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Potato Barrel Making
Year
1976
In Aroostook County, one of the most important jobs is the creation of potato barrels. Debbie Mountain and others speak to coopers about making potato barrels.
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published content
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Stone Walls
Year
1976
Harvey Bixby is a skilled artisan who builds stone walls. Mark Serreze visits Bixby to learn about his craft and the work that goes into it.
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published content
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Metal Spinning
Year
1979
In Kittery, Freddie Cooper practices the dying art of spinning pewter. Janice Coyne visits Cooper to learn about his craft of metal spinning.
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published content
Title
Boats That Come Naturally
Year
1979
Building boats since 1951, the artform comes naturally to Ralph Stanley. Dorothy O'Keefe speaks to Stanley about his work building boats.
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published content
Title
Steps in Making a SnowShoe
Year
1975
From his workshop in Caratunk, Walter York creates snowshoes. Anne Gorham covers the steps of making the bows for snowshoes.
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published content
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Bait Bags
Year
1977
Knitting bait bags since the age of ten, Ada Foss has been creating them ever since. Anne Pierter visits Foss to learn how to create the bags and the work that goes into each piece.
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Bate Fabric Textile Mill, Lewiston, 1992
Year
1995
R. Todd Hoffman captures the hard work that people do at Bates Mill in Lewiston.
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published content
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Working the Loom, Lewiston, 1992
Year
1995
R. Todd Hoffman captures the hard work that people do at Bates Mill in Lewiston.
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published content
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Tending a Jacquard Loom, Lewiston, 1992
Year
1995
R. Todd Hoffman captures Ray Ouellette tending to a Jacquard loom at Bates Mill in Lewiston.
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published content
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Making Evergreen Wreaths at Home, Columbia, 1991
Year
1995
Erin Miller captures the work that Bob and Loretta MacLeod do creating Christmas wreaths on their farm in Columbia, Maine.
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published content
Title
A Tale of Two Workplaces
Year
1993
In Lewiston, Bates Fabrics and the L.L. Bean Telemarketing Center are only a few hundred yards from each other. Dan Stewart explores how these industries marks Lewiston as changing from an industrialized textile town to a service-based city.
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published content
Title
Granite- Challenge of the Elements
Year
1992
In the hayday of the granite industry, thousands of Maine quarrymen and stone cutters worker in over a hundred quarries. Amy Potokar documents the work that a few determined artisans continue to do with granite on Crotch Island.
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