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Tune in to the History Channel on Tuesday, February 28, at 7 PM (CST) and watch “Risk Takers, History Makers”, a documentary featuring YC History professor, Tim McNeese!

Here’s a description of the program from the History Channel website:

A modern-day team of adventurers tackles one of America’s most unforgiving landscapes to trace, experience, and recount the journey of one-armed explorer John Wesley Powell. At the end of the 19th Century Powell led an expedition into the last unknown territory in the Continental United States: the Grand Canyon. Over the course of the three-month journey the men would face starvation, dizzying cliffs, terrifying rapids, and even death. But Powell was determined the mission succeed, and by summer’s end, he and his crew floated out of the Grand Canyon and into the history books. Now our team is heading back into this brutal oasis to discover how Powell tamed the southwest. Chris Warner and Greg Davenport are teaming up with historian Tim McNeese to swim deadly rock-infested rapids, and scale cliffs as tall as skyscrapers. If the trio hopes to better understand Powell’s enormous accomplishment, they’ll have to rely on each other’s individual skills to survive.

Mr. McNeese was one of my professors at York College in the early 90’s. He was not only a great professor, but a really great guy as well. He took all of our wedding pictures for us for FREE as a gift to us poor college students. Even if I wasn’t a history buff (and I am), I would watch his documentary just to honor him and his work. Hope you check it out! You had no idea I was interested in history, did you? I love to keep you guessing! 🙂