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Reconnecting Roots

Reconnecting Roots is a half hour television series featuring stories of America told through music, history, & a series of field trips alongside host Gabe McCauley. Portraying American life across the past six generations, this series exhibits the American journey of unbounded progress with the hope of understanding how exactly we fit in and why.

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Games: Rolls to Roles

Season 4 Episode 408 | 26m 46s | CC

Gabe rolls the dice with actress/gamer Felicia Day (creator/star “The Guild,” founder “Geek & Sundry”) to discuss the “roles” of gaming and what makes it a valuable use of time, looking not just at how we play, but why we must. From cards to joystick controllers and back again, we see how games and society interact with each other and what spurred the current renaissance of tabletop board games.

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Distributed nationally by American Public Television.

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