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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
Title
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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published content
Title
Colonists and Coneheads
Year
1987
As a sociologist, Peter Rose sees tourism as having a caste system. Rose explains how he views colonists as brahmins and bus tourers near the bottom of the system.
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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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published content
Title
Making the Looms Talk
Year
1993
R. Todd Hoffman captures the hard work that people do at Bates Mill in Lewiston.
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published content
Title
Somewhere Inside This Piece of Wood is a Paddle'
Year
1978
Crafting canoe paddles from his own design, Monty Washburn creates lightweight paddles of varying materials. Douglas Lamont highlights Washburn work as a paddle maker.
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