Lexington, Ky - Bourbon and Kentucky: A History Distilled has been selected for national syndication and distribution throughout the PBS system.
The 60-minute high-definition documentary by Witnessing History, LLC, a Lexington-based documentary film production company, "explores how distilling originated in Kentucky with it's first settlers in 1775," according to a press release, "and illustrates the progression of whiskey-making to the stage where the best of it was old, smooth, amber in color and known as Bourbon."
Executive producers Douglas High and historian Kent Masterson Brown said the program has been chosen by the National Educational Telecommunications Association (NETA) for nationwide syndication / distribution and will be made available to every PBS television affiliate station in the United States for public broadcast in early 2009.
Funding for the production was provided in part by a grant from the KET Fund for Independent Production and by the Lexington Convention and Visitors Bureau. Al Greenfield directed the program and it was written and hosted Brown.
Brown is the author of the 2005 book Retreat From Gettysburg: Lee, Logistics and the Pennsylvania Campaign, also available as a DVD documentary produced by Witnessing History, LLC, in 2008.
To learn more about Witnessing History LLC and to view its catalog of documentary films on DVD, please visit www.witnessinghistoryonline.com.