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| Touchstones of Our Society The first hour of The American Promise explores the touchstones of our society -- freedom, responsibility, participation. FREEDOM • Three thousand feet up a sheer rock face in Yosemite, the lives of climbers Dan and Sue McDevitt depend on a six-inch long metal bolt -- one that naturalists want to ban. Whose mountain is it anyway? • In the graffiti wars in Philadelphia, the city is winning. Taggers are turning their talents to painting murals -- 1,200 to date -- which not only decorate, but revitalize these urban neighborhoods. • It is 1773 in Colonial Williamsburg. Thomas Jefferson and fellow legislators leave the House of Burgesses and meet in a tavern to trade news and rumors about rebellions. It is a revolution built on correspondence and words. RESPONSIBILITY • A student was shot and killed at Los Angeles' Reseda High School. Others knew there was a gun on campus. Why didn't they tell? • High school students stopped development of a swamp outside Fort Myers, Fla. Then they taught the city how to preserve it. PARTICIPATION • At round-up time on Joe Fallini's ranch at Tonopah, Nev., everyone for miles around pitches in -- or the job can't get done. • Rocky Robertson thought slow ambulance service was costing lives in his Brooklyn, N.Y., neighborhood. So he started his own. • In 14th-century Florence, citizens must participate. Every two months, a lottery determines who holds public office. • When the chips are down, who can you turn to? In Sunnyvale, Calif., residents are prepared to help each other if disaster strikes. They've trained one another in emergency rescue and first aid -- just in case. • Chuck Kaparich wanted to build a hand-carved carousel for his hometown of Missoula, Mont. Thousands pitched in to help him make his dream come true.  |
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