Eugene O’Neill – California’s Golden Parks (164)

America’s only Nobel Prize winning playwright, Eugene O’Neill, chose to live in the hills above Danville, California at the height of his writing career. Isolated from the world and within the walls of his home called Tao (dow) House, O’Neill wrote his final and most memorable plays; The Iceman Cometh, A Moon for the Misbegotten and Long Day’s Journey Into Night. Today the home and grounds are a National Park and Huell gets the tour of this lovely and isolated park.

Note: This episode was released across Public Broadcasting Service’s (PBS) affiliated stations in California, but not necessarily on the same day for each station. The date shown represents an earliest, approximate airdate for this episode. A more conclusive airdate may potentially be between January 1, 2009 – January 21, 2009.