“Our Town: Portsmouth” Features Greenvale Vineyards And The PHS Marching Band

PBS Documentary premieres tonight with repeats scheduled.

ATTENTION PORTSMOUTH RESIDENTS (past, present and future)…Rhode Island PBS (AKA Channel 36) is premiering Our Town: Portsmouth tonight at 8pm. Here’s a quick blurb from their blog:

Among the stories in the film are segments about coaching (the horse and carriage kind); the Portsmouth High School Patriots Marching Band; Portsmouth’s history and highlights of its 375th anniversary; historic Greenvale Vineyards; the story of Julia Ward Howe, whose poem became the Battle Hymn of the Republic; Hunt Yachts; polo; meandering stone walls, and more. Here are story summaries.

Part fund-raiser, part community builder, part historical and cultural documentary, and part “day-in-the-life” video scrapbook, Our Town: Portsmouth is the third documentary in the Our Townseries. The first film, Our Town: Glocester, premiered a year ago in December 2014. The second,Our Town: North Kingstown, premiered in September 2015 and will encore at 9:30 p.m., following the debut of the latest in the series, Our Town: Portsmouth.

If you miss the premiere, fire up your Tivos to grab one of the repeats.

After the premiere on December 2, Our Town: Portsmouth will encore on December 8 at 4 a.m., December 10 at 9 p.m., and December 11 at 2 a.m.

So enjoy the spotlight!

-Tristan Pinnock, Blast Portsmouth Correspondent