(bouncy music) (birds chirping) - [Max] Hi, I'm Max.

Summer camp is my favorite time of the year.

Anything is possible.

The world seems full of adventure.

And those adventures are full of friends.

I go to Camp Onomatopoeia.

Every summer's filled with staying up late, playing lots of games, and learning all kinds of things from all kinds of places.

(bouncy music) If there's one thing I've learned from camp, it's that there's no question that can't be answered with a little imagination.

And there is no problem that can't be solved with friendship.

I can't wait to get started.

(bouncy bright music) (theme music) ♪ From right here you can go anywhere ♪ ♪ And see amazing things ♪ ♪ And that's because you and I are friends ♪ ♪ And right here you can be just the very best ♪ ♪ That you can be ♪ ♪ So take a look around ♪ ♪ Let's learn, and play, and see ♪ ♪ In Blueberry's Clubhouse ♪ ♪ Blueberry's Clubhouse ♪ ♪ Blueberry's Clubhouse ♪ - [Narrator] Join us in the Clubhouse, where everyone has a view of the wonderful things to do.

(bouncy music) (door creeks) (hammer tapping) (door clicks shut) - Hey, Blueberry!

- Whoa!

You scared the juice out of me!

- Who are you?

- I'm Huckleberry, Blueberry's dad.

You must be Max.

- Nice to meet you.

What are you working on, Huckleberry?

- Oh, one of Blueberry's clubhouse contraptions.

Doesn't seem to be working so well.

- Well, what does it- (Huckleberry yelps) (contraption buzzing) - Uh, uh, brr-brr-brr-brr-brr!

- What are you doing here at camp?

- It's the first day of camp.

First day is always family day, silly.

(xylophone dinging) (door clicks open) (Max gasps) - Hey, Max!

- Blueberry!

(footsteps clops) - Hi, Max!

Oh, I missed you!

You're hair!

It's so short!

- Your hair is so long!

- Oh, and you got a new shirt!

- And you have sparkly glasses.

- (chuckles) You got glasses, too!

- Well, you got stars on your shirt!

- And you got new shoes!

- You too!

(Blueberry chuckles) You've grown a lot.

(Blueberry chuckles) - It's true.

We've had a great Blueberry season.

(Huckleberry laughs) - I just saw Camp Counselor Carol, and she said we need to put together a friendship tree.

- Like a plant?

- Ah, I don't think so.

- The friendship tree isn't a real tree, girls.

- Ours is more a family vine.

We are berries, after all.

(slapstick drumming) - Maybe we should ask someone for help.

- Yeah.

- How's the Howdy Helmet coming, dad?

- Oh, just a burnt-out flux-capacitor.

I think I've got it working.

- What is a Howdy Helmet?

Is it like a cowboy hat?

(Blueberry chuckling) - No, Max.

The Howdy Helmet lets us talk more closely with the friends we find with the periscope.

(helmet buzzing and hissing) - Uh-oh.

- I thought I had it figured.

- I'm sure you've got it put together, right?

But sometimes a Howdy Helmet just needs a magic touch.

(bouncy music) (hand taps) (atmospheric music) (helmet buzz) - [Blueberry] Whoa!

- Whoa!

- Oh, wow!

(helmet hums) (whimsical music) I can't hear anything.

(hand taps) - Well, you have to make a call first.

- See what you can find out about friendship trees, Blueberry.

- Okay.

(periscope swishes down) (periscope bangs) (everyone laughs) (enchanted music) - Hello?

- I can hear them, I can hear them!

- We've always been able to hear them, Max.

The helmet lets you talk back.

- Ahem, hello, this is Max from the Clubhouse.

- Hi, Max, I can hear you, is Blueberry there?

(Max gasps) - They can hear me, they can hear me!

Hem, yes, Blueberry's here.

And so are Huckleberry and Juneberry, Blueberry's parents.

- Oh, wow, I didn't expect a call from the whole family.

Welcome, Berries!

And welcome to the Arkansas Craft School.

- Thanks!

Me and Blueberry are trying to make a friendship tree but we don't have any idea what that is.

Can you help us?

- I wanna introduce you to one of our best friends here at the Arkansas Craft School, Delisa Eads-Wagar.

She'll be helping you today with your friendship trees.

(critter gibberish's) - Hello!

(enchanted music) This way.

(critter gibberish's) (enchanted music) ` - I love being a fiber artist, and let me explore all types of make-believe, like dragons, wizards, fairies, gnomes, trolls, witches, and of course, cute cuddly animals.

So let's get right down to business, and let me show you my friendship and support tree.

And I put all my friends on it that helped me felt.

And I just thought the pretty colors were like my friends.

So they each got a different leaf with a different color.

And they all support me and help me do my felting.

And I put the school's teachers on the bottom, because they help me, too.

They're part of my support, like the bottom of the tree.

(screen rips) (enchanted music) Let me show you how felting works.

The needles have barbs on them.

Like a backwards barb.

So when you push it in and pull it out, it mats it together.

And it's actually a mat, that's what you're making.

But I make it in shapes, and pieces, and parts.

And then I put all the pieces and parts together.

(critters gibberish's) Then I make little critters.

And it's pretty neat.

(screen rips) - Having a friendship tree, reminds me of everybody that helps me along the way and supports me.

I chose to use mine out of felt because that's what I do.

I'm a felting teacher.

But yours doesn't have to be felted if you decide to make a tree.

I think a friendship and support tree could be made out of anything.

You could use any material you want.

You could even take paper bags and twirl them up like a tree and tape them together.

And you could put your friends on them or do like I did and just give them all the colors so you know who they are.

(screen rips) (critter gibberish's) Well, I hope this helps you build your friendship tree.

- If you need any help, come see us at the Arkansas Craft School.

- Bye!

- Bye!

(birds chirping) (bouncy music) - Welcome back to Camp.

Uh-ahem, campers, I'm Al the owl, bringing you the best jokes from the Mighty Oak.

Speaking of trees, stop me if you've heard this one, why did the leaf go to the doctor?

(bouncy music) It was feeling a little green.

Yeah, the leaves are green!

Get it?

I wanted to tell you a joke about some fabric felts, but I'm all out of material.

But I'm top!

Oh, oh, oh, have you heard the one about the tree who couldn't get the answer?

He was stopped with the, well, what about, have you heard the one about the ficus tree?

He was a faker.

Don't leave!

(upbeat music) - Woo-woo-woo-woo!

(upbeat music) ♪ I'd like to take the time to sit down at a table ♪ ♪ With my pencil and my pad ♪ ♪ Draw a picture of my mother ♪ ♪ Maybe one of my dad ♪ ♪ So maybe ones that I would love to draw ♪ ♪ Some are crooked some are straight ♪ ♪ Sometimes I put the lines together ♪ ♪ Drawing shapes is really great ♪ ♪ Really, really great ♪ ♪ So great ♪ ♪ Really, really great ♪ ♪ So great ♪ - Done, how about you, Max?

- Done.

That's a big family.

- Ooh, I'm excited to see what you've come up with, girls.

- Okay, okay, so this is me and this is you guys.

Oh, oh, and over over here, this is mom's family.

Her sister, Aunt Gooseberry, and her son, Cousin Muscadine.

Oh, and this is dad's family and his two brothers, Boysenberry and Goji Berry.

Oh, and his parents, Granny Elderberry and Papa.

- You forget how big the family really is until you've seen it drawn out like that.

- How about you, Max?

- Okay, so this is me.

- (gasps) Who's that next to you?

- Oh, this is my brother, Miles, - (gasps) Max, my best friend in the whole world, you have a brother?

- Yup.

- How come he doesn't come to camp with you?

- Well, Miles goes to a different camp in the Summer.

- Oh.

- See, Myles lives with my dad and Beth.

- I don't think you drew that right.

Is Beth your aunt?

- No, she's not my aunt.

- Oh, well, here, take a look at mine.

Parents should be drawn together like this over here.

- Blueberry.

- No, I'm just trying to help her with her drawing.

Hers looks different.

- Blue, why don't we go out on the porch and look for your butterfly.

- Oh, and maybe we can go by the mess hall first, dad.

- Oh, yeah.

- Okay.

(footsteps clopping) (door clicks shut) - Beth is your stepmom, huh?

(Beth nods) (sad music) - Do you like her?

I bet she's nice.

- Yeah, she's nice.

Hmm, it's my brother Miles who's all the trouble.

- (laughs) Yeah, siblings can be tough.

I have a sister, Gooseberry.

She's a pilot.

(sighs) I miss having her around.

- Yeah, sometimes I miss mom and dad together.

Sometimes I just wish it would go back to how it was.

- Hmm, where's your grandma from?

My mom grew up on a pickle farm outside of Alma.

- I don't know, actually.

I've never asked.

- Well what about your dad?

Did he go to camp anywhere?

- (smirks) My dad at camp?

I don't know.

- Oh, Max, half the fun of having a big family is hearing all of their stories.

And now with Beth around, you've got even more stories to learn.

- Like Jack and the Beanstalk.

- Mm, kind of, but the magic of family stories is that they've really happened.

And you can hear them straight from the characters themselves.

(periscope swishes down) (helmet beeps) (enchanted music) (bouncy music) - Oh, hey, Max.

- Hello.

- How are you?

How was your first day of camp going?

- We're learning about families.

And I just realized, I don't know much about mine.

- Oh, you mean to tell me you want to know more about oral history?

Well, you've come to the right place.

We certainly can help.

(upbeat music) Oftentimes, we would think of history, they think that it's inside of a history book that looks like this one.

But the majority of history is passed on from person to person by storytelling.

(upbeat music) Storytelling, which is a griot, which is a storyteller.

It dates back to West Africa.

And they will tell these stories about their people and they will pass these stories on, generation to generation.

And oftentimes these stories are not written down.

And the only way that we know about them is through storytelling.

And so that's why oral history is so important.

(calm guitar music) Ask things about your grandparents, ask them what they did.

Where they're from?

What city, what state?

And what profession they were involved in.

If they had any siblings.

If their parents had any siblings and just gauge that information.

A lot of times, the time is hard to ask those questions.

But once you start asking a few, like where are they from, they might open up and tell you more information.

(screen rips) So here's an example of a story that I would tell my son about my mother who was no longer living.

So, Carson, (chuckles) your grandmother used to wake us up on Saturday mornings and she would not tell us where we were going.

And it will be a huge surprise.

And sometimes we would end up in these fascinating places, such as a museum, like Mosaic Templars.

And she would allow us to run around and fiddle with all of the little different things that they had on display, and And that was her way of teaching us (laughs) and doing it in a fun aspect.

And so that's the reason why I take him to so many museums and I take him to so many fun places because mama took me to those places as well.

(calm music) Thank you so much for coming to Mosaic Templars Culture Center, to learn more about oral history.

If you have any more questions, please feel free to reach back out to us.

Bye.

- Hey, welcome back everybody.

It's AL, the owl.

(smirks) Best jokes from the Mighty Oak.

Okay, okay.

Ahem, tell me, what do you call it when you have your grandma on speed dial?

It's Instagram!

An Instagram.

Call her, call her quick.

Uh, why, why did the baby strawberry start to cry?

Because her parents were in a jam.

(cymbal smashes) Hem, you can do this, Al.

Come on, you can do it.

Why did the pony's parents send him to his room?

He wouldn't stop horsing around.

Ugh, I, I've, I've been Al the owl, till next time.

Have a great summer.

- Wow, it's so cool.

It makes me wanna learn more about my family's story.

- Well, why don't you go find your mom and ask her to tell you some stories.

(footsteps clopping) - Bye, Juneberry, thanks.

(door clicks shut) (brooding music) (footsteps clopping) Hey, Mr. Huckleberry, Blueberry.

I'm off to find my mom.

- Oh, okay, Max, see you later.

(footsteps clopping away) - (sighs) I don't think Beauty is coming today, dad.

- I'll bet she'll be back.

She knows all the kids are back at camp.

(Blueberry nods) I'll bet she knows how excited you are to see her.

- (slurps) Mm, mm.

- Have you ever considered the feelings of your friends?

Like we would never want to say or do anything that might make them feel bad about themselves.

(Blueberry's lips smacks) (Blueberry slurps) - (gulps) Oh, oh, no.

(laughs) Who would ever do anything like that?

(slurps) - Well, earlier when you were talking about Max's family you might have made her sad that her family doesn't look good ours.

- (gulps) Well, I just thought she drew it wrong.

(slurps) (spits) Whoa!

Do you think I've made Max sad?

(sighs) - I know you didn't mean to and so does Max.

But before we talk, we should consider how it makes others feel.

That's called empathy.

- Empathy.

- Well, I wouldn't worry too much about it right now, Blueberry.

Your mother and I are gonna go for a walk down by the Lake.

Wanna come?

- No.

I think I'm gonna give Beauty just a little bit longer.

- Bye.

- Bye, dad.

Bye, mom.

(footsteps clopping away) (sad music) (Blueberry slurps) (sad music) (Blueberry sighs) (Blueberry sighs again) (bouncy music) (Blueberry gasps) (footsteps clopping) (sad music) (telephone rings) (switch clicks) - Hello, Uncle Boysenberry.

- Hello, Blueberry?

How was the first day of camp?

- (sighs) It's okay.

I think I may have hurt my friend Max's feelings though.

- Oh, no.

I know you and Max are good enough friends to work through it.

- Oh, I hope so.

Max has a stepmom and I didn't know what that was and (sighs) I think I embarrassed her.

- Blueberry, did you know your uncle was adopted into our family?

- Adopted!

- [Boysenberry] Yes.

He started off with a different family on a different farm, but we took him in.

Goji was different for sure.

And sometimes he had trouble fitting in with your dad and I.

But we learned quick.

It's a lot more fun to celebrate the things that bring us together rather than pick on the things that make us different.

Matter of fact, it's a lot like this piece of art.

No two of them look exactly alike, but they're all beautiful in their own way.

- Thanks, Boysenberry!

Talk to you later, bye-bye.

(phone clicks) (window creeks) (calm music) - Beauty!

Oh, Beauty!

(wings flutter) - Peow!

(laughs) And that's how your dad got his nickname.

I still call him that sometimes.

(laughs) - I can't imagine dad doing anything like that.

- Honey, you can't tell him I told you that.

- Okay, deal.

(bird squeaks) (birds chirping) (hand taps) - I know it can be confusing sometimes.

And I know that our family doesn't look like it used to, but you shouldn't let that bother you, sweetheart.

- I know.

- Really, it just means that there's a lot of people who love you and who you get to love.

- Even Miles?

- Even Miles.

(laughs) (bird squeaks) - Hey, Mr. Huckleberry, Mrs. Juneberry.

Did you have fun at the lake?

- Oh, we did.

If we had swum any longer, the Lake would have turned a punch.

(Juneberry laughs) Brr-brr-brr.

(Max's mom laughs) - It is getting late and I wanted to kiss my little Blueberry goodbye.

Have you seen her, Max?

- I haven't seen her this afternoon.

Mm, but I have a feeling she's in the Clubhouse.

- Hey, Bluebs, what's up?

- Oh, nothing much.

(door clicks shut) - See, Blueberry made a family banner just for Family Day.

- Blueberry, where'd your banner go?

- I needed it.

- Needed it for what?

Blueberry, you did this just this afternoon?

(Blueberry nods) - It really is something Blue.

- Sometimes you're just too sweet, Blueberry.

- Well I didn't like the way it was before.

It's important to think about the family you love as well as the family you have.

So here's all of my aunts and uncles and both Max's moms, Anna and Beth.

Oh, and I left spots for Camp Counselor Carol and Chef Shawn.

And, Max, look down here.

I put us side-by-side together like always, because we're like sisters now.

- I love it, Blueberry.

It's perfect.

- Oh, you're welcome, Max.

It's gonna be a great summer.

(camera snaps) (upbeat music) ♪ Just have a little fun ♪ ♪ At the club for everyone ♪ ♪ And we can use the bus ♪ ♪ There's a place for all of us ♪ ♪ Let's be together ♪ ♪ Making friends ♪ ♪ Making everything better ♪ ♪ Get with the program ♪ ♪ I feel a party coming on again, my friend ♪ ♪ Blueberry's Clubhouse that's where we'll find out ♪ ♪ What the wonderful world is about ♪ ♪ Blueberry's Clubhouse ♪ ♪ La-La-La-La-La-La-La-La-La-La ♪ (upbeat hand-clapping music) - Oh, wow, this is so cool.

I haven't been here before, hmm.

Oh, oh, Oh.

- Oh, oh!

- Excuse me!

- You're excused.

- Oh, oh, I'm Blueberry.

- Hi, Blueberry, I'm Courtney.

- Nice to meet you.

- It's nice to meet you as well.

- Oh, thanks for having me here today at the Mosaic Templar.

I've never been here before.

- Well, you are definitely in for a treat.

- Oh, tell me more!

- Yes, ma'am.

- I love treats!

(laughs) - We have "The Negro Motorist Green Book" here.

- Oh, Oh.

- It's brought to us by the Smithsonian.

- The Smithsonian?

- Yes, ma'am.

- Wow, that sounds amazing.

I'm so excited to see it.

Will you show me around today?

- Of course, I'll be so happy to.

Let's go.

- Let's go!

(bouncy music) - Wow, Courtney, this is amazing.

- Thank you, it sure is, this is-- - Can you tell me a bit more about it?

- Yes, ma'am, so this is our second floor of our exhibition.

- Second floor!

- The second floor!

- Wow!

- Two floors of the exhibition.

- Wow!

- And so this tells the story of The Green Book.

- Oh, what's the story of The Green Book?

- The story of The Green Book is that Victor Hugo Green saw a need for African-Americans to have a safer way to travel across the United States.

- Oh!

- Yes.

So he decided, let's create a directory that lists hotels, gas stations, restaurants, and other businesses in order for African-Americans to be guided to these safe places and they can have a safe journey.

And then they can make it home.

- Oh, that sounds really handy.

- It is, it's very handy.

You could get it at an Esso Gas Station.

- Oh, that's convenient.

- That's very convenient.

So when you stop to fill up your gas tank and you went to the bathroom, you can grab a green book and then go and be safe on your journey.

So this is our Green Book exhibition of artifacts from various Green Book sites from across the country, including from our very own here in Little Rock, The Velvatex Beauty College.

- Oh, cool!

- Yes, we have cash registers from filling stations in Oklahoma.

- (gasps) Cool.

- Yes.

And lots and lots of photographs.

- Oh, I love pictures.

- Yes, so photographs, we were going to the beach.

Photographs of people attending dances at the concerts.

- Oh, that sounds fun!

- Exactly.

And we have videos of people going to the beach as well as traveling downtown and then traveling across the country.

- Wow, this is amazing!

Thank you so much for having me here today, Courtney.

- You are welcome.

So glad that you enjoyed everything.

- Mosaic Templar is wonderful!

Thank you so much, Courtney.

I'm gonna go check out the rest of the exhibit.

- Yes, please do.

Do you have any questions?

Feel free to ask.

- Will do, bye-bye.

- Bye.

(bouncy music) - Sometimes I can feel all alone, even though I'm from a big family.

I have 15 brothers and sisters.

So even with the full borough, I can still get a little lost in the mix.

Once my dad tucked in the neighbor's kids for bed instead of me after a mix-up one night and he was a hedgehog.

- [Bunny] Huh?

Tell it myself, feel closer to my brothers and sisters.

We play games every night, like brooms.

There's dust bunnies, airplane, or do our favorite hip-hop dance.

- [Bunny] Rrrr.

Doing things together that are special to us means we care a lot about each other.

And that's what makes us one big hoppy, I mean, happy family.

(calm music) (bouncy whistle music)