Augusta Boy, 8, Portrays Young Woodrow Wilson President's Church Site of PBS Filming

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AUGUSTA, Ga. -- Eight-year-old Tyler Baum knew very little about American presidents just a few weeks ago. Now he's portraying one in a TV documentary.

The Augusta resident plays Woodrow Wilson as a boy in an upcoming episode of the PBS series The American Experience.

A film crew from Los Angeles was in Augusta last week to film parts of the episode about Wilson, who spent most of his childhood in Augusta.

Wilson's father, the Rev. Joseph Ruggles Wilson, was pastor of Augusta's First Presbyterian Church from 1859 to 1870.

Woodrow Wilson was about a year old when his family moved to Augusta.

Tyler's mother, Chris Baum, said the filming …