Zep wrote: 
I know—I saw his name in the credits, but when jagdriver mentioned Episode 4, I just wondered WHO in that episode he was.
I love Tom Hanks!

 Alexandra wrote: 
He did the voice talent throughout all of the episodes. 

Not all of it, of course, just a lot of reading of the writings of the main characters. 

 jagdriver wrote: 
Who was he? Which part of the episode??

 JrzyTmata wrote: 

Gosh... and he was the narrator for Emperor of Hemp*, too?

(filmed nearby in NorCal   )

 jagdriver wrote: 
He's a busy man
I remember him in ET.

 KurtfromLaQuinta wrote: 

I had seen him in some flick, then saw the old PBS American Experience episode about the Summer of Love in which he was featured. Then Bill Graham wrote about Peter, the Diggers, and the Mime Troupe in the BG's biography, Bill Graham Presents, which I recently read.

 jagdriver wrote:  the San Francisco Mime Troupe, a radical political street theater which had recently been arrested for performing in the City's parks without permits.

Radical Mimes?

Ah Ha! It just wasn't me!

His mellow voice, often compared to Henry Fonda's, is a gift that won him an Emmy in 1992

 KurtfromLaQuinta wrote: 
I was listening for Tom Hanks and finally became cognizant of his voice in episode 4.

That Peter Coyote certainly has gotten around!

I finally got a chance to watch this.
I didn't realize how much Peter Coyote sounds like Henry Fonda.
Also good to hear Tom Bodett's voice.

Great show with interesting history!

 bokey wrote: 

I'm going to save it until the regular baseball season is over and watch an episode a night so I don't start jonesing after my nightly routine changes. Kind of like methadone.

 MrsHobieJoe wrote: 
Blimey!

 MrsHobieJoe wrote: 

you would

 Zep wrote: 

snigger

we finally watched part of this last night.  very interesting!!

Loved the bits last night on Rockefeller and his involvement with the Great Smokies and the Grand Tetons.

 Xeric wrote: 
I had never heard that one before.  We were watching it and got the strong feeling from the narration that they were not coming out of it.  Seems that given the number of times they were thrown out of the boat upstream, that this last time, both of them were thrown out and could not get back to the boat.

Cool boat, though perhaps not the best for running the Colorado.

 JustineFromWyoming wrote: 
Thank you! I'd be honored to meet her in person (instead of on webcam)!

 Alexandra wrote: 
Have you been to Sequoia? My mom lives 45 minutes from there and has a big house with a swimming pool and DSL. And two cats, one of whom enjoys pool water drizzled on his head. She'd be happy to host a National Park visitor...

 Xeric wrote:
 
Yeah, and THAT one..... They were SO cool. I want to marry someone who shares that kind of adventure with me......  I still need to see Glacier and the Grand Tetons and Yellowstone and more of Yosemite and ....