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ABBLASEN: “CBS Sunday Morning” theme song (Video)
World-famous French Quarter clarinetist Doreen Ketchens performs a novel New Orleans model of “Abblasen,” the “CBS Sunday Morning” theme track.
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COVER STORY: Welcome to New Orleans
Playwright and longtime resident Tennessee Williams counted New Orleans, referred to as a thriving hub for artwork, tradition and delicacies, amongst America’s prime three cities. However NOLA has additionally confronted its share of challenges — fires, wars, illnesses, hurricanes and, most just lately, a terrorist assault — and survived. Correspondent Lee Cowan shines a lightweight on the town’s wealthy historical past, and the resilience of the individuals who stay there. [Originally broadcast May 18, 2025.]
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RIDE IN STYLE: Why streetcars are integral to New Orleans’ identification
By the Nineteen Sixties, New Orleans had changed almost all of its streetcars with buses. However some continued on buzzing. Lona Edwards Hankins, the CEO of the New Orleans Transit Authority, tells correspondent Michelle Miller that as the town reintroduced up to date streetcars in current a long time, it additionally maintained a number of originals. Anthony Maggio, a seasoned machinist, shares how he and a military of craftsmen maintain them operating. [Originally broadcast May 18, 2025.]
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BEYOND GUMBO: How childhood meals impressed two New Orleans cooks’ acclaimed menus
New Orleans is understood for its music, Mardi Gras and, particularly, its meals. Correspondent Mo Rocca visits with two award-winning cooks who created extraordinary menus by reaching again into their childhood recollections of cooking and tradition. Rocca speaks with Nina Compton and her husband, Larry Miller, in regards to the impression of St. Lucia on the cooking at Compere Lapin; and with chef Serigne Mbaye and his enterprise companion Dr. Effie Richardson, who carry a Senegalese taste to the meals at Dakar Nola. [Originally broadcast May 18, 2025.]
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ARCHITECTURE: Longue Vue Home & Gardens
Host Jane Pauley visits Longue Vue Home & Gardens, a Twentieth-century property and architectural masterpiece designed by Ellen Biddle Shipman. [Originally broadcast May 18, 2025.]
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SUITING UP: The seersucker go well with: A New Orleans vogue staple
Southern gents know all in regards to the magnificence and coolness of the seersucker go well with, and its connection to New Orleans. Correspondent Jamie Wax, a Louisiana native, takes viewers on a visit by way of the sartorial aspect of the town — from a historic males’s clothes retailer to an iconic go well with maker and, lastly, to a modern New Orleans occasion. [Originally broadcast May 18, 2025.]
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DESIGNING OUTSIDE: Out of doors dwelling: Turning properties inside-out
All through historical past, the American yard has tremendously advanced. Now, out of doors dwelling areas have turn out to be a booming enterprise, to the tune of about $10 billion a 12 months. Correspondent David Pogue talks with “Home Stunning” editor-in-chief Joanna Saltz in regards to the tendencies, and visits a house with Foxterra Design founder Justin Fox to see simply how some individuals are taking their inside design exterior. [Originally broadcast May 18, 2025.]
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HIDE AND SEEK: Creating secret rooms and hidden areas
Correspondent Nancy Giles goes searching for hidden rooms, and finds a few of them in essentially the most surprising locations. She speaks to Steven Humble, the founding father of Creating Residence Engineering, which makes a speciality of constructing secret passageway doorways and high-security panic rooms. She additionally hears from April Tucholke, who researches hidden areas and says the phenomena of secret rooms goes again centuries. [Originally broadcast May 18, 2025.]
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FLOWER POWER: The traditional artwork of Hawaiian lei-making
Hawaii is famend for lei-making, an historical custom that is nonetheless fashionable on the island in the present day. However the way forward for the craft may very well be in peril, as flower farms disappear and remaining land overheats because of the results of local weather change. Correspondent Jonathan Vigliotti sits down with Meleana Estes, a Hawaiian native who discovered the artwork of constructing leis from her grandmother. He additionally attends this 12 months’s annual Lei Day Competition, held yearly in Waikiki since 1929; and meets Island Boy founder Andrew Mau, who’s reinventing what a lei may be. [Originally broadcast May 18, 2025.]
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EASY DOES IT: Restoring the French Quarter’s historic ironwork
A metropolis identified for its centuries-old ironwork wants an skilled who can maintain it wanting like new. Correspondent Michelle Miller, the previous first girl of New Orleans, is our information to a few of its most iconic designs. She meets with Darryl Reeves, certainly one of only a handful of restoration blacksmiths nonetheless working in New Orleans, the place classic, wrought iron items survive within the French Quarter. [Originally broadcast May 18, 2025.]
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ARCHITECTURE: NOMA’s Besthoff Sculpture Backyard
Host Jane Pauley visits the Besthoff Sculpture Backyard on the New Orleans Museum of Artwork. [Originally broadcast May 18, 2025.]
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NO PLACE LIKE HOME: Christian Bale’s mission to maintain foster siblings collectively
Actor Christian Bale received reward for his titular efficiency within the “Batman” franchise, and now, he is on a mission to assist children who may use a real-life superhero. Bale helps to construct Collectively California, a foster care dwelling designed to maintain orphaned siblings from being separated. He talks to correspondent Tracy Smith about his inspiration for the undertaking. [Originally broadcast May 18, 2025.]
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ANNIVERSARY: The Air Jordan turns 40
The Air Jordan sneaker turns 40 this 12 months. “Sunday Morning” celebrates the design of the enduring shoe with correspondent Luke Burbank, who traces its origins again to NBA legend Michael Jordan’s first assembly with Nike, then a comparatively small sneaker firm in Oregon. [Originally broadcast May 18, 2025.]
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WORLD: Italy’s traditional trulli homes
Nestled within the Itria Valley of Puglia, in southern Italy, conventional limestone huts with conical roofs are a part of the panorama. Referred to as “trulli,” the distinctive buildings historically housed farmers and livestock, and had been largely missed. However they’ve turn out to be a beloved attraction, drawing vacationers from across the globe who’re enchanted by their structure and attraction. Correspondent Seth Doane travels to Puglia to discover their previous and current. [Originally broadcast May 18, 2025.]
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CULTURE CELEBRATION: New Orleans artist and “beadmaster” Demond Melancon
Correspondent Michelle Miller delves into the centuries-old Carnival custom of Black Masking. Acclaimed up to date artist Demond Melancon’s work has been proven everywhere in the world, however it’s deeply rooted in elaborate beaded fits he creates because the Large Chief of the Younger Seminole Hunters Black Masking Tribe. [Originally broadcast May 18, 2025.]
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NATURE: Black-bellied whistling geese in New Orleans
We go away you this Sunday morning with Black-bellied whistling geese, basking within the solar on the Audubon Park and Zoo in New Orleans, Louisiana. Videography: Mike Hernandez. [Originally broadcast May 18, 2025.]
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MARATHON: The charm of lighthouses (YouTube Video)
Take pleasure in these tales from the “Sunday Morning” archives about lighthouses and the way they’ve served as each protectors for sailors, and muses for artists.
- Industrial photographer Susan Brown shoots lighthouses utilizing infrared movie (1991)
- The primary lighthouses constructed on the U.S. coast, on Little Brewster Island in Boston Harbor (2006)
- How automation is making lighthouse keepers out of date (1987)
- The hassle to maneuver Block Island’s Southeast Lighthouse from the encroaching sea (1994)
- Photographer Chuck Feil takes photos of lighthouses from the air (1998)
- The historical past of Cape Hatteras lighthouse in North Carolina (2007)
MARATHON: The marvels of Alaska (YouTube Video)
Discover the majesty of the forty ninth State with these entertaining tales from the “Sunday Morning” archives:
- Charles Osgood appears again on the 1867 buy of Alaska (2008)
- A go to to the Gates of the Arctic Nationwide Park (2017)
- Browsing within the frigid waters off Yakutat, Alaska (2000)
- Luke Burbank on a grueling 750-mile boat race from Port Townsend, Washington to Ketchikan, Alaska (2017)
- How WWII troopers and laborers helped pave the best way for Alaska’s growth (1992)
- Prince William Sound, 5 years after the Exxon Valdez catastrophe (1994)
- The World Ice Artwork Championships in Fairbanks, Alaska (2015)
- Elevating sled canine in Denali Nationwide Park (2016)
- Lee Cowan visits Whittier, Alaska, the place almost your entire inhabitants lives below the identical roof (2021)
- The seek for the stays of a U.S. Air Power crew misplaced in a aircraft crash on an Alaskan glacier in 1952 (2022)
- Humorist David Sedaris on the highlights of his journey to Alaska (2022)
- Conor Knighton takes a experience on the Alaska Railroad (2023)
- Nature: Northern Lights (2024)
GALLERY: Notable Deaths in 2025
A glance again on the esteemed personalities who left us this 12 months, who’d touched us with their innovation, creativity and humanity.
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