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GUIDE
SEPTEMBER 2020
A MORE OR LESS
PERFECT UNION
A PERSONAL EXPLORATION BY JUDGE DOUGLAS GINSBURG
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SEPTEMBER 2020
HIGHLIGHTS
VAN DER VALK
ON MASTERPIECE
Amsterdam—city of bikes, boats,
and bodies. At least, that’s the way
steely-eyed cop Piet van der Valk
sees his murder-infested beat. Marc
Warren (Beecham House, The Good
Wife) stars as the title character in
Van der Valk an all-new, three-part
series based on Nicolas Freeling’s
legendary crime thrillers.
SERIES BEGINS
MONDAY SEPTEMBER 21 | 8:00 PM
NOVA
HUMAN NATURE
Our DNA can determine attributes
from eye color to medical
predispositions. An extraordinary
technology called CRISPR allows
us to edit human DNA, possibly
eliminating genetic diseases or
choosing our children's features.
But how far should we go?
SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 20 | 7:00 PM
RIVER
TO RIVER
IOWA'S FORGOTTEN
HIGHWAY 6
Built in one day by 10,000 farmers and
businessmen, Iowa's Route 6 was
part of the longest transcontinental
highway in America. The two-lane
road travels from Davenport on the
Mississippi River west to Council
Bluffs on the Missouri River.
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 15 | 11:00 PM
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COUNTRY
MUSIC
LIVE AT THE RYMAN
Join celebrated musicians for
Country Music: Live at the Ryman,
A Concert Celebrating the Film
by Ken Burns. Hosted by Burns
and featuring performances and
appearances by Dierks Bentley,
Rosanne Cash, Rhiannon Giddens,
Vince Gill, Kathy Mattea, Marty
Stuart, Dwight Yoakam and more.
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 1 | 7:00 PM
PRESERVING
ILLINOIS
PRAIRIES
Take a geological journey that
begins more than 8,000 years ago
when changing weather patterns
and glacial forces shaped a
magnificent, rolling landscape that
thrived for thousands of years.
SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 27 | 10:00 PM
SEPTEMBER 2020
PRIMETIME
1 TUESDAY 3 THURSDAY 5 SATURDAY
7:00 Country Music: 7:00 The Cities 6:00 Les Miserables
Live at the Ryman 7:30 Whitney Reynolds Filmed at London’s O2 Arena, enjoy
Whitney welcomes guests who have the legendary musical with a stellar
first-hand experience on important cast including Alfie Boe, Nick Jonas,
topics and social issues. Lea Salonga, Colm Wilkinson,
Norm Lewis and Ramin Karimloo.
8:00 Celtic Woman:
Ancient Land 10:00 3 Steps to
Pain-Free Living
Eliminate the root cause of many
painful conditions with this easy
to follow plan.
Join Country musicians for a
6 SUNDAY
concert celebrating the film by
Ken Burns. Featuring performances
and appearances by Rosanne
Cash, Rhiannon Giddens, Vince Gill, 7:00 Suze Orman’s
Dwight Yoakam and many more. Ultimate Retirement Guide
Filmed at the beautiful Johnstown
9:00 Rick Steves’ Fascism Castle in Wexford, Ireland, enjoy
in Europe new music from Celtic Woman’s
In this one-hour special, Rick Steves latest album, Ancient Land.
travels back a century to learn how
fascism rose and then fell in Europe— 10:00 Linda Ronstadt:
taking millions of people with it. Live In Hollywood
Celebrate the superstar in an
10:30 Longevity Paradox electrifying 1980 concert filmed
with Steven Gundry, MD at the height of her career.
Learn what is causing faster aging, With essential advice on planning
how and why some people live 11:30 Longevity Paradox for and thriving in retirement, Suze
long active lives well into their 90s, with Steven Gundry, MD provides key steps for anyone trying
and the five of the biggest myths Learn what is causing faster aging, to achieve their ultimate retirement.
about aging. how and why some people live
long active lives well into their 90s, 9:00 John Sebastian
Presents: Folk Rewind
2 WEDNESDAY
and the five of the biggest myths
about aging. 11:00 Longevity Paradox
with Steven Gundry, MD
4 FRIDAY
7:00 John Sebastian
7 MONDAY
Presents: Folk Rewind
7:00 Red, White and Rock
A patriotic celebration of America 7:00 Les Miserables
and pop oldies music featuring a
dream lineup of artists from the
rock, pop and doo-wop days of
the late 50s and early to mid-60s.
9:30 Dr. Fuhrman’s
Food As Medicine
A special featuring the greatest
singers and songwriters of
the classic 50s & 60s folk era,
with historic footage and new Filmed at London’s O2 Arena, enjoy
performances. the legendary musical with a stellar
cast of amazing performers.
9:00 Memory Rescue
with Daniel Amen, MD 11:00 5 Day Rapid Reset
Discover how you can improve your with Dr. Kellyann
memory based on treating major Dr. Kellyann presents a plan on
risk factors that destroy brain function. Learn how to use food to help losing weight, gaining energy, and
prevent disease and improve with reclaiming your joie de vivre.
11:00 3 Steps to the latest scientific research and
8 TUESDAY
Pain-Free Living practical, easy-to-follow advice.
Eliminate the root cause of many
painful conditions with this easy 11:30 Change Your Brain,
to follow plan from neuromuscular Heal Your Mind with Daniel 7:00 Rick Steves’ Europe
therapist, yoga instructor and pain Amen, MD European Travel Skills, Part 3
specialist Lee Albert teaches simple Six practical steps to help feel 7:30 Seeing the USA
exercises. happier, sharper and more in Oregon
control of their own destinies.
DEWITT BISHOP HILL LECLAIRE GENESEO WALCOTT VIOLA CLINTON GALVA
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8:00 Samantha Brown’s 11:00 Antiques Roadshow 10:00 This Old House
Places to Love Omaha, Hour 1 Westerly, Tanks for the Propane
10:30 This Old House
10 THURSDAY Westerly, Rockin’ the Granite
11:00 Austin City Limits
7:00 The Cities Brandi Carlile
7:30 Whitney Reynolds
8:00 Leaning Out
12 SATURDAY
7:00 Classic Gospel
Huntsville, Alabama Amazing Grace
8:30 Born to Explore 8:00 State and Water
with Richarad Wiese Jared Grabb Among Thieves
Feathered Friends 8:30 State and Water
9:00 The Good Road Mindy Watkins
Zanziber Archipelago, Tanzania: 9:00 Austin City Limits
Islands of Isolation Explore the life and work of Leslie E.
9:30 Illinois Adventure Robertson, a legendary engineer in
10:00 Finding Your Roots high-rise design and cultural centers
Secrets & Lies: Guests include across the globe, including being the
Sigourney Weaver, Justina lead structural engineer of the Twin
Machado, and Amy Ryan. Towers of the original World Trade
Center in New York City.
11:00 Leaning Out
Explore the life and work of 9:00 9/11: Inside
Leslie E. Robertson, a legendary the Pentagon
On September 11, 2001, Flight 77 Brandi Carlile showcases evocative
engineer in high-rise design and songwriting and her incredible voice
cultural centers across the globe. slammed into the Pentagon killing
184 people, fifteen years later in a stunning ACL debut appearance.
9 WEDNESDAY
survivors and first responders 10:00 Song of the
shed light on that tragic day. Mountains
10:00 Soldier On: Appalachian Road Show,
7:00 Antiques Roadshow The Little Roy and Lizzy Show
Tuscon, Hour Three: A 1994 Life After Deployment
Pete Seeger original song, an 11:00 The Kate
1889 George Hitchcock oil diptych, Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe
and an 1861 Abraham Lincoln
presidential pardon.
8:00 New Tricks
13 SUNDAY
God’s Waiting Room: Sandra 7:00 NOVA:
Pullman’s infuriating mother Grace The Violence Paradox
needs to go into a home, but the Journey through time and the
one she has chosen has recently had human mind to investigate whether
Three women confront the and how violence has declined.
a suspicious and unsolved death. challenges of readjusting to
9:00 Professor T civilian life after their post-9/11 9:00 The Gene:
Dead Girls Don’t Sing: A student at military service. An Intimate History
a strict Catholic boarding school is Episode 1: A fascinating history of
11 FRIDAY
found dead in her room. At first, the the human genome weaves together
team assume it is a case of erotic science and personal stories.
asphyxiation gone wrong, but could 7:00 America’s Test Kitchen 11:00 Reconnecting Roots
there be another explanation? Pork and Potatoes
10:00 Line of Separation 7:30 Cook’s Country
Italian Comfort Food Classics
8:00 Jacques Pepin’s Heart
and Soul Global Gastronomy
8:30 My Greek Table
with Diane Kochlas
The Athenian Riviera
Hunting: Field to Fork: From survival,
9:00 Christopher Kimball’s to privilege, to sport: how one of
Milk Street Television our most fundamental means for
Episode 3: After the Americans New Breads
advance too far, the Russians living led to extinction of life and
take back control and with them 9:30 Lydia’s Kitchen consequently created a means
comes a new regime. All About Grandma and system to preserve it.
STERLING/ROCK FALLS MUSCATINE SAVANNA
14 MONDAY 10:00 Unforgotten
on Masterpiece
8:00 Samantha Brown’s
Places to Love
Vancouver, Canada
7:00 New Tricks
This BBC production dramatizes 8:30 Born to Explore
the work of the Unsolved Crime and with Richard Wiese
Open Case Squad, led by Detective The Mighty Bears
Superintendent Sandra Pullman 9:00 The Good Road
and three previously retired police Bangkok, Thailand: The Big
officers. Tune in tonight for "God’s House… of Blessing
Waiting Room." 9:30 Illinois Adventure
8:00 The Chaperone Season 1, Episode 1: Cassie and 10:00 Finding Your Roots
on Masterpiece Sunny work to identify human remains Science Pioneers: Guests include
found buried near a motorway. Francis Collins, Shirley Ann
11:30 Line of Separation Jackson, and Harold Varmus.
The town is thrown into disarray 11:00 River to River:
when they begin work on the policy Iowa’s Forgotten Highway 6
of dispossession—reassigning the
land owned by the few to the many.
But is their approach too hard-lined
or will it win over most people in town?
15 TUESDAY
Based on Laura Moriarty’s beloved
New York Times best-selling novel,
MASTERPIECE FILMS’ first
theatrical release reunites the writer 7:00 Rick Steves’ Europe
(Academy Award®-winner Julian Western Turkey
Fellowes), director (Michael Engler) 7:30 Seeing the USA U.S. Route 6 in Iowa, part of the
and star (Academy Award® nominee Utah: Viewers will experience longest transcontinental highway in
Elizabeth McGovern) of Downton the USA’s iconic nature, thrilling America, takes two-lane motorists
Abbey for an immersive and richly adventures and unique, varied from Davenport on the Mississippi to
emotional period piece. culture through Brandy’s eyes. Council Bluffs on the Missouri. Built
in one day by 10,000 Iowans.
DAYTIME SCHEDULE* SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY
6:00AM Autoline Dinosaur Train
6:30AM America’s Heartland Pinkalicious & Peterrific
7:00AM Hero Elementary Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum
7:30AM Xavier Riddle Daniel Tiger
8:00AM Curious George Daniel Tiger
8:30AM Daniel Tiger Let's Go Luna
9:00AM Daniel Tiger Daniel Tiger
9:30AM Arthur Elinor Wonders Why
10:00AM Woodsmith Shop Sesame Street
10:30AM American Woodshop Pinkalicious & Peterrific
11:00AM Ask This Old House Am. Test Kitchen Flavor of Poland Milk Street Moveable Fea
11:30AM This Old House Cook’s Country Nick Stellina Kate Sullivan Lidia’s Kitche
12:00PM Rick Steves Europe Motorweek Love of Quilting Garden Smart Paint This
12:30PM Illinois Adventure Fishing... Lines It’s Sew Easy A Greener World Joy of Paintin
1:00PM Milk Street Chicago Tonight
Chicago Tonight
1:30PM Lidia’s Kitchen The Cities
2:00PM Am. Test Kitchen Sesame Street
2:30PM Cook’s Country Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum
3:00PM Jamie’s Ultimate Odd Squad
3:30PM Flavor of Poland Wild Kratts
4:00PM The Cities Curious George
4:30PM Whitney Reynolds Nature Cat
5:00PM Arthur
Antiques Roadshow
5:30PM Chicago Tonight
Articulate with Jim Cotter
6:00PM The Cities
Finding Your Roots
6:30PM BBC World News
WQPT KIDS PROGRAMS *ALERT: New schedule begins on Monday, September 7.
16 WEDNESDAY 11:00 Antiques Roadshow
Omaha, Hour 2: Discover hidden
treasures such as 1955 Whitey Ford
9:00 More or Less
Perfect Union, A Personal
Exploration by Judge
7:00 Antiques Roadshow and 1951 Yogi Berra jerseys, and an Douglas Ginsburg
1863 gilt bronze-mounted gaslight.
17 THURSDAY
7:00 The Cities
This news-magazine style current
affairs program brings viewers
informative content on a variety of
Omaha, Hour 1: A 1939 Grant Wood important issues to viewers like you.
A Constitution for All: Delve into the Bill
“Fertility” lithograph, a Daytona 7:30 Whitney Reynolds of Rights, which protects free speech,
model Rolex from around 1970 with religious freedom and the rights of
its box and papers, and Prohibition persons accused of a crime, and
liquor bottles, ca. 1925. discover the Supreme Court decisions
8:00 New Tricks that set back racial justice for nearly
Ducking and Diving: The team a century after the Civil War.
discover an armored security van 10:00 More or Less
involved in an unsolved murder. Perfect Union, A Personal
9:00 Professor T Exploration by Judge
Swansong, Part 1: An undercover Douglas Ginsburg
agent is found dead in the trunk 8:00 More or Less A Constitution at Risk: Discover how
of his car and the main suspect Perfect Union, A Personal the Constitution is under assault
is drug lord Mark Desmedt. Exploration by Judge today and how all three branches
Douglas Ginsburg of government—and we the people
10:00 Line of Separation A Constitution in Writing: Examine
Episode 4: The town is thrown into —are contributing to the problem.
the struggles and compromises in See how Americans have fought for
disarray when they begin work the creation of the document that
on the policy of dispossession— more than two centuries to establish,
protects our liberties. expand and preserve liberty.
reassigning land.
AY FRIDAY SATURDAY
Mister Rogers
Daniel Tiger
Hero Elementary
Xavier Riddle
Curious George
Daniel Tiger
Daniel Tiger
Elinor
It’s Sew Easy
Fons and Porter
ast Simply Ming
en New Orleans Kitchen
Antiques Roadshow A World
Ask This Old House Without
ng This Old House Beethoven?
Deutsche Welle marks Beethoven’s
250th birthday with a film about music.
Masterpiece
& Mysteries The thought-provoking question
“What would the world be without
Beethoven?” shows that to this day,
his innovations resonate far beyond the
realm of classical music.
Lawrence Welk BEGINS WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 16
Lawrence Welk wqpt.org/schedule
Schedule subject to change without notice.
11:00 POV 10:00 Song of the Mountains
Irene Kelley, Martha Spencer Band,
Adam Wakefield
22 TUESDAY
7:00 Rick Steves’ Europe
11:00 The Kate Central Turkey
Jane Lynch
7:30 Seeing the USA
20 SUNDAY
7:00 NOVA
Portraits and Dreams revisits
photographs created by Kentucky
schoolchildren in the 1970s and
the place where the photos
were made. The film is about the
students, their work as visionary Nevada
photographers and the lives they 8:00 Samantha Brown’s
have led since then, as well as Places to Love
the linkage of personal memory Hill Country, Texas
to the passage of time. Human Nature: An extraordinary
technology called CRISPR allows 8:30 Born to Explore
18 FRIDAY
us to edit human DNA, possibly with Richard Wiese
eliminating genetic diseases or Dancing with the World
choosing our children’s features. 9:00 The Good Road
7:00 America’s Test Kitchen But how far should we go? Nairobi, Kenya: The Power of Story
Spiced and Sweet
9:00 The Gene: 9:30 Illinois Adventure
7:30 Cook’s Country An Intimate History
Meat and Potatoes à la Francaise 10:00 Finding Your Roots
Episode 2: Geneticists wrestle with Slave Trade: Guests include
8:00 Jacques Pepin’s the moral implications of ground Ava DuVemay, Epatha Merkerson,
Heart and Soul breaking new technologies that offer and Questlove.
Offal Good both promise and peril.
11:00 3 Esthers
8:30 My Greek Table 11:00 The Gene Doctors
23 WEDNESDAY
with Diane Kochlas While physicians once had little to
Tinos: Ancient Marble, offer to babies born with hereditary
Timeless Flavors diseases, new treatments are being
devised that target the root causes 7:00 Antiques Roadshow
9:00 Christopher Kimball’s Omaha, Hour 2: A 1955 Whitey Ford
Milk Street Television and transform lives.
and 1951 Yogi Berra jerseys, an
21 MONDAY
9:30 Lydia’s Kitchen 1863 gilt bronze-mounted gaslight
Surf N Turf and an 1887 oil painting.
10:00 This Old House 7:00 New Tricks 8:00 New Trick
Westerly, Pining for Old Pine Ducking and Diving Nine Lives: Jack suspects the death
10:30 This Old House of an elderly lady who left everything
8:00 Van Der Valk to her cats to be a murder.
Westerly, Save the Flagpole on Masterpiece
11:00 Austin City Limits 9:00 Professor T
The Raconteurs, Black Pumas: Swansong, Part 2: As the team
nominees, Austin breakout duo closes in on drug lord Mark Desmedt,
Black Pumas. John discovers that Rabet
and Serge are both working
19 SATURDAY with the criminal.
10:00 Line of Separation
7:00 Classic Gospel
Joey and Rory: Singer and the Song
Love in Amsterdam: Art, politics
8:00 State and Water and passion mix in a case that
Cole Hollow breaks in Piet’s new assistant,
8:30 State and Water Cloovers, and also prompts discord
Jared Grabb Among Thieves with police chief Dahlman.
9:00 Austin City Limits 10:00 Unforgotten
on Masterpiece
Season 1, Episode 2: Cassie and Episode 5: The town is divided
Sunny dig deeper into Jimmy’s down the line of the river, with the
murder, which involved torture. American order governing one
and the socialist regime of the
11:30 Line of Separation Russians in the other.
The town is divided down the line
of the river, with the American order 11:00 Antiques Roadshow
governing one and the socialist Omaha, Hour 3
regime of the Russians in the other.
The Raconteurs, Black Pumas:
The Raconteurs return with a full-tilt
romp featuring killer gems from
The conflicts become personal as
friendships are compromised and
the whole town is involved in the
24 THURSDAY
the acclaimed Help Us Stranger, 7:00 The Cities
trial against Franz Schober. 7:30 Whitney Reynolds
their third studio LP.
DEWITT GALESBURG FRUITLAND SAVANNA8:00 3 Esthers 9:00 Austin City Limits 11:30 Line of Separation
The story of three Holocaust Friedrich and Anna face their
survivors, all named Esther, who greatest challenge as a state of
journeyed from Nazi occupation emergency is announced after
and concentration camps to the death of someone close.
liberation and news lives forever
colored by their experiences.
9:00 18 Voices 29 TUESDAY
Sing Kol Nidre 7:00 Rick Steves’ Europe
Explores the most sacred prayer
in Judaism that begins its holiest Buddy Guy, August Greene
day of Yom Kippur. 10:00 Song of the
10:00 POV 93Queen Mountains
Jerry Salley, Lightnin’ Charlie,
Kyle Petty
11:00 The Kate
Darlene Love
27 SUNDAY
France’s Loire: Chateau Country
7:30 Seeing the USA
7:00 NOVA Arizona
Secret Mind of Slime: Scientists 8:00 Samantha Brown’s
Visit the Hasidic enclave of Borough investigate the bizarre “intelligence” Places to Love
Park, Brooklyn and meet a group of slime molds, which appear to Big Sur and Monterey, California
of tenacious women creating the learn and make decisions without
first all-female volunteer ambulance 8:30 Born to Explore
a brain. with Richard Wiese
corps in New York City.
8:00 River to River: Iowa’s Horse Power
11:30 NOVA Forgotten Highway 6
Human Nature 9:00 The Good Road
9:00 Illinois River Mbale, Uganda
25 FRIDAY
Episode 1: Peoria Lakes is drowning 9:30 Illinois Adventure
in silt. Water that was an average of
eight feet deep a century ago is now 10:00 Finding Your Roots
7:00 America’s Test Kitchen less than two feet deep outside the Italian Roots: Guests include
Two Classic Pastas navigation channel. Jimmy Kimmel, Marisa Tomei,
7:30 Cook’s Country and John Turturro.
9:30 Illinois River
8:00 Jacques Pepin’s Episode 2 11:00 Illinois River
Heart and Soul Episode 1
10:00 Preserving Illinois
Catch O’ The Day Prairies 11:30 Illinois River
8:30 My Greek Table Episode 2
10:30 Storm of the Century:
with Diane Kochlas
30 WEDNESDAY
The Blizzard of ’49
The Navarino Challenge
9:00 Christopher Kimball’s
Milk Street Television 7:00 Antiques Roadshow
Omaha, Hour 3: A Humphreys’
9:30 Lydia’s Kitchen homeopathic medicine cabinet,
Crowd Pleasers and a 1939 Gregoire Boonzaier
10:00 Ask This Old House “View of Cape Town” oil painting.
Ceiling Light, Tool Storage 8:00 New Tricks
10:30 This Old House Power House: The Family of one
Westerly, Seaside Transformation The story of a devastating series of the last hanged men ask the
11:00 Austin City Limits of storms that hammered the team to investigate his case.
Buddy Guy, August Greene Great Plains with blizzards lasting 9:00 Professor T
from January to April.
26 SATURDAY 11:30 Reconnecting Roots
Trains: Tracking Progress
7:00 Classic Gospel
28 MONDAY
7:00 New Tricks
Nine Lives
8:00 Van Der Valk Cuberdo: Daan returns to the
on Masterpiece office, but things are not easy,
Only In Amsterdam: A Muslim and Annelies’ guilt puts their
worker at an addiction clinic is found relationship under strain.
dead with a symbolic stab wound.
Bill Gaither’s Country Gospel 10:00 Line of Separation
10:00 Unforgotten Friedrich and Anna face their
8:00 State and Water on Masterpiece
The Kilborn Alley Blues Band greatest challenge as a state
Season 1, Episode 3: It takes of emergency is announced
8:30 State and Water a second cold case to solve an after the death of someone close.
Cole Hollow previously unsolved mystery.
11:00 Antiques Roadshow
JOSLIN DEWITT HILLSDALE BETTENDORF WOODHAUL MONTPELIER SHERRARDOUTREACH WITH MICHAEL CARTON
WQPT Director of Educational Outreach
It is hard to now, but they have completely different
believe, but I have personalities and physical characteristics.
been working When it comes to the “Nature vs. Nurture”
from home for debate, I am beginning to fully see the
more than five big roll nature (i.e., genetics) plays.
months already! Watching “nature” take its course these
My “co-workers” past 6+ months has me excited to share
are young, full of Ken Burns Presents: The Gene: An
energy and ideas—and they give me an Intimate History with educators this
excuse to have “snack time” every day! month! The film is an amazing resource
It has been great to spend so much extra for teachers, but the producers of the
time with my three sons. The extra time film have gone the extra step to create
has enabled me to get to know each classroom resources for middle and
of them so much better than I would high school students to learn more
have if I were doing what I normally do about genetics.
during those months (like traveling back In partnership with the Quad City
and forth to the WQPT offices, teaching Engineering and Science Council, WQPT
in classrooms, visiting libraries, and is pleased to announce a special partial
working with after-school programs). screening of Ken Burns Presents:
It is amazing how different and unique The Gene: An Intimate History at the
each of my sons are. My twins were Bluegrass Drive-In Theater on Thursday,
born one minute apart and have been September 17 at 7:30pm. I hope you will
raised side-by-side for almost two years join us at this special outdoors event.
Thursday, September 17
7:30pm.
BLUEGRASS DRIVE-IN THEATER
WQPT and the Quad City Science
and Engineering Council will host aFREE,
45-minute screening of Ken Burns Presents
THE GENE: AN INTIMATE HISTORY.
Attendees may also stay after the
screening for a second feature film.
Register online: wqpt.org/thegene
Made possible by
WETA
Quad City Engineering and Science CouncilAll-NEW
Show!
Series
Premiere
Monday,
Sept 7th
This animated series for preschoolers aims to encourage children to follow their
curiosity, ask questions when they don't understand and find answers using science
inquiry skills. The main character Elinor, is an observant and curious bunny rabbit.
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WQPT has on the entire region through our unique multimedia channels and events.
Learn more at wqpt.org/sponsors or call us today.
Abbitt Survey & Development Greater Quad Cities Hispanic Quad City Spring
Chamber of Commerce
Breedlove Legal Rauch Family Foundation I & II
Huiskamp Collins Investments
BITCO Insurance Company River Music Experience
IH Mississippi Valley
Child Abuse Council Riverboat Development
Credit Union
Quad Cities Authority
Illinois Arts Council
Chris Connolly, Riverboat Twilight
Wells Fargo Advisor IMEG Corporation
Rivermont Collegiate
Christopher Gramkow Jaycees of the Quad Cities
Rock Island County Federation
& Associates
Jewish Federation of Women's Clubs
Cissi Leinonen, of the Quad Cities
Scott County
Caliber Home Loans
Johannes Bus Services Regional Authority
Cobham Mission Systems
Lagomarcino's Confectionery Shield’s Sewing Center
Coffee Envie–
Linda Powell Skip-A-Long Child
Culinary Experience
Development Services
Lisa Powell-Williams
Dahl Ford
Stoney Creek Hotel
Modern Woodmen
Doris & Victor Day Foundation & Conference Center
Moline Kiwanis
East Moline/Silvis Kiwanis Teacher’s Aide
National Defense
Eastern Iowa Baking The Joyce & Tony Singh
Industrial Association
Company Family Foundation
Niabi Zoo
Edwards Creative United States Census 2020
Oak Knoll Animal Hospital
Expressions Jewelers Western Illinois University
Oelerich & Associates
Eye Surgeons Wheelan-Pressly Funeral
Public Accounting Firm
Associates Home & Crematory
Olde Town Roofing
Family Museum Whitey’s Ice Cream
Porkies Restaurant
Flooring America Women's Lead Change
Quad City Bank & Trust
German American Heritage Zeglin’s Home TV
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