Early California settler and legendary stagecoach driver Charlie Parkhurst comes to life in San Jose's History Park. He's just one of the many local characters from long ago who stroll the streets of the living history exhibit depicting San Jose in the 1890s. Recently, John Gregg got a chance to interview the celebrated Pioneer. You can [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, February 24, 2010
This is Us profiles San Jose Sharks star center and current Canadian Olympic hockey player, Joe Thornton, Gilroy’s two-time world champion boxer Robert “Ghost” Guerrero, and horse racing all-time winning jockey, Russell Baze.
Continue reading...Thursday, February 4, 2010
Last night This is Us presented the remarkable stories of 4 local African-Americans from the deck of the USS Hornet. Featured on the program were Tuskegee Airman, Les Williams; U.S. Park Ranger, Betty Soskin and Sudanese refugees, Simon Deng and Peter Nyok.
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Tonight, This is Us comes to you from the Santa Cruz studio of Susanna Arias. The internationally known artist lights up a torch and gives us a demonstration of encaustic painting - a technique involving fire and wax.
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 26, 2010
local fencers, Mark Wheeler and Mark Hannah, of the Fencing Center of San Jose, were our guides into the world of fencing. Here's a sneak peek from the show:
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 9, 2009
This season we'll be bringing you the show from locations all over the South Bay and central coast. Last week we shot parts of a show aboard the U.S.S. Hornet. COO & Education officer, Pete Sutherland showed us the historic aircraft housed there including one of the helicopters that recovered astronauts returning from space. (Remember the "splash down" [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, May 14, 2009
We are just putting the finishing touches on the latest episode of This is Us. Monday, with the help of our interns Eddie Gilbert and Xi Lin, we shot the host wrap-arounds in our studio. Our editor and cameraman,Steve Kern, will put them together with John Gregg’s stories and on Sunday, May 31 you can watch the [...]
Continue reading...Friday, April 3, 2009
With "the run for the roses" at hand, the KTEH crew breezed out to Golden Gate Fields to profile Russell Baze, racing's "winningest jockey." Baze who is the first North American Jockey to win 10,000 races, slowed down for a few minutes to talkk with Producer, John Gregg about racing and his long career. The son of [...]
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Friday, March 19, 2010
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