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Handouts and more from Ed Johnson’s OLLI at WVU classes
Clicking on “YouTube Playlist” in the sections below takes you to the respective YouTube website.
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>>Don Knotts – Spring 2024 -OLLI
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>> WV @ 150 – Spring 2024 – OLLI
Explore West Virginia Public Broadcasting’s “YouTube Playlist”
“The Paint Creek Strike” has the incorrect date of 1921 on the YouTube Playlist – the correct date is 1912.
“The Eccles Mine Disaster” has the incorrect date of 1941 on the YouTube Playlist – the correct date is 1914.
Explore “Misc. Centennial and Sesquicentennial Images”
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>> Bridges of West Virginia – Winter 2024 – OLLI
Explore “Bridges” from MH3WV’s “Transportation” page
Explore West Virginia Division of Highways’ “Crossings – Bridge Building in West Virginia”
Explore West Virginia Division of Highways’ “Highways Through History” Website
Explore “West Virginia Statewide Historic Bridge Survey: Final Survey Report 2015” (pdf) (551 pages)
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Explore “Handout” – “Ohio River” (pdf)
Explore YouTube Playlist – “Ohio River”
Explore a couple photos of the Wellsburg Bridge floating (pdf)
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Explore “Handout” – “Great Kanawha / New Rivers” (pdf)
Explore YouTube Playlist – “Great Kanawha / New Rivers”
Explore “Charleston Interstate Pedestrian Overpass” (pdf)
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Explore “Handout” – “Southern West Virginia” (pdf)
Explore YouTube Playlist – “Southern West Virginia”
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Explore “Handout” – “The Rest”
Explore YouTube Playlist – “The Rest”
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>> Walt Disney World’s Candlelight Processional – Fall 2023
Click here to Explore “Handout” (pdf)
Click here to Explore YouTube playlist
Walt Disney World Candlelight Processional 2023 Celebrity Narrators:
• Chrissy Metz (NEW): Nov. 24-25
• Luis Fonsi (NEW): Nov. 26-27
• Ann-Margret (NEW): Nov. 28-29 — (Ann-Margret appeared on Nov. 28 only – her performance is included in the YouTube playlist above. Ashley Eckstein replaced her.)
• Simu Liu: Nov. 30-Dec. 2
• John Stamos: Dec. 3-5
• Neil Patrick Harris: Dec. 6-8
• Marlee Matlin: Dec. 9-11
• Brendan Fraser (NEW): Dec. 12-14
• Eva Longoria (NEW): Dec. 15-16
• Joey McIntyre (NEW): Dec. 17-18
• Sterling K. Brown (NEW): Dec. 19-20
• Jordan Fisher (NEW): Dec. 21-23
• Steven Curtis Chapman: Dec. 24-26
• Audra McDonald (NEW): Dec. 27-28
• Lisa Ling: Dec. 29-30
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>> Disney’s Fantasia and Fantasia 2000 – Fall 2023
Explore Session 1 “Preshow” (pdf)
Explore Disney (and Pixar) Animated Films (pdf)
Explore Fantasia Anthology Insert: (pdfs) Side A Side B
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Explore YouTube playlist — (there may be further additions)
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Relevant videos available on Disney+
- “The Plausible Impossible”
- “Story of the Animated Drawing” — 3 of 4 segments also on YouTube – but not the most relevant one
- “Melody Time” — a couple segments are also on YouTube
- “Fantasia”
- “Fantasia 2000”
- “Waking Sleeping Beauty”
Relevant Videos, but not on Disney +
- “Make Mine Music” — most segments are in this playlist
- “Tricks of Our Trade” — on YouTube
- “Fantasia that Never Was” — on YouTube
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Explore “Musical Pictures” Website
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>> Beginning Railfanning – Fall 2023
Beginning Railfanning – Wikipedia Info & Other Resources (pdf)
YouTube Playlists:
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>> Fossil Fuels – Summer 2023
Additional resource: YouTube Playlist
Mountain Valley Pipeline map and link to website
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>> Covered Bridges – Summer 2023 –
Covered Bridges — includes Locations – handout (pdf)
Truss Types & Google Maps – handout (pdf)
Explore “WV Covered Bridges” Brochure 1988 (pdf)
Explore West Virginia Tourism’s “17 Most Scenic Covered Bridges in the WV Countryside” Website
Explore current Carrollton Covered Bridge pictures
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>> West Virginia State Symbols – Spring 2023
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>> State Capitol Complex – Culture Center – Governor’s Mansion – Winter 2023
>> West Virginia State Capitol Building – Winter 2023
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>>Intro to PIXAR Studios – Fall 2022
Walt Disney Co — 1957 chart of Business Model/Synergy and 2019 chart of Companies Owned (pdf)
WDW Magic Kingdom Utilidors (tunnels) map
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>>Alternative/Renewable Energy – Summer 2022
YouTube Playlist – Hydrogen, Geothermal, Nuclear
Also see the Energy/Natural Resources page on this website
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>>The Mine Wars – Spring 2022
Handouts (pdf): Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6
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>> Candlelight Processional – Walt Disney World – (OLLI – Fall 2021)
Click here for YouTube video – program begins @ 7:50 — no need to go past 55:43
Alternate YouTube vid 10:07 — no need to go past 1:00:16
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>> Lunch/Lights – Disney Night Pageants and Spectaculars (OLLI – Spring/Summer 2021)
- Disneyland (DL) – 1955
- Magic Kingdom (MK) – 1971
- EPCOT (EC) (nee Epcot Center) – 1982
- Tokyo Disneyland (TDL) – 1983
- Disney Hollywood Studios (ST) (nee Disney-MGM Studios) – 1989
- Disneyland Paris (DLP) (nee EuroDisney) – 1992
- Animal Kingdom (AK) – 1998
- Tokyo DisneySea (TDS) – 2001
- Disney California Adventure (DCA) – 2001
- Walt Disney Studios (WDS) (Paris) – 2002
- Hong Kong Disneyland (HK) – 2005
- Shanghai Disneyland – 2016
Walt Disney Co — 1957 chart of Business Model/Synergy and 2019 chart of Companies Owned (pdf)
WDW Magic Kingdom Utilidors (tunnels) map
— Spring 2021 —
1 – Original Illuminations – Epcot Overview
Handout (word doc) YouTube Playlist
2 – Illuminations: Reflections of Earth – Walt Disney World Overview
Handout (word doc) YouTube Playlist
3 – Epcot Forever –
Handout (word doc) YouTube Playlist
Disney Parks Blog – A Place Where Everyone is Welcome
Full List of “Disney Look” Hairstyles, Nails, and Tattoos
4 – BraviSEAmo – Tokyo Disney Resort Overview
Handout (word doc) YouTube Playlist
http://www.kget.jp/lyric/76873/Swept+Away+%28English+Version%29_
5 – “Class choice” – Rivers of Light – Animal Kingdom Overview
Handout (word doc) YouTube Playlist
— Summer 2021 —
6 – Opening Gala – Shanghai Disneyland
Handout (word doc) YouTube Playlist
7 – World of Color – Disney’s California Adventure
Handout (word doc) YouTube Playlist
8 – Disney Dreams – Disneyland Paris
Handout (word doc) YouTube Playlist
9 – Fantasmic – Disneyland Park
Handout (word doc) YouTube Playlist
10 – Fantasmic – Tokyo DisneySea
Handout (word doc) YouTube Playlist
11 – Illuminate – Shanghai Disneyland
Handout (word doc) YouTube Playlist
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>> Famous Places in WV
Part 1 —- Northern Panhandle — Mid-Ohio Valley — Metro Valley
Part 2 —- Metro Valley — Hatfield-McCoy Mountains
Part 3 —- New River/Greenbrier Valley
Part 4 —- Mountain Lakes — Mountaineer Country
Summer 2020 — Mountaineer Country rebooted
Fall 2020 — Eastern Panhandle
Winter 2021 — Potomac Highlands
“Handout” of WV maps – (pdf) – 2 pages
Click here for a large WV map showing roads, waterways, railroads, counties,etc.(pdf)
Northern Panhandle
Mid-Ohio Valley
Metro Valley
Hatfield-McCoy Mountains
Update- Northern Panhandle – MidOhio Valley – Metro Valley – Hatfield-McCoy Mountains
New River/Greenbrier Valley
Mountain Lakes
Mountaineer Country
Eastern Panhandle – Fall 2020
Potomac Highlands – Winter 2021
Online “Handout” (word doc) – last update 03/10/2021
YouTube Playlist – last update 03/09/2021
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>> Lunch/Lights – Disney Night Parades (OLLI – Winter 2021)
- Disneyland (DL) – 1955
- Magic Kingdom (MK) – 1971
- EPCOT (EC) (nee Epcot Center) – 1982
- Tokyo Disneyland (TDL) – 1983
- Disney Hollywood Studios (ST) (nee Disney-MGM Studios) – 1989
- Disneyland Paris (DLP) (nee EuroDisney) – 1992
- Animal Kingdom (AK) – 1998
- Tokyo DisneySea (TDS) – 2001
- Disney California Adventure (DCA) – 2001
- Walt Disney Studios (WDS) (Paris) – 2002
- Hong Kong Disneyland (HK) – 2005
- Shanghai Disneyland – 2016
Walt Disney Co — 1957 chart of Business Model/Synergy and 2019 chart of Companies Owned (pdf)
WDW Magic Kingdom Utilidors (tunnels) map
1 – Class Overview – Walt Disney World/Magic Kingdom Resort Area Overview – “The Electrical Water Pageant”
Online “Handout” (Word Doc) — YouTube Playlist
2 – Disneyland Resort Area Overview – “The Main Street Electrical Parade”
Online “Handout” (Word Doc) — YouTube Playlist
3 – Magic Kingdom Overview – “SpectroMagic”
Online “Handout” (Word Doc) — YouTube Playlist
4 – Hong Kong Disneyland Overview – “Paint the Night Electrical Parade”
Online “Handout” (Word Doc) — YouTube Playlist
5 -Tokyo Disneyland Resort Overview – “Fantillusion”
Online “Handout” (Word Doc) — YouTube Playlist
6 – Tokyo Disneyland Overview – “DreamLights”
Online “Handout” (Word Doc) — YouTube Playlist
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>> WV Made/Grown
Part 1 – (Food and Beverage)
Part 2 – (Glass/Pottery/Wood & Forest)
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>> Covered Bridges
Covered Bridges — includes Locations – handout (pdf)
Truss Types & Google Maps – handout (pdf)
Explore “WV Covered Bridges” Brochure 1988 (pdf)
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>> State Capitol Complex – Culture Center – Governor’s Mansion
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>> West Virginia State Capitol Building
Capitol Building – handout (pdf)
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>> The Mine Wars
“The desire for dignity runs deep.”
Denise Giardina, Writer: “For many West Virginians we have a strong attachment to place because it’s not an easy place to live. At the same time, we relate to one another I think through the struggle of being here. Growing up in a coal camp you felt a sense of community. Your neighbors looked after one another. Everybody knew everybody else’s business. Nobody looked down on anybody else and you’re all in it together.”
Jean Battlo — Ellis Ray Williams (pdf)
Watch The Mine Wars on PBS Website – includes, transcript, clips from the program and articles. (PBS has the rights to stream the program until September 2, 2020)
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>> WV State Symbols
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>> WV National Lands
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Addendum > National Heritage Area status was granted to the Appalachian Forest Heritage Area (AFHA) in March 2019
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>> WV @ 150
(The Paint Creek Strike has the incorrect date of 1921 on both the YouTube Playlist and the Handout – the correct date is 1912.)
(The Eccles Mine Disaster has the incorrect date of 1941 on the YouTube Playlist – the correct date is 1914.)
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>>Transportation in West Virginia
>> Planes,
(No YouTube Playlist for Planes)
>> Trains,
>> & Automobiles. . .
>> (& Boats)
>> (& PRTs)
Handout (pdf) – includes additional material
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>> Suzy Bucy’s – Historic Trains – Railroad Book – (Lunch and Learn)
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>> Lunch & Lights! Floats & Fireworks! –Spring & Summer 2020
>>Spring 2020 (Sessions One to Six) >>Summer 2020 (Sessions Seven to Fourteen)
[/bscolumns]- Disneyland (DL) – 1955
- Magic Kingdom (MK) – 1971
- EPCOT (EC) (nee Epcot Center) – 1982
- Tokyo Disneyland (TDL) – 1983
- Disney Hollywood Studios (ST) (nee Disney-MGM Studios) – 1989
- Disneyland Paris (DLP) (nee EuroDisney) – 1992
- Animal Kingdom (AK) – 1998
- Tokyo DisneySea (TDS) – 2001
- Disney California Adventure (DCA) – 2001
- Walt Disney Studios (WDS) – 2002
- Hong Kong Disneyland (HK) – 2005
- Shanghai Disneyland – 2016
Walt Disney Co — 1957 chart of Business Model/Synergy and 2019 chart of Companies Owned (pdf)
Online “Handout” — (Word Doc) — Sessions One through Six
YouTube Playlist — Sessions One, Two, and Three
One: Introduction – Walt Disney World/Magic Kingdom Resort Area Overview – “The Electrical Water Pageant”
Two: Disneyland Overview – “Main Street Electrical Parade”
Three: Magic Kingdom – “SpectroMagic”
YouTube Playlist — Sessions Four, Five, and Six
Four: Hong Kong Disneyland – “Paint the Night Electrical Parade”
Five: Tokyo Disneyland – “Fantillusion”
Six: Tokyo Disneyland – “DreamLights”
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Online “Handout” — (Word Doc) — Sessions Seven and Eight
YouTube Playlist — Sessions Seven and Eight
Seven: Epcot Overview – “IllumiNations” (original)
Eight: Walt Disney World Overview – “IllumiNations – Reflections of Earth”
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Online “Handout” –Sessions Nine and Ten — (Word Doc)
YouTube Playlist — Sessions Nine and Ten
Nine: Disneyland Paris Overview – “Disney Dreams!”
Ten: Shanghai Disney Overview – “Opening Ceremony”
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Online “Handout” — (Word Doc) — Sessions Eleven and Twelve
YouTube Playlist — Sessions Eleven and Twelve
Eleven: Disneys Animal Kingdom Overview – “Rivers of Light”
Twelve: Disney California Adventure Overview – “World of Color”
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Online “Handout” — (Word Doc) — Sessions Thirteen and Fourteen
YouTube Playlist — Sessions Thirteen and Fourteen
Thirteen: Disneyland Overview – “Fantasmic”
Fourteen: Tokyo DisneySea Overview – “Fantasmic”