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Fishermen and Fishing
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Title
How to Build a Lobster Trap
Year
1977
Crafting a lobster trap requires precision, as demonstrated by Stilly Griffin. Elizabeth Tanner speaks to Griffin about the proper way to make lobster traps.
Type
published content
Title
Kniting Lobster Trap Heads and Bait Bags
Year
1977
Living in Kennebunkport most of his life, Albert Hutchins is a Maine lobsterman. Fran Ober visits Hutchins to learn how to knit a lobster trap head.
Type
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.
Type
published content
Title
Save the Tail for Last
Year
1977
By speaking with old-time Mainers, Jay York and other Salt students were able to learn the proper way to eat a lobster. York documents the experience.
Type
published content
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Reid Chapman
Year
1977
Since he was young, Reid Chapman has enjoyed the outdoors and farming. Ernest Eaton and others document the story of Chapman, an 80 year old man who farms in West Kennebunk.
Type
Photography
Title
Fly Tying Photographs
Year
1977
As a fly fisherman, Martin Pierter has perfected fly tying. Jeff Bonney visits Pierter to learn how to tie a fly and discuss Pierter's fishing method.
Type
published content
Title
Gill Netting
Year
1976
In order to understand how gill netting works, Keith Euler took a trip with Herbert Hutchins out to sea. Euler documents the work Hutchins does with gill nets and how he sticks with netting year round.
Type
published content
Title
Trapping Mittens
Year
1976
Within one of his lobster traps, Larence Seavey once caught a mitten. Seavey recounts his story about finding the mitten.
Type
published content
Title
Ice Fishing
Year
1976
In order to understand the art of ice fishing, Steve Bragdon visited Don Shaw and his ice shack. Bragdon documents the work Shaw does in his shack in order to ice fish and the methods he uses.
Type
Photography
Title
Willie and Elizabeth - Matinicus Island Photographs
Year
1976
Willie and Elizabeth Ames both come from lobstering families, growing up as island people. Anne Gorham and Anne Pierter document the lives of the Ames' with regard to lobstering and island life.
Type
Photography
Title
Bait Bags Photographs
Year
1976
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.
Type
Photography
Title
Trapping Mittens Photographs
Year
1976
Within one of his lobster traps, Laurence Seavey once caught a mitten. Seavey recounts his story about finding the mitten.
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