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Mary Jane Bennett talks about selling baskets at fairs and shows.
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Mary Jane Bennett talks about when basketmaking began and subsequent changes.
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Mary Jane Bennett talks about her baskets from her youth.
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Mary Jane Bennett talks about the appreciation for baskets and basketmaking
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Mary Jane Bennett talks about ancestry and heritage.
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Mary Jane Bennett other family members that weave.
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Jessie Bennett describes the places he looks for sweetgrass.
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Mary Jane Bennett talks about curing sweetgrass and bulrush.
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Basketmaker from Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina. Mary Jane and husband Jessie come from a long line of basketmakers. Mary Jane would make trips to Charleston as a young girl to deliver her mother's...
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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 how the bulrush was dried, but the palmetto was kept green.
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Leroy Browne explains where to find materials for the baskets.
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Leroy Browne explains the process of curing bulrush.
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Leroy Browne talks about gathering materials for class.
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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 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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Leroy Browne explains the story of how baby Moses was found in a bulrush basket.
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Leroy Browne talks about when his father gathered bulrush.
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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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Louise White hopes younger people will take up basketmaking.
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Louise White talks about why her basket stand is on a particular side of the highway.
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Louise White talks about the "Bone," the tool used to make baskets.
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Henrietta Snype shares how long it takes her to make baskets.
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Henrietta Snype talks about her dependence on her basketmaking tool.
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John Derrick talks about where to find the ideal white oak for splitting.