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Kyle Harney and crew have been working on a series of programs. They will be shown on cable, starting April 13th. Here is Kyle as Robert Barker, photo by Walter Hawes.
Art taping Kyle with the handsome co-star Hess! Hess was on loan from Andy Sullivan. Photo by Deborah Wall.
Pembroke at 300
“Pembroke at 300” would be a series of 10, 30 minute programs that would consist primarily of a sit down interview with one particular resident of Pembroke. This person would best exemplify the type of person you might meet during that time period. I see the program as something of an abbreviated “David Frost” style interview with each of us sitting comfortably in arm chairs. Nothing all that fancy would be required as it is my hope that the guests will be the real focus of the show.
Now, before the guests even take their seats for the interview, a great deal of research will need to be done. This would include selecting the person that will be interviewed and finding out as much information that we can about the specific time that the guest lived here, in Pembroke. For this herculean task, I will humbly ask for the help of the Pembroke Historical Society. It will be a lot of work but it will also be a lot of fun.
I was also thinking that each show should start with a short, perhaps 5 minute, opening segment wherein we could have some basic facts such as: population, new buildings that were erected, names of those in the news of the day and any interesting events, like parades, town festivals, or particularly nasty snow storms. This voiceover would be presented over a montage of images relevant to the script. I think that by opening the show in this way, the opening will act as a buffer; giving the viewer the chance to take a break from the cares and tasks of today and become acquainted with the time period that we will be focusing on for that episode.
The bulk of the show will consist of the actual interview. This will be conducted at the PMB studio and should be a pretty straight forward endeavor. It is my hope that we will be able to find people who would like to appear on the show and assume the identity of someone who had lived in Pembroke long ago. They would dress in historically accurate clothing and speak with the affectations that would have been particular to Pembroke when they lived here.
By using this format, I must ask the viewers to suspend their disbelief a bit. Of course, I know that a television interview would be inconceivable to someone in the eighteenth century, but if the audience will simply go with me on this, I think we could have the opportunity to create some really exciting local television. Not only that, we will have the chance to learn so much about the lives of the people who have called Pembroke home over the last three centuries.
Sincerely
R. Kyle Harney
Producer
Pembroke at 300
Episode Guide
Episode 1: Pre-Pembroke (…1712)
Episode 2: Pembroke incorporation and pre-revolutionary rumblings (1712 through the revolutionary war)
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Kyle Harney and crew have been working on a series of programs. They will be shown on cable, starting April 13th. Here is Kyle as Robert Barker, photo by Walter Hawes. 
Art taping Kyle with the handsome co-star Hess! Hess was on loan from Andy Sullivan. Photo by Deborah Wall.