flaws of stubbornness, extreme candor and arrogance. His life and career were marked by a stunning rise to power, scandal and tragedy. He had one of the most notorious love affairs of any public figure in American history and met his death in a startling act of political violence - the famous duel with Aaron Burr. But his contributions as a statesman survive. As first Secretary of the Treasury during the tumultuous early years of the republic, Hamilton led the transformation of the young country into a commercial and industrial powerhouse. He was the one founder who had a vision, not of what America was, but of what it could become. This episode tells the story of the underappreciated genius who laid the groundwork for the nation's modern economy - including the banking system, Wall Street and an "opportunity society" in which talent and hard work, not birth, determined success. visit the website...