Ken Burns lives just where you might imagine. The documentary filmmaker, who has spent a lifetime exploring American history, long ago made Walpole, New Hampshire his home, a bucolic village founded before the American Revolution.
It’s dotted with old inns and quaint shops, and democracy is practiced there the old-fashioned way, through the traditional Town Meeting.
He dwells in an 1820s farmhouse ringed by rolling hills and green valleys, a place of “magnificent isolation” where he can apply uninterrupted focus to his work.
On a recent summer afternoon, he ascended to the vaulted loft of a barn on his property to discuss, over Zoom, his latest series for PBS, the Emmy-nominated The U.S.
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