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Teddy Roosevelt Show follows ‘National Parks Adventure’ screening at Imax

Lee Stetson, left, as naturalist and poet John Muir and Joe Wiegand as President Teddy Roosevelt appear in a scene from "National Parks Adventure 3D." Now showing at the Imax Theater, the film re-creates the camping trip in Yosemite Valley that led to the creation of the national park system 100 years ago. Wiegand will visit today for a screening that includes a program with him in character.
Lee Stetson, left, as naturalist and poet John Muir and Joe Wiegand as President Teddy Roosevelt appear in a scene from "National Parks Adventure 3D." Now showing at the Imax Theater, the film re-creates the camping trip in Yosemite Valley that led to the creation of the national park system 100 years ago. Wiegand will visit today for a screening that includes a program with him in character. Lee Stetson, left, as naturalist and poet John Muir and Joe Wiegand as President Teddy Roosevelt appear in a scene from "National Parks Adventure 3D." Now showing at the Imax Theater, the film re-creates the camping trip in Yosemite Valley that led to the creation of the national park system 100 years ago. Wiegand will visit today for a screening that includes a program with him in character.

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If you go

› What: Joe Wiegand’s Teddy Roosevelt Show.› When: 6-7:30 p.m. today, April 14.› Where: Imax Theater, 201 Chestnut St.› Admission: $8 Tennessee Aquarium members, $11.95 nonmembers.› Phone: 1-800-262-0695.› Website: www.tnaqua.org/events-programs.

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Joe Wiegand talks about his career portrayals of Teddy Roosevelt and his connections to Chattanooga in an interview.

Joe Wiegand, whose cross-country portrayals of Teddy Roosevelt landed him a film role, will be in Chattanooga today, April 14, for an appearance at the Imax Theater, which is showing the movie he stars in.

Wiegand will introduce a special screening of “National Parks Adventure 3D,” then deliver a rousing reprisal of Roosevelt afterward. Wiegand plays the 26th president in the film, which offers an overview of the 100-year history of national parks and Roosevelt’s role in protecting what would become 230 million acres of public lands.

Audiences will relive the famous three-day camping trip Roosevelt spent in Yosemite with naturalist and poet John Muir. That 1903 expedition helped change the course of history, fueling Roosevelt’s determination to protect the “temples of nature” for future generations.