Sounds of a Nation

There are many ways to tell a story. The most ancient of peoples long since Vanis still speak to us through their tools of flint and the household shards which they left behind. Others have left us temples and monuments or reveal themselves through their paintings, their sculptures, their songs or the written word.

But sounds too are a part of all life. And while the sounds of history are gone with the winds that bore them, we can reconstruct enough of them from our own experience to tell the story of our forebears through sound.

From the time of their arrival upon this continent through their trials and tribulations and trials. The CBS Radio Workshop, dedicated to man's imagination, the theater of the mind. Today, a re-vocation through sound of some of the significant themes in the development of our country.

The title, Sounds of a Nation. The bells are ringing throughout the land this week. Hundreds of bells, thousands of bells, tens, perhaps hundreds of thousands of bells.

From the clear, joyous village bell, as pure as Virgin Landscape, to the majestic choirs cast in bronze at the big city of Thefus. The little bells are ringing too. The proud, forlorn little schoolhouse bells, which do double and triple duty on our lonely prairies, and in the close-held hills and swamps of our south,

calling the children to school the grown-up to their meat-ins and pothons, and both old and young to their players. Your two amigo speak out, foam over the sun-seared desert, long since gone all the unhappy days when your pioneering mission voice called man to penance, clashed with the less somber tones of the bells