In the late ’80s, Adi Gevins and I got a grant to produce an eight-part series of half-hour documentaries called A Gathering of Days: An American Holiday Sampler. She did Father’s Day, Independence Day, New Year’s and one other delightful program whose theme I’ve temporarily forgotten. My contributions were:
1. For Mothers’ Day, Mothers:
2. For Halloween, The Time Between:
3. For Christmas and the winter holidays, ‘Tis the Season:
4. For Valentine’s Day, Attachments:
Here are some other seasonal things I did for National Public Radio:
An annoying look at Christmas toys:
A slightly less annoying glimpse into people’s memories of Christmas:
A Chinese New Year’s parade in San Francisco:
And a visit to a weight-loss retreat on New Year’s Eve: