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Leroy Browne talks about gathering materials for class.
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Resident of St. Helena Island, SC (Beaufort County). His father, George Brown, taught basketmaking at the Penn School on St. Helena Island in the early 20th Century. The school was founded in the...
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Leroy Browne talks about the necessity of basketmaking.
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Resident of St. Helena Island, SC (Beaufort County). His father, George Brown, taught basketmaking at the Penn School on St. Helena Island in the early 20th Century. The school was founded in the...
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Researcher Dale Rosengarten reads a passage from a Penn School program dating the first year that basketmaking was taught at the school.
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Leroy Browne explains where to find materials for the baskets.
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Leroy Browne talks about when his father gathered bulrush.
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Leroy Browne explains the process of curing bulrush.
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Leroy Browne explains that pine needles in the area are the short needle pine and are not that good for basketmaking.
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Leroy Browne explains how the bulrush was dried, but the palmetto was kept green.
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Leroy Browne explains the modern restrictions on gathering bulrush. He can no longer freely go in the creek and marsh to gather materials since the lands are protected.
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Leroy Browne explains the story of how baby Moses was found in a bulrush basket.