On the Road With J. Golden Kimball follows Jim Kimball as he retraces the route of this colorful church leader, from a grassy baseball diamond in St. George to a backyard in Logan. The 90-minute nostalgic journey was created by award-winning producer Elizabeth Searles, with Diana Jergensen and Sally Shaum as associate producers.
Produced by KUED's Elizabeth Searles and directed by Ann Gallenson, the program is a dramatic exploration of English-born pamphleteer Thomas Paine, who was instrumental in the success of the American Revolution. His pamphlet, "Common Sense," published on January 10, 1776 approximately a year after his arrival in America, called upon the colonies to break with Great Britain. The pamphlet went through 25 editions and reached hundreds of thousands of people at a time when the typical pamphlet only reached several thousand.