Channel 2's first locally-produced high-definition TV show will focus on a highly dramatic battle
WFMY-TV's first locally-produced program high-definition television show in the Piedmont area will feature a patriotic theme during a patriotic part of the year, the eve of July 4.
The show will be a 30-minute documentary, "The Battle of Guilford Courthouse," and will air Monday at 8 p.m.
The catch is viewers must have a high-definition TV to watch in high-definition, which produces a superior image to conventional TV. h . Those with high-definition sets can tune to WFMY-HD channel 2-1 or Time Warner Cable Digital Cable Channel 521.
The Battle of Guilford Courthouse was fought March 15, 1781, over a 1,000-acre battlefield, parts of are now included in Guilford Courthouse National Military Park in northwest Greensboro.
The battle helped make it possible for Americans to celebrate July 4th. Historians call the fight at Guilford Courthouse between Americans under Gen. Nathanael Greene and the British under Gen. Lord Charles Cornwallis a watershed event in the American Revolution.
Never mind the Americans technically lost. In so doing, they bloodied the British so badly, the Red Coats ceased being an effective fighting force. Cornwallis surrendered the British Army six months at Yorktown, Va.
America had won its independence.
A Channel 2 news release says the show utilized the expertise of John Durham, the military park's historian. Viewers will learn about efforts in late 19th century by Judge David Schenck to save as much of the battlefield as possible.
By then,100 years had passed somce the battle. The unmarked battlefield was so obscure most people in the Greensboro area couldn't have found it if they had tried.
The show - produced, photographed and edited by News 2 producer Geoff Johnson and sponsored by Time Warner and the North Carolina National Guard - will discuss modern-day efforts to add battlefield land to the park. The expansion effort is a joint venture of the Guilford Battleground Co., which Schenck founded more than a 100 years ago, and the National Park Service.
The show will include scenes from Guilford Courthouse battle re-enactments and interviews with re-enactors who come from far away places to participate each March.
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Would it be possible to tour the station during the Christmas hokidays with the Cub Scouts? Perhaps for the scouts it would be more convenient after 4 pm because parents work.
Thank you,
Cathy Robertson
Posted on December 6, 2006 12:36 PM