The Pennsylvania Game
State parks, Woolworth's & the USS Pennsylvania
Season 2 Episode 1 | 26m 51sVideo has Closed Captions
Do you know the fate of the USS Pennsylvania?
Do you know the fate of the USS Pennsylvania? Test your knowledge of Pennsylvania trivia alongside three panelists. This program is from WPSU’s archives: Information impacting answers may have changed since its original airing. Promotional offers are no longer valid.
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The Pennsylvania Game
State parks, Woolworth's & the USS Pennsylvania
Season 2 Episode 1 | 26m 51sVideo has Closed Captions
Do you know the fate of the USS Pennsylvania? Test your knowledge of Pennsylvania trivia alongside three panelists. This program is from WPSU’s archives: Information impacting answers may have changed since its original airing. Promotional offers are no longer valid.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship(lively music) - [Wendy] With 94 state parks, Pennsylvania has the fourth largest park system in America.
Our state parks feature historical sites, as well as the ample beauties of nature.
Attractions include hiking, fishing, swimming.
Do you know which park attracts most visitors?
You're invited to play "The Pennsylvania Game".
Test your knowledge of the Commonwealth's people, places and products.
"The Pennsylvania Game" is brought to you in part by: Uni-Marts Incorporated, with stores in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, and Delaware.
serving you with courtesy and convenience every day of the year.
(lively music) And from Landmark.
And Landmark is: A, a savings and loan; B, a bank; C, a leading mortgage lender; or D, all of the above.
The correct answer is D, all of the above.
People to people, it's just a better way to bank.
(audience applauding) Now here's the host of "The Pennsylvania Game", Lynn Hinds.
(audience applauding) - Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.
Thank you, thank you.
We're glad to have The Golden Age Club from Lock Haven back with us again.
Great audience for a great panel.
Let's meet them.
He's back again in the number one chair, taking a sip of water.
Bernie Asbell.
Bernard, nice to have you here.
(audience applauding) He's one of the men who wakes up Center County on the radio every morning.
From WRSC radio, Kevin Nelson, (audience applauding) And just off the plane from Pittsburgh, let's welcome back Lynn Cullen.
(audience applauding) And this is a lovely time to be out of doors and to see the trees and all.
So let's go out to a state park.
- [Wendy] You can see lots of history in many of Pennsylvania's parks.
Pittsburgh's Point State Park has remnants of the French and Indian war.
With a little imagination, you can visualize Washington at Valley Forge.
Presque Isle, near Erie, holds memories of the war of 1812.
Civil war buffs can relive the battle of Gettysburg.
Which Pennsylvania park attracts the most visitors each summer?
Is it A, Point State Park; B, Valley Forge; C, Presque Isle; or D, Gettysburg?
- Well, it was a lot of pre-ramble to get to the question, but the question is which Pennsylvania park attracts the most visitors each summer?
And by the way, we thank Dr Kathleen Spicer from Bellefonte for that, And WPSX and the "Pennsylvania Magazine" are glad to give her a free subscription to "Pennsylvania Magazine" for sending in that question.
Bernie, have you figured out an answer yet?
- Yeah.
Clearly has to be Valley Forge, so I'm gonna say Gettysburg.
- You do that a lot, and it's normal.
It works for you somehow.
I don't know how.
Kevin?
- Well, I'm gonna play my first impressions.
And I also agree with Bernie, which I've seen on other shows is a good idea to do.
And I just think because of the historical value, my folks took me there when I was a tyke, so I'm gonna say Gettysburg.
- [Lynn Hinds] Was Gettysburg there when you were a tyke?
- Oh, cut that out.
(all laughing) - Lynn?
- [Kevin] We hadn't fought the battle yet.
- Go ahead.
- Well, I'm going to disagree with both the gentlemen.
I know I'll regret it, but I really, I really feel pretty certain that Presque Isle is the correct answer.
- What makes you think that?
- I think I read it somewhere.
- Oh, I thought maybe you'd been to Presque Isle and had seen a lot of people.
Let's see who's right and who's wrong on this one.
- [Wendy] The answer is C, Presque Isle.
(audience applauding) People come from all over Pennsylvania to enjoy the fishing, boating and swimming that Presque Isle State Park offers in ample supply.
Located on the shores of Lake Erie, the scenic hiking trails, the great fishing and miles of clear beach help make Presque Isle the most popular recreation area in Pennsylvania.
- Yeah.
Presque Isle, I might add, is 3,200 acres.
That's how big it is, and attracts actually three million visitors a year.
And the Presque Isle Lighthouse on Lake Erie was the first lighthouse built on the Great Lakes in 1813.
It's been restored, and it's been in use since 1871.
So there you, some, it's a great place.
And it's, because people vacation there, they fish and they, you know, and they swim and all that kind of-- - [Bernard] Let's do a show from there sometime, Lynn.
- We'll go up and do a show from Presque Isle.
Let's go and do a show in a store.
That's what the next one's about.
Something that started.
- [Wendy] Twenty-seven year old Frank Woolworth opened the great five-cent store in Utica, New York, in 1879, and went broke.
Ten days later, he opened Woolworth's Five and Ten Cent Store in Pennsylvania, and succeeded.
Was the Pennsylvania location: A, Scranton; B, Pittsburgh; C, Harrisburg; or D, Lancaster?
- [Lynn Hinds] Boy, I don't know.
Woolworth's Five and Ten Cent Store, the first one.
Kevin, where did it open?
Scranton, Pittsburgh, Harrisburg or Lancaster?
- Well, I spent a lot of time avoiding security cameras in stores like that.
- Aha, aha.
Misspent youth.
- Let's see.
Well, it can't be Harrisburg, because that's C, and it can't be Pittsburgh, 'cause that has an H on the end.
And it can't be...
It's either Scranton or Lancaster, I think.
And I can't make up my mind, so I'm gonna say Scranton.
- [Lynn Hinds] You're gonna say Scranton, okay.
- Because he was a governor once.
- He was a governor, and Lancaster never was a governor.
- That's right.
- Okay.
Lynn Cullen, are you thoroughly confused by now?
- Yeah!
That was very strange, wasn't it?
I know it's not B, because if it were B, me being from Pittsburgh, wouldn't I know it?
- [Lynn Hinds] Certainly you would.
Therefore it cannot be B.
(audience laughing) - So.
I'm not from Scranton, so I think it's A.
- [Lynn Hinds] you're going with Scranton also.
- Yeah.
- Bernie?
- Lancaster has been on my mind lately, so that's probably an omen.
- [Lynn Hinds] "Lancaster On My Mind," from the song of the same title.
- That's right.
So that I'm gonna go with D. - Well, we got Scranton and Lancaster.
- It must be right.
- One of 'em's right, I think.
- [Wendy] The answer is D, Lancaster.
(audience applauding) From the Lancaster store, Woolworth expanded to Harrisburg and Scranton.
Fifteen 15 years later, there were 28 stores.
Twenty years later, 59 stores.
In 1909, Woolworth opened British stores, called Three and Sixpence Stores.
- Isn't that marvelous, that British versions of Five and Tens are called Three and Sixpence stores?
"I'm going to shop at a Three and Pence, thank you."
Bernie, you're doing okay.
You just came back from nothing to one.
(laughing) So you doubled your score overnight.
Kevin Nelson has done some traveling.
You're back in State College now.
- Obviously not enough time in Pennsylvania, as the score indicates.
- [Lynn Hinds] But you've served time in other places.
- Savannah, Georgia, and Evansville, Indiana.
But this is where I live.
- [Lynn Hinds] Of the two, Savannah, Georgia or Evansville, Indiana, which of those two do you prefer over the other?
- Savannah, much.
But I was married once in Evansville, so Savannah was a lot safer.
- I see.
Okay.
It's nice to have you back.
And Lynn Cullen, it's nice to have you back too.
You started out very strong today, with the first one right.
- Yes.
And then the second one, you're-- - Hey, but that's one outta two.
- Right.
- [Bernard] Doing better than me.
- If you were in baseball, they'd say you were batting 500, and that'd be just phenomenal.
- [Lynn Cullen] But now there's a third question.
- Well, there is a third question.
And this third question is an educational kind of question.
It's about a school that exists in Pennsylvania.
See if you know what kind of school.
- [Wendy] There are only 27 schools of their kind in the United States.
Pennsylvania and 25 other states each have one.
Only Alabama has two.
What kinds of schools are these?
A, military academies; B, chiropractic colleges; C, taxidermy training centers; or D, schools of veterinary medicine?
- Hmm.
Okay.
Miss Cullen, it's your turn to start.
Pennsylvania and 25 other states each have only one of these kinds of schools.
Alabama is the only state that has two.
What kinds of schools might they be?
That's the clue, is how many there are, you see.
Only one per state.
- (clicking tongue) (laughing) That's very...
I hang out a lot with vets.
- [Lynn Hinds] With what?
(audience laughing) With what, ma'am?
- With vets.
- Vets?
So you think they're kind of what?
- And I like pets, - You think they're-- - and I happen to know there's only one of 'em, school of veterinary medicine, that is, in Pennsylvania.
And I happen to know that there are not many of them in the United States.
Why there are two in Alabama, I can't imagine, but we'll try.
- If that's true, maybe 'cause they have a lot of sick animals.
Who knows?
She's trying D. Bernie, which are you trying on this one?
- Well, for entirely different reasons.
- Of course.
- First of all, I think the question should be disqualified.
This is not "The Alabama Game".
This is "The Pennsylvania Game", and therefore I think the question should be ineligible.
However, I know at Penn State where I teach, some of our really brightest students are in animal bio, which is like a pre-veterinary school.
So I will guess that Pennsylvania has stirred up-- - You think they go straight to Alabama when they get out of Penn State.
- [Bernard] Oh, that's right, it's Alabama.
I forget.
- Catch the logic on this.
I had too many cookies in the Green Room before coming in here.
I feel a little stuffed.
So I'm gonna go with taxidermy training center.
- And certainly there aren't nearly enough taxidermy schools to go around in the country.
Which kind of school is it?
- [Wendy] The answer is D, schools of veterinary medicine.
The University of Pennsylvania has our state's only school for veterinarians.
Training to become a doctor of veterinary medicine is rigorous and competition for admittance to the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine is fierce.
Only about a hundred are accepted from nearly 2,000 applicants.
Today's veterinarian treats everything from a wild animal to the family pet.
Gone is the stereotype of the folksy country vet, replaced by all the skills of modern technology.
At the University of Pennsylvania's Veterinary School, you'll find a second hospital for large animals.
Even horses get tumors and need surgery.
Even a horse can be fitted with a pacemaker.
Pets are good for people.
A pet can be a friend.
Pets even lower your blood pressure.
And pets deserve good medical care.
- Thanks to National Geographic Explorer for that very fine footage about the only veterinary school of medicine in Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia.
And what a marvelous thing it is.
Well, okay, let's go on to the Mystery Pennsylvanian.
This is the first clue, the first of three, for the Mystery Pennsylvanian.
See how quick you can get it, panel.
When he insisted on using nude models, he got fired from Philadelphia's Academy of Fine Arts.
When he got fired for using nude models, and Bernie is, as soon as I said nude, (Lynn Cullen laughing) he started scribbling, he got fired (Bernard laughing) from Philadelphia's Academy of Fine Arts.
We'll let Bernie explain later why he started scribbling when I said the word nude, but right now is another question.
- [Wendy] The USS Pennsylvania, commissioned in 1916, served with distinction in both world wars.
What happened to the Pennsylvania when it was retired in 1948?
Was it: A, placed on public view in Philadelphia; B, turned into scrap iron; C, used as a target for nuclear tests; or D, sold to the Iranian Navy?
- (laughing) I love this question.
What can I tell you?
What happened to the USS Pennsylvania, commissioned in 1916, served in great distinction in both wars, both world wars, when it was retired in 1948?
Which of those did we do with it?
Bernie, we're up, I believe, back to you for the first answer this time.
- You know, I'm gonna go with C. That's ridiculous.
I'm gonna go with C. - [Lynn Hinds] Used as a target for nuclear tests, okay.
Sold to the Iranian Navy's is not exactly the most-- - I mean A and B perfectly obvious and logical.
- [Lynn Hinds] logical answer either.
Kevin?
- I don't think nuclear test is silly enough, Bernie.
So I'm selling it to the Iranian Navy.
- [Lynn Hinds] Sold to the Iranian Navy.
Right, okay.
But Lynn Cullen, have you?
- Well, I think they're all absolutely horrible fates, every single one of them, including being placed on public view in Philadelphia.
(all laughing) - [Lynn Hinds] You're echoing WC Fields a little bit there.
So what do you think, huh?
- Well, these two are being silly, so I'll be more sober and reasonable, - Sedate.
- and say it was turned into scrap iron, and I'll be wrong.
- Probably, 'cause sober and sedate doesn't always make it.
What happened to the USS Pennsylvania?
- [Wendy] The answer is C, used as a target for nuclear tests.
The USS Pennsylvania was sunk in the Pacific, near the Bikini Atoll, in 1948.
- So I think it's terrible also.
If you wanna see the USS Pennsylvania though, you have to go to Bikini Atoll and go down so many feet, 'cause there it is.
I mean, it really was a marvelous credit to Pennsylvania to have a great battleship named after our state, and then sink it for a nuclear test.
But I like the question a lot.
I like this next question a lot too.
And this is right up your alley here, Miss Cullen.
Let's listen.
- [Wendy] He was called "Whizzer" when he played for the Pittsburgh Steelers in 1938.
Today, he has a different kind of occupation.
Is "Whizzer" now a: A, member of the US Supreme Court; B, governor of a nearby state; C, US Senator; or D, president of a Pennsylvania university?
- Okay.
Kev, we'll start with you on this one.
"Whizzer", when he played for the Steelers in 1938, what is "Whizzer" doing these days?
- With a name like that, he ought to be administering drug tests.
(Lynn Cullen laughing) But "Whizzer", eh?
- "Whizzer", yeah.
- Probably if you gave us the last name, you'd give it away.
- Well, there's probably a reason I didn't give you the last name.
- That's probably why.
"Whizzer".
"Whizzer".
Win one for the "Whizzer".
Governor of a nearby state.
In fact, I wish I were in a nearby state.
- [Lynn Hinds] Do you have any state in mind?
- Oh, any state nearby would be fine.
- [Lynn Hinds] The State of Insanity, maybe.
Lynn Cullen, you know this one, I'm sure.
- I do know this one.
- [Lynn Hinds] Do you?
Well, put up a letter.
- And I don't have to go into a big song and dance about it, because "Whizzer" is now a member of the US Supreme Court.
- [Lynn Hinds] Well, Bernie, which of these two are you going to believe?
Well, "Whizzer" is very interesting, 'cause "Whizzer" White, who was appointed by a liberal President, John Kennedy, is considered one of the conservative members of the Court, which means that you can never tell what's gonna happen with a Supreme Court member after he's appointed.
- Well, maybe like Gerry Ford.
They said he played too much football with his helmet off.
We'll see.
What's "Whizzer" doing these days?
- [Wendy] The answer is A, member of the US Supreme Court.
Byron "Whizzer" White played for the Steelers when they were called the Pirates.
He played just one year in order to get money for law school.
Since 1962, he has been on the Supreme Court.
- Yeah.
I really stretched the truth a little bit.
They were called the Pirates when he played for them.
They became the Steelers after, because people got the baseball team and then-- - [Kevin] That's what got me.
- That's what got you, Kevin.
You were thinking of the Pirates football team.
Clue number two for our Mystery Pennsylvanian, his school of Native American art lasted far past his death in 1916.
His school of Native American art lasted far past his death in 1916.
First clue was, when he insisted on using nude models, he got fired from Philadelphia's Academy of Fine Art.
And the second clue you see places his time period, he died in 1916.
By the way, if you have a question you'd like to have us use on "The Pennsylvania Game", we'd be glad to hear from you.
Our address is simply Pennsylvania Game, Wagner Annex, University Park, 16802.
Did I get the zip code right, audience?
- [Audience] Yeah.
- I got it wrong before.
Okay, there we go.
And that's what's happening with the Mystery Pennsylvanian.
Oh, you'll like this next question.
You'll just like it so much.
It's about a Pennsylvania product.
And lots of Pennsylvania product, lots of products started in Pennsylvania.
This is a famous one right here.
- [Wendy] In 1945, Betty James named a toy that her husband invented.
Did she name the toy: A, Slinky; B, Barbie; C, Snoopy; or D, GI Joe?
- Or did she name it Lynn Cullen?
Nineteen-forty-five, Betty James named a toy her husband invented.
What'd she name that toy?
- Well, I don't think she'd be into GI Joe.
I don't think Snoopy was a toy.
He was a cartoon character first.
Barbie, I don't think was born in '45.
And that leaves a Slinky.
- [Lynn Hinds] Okay.
She eliminated, by the process of illumination, she got to A, Bernie.
Where are you gonna start, and where are you gonna end up?
- Slinky sounds like a toy that a man would invent and a smart woman might name.
And we were so starved for metal things right after World War Two in 1945, and that's very metallic-- - I thought it was nylon stockings we were starved for.
- [Bernard] No, that was before.
- I remember we used to go and buy sugar before the hoarders could get it.
In fact, we still have a hundred-pound bag up in our attic that we had before the hoarders got-- - How do you do remember those things from that far back?
- My parents wrote a little diary.
Yes, Mr Nelson.
- This is, we're gonna all agree, and rise or sink together, but we're right, it's the Slinky.
And it was Lancaster 11, in somewhere in that area, I think, the man that invented it.
- [Lynn Hinds] Is that right?
Let's see how close he got.
- I'm going for the glory here.
- [Wendy] The answer is A, Slinky.
When Richard James saw a spring pop loose and walk, he thought it would make a good toy.
When the first 400 Slinky sold out in just 90 minutes, it was confirmed.
Since then, millions of children and adults have enjoyed millions of Slinkies.
In 1960, Betty James moved James Industries from Paoli to Hollidaysburg, where they still make Slinky, a Pennsylvania-born toy.
- Paoli is what it was, which I know it goes right on the line, on the main line out of Philadelphia, and you ride the-- - [Kevin] I was close.
- Yeah, you were close.
But they did-- - It was back when Paoli was near Lebanon.
- They had a, the spring they had originally was for holding.
They were trying to hold a navigation thing, and it didn't work.
And they laid it on the desk and it fell off, and the thing just kept walking like that, and he said, "Hey, that'd be a great thing for kids."
And that's where Slinky got started.
So that's...
But you were all right.
- [Kevin] Yeah, but it was a golden moment for me.
That was the first one.
- Sorry.
I have to say that you were all right.
How's the score doing?
We're not doing too bad.
Bernie, you're still ahead aren't you, with five, but creeping up in second place is Lynn Cullen with four.
So you're only one behind.
- I'm not creeping.
I'm coming on strong.
- Coming on strong, she is.
Let's see how much you studied your French and how much you studied the American Revolution, and the combination.
- [Kevin] Oh, two of my best subjects.
- [Wendy] Because of France's help in the American Revolution, three of Pennsylvania's counties are named for a French person.
Which of these does not have a French origin?
A, Juniata; B, Fayette; C, Dauphin; or D, Luzerne.
- [Lynn Hinds] Now, Bernie, if memory serves, and those irregular French verbs, which are still on the cuff of my sleeve, those are all French names.
But which of these does not have, which of these counties does not have a French origin?
- Luzerne is a city in Switzerland, but let's say it's Swiss, French Swiss.
I think I'll have to go with Juniata, which sounds more like Indian.
- Mm hm.
That's just one of the most interesting linguistic analysis I've ever-- - Is it really?
- Yeah.
Kevin, did he convince you?
- I'm so impressionable.
I was gonna say Dauphin and-- - [Bernard] Go ahead, say it.
(Lynn Cullen laughing) - Yeah.
What do you...?
Yeah, there's no way I can catch up.
Say, I'm in the wrong place.
Where's "The Remedial Pennsylvania Game"?
(all laughing) Dauphin.
Dauphin, 'cause I like porpoises.
- Okay.
So we have Juniata and Dauphin.
And Miss Cullen, what do we have from you?
- Well, I know he's wrong.
That's gotta be-- - Well, that's same principle.
- That's right!
That's that's gotta be wrong.
Fayette's gotta be wrong.
Juniata, yeah, it sounds like south of the border stuff.
I, I-- - [Kevin] Anybody can agree with Bernie.
(all laughing) - Well, that's not why I'm putting this up here.
I really think Juniata is-- - I can't remember which one it is.
I'm gonna be charmed right along with the rest of you.
What is the right answer?
- [Wendy] The answer is A, Juniata, with an Indian name.
Fayette was for the Marquis de Lafayette, who served without pay in the American Revolution.
Dauphin, after the French King's eldest son, and Luzerne for French diplomat, Chevalier de La Luzerne.
- I knew that.
- Doesn't our Wendy, Wendy Williams, do a great job on that French?
Kevin's partner is our announcer, Wendy Williams.
Did you help him with his French?
- No.
And he obviously didn't slip me the answers.
- He did not.
We were worried, you see, that people would think that Wendy had slipped you the answers.
You have, what, one right, Kevin, altogether?
- So if you've heard the show, you'd know if he slipped me anything he'd slip me the wrong answers.
- He did slip you the answers, but they weren't the right answers.
This this next one is just a dynamite question, I think.
And this will be one that you can all just think about and analyze, and really get into.
It's about a school in Pennsylvania, and somebody who went there.
And it was a famous alumnus, alumni.
- [Wendy] Before 1950, when it became a branch campus of Penn State, Ogontz was a private school.
One student who attended Ogontz became the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California, back in 1935.
Was that person: A, Charles Lindbergh; B, Cornelia Fort; C, Wiley Post; or D, Amelia Earhart?
- It has been verified that it was one of those four, Kevin Nelson.
- Okay.
- Which one?
- Well, who would want to go from Hawaii to California?
Make more sense to do it the other way, wouldn't it?
Well, the Lindbergh and Earhart are familiar for other things.
Wiley Post went on to invent the cereal company.
- Yeah.
Wiley Cereal.
- I spent the weekend at Cornelia Fort.
So I'm going to guess that.
- [Lynn Hinds] You're going with Cornelia Fort?
- Yeah.
- Okay.
That's not a bad guess.
It's possibly right.
Lynn?
- You said alumnus.
You didn't say alumni.
- I was searching for the right neuter verb, or neuter-- - Is there a neuterless one?
- [Lynn Hinds] Well, I don't know.
- [Kevin] Horrible thing to-- - [Lynn Hinds] I was gonna say aluminum, but I didn't.
- Well, if I get this wrong, you've misled me.
- [Lynn Hinds] Well, I didn't mean to imply a gender.
- [Kevin] It wouldn't be the first time.
- I think before he got into cereal, Wiley Post took that trip.
- He did fly a lot.
That is true.
Bernard.
- I'm tempted on that Cornelia Fort, because I don't know who or what he is, but Wiley Post was a famous pioneer flyer, and I think I'll go with him.
- He went down with a fellow named Will Rogers back in 1935. Who was the one, this case, hm?
- [Wendy] The answer is D, Amelia Earhart, who was also the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic.
While a student at Ogontz, Mill, as she was called, wrote home about a rigorous life of rising early, playing a variety of sports, and hours spent studying.
The regimen prepared her for her long hours in an airplane.
- So when you're sitting in Study Hall and can't leave, you may be being prepared for your life work.
You never know.
I'm gonna tell you that Amelia Earhart disappeared in 1937, of course, on a flight around the world.
Lindbergh flew the Atlantic in 1927.
And Wiley Post, as we pointed out, who flew around the world in '31, was killed with Will Rogers in '35.
But Cornelia Fort was not a bad guess, because she also went to Ogontz, and Cornelia Fort also flew.
And it happens that in 1941, on December 7, she was in the air flying around Pearl Harbor, and was one of the first two people to spot the Japanese coming in for the raid, and said, "Somebody's flying in here with a lot of airplanes."
So Cornelia Ford wasn't far from the right guess.
Let's check the score and see how we're doing.
We have Bernie with six, and Lynn with five.
And if Kevin will give her her his one, they'll be tied!
- There'll be a tie!
- Let's hear it for our panel.
They're doing a marvelous job.
(audience applauding) Nobody said you guys couldn't team up, right?
Clue number three for our Mystery Pennsylvanian.
And I think that Bernie's looking like he may have it.
We'll let 'em compare notes if they want to, 'cause this is a tough one.
He is considered America's foremost portrait painter.
First clues again were: When he insisted on using nude models, the Philadelphia Academy of Art kicked him out; his school of native American art lasted far past his death in 1916; and the last clue, he is considered America's foremost portrait painter.
Well, Lynn, let's start with you.
Who'd you write down over there?
I wrote down John Singer Sargent.
- [Lynn Hinds] That's a real good name.
What did you write down, Kevin?
- [Kevin] The only painter I know is Olan Mills.
- [Lynn Hinds] Olan Mills.
That's another great name.
And Bernie?
- I don't know if he's a Pennsylvanian.
- I wrote Eakins.
I think his first name is Thomas, but I'm not sure.
- [Lynn Hinds] And I think it's pronounced Akins-- - Akins, yeah.
- if I'm not mistaken.
- And if we get a chance, I wanna tell you why I know.
- Well, we'll find out when we find out if he's right or not.
- [Lynn Cullen] You're right.
- [Wendy] Thomas Eakins was a modern realist who painted during the Victorian era.
Born in Philadelphia in 1844, Eakins found the newly-invented photography camera an aid to painting, helping him create an honest realism.
He became America's foremost portrait painter.
When Eakins' realism led him to insist on nude models in painting the human anatomy, it ended his teaching career at Philadelphia's Academy of Fine Art.
But Eakins established a school of Native American art that lasted past his death in 1916.
Speaking of the portrait that Eakins did of him in 1887, poet Walt Whitman said, "It is life just as it is."
Eakins opened new directions, both as an artist and as an artistic force.
Thomas Eakins, a famous Pennsylvanian.
- And Bernie Asbell, another famous Pennsylvanian, how did you know that?
- Well, I love this image, you know, of knowing a little bit about everything, and I really don't.
A student of mine right now is writing a biography of this guy, and it just shows, you just learn so much by teaching.
- [Lynn Hinds] See, that's right.
- I learn from my students all the time.
- That's not fair.
He's got students doing research for him.
Thanks, y'all, for being here.
Thanks to you all for being here too.
Hey, see you next time, when we all gather to play "The Pennsylvania Game".
Bye.
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(lively music) And from Landmark.
And landmark is: A, a savings and loan; B, a bank; C, a leading mortgage lender, or D, all of the above.
The correct answer is D, all of the above.
People to people, it's just a better way to bank.
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