The Erie Canal. (6 minutes.)
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Act Two: Father of Invention
There’s a machine lots of us encounter as a big impersonal, mechanical apparatus, that has a ghost in it.
Act Three: This Must Be the Place
For more than a decade, Boris Furman has meticulously tracked the whereabouts of his family members, averaging the latitude and longitudes to arrive at “The Family Average Location.” But nobody really knows why.
Act Four: The Importance of Meeting Earnest
For more than fifty years, Jeanne Darst’s dad neglected to tell his entire family about their entire family. (13 minutes)
More by Nancy Updike
Act One: Dream Weevil
Kim Jong-Il loved movies, but hated all the movies made in North Korea. So he kidnapped a famous South Korean director and his ex-wife—a South Korean film star—locked them up in a villa in North Korea, and forced them to make movies for him. Nancy Updike tells the story.
Act Two: Dunk and Go Nuts
Producer Nancy Updike talks to her friend Mary Conway about the strangest-looking trophy she got in her years playing basketball.
Act One: Finally
We start with someone getting up the nerve to do something that really, it would be nice to see more often — an apology.