Maine Public
Lobster Trap Christmas Tree (Rockland, ME)
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- Lobster Trap Christmas Tree (Rockland, ME)
- Runtime
- 0:53
- Date posted
- 16 years ago
- Description
- Videographer Nick Woodward caught up with the volunteers decorating the now-famous lobster trap Christmas tree in Rockland. Edited by Dan Lambert.
Maine Public, every day it's local.
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- Title
- Your Vote 2010: Independent Gubernatorial Candidate Kevin Scott
- Runtime
- 8:02
- Date posted
- 16 years ago
- Description
- Maine Public Television shares short interviews with the Gubernatorial candidates in advance of the October 28th debate on Maine Public Television. This interview features independent Gubernatorial candidate Kevin Scott.
Maine Public, every day it's trustworthy.
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- Title
- Your Vote 2010: Independent Gubernatorial Candidate Shawn Moody
- Runtime
- 7:56
- Date posted
- 16 years ago
- Description
- Maine Public Television shares short interviews with the Gubernatorial candidates in advance of the October 28th debate on Maine Public Television. This interview features independent Gubernatorial candidate Shawn Moody.
Maine Public, every day it's trustworthy.
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- Title
- Your Vote 2010: Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Elizabeth "Libby" Mitchell
- Runtime
- 8:17
- Date posted
- 16 years ago
- Description
- Maine Public Television shares short interviews with the Gubernatorial candidates in advance of the October 28th debate on Maine Public Television. This interview features Democratic Gubernatorial candidate Elizabeth "Libby" Mitchell.
Maine Public, every day it's trustworthy.
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- Title
- "I Will Win" A Poem About Living with Parkinson's Disease
- Runtime
- 2:34
- Date posted
- 16 years ago
- Description
- Ken Nye is a former school administrator turned poet living with Parkinson's disease. Here is a powerful poem he penned, titled "I Will Win."
Full film: https://video.mainepublic.org/show/easing-burden-parkinsons-disease/
On Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Easingtheburden
Maine Public, every day it's impactful.
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- Title
- Your Vote 2010: Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Paul LePage
- Runtime
- 8:02
- Date posted
- 16 years ago
- Description
- Maine Public Television shares short interviews with the Gubernatorial candidates in advance of the October 28th debate on Maine Public Television. This interview features Republican Gubernatorial candidate Paul LePage
Maine Public, every day it's trustworthy.
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- Title
- Your Vote 2010: Interview with Maine Independent Gubernatorial Candidate Eliot Cutler
- Runtime
- 8:03
- Date posted
- 16 years ago
- Description
- Maine Public Television shares short interviews with the Gubernatorial candidates in advance of the October 28th debate on Maine Public Television. This interview features independent Gubernatorial candidate Eliot Cutler
Maine Public, every day it's trustworthy.
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- Title
- Paul LePage On Mainewatch (2010)
- Runtime
- 0:22
- Date posted
- 16 years ago
- Description
- Maine Republican Gubernatorial candidate Paul LePage expresses his frustration with reporter A.J. Higgins. Is he joking or angry? This clip was recorded before a scheduled taping of the weekly public affairs series Maine Watch with Jennifer Rooks.
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- Artist Judy Segal Talks About Her Experience with Parkinson's Disease
- Runtime
- 4:29
- Date posted
- 17 years ago
- Description
- Artist Judy Segal has adapted to her Parkinson's disease, but she refuses to let it strip away her quality of life. This segment is excerpted from the documentary "Easing the Burden: Parkinson's Disease."
Full film: https://video.mainepublic.org/show/easing-burden-parkinsons-disease/
On Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Easingtheburden
Maine Public, every day it's insightful.
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- Title
- Michael J. Fox on Parkinson's Disease
- Runtime
- 7:27
- Date posted
- 17 years ago
- Description
- Michael J. Fox talks about his experience with Parkinson's disease. He founded the Michael J. Fox Foundation in 2000 and it has become one of America's leading sources of funding for Parkinson's research. The Michael J. Fox Foundation also supports research being done in Maine at the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor. The work being done at the Jackson Labs may lead to new treatments for Parkinson's sufferers and might one day lead to a cure. This segment is excerpted from the documentary "Easing the Burden: Parkinson's Disease."
Full film: https://video.mainepublic.org/show/easing-burden-parkinsons-disease/
On Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Easingtheburden
Maine Public, every day it's insightful.
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- Title
- Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson's Disease
- Runtime
- 2:34
- Date posted
- 17 years ago
- Description
- Edward J. Drasby, D.O. gives a brief demonstration of how deep brain stimulation impacts the symptoms of a Parkinson's sufferer.
Full film: https://video.mainepublic.org/show/easing-burden-parkinsons-disease/
On Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Easingtheburden
Maine Public, every day it's impactful.
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- Title
- "Easing the Burden: Parkinson's Disease" (feat. Michael J. Fox) - Trailer
- Runtime
- 0:38
- Date posted
- 17 years ago
- Description
- Full film: https://video.mainepublic.org/show/easing-burden-parkinsons-disease/
On Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Easingtheburden
Maine Public, every day it's impactful.
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- Title
- Michael J. Fox Talks About Parkinson's Disease Being a Metaphor for Not Having Control
- Runtime
- 0:42
- Date posted
- 17 years ago
- Description
- This is web extra video from the documentary "Easing the Burden: Parkinson's disease."
Full film: https://video.mainepublic.org/show/easing-burden-parkinsons-disease/
On Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Easingtheburden
Maine Public, every day it's impactful.
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- Title
- Michael J. Fox On His Impact on the Parkinson's Disease Community
- Runtime
- 1:10
- Date posted
- 17 years ago
- Description
- Michael J. Fox speaks about his impact on the PD community and how they have impacted him.
Full film: https://video.mainepublic.org/show/easing-burden-parkinsons-disease/
On Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Easingtheburden
Maine Public, every day it's insightful.
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- Title
- The RetroRockerz perform "Groovin' (on a Sunday Afternoon)" at the 2009 Old Port Festival
- Runtime
- 2:38
- Date posted
- 18 years ago
- Description
- The RetroRockerz perform Groovin' (on a Sunday Afternoon) a hit for the Young Rascals (later just The Rascals) in 1967.
Maine Public, every day it's happening.
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- Title
- Suzanne Nance Sings "Summertime" at the 2009 Old Port Festival
- Runtime
- 2:36
- Date posted
- 18 years ago
- Description
- MPBN Music Director Suzanne Nance sings "Summertime" from the musical Porgie & Bess.
Maine Public, every day it's happening.
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- Title
- Highlights from The 2009 Old Port Festival
- Runtime
- 2:19
- Date posted
- 18 years ago
- Description
- Images and sounds captured at the 36th Annual Old Port Festival.
Maine Public, every day it's exciting.
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- Title
- Mainewatch Web Extra: The Story of Machias Seal Island (2008)
- Runtime
- 1:43
- Date posted
- 18 years ago
- Description
- Whitney Norton gives her side of the story of Machias Seal Island; an island known for its puffins and for a long simmering dispute over who owns it - Canada or the U.S.
Maine Public, every day it's boundless.
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- Title
- Highlights From The 2008 American Folk Festival
- Runtime
- 2:23
- Date posted
- 18 years ago
- Description
- Maine Public, every day it's exciting.
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- Title
- Maine Watch Web Extra: Summer Leadership Camp for Boys and Girls at Ballard Farms
- Runtime
- 2:45
- Date posted
- 18 years ago
- Description
- For the past six years, the Puerto Rican Family Institute has been sending boys and girls to Ballard Farms, a horse camp in Maine. During the summer months of July and August, children escape the hot, noisy city streets to enjoy fresh country air and nature. This year the Puerto Rican Family Institute sent 11 children and counselors to camp and give them a chance to laugh, play, learn new skills, and build lifelong friendships.
Maine Public, every day it's inspirational.
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- Title
- Maine Experience: Voices of the Grange
- Runtime
- 6:52
- Date posted
- 20 years ago
- Description
- An examination of the agrarian beginnings of the Grange in 1867 and how it took root in Maine. Grange halls are still holding on as a center of community life in many Maine towns, serving as the setting for countless weddings, bean suppers and class reunions. Profiled in-depth is the Houlton Grange, once the world's largest.
Maine Public, every day it's local.
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- Title
- Maine Experience: Seguin Island Light Station
- Runtime
- 5:43
- Date posted
- 20 years ago
- Description
- At the mouth of the Kennebec River sits Seguin Island Light Station, the second-oldest lighthouse in Maine and commissioned by President George Washington in 1795. Since 1857, sailors have been guided by its unique, ingeniously designed 9-foot lens that uses just one lamp to cast a light beam that can be seen 20 miles away.
Maine Public, every day it's authentic.
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- Title
- Maine Experience: Neal Dow, Prophet of Prohibition
- Runtime
- 9:58
- Date posted
- 20 years ago
- Description
- Thanks to Portland's Neal Dow, Maine was a "dry state" for over 50 years. His status as the country's leading voice for prohibition was such that when the 18th Amendment prohibiting alcohol sales in the US was passed in 1918 (22 years after Dow's death) he was cited as an indispensable driving force.
Maine Public, every day it's independent.
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- Title
- Maine Experience: A Morning in Winter in 1895
- Runtime
- 4:20
- Date posted
- 20 years ago
- Description
- A re-enactment of life during a Maine winter from over a hundred years ago, when people faced daily hardships that would be completely foreign to most Mainers today. Compared to cutting, splitting and stacking 20 cords of wood by hand each year and heating up one's bed with a bed-warmer each night, today's winters are relatively easy to take.
Maine Public, every day it's unexpected.
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- Title
- Maine Experience: Norlands Living History Center
- Runtime
- 5:01
- Date posted
- 20 years ago
- Description
- In the 1800's, Israel and Martha Washburn and their seven sons built in Livermore Falls what is now known as the Norlands Living History Center, preserving the traditions of 19th century rural life. Today, townspeople dressed in period costumes give schoolkids and tourists alike a sense of what life on a Maine farm was like.
Maine Public, every day it's local.
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- Title
- Maine Experience: The Story of Malaga Island
- Runtime
- 1:09
- Date posted
- 20 years ago
- Description
- When Malaga Island off the coast of Phippsburg was seized by the state government in 1911 and its residents evicted, it marked the end of a unique mixed-race settlement that had existed there for over 50 years. Producer Anita Clearfield talks about her desire to see more done to bring this story to new generations of Mainers, most of whom are unfamiliar with Malaga's history.
Maine Public, every day it's local.
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- Title
- Maine Experience Open
- Runtime
- 0:36
- Date posted
- 20 years ago
- Description
- MPBN is proud to announce the debut of an exciting and entertaining new series targeted to anyone who loves Maine. Each episode of Maine Experience will feature five segments on various aspects of Maine life -- it might be a person, a place, a historical event or even a cultural phenomenon -- that makes the Pine Tree State such a unique place, one that captures the hearts of residents and visitors alike.
Maine Public, every day it's because of you.
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- Title
- Bangor Lumbering & The Fire of 1911
- Runtime
- 1:49
- Date posted
- 20 years ago
- Description
- Producer Barbara Noyes Pulling talks about the challenge of telling the story of Bangor's illustrious past as the "Lumber Capital of the World" in a way that it hadn't been widely told before. In combing through the archival images from this era of the mid-to-late 1800's, she saw photos depicting Bangor buildings of that day that look little like those we see there now. Then the answer becomes obvious -- the 1911 fire that charred 55 acres and destroyed 300 buildings in, the worst disaster in Bangor's history, brought home the necessity of finding more durable and less fire-prone materials, giving rise to the granite and brick structures that dominate today's architecture in Bangor.
Maine Public, every day it's local.
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- Title
- Behind the Scenes of Maine Experience: Winter in Maine
- Runtime
- 1:02
- Date posted
- 20 years ago
- Description
- You know those Hollywood movie scenes where it's supposed to be snowing, but the snow isn't real and it's probably 85 degrees on the set? This isn't about one of those scenes. This segment, featuring segment producer Anita Clearfield, is about shooting the "Morning in Winter" segment of Maine Experience on a very real, very frigid Maine winter day. The idea was to accurately portray what a typical Maine winter morning was like over a hundred years ago and the crew and actors got a bit more reality in that regard than they bargained for. Fortunately the soapstone bedwarmers of the day used in the piece were also real, and they were put to use by the crew to warm something else entirely.
Maine Public, every day it's because of you.
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- Title
- Moving Image Minute: Fort Knox, Prospect, Maine 1936
- Runtime
- 0:56
- Date posted
- 20 years ago
- Description
- This footage of Fort Knox from 1936 comes from the Seavey Collection at Northeast Historic Film. The film was created by Herbert Kenney owner of the Harborside Inn in Northeast Harbor from 1927 to 1932. He also operated several Mt. Desert Island movie theaters after that.
Maine Public, every day it's local.
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- Title
- Moving Image Minute: Bar Harbor, Maine 1926
- Runtime
- 0:39
- Date posted
- 20 years ago
- Description
- This footage of Bar Harbor circa 1926 comes from the Hilda and Meyer Davis Collection at Northeast Historic Film. The film was created by Meyer Davis who was a society band leader who had a home for many years in Sorrento.
- Title
- Behind the Scenes of Maine Experience: Filming in Winslow Homer's Studio
- Runtime
- 3:10
- Date posted
- 20 years ago
- Description
- When the descendants of Winslow Homer gave his modest studio on Prout's Neck to the Portland Museum of Art, the museum's curators decided to leave it intact exactly as Homer had left it. Maine Experience executive producer Chris Sweet talks about the challenges of shooting video in such a tiny space, the treasure trove of artifacts left behind by Homer, and the sense of awe that he and videographer Chad Diamond felt shooting video in the studio where some of America's most famous artistic works were created. Get the story behind the shooting of some of the scenes in the Maine Experience segment about Homer's time on Prout's Neck.
Maine Public, every day it's authentic.
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- Title
- Moving Image Minue: Maine Clambake in 1928
- Runtime
- 0:46
- Date posted
- 20 years ago
- Description
- This footage of a family gathering of the "Auburn Colony" comes from the Philip J. Abbott Collection at Northeast Historic Film. The film was created by Lena and Charlie Cushman of Auburn.
Maine Public, every day it's historic.
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- Title
- Memory Image Minute: Cape Elizabeth Shipwrecks
- Runtime
- 1:18
- Date posted
- 20 years ago
- Description
- The rocky coastline of Cape Elizabeth has sent many a vessel to a watery grave. Historically, the shores of Cape Elizabeth were a dangerous place where ships could be wrecked with even the most experienced sailors at the helm. The pounding waves and gusty winds of a gale could disorient a captain and crew, pummel a ship, or force it into the rocks. Lighthouses and buoys warned of the rocky ledges that stuck haphazardly into the ocean and the reefs that lay just beneath the surface of the water but avoiding these hazards was difficult. When combined with bad weather, the area was treacherous. An estimated one hundred ships have gone down off the coast of Cape Elizabeth.
Maine Public, every day it's local.
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- Title
- Powering Pejepscot Paper Co.
- Runtime
- 1:04
- Date posted
- 20 years ago
- Description
- In 1893, F.C. Whitehouse of Topsham, who owned paper mills in Topsham and Lisbon Falls, began construction of a third mill on the eastern banks of the Androscoggin River five miles north of Topsham. But first Whitehouse had to dam Simpson's Rips in the area known as Pejepscot. The mill was completed in 1896, when Whitehouse gave the new mill, along with existing ones in Lisbon and farther south on the Androscoggin in Topsham, the name Pejepscot Paper Co. The new mill at Pejepscot employed some 180 men in 1898. It was powered by the 8,500 horsepower hydro dam and a 700-horsepower steam engine.
Maine Public, every day it's local.
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- Title
- Maine Memory Minute: Chinese in Maine
- Runtime
- 0:40
- Date posted
- 20 years ago
- Description
- The early Maine Chinese population came exclusively from the Southeast provinces of China. Their numbers in Maine peaked in 1920 at about 160 people. Technological and social changes led to the decline of Chinese hand laundries resulting in many Chinese leaving Maine for larger cities. Immigration laws changed in the 1960s and the number of Chinese coming to Maine grew quickly. Maine's current Chinese community is significantly different from the early community featured in the Maine Memory Minute on Maine Experience. The later arrivals are more urban and well-educated and originate from all over China.
Maine Public, every day it's educational.
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- Title
- Editing Maine Experience
- Runtime
- 0:34
- Date posted
- 20 years ago
- Description
- Maine Experience editor Mike McDade talks in general terms about the challenge of editing several hours of video into a short, coherent story before discussing the particular challenges he faced in combing through a gold mine of footage from the creation of Wyman Dam in Bingham in the late 1920's. The film footage from the dam's construction was used to assemble a story about the history of Central Maine Power (commonly known as CMP) and its forceful, energetic founder, Walter Wyman, who created one of Maine's biggest companies by first buying a small generator on Messalonskee Stream in 1899 that served about a hundred customers.
Maine Public, every day it's because of you.
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- Title
- Behind the Scene of Maine Experience: Filming at Seguin Island
- Runtime
- 1:21
- Date posted
- 20 years ago
- Description
- Shooting video on an island involves negotiating logistical concerns that go beyond the ferry schedule. For one, weather (and in particular, fog) is always a concern. Whereas a mainland shoot can always be rescheduled, the challenge of lugging all that equipment out on a boat might mean shooting anyway on a day you'd rather not. MPBN videographer Chad Diamond recalls some of the other hurdles that needed to be overcome in shooting the Maine Experience segment on Seguin Island, such as getting underwater footage and coordinating a shoot on one of the two days every year that the tramway featured in the segment is operational.
Maine Public, every day it's because of you.
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- Title
- Behind the Scenes of Maine Experience: Filming Re-enactors at Norlands Living History Center
- Runtime
- 1:25
- Date posted
- 20 years ago
- Description
- The Norlands Living History Center in Livermore employs local residents to re-enact the 19th century Maine farming life. From lugging in pails of water from a hand pump to chopping the wood to heat the cooking stove, schoolchildren and tourists alike can get a real sense of how hard people back then needed to work in order to survive. Maine Experience segment producer Eric Bunford describes some of the scenes that he videotaped for the Norlands segment and offers some insight into just how seriously these actors take their portrayals of life in the 1800's.
Maine Public, every day it's authentic.
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- Title
- The Story of Malaga Island
- Runtime
- 1:09
- Date posted
- 20 years ago
- Description
- When Malaga Island off the coast of Phippsburg was seized by the state government in 1911 and its residents evicted, it marked the end of a unique mixed-race settlement that had existed there for over 50 years. Producer Anita Clearfield talks about her desire to see more done to bring this story to new generations of Mainers, most of whom are unfamiliar with Malaga's history.
- Title
- Behind the Scenes of Maine Experience: Editing the Neal Dow Segment
- Runtime
- 2:22
- Date posted
- 20 years ago
- Description
- MPBN editor Heidi Perkins first sets up the Maine Experience segment on Neal Dow, the former Portland mayor seen as this country's "father of prohibition" before describing the process of editing together this video segment of the program in collaboration with Executive Producer Chris Sweet. Heidi offers an insider's take on the production process -- if you've ever wondered how the pieces you see on MPBN go from idea to raw footage and images to completed product, this Maine Experience "web extra" should offer some insight.
Maine Public, every day it's because of you.
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- Title
- Behind the Scenes of Maine Experience: Reflecting on the Lindbergh Crate Museum
- Runtime
- 1:25
- Date posted
- 20 years ago
- Description
- MPBN videographer Nick Woodward talks about the impression Larry Ross, the owner and operator of the Lindbergh Crate Museum in Canaan, Maine, had on him after Nick shot the video for this segment of Maine Experience. He salutes Ross for recognizing that the wooden crate in which Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis had been shipped back to America was more than "just a box" and had the potential to be more than simply an historical artifact -- Nick explains how Mr. Ross uses it as a teaching and motivational tool to show schoolchildren who visit the Lindbergh Crate Museum how to achieve anything they can dream of.
Maine Public, every day it's inspiring.
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- Title
- Recollections of Margaret Chase Smith
- Runtime
- 1:03
- Date posted
- 20 years ago
- Description
- The first woman ever elected to both the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives -- and who stood up to red-baiting Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy in 1950, before anyone else dared to -- came from tiny Skowhegan, Maine. A fellow Skowhegan native and distant relative of Senator Smith's reflects on the inspiration she provided to kids from rural towns across Maine through her courage and quiet dignity. MPBN marketing and communications manager Louis Morin talks about his impulsive decision to ask her to accompany him to his government class after a high school assembly and how to his great surprise, she accepted. (Photos used in the this segment are courtesy of the Margaret Chase Smith Library).
Maine Public, every day it's special.
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- Title
- Frank Ferrel Plays A Couple Mellie Dunham Tunes
- Runtime
- 2:15
- Date posted
- 20 years ago
- Description
- Frank Ferrel, the producer of the Maine Experience segment on Mellie Dunham, has a personal interest in telling Mellie's story. To this day, Frank plays some of Mellie's songs when he plays at Grange Hall dances around Maine and Atlantic Canada. In this piece, which does not appear in the segment that was televised on MPBN, Frank plays passages from two of the songs Mellie himself would have played during his sets on the Vaudeville circuit, "Haywood Schottische" and "The Opera Reel." These songs provide a brief sample of the songs that were popular back in the 1920's.
Maine Public, every day it's authentic.
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- Title
- Maine Experience Producer Reflects on Mellie Dunham
- Runtime
- 3:06
- Date posted
- 20 years ago
- Description
- Mellie Dunham of Norway, Maine literally fiddled his way to fame and fortune back in the 1920's after being invited to play with Henry Ford's Country Dance Orchestra in Dearborn, Michigan. Producer Frank Ferrel, producer of this segment and a fine fiddle player in his own right, talks of the direct connection he felt to his subject when he sat down to play a couple of Mellie's original tunes along with Lona Bedard, Mellie's 90-something grand-daughter and a piano player who still performs weekly in Norway. Together they play a song called "Red Wing," which Mellie would have played regularly at his performances. Hear Ms. Bedard give Frank an enthusiastic "right on!" at the end of the tune.
