Season Nine Preview
Travel the USA to experience epic trails, history, food and adventure in Season 9 of “Travels with Darley.” Explore Charleston and The Liberty Trail in South Carolina, Alabama’s Civil Rights Trail, New York’s Empire State Trail, Wisconsin’s Northwoods and Colorado Ranches & Forests! The new season launches winter 2022 on PBS stations and this spring to Ovation TV’s Journy. This season brings the “Travels with Darley” series to 51 half hours. Learn about South Carolina’s Liberty Trail charting Revolutionary War sites, the history of the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama in Birmingham, Montgomery and Selma, experience national forests in Wisconsin and Colorado and New York State’s epic Empire State Trail, which runs from NYC to the Canadian Border with host Darley Newman.
There are lots of ways to watch “Travels With Darley.” Check out these episodes on your local PBS station, Ovation TV’s Journy and Create TV and binge the series’ first 24 half hours on Amazon Prime and Wondrium.
SEASON NINE EPISODES
Colorado Ranches & Forests
Explore dude ranches, national forests, Rocky Mountain National Park and great food and culture on a road trip through Grand County, Colorado on “Travels with Darley.” Ride horses, go fishing and enjoy and sustainable travels at Devil’s Thumb Ranch, C Lazy U Ranch, Latigo Ranch, YMCA of the Rockies, Bar Lazy J and Drowsy Water Ranch. Mountain bike and hike in Rocky Mountain National Park, Routt National Forest and Arapaho National Forest. Take a ride on Grand Lake with Rocky Mountain Amphicar Adventures. Plus, a visit to a Colorado brewstillery, the Dean West, and Fraser Valley Distilling, before slow food served fast at Debbie’s Drive-In.
Wisconsin’s Northwoods
Travel throughout Wisconsin’s Northwoods through the vast Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest for adventure, food and history in this episode of “Travels with Darley.” Darley tries log rolling, mountain biking, hiking, boating and fishing with the locals, including visiting Delta Dinner and a classic Supper Club.
Alabama’s Civil Rights Trail Part I
Join Darley Newman and local experts who lived through the 20th century Civil Rights Movement in Montgomery, Birmingham, and Selma. Follow in the footsteps of legends and activists such as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks at museums, churches, national parks, and other landmarks. Watch for this episode coming to your local PBS TV station this winter and Ovation TV’s Journy spring of 2022.
This episode takes viewers to Kelly Ingram Park and the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, which charts the history of the Civil Rights Movement and beyond. Darley meets with Pastor Arthur Price Jr at the 16th Street Baptist Church, the site of a tragic bombing, and where Civil Rights mass meetings and rallies were held during the 1960s. Deon Gordon of TechBirmingham shares an introduction to Railroad Park, a 19-acre green space in downtown Birmingham that celebrates the industrial legacy of the city. At Selma’s Tabernacle Baptist Church, Dr. Verdell Lett Dawson shares the history of this site which held the first mass meeting of the Voting Rights Movement.
In Birmingham’s historic theatre district journalist and professor Glenny Brock leads Darley through this historically black community to learn more about what life was like during the Jim Crow years in Birmingham. Darley also introduces viewers to Alabama food and drinks at Hero Doughnuts, Back Forty Brewing Company, Post Office Pies and Lannie’s BBQ in Selma.
Alabama’s Civil Rights Trail Part II
Join Darley Newman and local experts who lived through the 20th century Civil Rights Movement in Montgomery, Birmingham, and Selma. Follow in the footsteps of legends and activists such as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks at museums, churches, national parks, and other landmarks. Watch for this episode coming to your local PBS TV station this winter and Ovation TV’s Journy spring of 2022.
This episode takes viewers to meet JoAnne Bland, who was arrested 13 times before the age of 12 for her participation in the Civil Rights Movement. Darley interviews her beside the iconic Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. Wanda Battle meets Darley in Montgomery at the Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church, where Dr. Martin Luther King served as pastor from 1954 to 1960. Battle takes Darley to the steps of the Alabama State Capitol and the home where Dr. King lived when he was pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church. At Rosa Parks former Montgomery home, Darley speaks with Doris Crenshaw, a lifelong activist who at the age of 12 was a protegee of Rosa Parks.
Michelle Browder leads Darley through Montgomery to sites of significance, including the Southern Poverty Law Center, a non-profit legal advocacy organization which has a history of fighting cases related to Civil Rights. Finally, Darley heads to Montgomery’s Westside to meet Kevin King of The King’s Canvas. Kevin founded a non-profit that provides art supplies, classes and the space for people in the community to create who otherwise wouldn’t have the resources or access to do so. He’s also creating public art to make change.
Charleston & The Liberty Trail
Visit Revolutionary War sites in Charleston, Moncks Corner, McClellanville and the Francis Marion National Forest in South Carolina, where military leaders such as Francis Marion, also known as the Swamp Fox, fought for independence. Darley joins experts at parks, battlefields, museums, restaurants and churches to share history in an interactive way in this episode of “Travels with Darley” on PBS and Ovation TV’s Journy.