Colonial Life for Children: William Penn and Pennsylvania

Produced 1999.  23 minutes. 
Grades 3-7.  Teacher’s Guide included. 
ISBN: 1-4171-0409-0.   $24.95 (color)
To order contact Schlesinger Media at (800) 845-3620.

Follow the fascinating story of William Penn, his journey to the New World and the founding of the Quaker colony of Pennsylvania in 1682.  Believing in the Quaker ideals of simplicity, peace and equality, Penn applied those ideals to his new settlement, where people of all nationalities lived alongside the Lenni Lenape Indians.  Historian William Kashatus takes you on a visit to Philadelphia’s Arch Street Meeting House and Penn’s Bucks County manor to learn more about the Quakers and their leader.  Hear the eloquent words of Penn himself through stirring reenactments by Kashatus.

Whispers of Angels: A Story of the Underground Railroad

Produced 2001. 60 minutes.  $24.95 (color)
Content-rich companion website: www.whispersofangels.com
To order contact Teleduction at orders@teleduction.com or phone (302) 429-0303

Thomas Garrett and William Still were two of the great stationmasters on the critical eastern line of the Underground Railroad. With the help of the legendary conductor Harriet Tubman and an army of unnamed heroes, they conducted thousands of fugitives from Maryland’s Eastern Shore through the border state of Delaware to the free state of Pennsylvania.  Renowned actors Edward Asner (Mary Tyler Moore Show, Lou Grant, JFK) and Blair Underwood (L.A.Law, Full Frontal, Murder in Mississippi) portray Garrett and Still in this dramatic documentary.  Interviews with scholars, including William Kashatus, blend with narrative scenes, underscored with specially recorded period music and filmed on location in the historic settings where these freedom fighters took on their noble and dangerous work.