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Welcome toOur State,
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for over 80 years,
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reveal placid orchestration]
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On this edition...
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the emotional journey
of a potter
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who finds himself
in the North Carolina clay...
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and take a literary trek
down the "sweetheart stream."
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Since 1872,
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From our small-town roots
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to the banking network
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stretching from Manteo...
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We're proud of our heritage
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♪
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[oboe leads
calm orchestration]
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♪
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(man)
People always say, oh,
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it must be just like Christmas
opening a kiln...
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♪
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but it's not, really.
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There's a lot more anxiety
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because there's
so much work that--
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that goes into each firing,
each load of pots.
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It's a really private,
personal time
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and can be really wonderful,
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but it can also be
really pretty difficult.
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And I can't even really
objectively see the pots
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for...about two weeks.
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♪
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Once you can let
your expectations melt away...
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then you can actually
look at the pot and see it.
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They, um--
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they really reveal themselves
very slowly to you.
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♪
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The cold never bothers me...
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'cause I--
I grew up in New England.
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I like the cold;
I like a real winter.
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[soft piano melody resonates]
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♪
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There are days, certainly,
when I wake up out here
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and I wonder and I question,
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what motivated me
to be out here?
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[strings support piano]
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♪
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And I think
that maybe there was a--
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a small percentage
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that was running away
from something.
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♪
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And there's days when,
very clearly,
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I feel like I needed
to put this space here.
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♪
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[quick whistled note]
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[animal footfalls]
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Came down to North Carolina
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to go to college
at Guilford in Greensboro,
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talked my way into a class
with Charlie Tefft,
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who runs the ceramic program.
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It was there that my eyes
were really opened
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to this huge world of clay
that exists in North Carolina.
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[oboe leads wandering piano]
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There was a potter
named Matt Jones,
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and I started
helping Matt fire.
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The first time
I went into his workshop,
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there was a smell about it,
and it has a dirt floor,
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and it was very dark,
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and something felt
really right about it.
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[sloshing]
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I felt, and I could really
put my head down
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and learn something.
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The apprenticeship
at Matt Jones's
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was structured
in the same way
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that his apprenticeships
were structured.
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I would do chores
like chop wood,
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mix glazes, mix clay.
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As long as I had those things
taken care of,
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I could also make pots.
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[off-screen]
Corey, these
are little coffee mugs.
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They're sort of
a variation
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of that Cole mug
that I love
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from Sanford,
North Carolina.
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[voice-over]
He would throw a pot.
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That was the sort of
small piece of perfection
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that I was striving for.
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I actually think
that somewhere in between--
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[voice-over]
And the rest of the day,
I would look at that pot,
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and I would try to mimic it.
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♪
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And you need to sorta
sacrifice your ego.
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If you can't do that,
this type of apprenticeship
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will prove
to be very difficult.
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Keep it a little
wider at the top.
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[voice-over]
It's bigger than just you.
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You're part of a whole arc.
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I worked with Matt;
Matt worked with Mark Hewitt.
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Mark Hewitt
was with Todd Piker.
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They were with Michael Cardew
in England.
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Cardew was Bernard Leach's
first apprentice.
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We're all sort of
in it together
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and pushing
each other forward.
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[rustling]
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North Carolina's really a--
a land made of clay.
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It's everywhere.
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[machine whirring]
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I can number the first time
that I used a local clay,
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and it was
a huge amount of work,
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and it's incredibly
labor-intensive
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to refine it and process it.
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But it threw beautifully,
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and the color was beautiful,
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and it had all this character.
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[slapping]
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But the throwing,
I struggle with it.
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[strings support piano melody]
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♪
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I think
that's a funny illusion,
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that art is joy
'cause it's not always joy.
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And I think a lot of good art
comes from struggle...
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and there's good days,
and there's bad days.
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♪
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The way that I throw is--
it's looking at older pots,
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especially older pots
from North Carolina,
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and looking at characteristics
of those pots.
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Since most of those pots
were made for function,
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it was important
that they were light,
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and so there's certain things
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that I really
beat myself up about,
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trying to make them
as light as possible.
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♪
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But they have to look good
sitting--
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a nice, midcentury home
or a modern home.
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I mean,
that's the real challenge
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for me now, I feel,
is the pots
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fit into a broader context
of the world,
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not just be suited
for a country cottage.
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[orchestration thickens]
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♪
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But every once in a while,
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it's kind of nice
to come back to an older form.
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♪
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There's an elegance
to a pitcher
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that I don't really
wanna mess with.
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Instead, it's just a slow
refinement of the form.
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[oboe leads piano]
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♪
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I mean, they had to make
a lot of these.
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They had to be
very proficient,
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but they still added
a little bit of themselves
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into each one.
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They still had the touch
of the maker.
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♪
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The technique
that I use to decorate pots
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is calledslip trailing,
and it's an old technique.
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You can see it
all over the world
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in all different
pottery traditions,
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and it's something I express
a little of myself in that,
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and that's certainly
what people
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seem to recognize me for
is my slip trailing.
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♪
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I grew up with both
my mother and father,
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practicing artists.
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As long as I can remember,
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they were
in their studios working.
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That is what I saw,
so to be an artist,
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nobody would raise
an eyebrow at it.
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It was like the doctor's son
going to med school.
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♪
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Being up here every day,
it turns into a juggling act.
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♪
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[sloshing]
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Certain ones need to be
attended to at certain times,
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and they need to be decorated.
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These need to be glazed,
and these need to be trimmed.
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Watching the racks
fill up with pots,
09:15.655 --> 09:17.757 align:left position:22.5%,start line:65% size:67.5%
it's really fantastic.
09:17.857 --> 09:19.759 align:left position:50%,start line:65% size:40%
♪
09:19.859 --> 09:21.027 align:left position:40%,start line:65% size:50%
Hah, hah!
09:21.127 --> 09:22.395 align:left position:30%,start line:65% size:60%
What'd you ruin?
09:22.495 --> 09:23.829 align:left position:27.5%,start line:65% size:62.5%
I erased it, and--
09:23.930 --> 09:26.232 align:left position:22.5%,start line:65% size:67.5%
Well, you can just
turn this into a leaf.
09:26.332 --> 09:27.967 align:left position:37.5%,start line:65% size:52.5%
But I tried
to do that,
09:28.067 --> 09:30.036 align:left position:27.5%,start line:65% size:62.5%
and then it looked
ridiculous--heh!
09:30.136 --> 09:32.305 align:left position:37.5%,start line:65% size:52.5%
[sizzling]
09:33.573 --> 09:35.808 align:left position:25%,start line:65% size:65%
[indistinct talking]
09:35.908 --> 09:37.476 align:left position:30%,start line:65% size:60%
(man)
Connie and I met
09:37.577 --> 09:40.112 align:left position:25%,start line:65% size:65%
in Madison County
at a farmers' market
09:40.212 --> 09:42.982 align:left position:22.5%,start line:65% size:67.5%
in the bottom
of the old roller rink
09:43.082 --> 09:44.984 align:left position:32.5%,start line:65% size:57.5%
in Mars Hill...
09:46.252 --> 09:48.621 align:left position:30%,start line:65% size:60%
and she worked
for a goat dairy
09:48.721 --> 09:50.790 align:left position:17.5%,start line:65% size:72.5%
in northern Madison County.
09:50.890 --> 09:53.125 align:left position:15%,start line:65% size:75%
She was selling goat cheese.
09:53.225 --> 09:54.994 align:left position:17.5%,start line:65% size:72.5%
We spent that first winter
09:55.094 --> 09:57.496 align:left position:22.5%,start line:65% size:67.5%
driving back and forth
on these snowy roads--
09:57.597 --> 10:00.967 align:left position:17.5%,start line:65% size:72.5%
it was the craziest winter
that we've had in years--
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through two feet of snow.
10:04.170 --> 10:07.139 align:left position:20%,start line:65% size:70%
She's watched this go
from an old tobacco field
10:07.239 --> 10:11.177 align:left position:15%,start line:65% size:75%
to what it is today
and been part of that change.
10:11.277 --> 10:13.212 align:left position:12.5%,start line:65% size:77.5%
She's really hugely important.
10:13.312 --> 10:16.849 align:left position:22.5%,start line:65% size:67.5%
[horns and drums lead]
10:16.949 --> 10:18.985 align:left position:22.5%,start line:65% size:67.5%
Our year
is broken into cycles,
10:19.085 --> 10:20.353 align:left position:32.5%,start line:65% size:57.5%
and right now,
10:20.453 --> 10:22.088 align:left position:27.5%,start line:65% size:62.5%
I've fired the kiln
four times,
10:22.188 --> 10:24.156 align:left position:22.5%,start line:65% size:67.5%
so that's
four different cycles.
10:24.256 --> 10:27.226 align:left position:17.5%,start line:65% size:72.5%
As I'm making the pots,
I sort of have an idea of,
10:27.326 --> 10:29.795 align:left position:20%,start line:65% size:70%
in my head, where they're
gonna go in the kiln.
10:29.895 --> 10:32.365 align:left position:22.5%,start line:65% size:67.5%
[off-screen]
Let's come over
towards me just a hair.
10:32.465 --> 10:33.633 align:left position:35%,start line:65% size:55%
That's good.
10:33.733 --> 10:35.134 align:left position:40%,start line:65% size:50%
It's OK;
it's OK.
10:35.234 --> 10:37.737 align:left position:27.5%,start line:65% size:62.5%
[voice-over]
It's a puzzle
to fit them all in.
10:37.837 --> 10:39.472 align:left position:35%,start line:65% size:55%
[harp leads]
10:39.572 --> 10:41.774 align:left position:27.5%,start line:65% size:62.5%
[off-screen]
I think the short,
fat one, yeah--
10:41.874 --> 10:43.376 align:left position:27.5%,start line:65% size:62.5%
bring--
bring me that one.
10:43.476 --> 10:45.111 align:left position:27.5%,start line:65% size:62.5%
[voice-over]
For the most part,
10:45.211 --> 10:46.846 align:left position:30%,start line:65% size:60%
pots farther back
in the kiln
10:46.946 --> 10:49.048 align:left position:25%,start line:65% size:65%
have more decoration,
more glaze.
10:49.148 --> 10:51.817 align:left position:50%,start line:65% size:40%
♪
10:51.917 --> 10:54.487 align:left position:20%,start line:65% size:70%
The farther you are
in the front of the kiln,
10:54.587 --> 10:57.757 align:left position:12.5%,start line:65% size:77.5%
the more ash and salt the pots
are gonna have on them
10:57.857 --> 11:00.826 align:left position:15%,start line:65% size:75%
because the hottest part
of the kiln is in the front,
11:00.926 --> 11:03.696 align:left position:17.5%,start line:65% size:72.5%
so they don't need
as much surface decoration,
11:03.796 --> 11:05.297 align:left position:17.5%,start line:65% size:72.5%
but the form is important,
11:05.398 --> 11:07.033 align:left position:22.5%,start line:65% size:67.5%
but then,
the form will interact
11:07.133 --> 11:08.634 align:left position:25%,start line:65% size:65%
with the ash deposit
11:08.734 --> 11:10.703 align:left position:30%,start line:65% size:60%
that the flame
will put on them.
11:10.803 --> 11:14.473 align:left position:17.5%,start line:65% size:72.5%
So that relies on the fire
to do all of the work.
11:14.573 --> 11:16.542 align:left position:50%,start line:65% size:40%
♪
11:16.642 --> 11:19.679 align:left position:15%,start line:65% size:75%
Well, that's the most intense
moment because you've got
11:19.779 --> 11:22.348 align:left position:27.5%,start line:65% size:62.5%
two or three months
of work behind you,
11:22.448 --> 11:24.850 align:left position:12.5%,start line:65% size:77.5%
and you load it into the kiln,
11:24.950 --> 11:28.721 align:left position:22.5%,start line:65% size:67.5%
and then, you sorta
step back away from it.
11:29.989 --> 11:32.124 align:left position:32.5%,start line:65% size:57.5%
[wood snapping]
11:32.224 --> 11:35.728 align:left position:20%,start line:65% size:70%
There is an element
of serendipity and chance
11:35.828 --> 11:37.730 align:left position:15%,start line:65% size:75%
that you have in that process
11:37.830 --> 11:40.633 align:left position:17.5%,start line:65% size:72.5%
that doesn't exist in many
other artistic processes.
11:40.733 --> 11:43.636 align:left position:20%,start line:65% size:70%
[strings hold high note]
11:43.736 --> 11:45.705 align:left position:25%,start line:65% size:65%
I still have control,
but there's certainly
11:45.805 --> 11:48.374 align:left position:12.5%,start line:65% size:77.5%
a lotta things
that are happening in the kiln
11:48.474 --> 11:50.710 align:left position:27.5%,start line:65% size:62.5%
that you don't have
control over.
11:50.810 --> 11:52.745 align:left position:22.5%,start line:65% size:67.5%
[bells lead
as arrangement swells]
11:52.845 --> 11:54.980 align:left position:30%,start line:65% size:60%
[fire crackling]
11:55.081 --> 11:59.852 align:left position:50%,start line:65% size:40%
♪
11:59.952 --> 12:02.655 align:left position:20%,start line:65% size:70%
[sustained violin chord]
12:02.755 --> 12:05.124 align:left position:30%,start line:65% size:60%
I think,
in my situation,
12:05.224 --> 12:09.729 align:left position:20%,start line:65% size:70%
I had to kind of run away
to find myself.
12:09.829 --> 12:12.465 align:left position:22.5%,start line:65% size:67.5%
[piano melody emerges]
12:12.565 --> 12:14.200 align:left position:22.5%,start line:65% size:67.5%
So, my family history,
12:14.300 --> 12:18.104 align:left position:17.5%,start line:65% size:72.5%
if we wanna talk
about my family history...
12:18.204 --> 12:21.407 align:left position:25%,start line:65% size:65%
is Henri Matisse, um,
12:21.507 --> 12:25.611 align:left position:22.5%,start line:65% size:67.5%
the painter,
who had some children,
12:25.711 --> 12:29.882 align:left position:22.5%,start line:65% size:67.5%
one of whom was Pierre,
who's my grandfather.
12:29.982 --> 12:32.485 align:left position:17.5%,start line:65% size:72.5%
I grew up
with this stuff around me.
12:32.585 --> 12:37.156 align:left position:12.5%,start line:65% size:77.5%
I mean, it was just
an everyday part of our lives.
12:37.256 --> 12:40.860 align:left position:15%,start line:65% size:75%
We never talked about Henri.
12:40.960 --> 12:45.965 align:left position:15%,start line:65% size:75%
It was always sort of
a great elephant in the room.
12:46.065 --> 12:50.503 align:left position:15%,start line:65% size:75%
There's a--
a power behind it that, um--
12:50.603 --> 12:53.172 align:left position:30%,start line:65% size:60%
that certainly
doesn't go away,
12:53.272 --> 12:57.309 align:left position:15%,start line:65% size:75%
and every time
you walk through an exhibit,
12:57.409 --> 12:59.879 align:left position:25%,start line:65% size:65%
it always kinda
leaves me speechless
12:59.979 --> 13:03.582 align:left position:17.5%,start line:65% size:72.5%
because what--
what do you do in that wake
13:03.682 --> 13:06.552 align:left position:12.5%,start line:65% size:77.5%
when that's always behind you?
13:06.652 --> 13:08.387 align:left position:30%,start line:65% size:60%
[fire crackling]
13:08.487 --> 13:10.422 align:left position:15%,start line:65% size:75%
There are times when it feels
13:10.523 --> 13:13.159 align:left position:15%,start line:65% size:75%
like the shadow
that's cast by those figures
13:13.259 --> 13:17.530 align:left position:15%,start line:65% size:75%
is kind of too broad to ever
get out from underneath...
13:17.630 --> 13:19.632 align:left position:35%,start line:65% size:55%
[oboe leads]
13:19.732 --> 13:22.902 align:left position:17.5%,start line:65% size:72.5%
but nothing that, I think,
putting your head down
13:23.002 --> 13:25.671 align:left position:27.5%,start line:65% size:62.5%
and getting to work
won't resolve.
13:25.771 --> 13:29.608 align:left position:50%,start line:65% size:40%
♪
13:29.708 --> 13:33.445 align:left position:20%,start line:65% size:70%
And being here
sort of pushed me forward
13:33.546 --> 13:37.650 align:left position:25%,start line:65% size:65%
to make the best work
that I can make.
13:38.918 --> 13:42.188 align:left position:22.5%,start line:65% size:67.5%
It didn't really matter
what my last name was
13:42.288 --> 13:44.523 align:left position:22.5%,start line:65% size:67.5%
because people
started to recognize me
13:44.623 --> 13:46.525 align:left position:25%,start line:65% size:65%
for what I was doing.
13:46.625 --> 13:53.399 align:left position:50%,start line:65% size:40%
♪
13:53.499 --> 13:56.001 align:left position:32.5%,start line:65% size:57.5%
[fire roaring]
13:57.636 --> 14:00.906 align:left position:15%,start line:65% size:75%
So this is the third
and final day of the firing.
14:01.006 --> 14:03.409 align:left position:30%,start line:65% size:60%
[machine humming]
14:03.509 --> 14:05.277 align:left position:35%,start line:65% size:55%
[off-screen]
It's good.
14:05.377 --> 14:07.446 align:left position:42.5%,start line:65% size:47.5%
Enough.
14:07.546 --> 14:08.814 align:left position:30%,start line:65% size:60%
[machine ceases]
14:08.914 --> 14:11.951 align:left position:20%,start line:65% size:70%
Right now, we're at top
temperature in the front.
14:12.051 --> 14:13.686 align:left position:27.5%,start line:65% size:62.5%
The clay is mature;
it's done.
14:13.786 --> 14:15.988 align:left position:20%,start line:65% size:70%
We're just building up
ash deposits on the clay,
14:16.088 --> 14:18.424 align:left position:20%,start line:65% size:70%
building up the character
of the clay body.
14:18.524 --> 14:21.026 align:left position:17.5%,start line:65% size:72.5%
Right now, Josh is stoking,
and the door's open,
14:21.126 --> 14:22.595 align:left position:12.5%,start line:65% size:77.5%
so the temperature's dropping.
14:22.695 --> 14:24.730 align:left position:25%,start line:65% size:65%
As he stokes,
it'll take a minute.
14:24.830 --> 14:27.032 align:left position:25%,start line:65% size:65%
There's always a lag.
14:30.069 --> 14:32.071 align:left position:22.5%,start line:65% size:67.5%
And as it's catching,
right in the beginning,
14:32.171 --> 14:33.839 align:left position:22.5%,start line:65% size:67.5%
the kiln
will go into reduction,
14:33.939 --> 14:36.742 align:left position:15%,start line:65% size:75%
meaning there's too much fuel
and not enough oxygen,
14:36.842 --> 14:39.011 align:left position:30%,start line:65% size:60%
but as that fuel
starts to burn,
14:39.111 --> 14:40.913 align:left position:32.5%,start line:65% size:57.5%
then we'll see
the temperature
14:41.013 --> 14:43.782 align:left position:32.5%,start line:65% size:57.5%
start to go up,
as it is.
14:43.883 --> 14:45.651 align:left position:27.5%,start line:65% size:62.5%
And this kiln
is very responsive.
14:45.751 --> 14:47.920 align:left position:17.5%,start line:65% size:72.5%
It also depends
on the wood you're burning.
14:48.020 --> 14:50.122 align:left position:20%,start line:65% size:70%
This wood is mostly pine
and poplar,
14:50.222 --> 14:52.358 align:left position:22.5%,start line:65% size:67.5%
and it's been drying
for about three months,
14:52.458 --> 14:54.393 align:left position:27.5%,start line:65% size:62.5%
so it's really dry.
14:54.493 --> 14:56.595 align:left position:27.5%,start line:65% size:62.5%
It's ready to burn.
14:58.530 --> 15:00.532 align:left position:30%,start line:65% size:60%
So after a stoke
in the front,
15:00.633 --> 15:03.936 align:left position:22.5%,start line:65% size:67.5%
you'll see a huge flame
coming out the chimney.
15:04.036 --> 15:06.272 align:left position:15%,start line:65% size:75%
Once that flame
comes back into the chimney,
15:06.372 --> 15:07.873 align:left position:30%,start line:65% size:60%
then, you know,
the atmosphere--
15:07.973 --> 15:09.742 align:left position:22.5%,start line:65% size:67.5%
it's kind of cleared up
in there--
15:09.842 --> 15:11.610 align:left position:12.5%,start line:65% size:77.5%
the back is ready for a stoke.
15:11.710 --> 15:12.978 align:left position:35%,start line:65% size:55%
OK, go ahead?
15:13.078 --> 15:14.246 align:left position:40%,start line:65% size:50%
(Matisse)
Yup.
15:14.346 --> 15:15.981 align:left position:17.5%,start line:65% size:72.5%
[voice-over]
It's important in the back
15:16.081 --> 15:18.050 align:left position:22.5%,start line:65% size:67.5%
because that's where
all the glazed ware is.
15:18.150 --> 15:19.652 align:left position:27.5%,start line:65% size:62.5%
It's important
to get temperature
15:19.752 --> 15:21.253 align:left position:20%,start line:65% size:70%
so the glazes will melt,
15:21.353 --> 15:23.822 align:left position:20%,start line:65% size:70%
and I formulate my glazes
to be a little stiffer
15:23.923 --> 15:25.557 align:left position:12.5%,start line:65% size:77.5%
because this kiln gets so hot,
15:25.658 --> 15:27.626 align:left position:30%,start line:65% size:60%
and you need it
to be really hot
15:27.726 --> 15:29.895 align:left position:22.5%,start line:65% size:67.5%
to get that temperature
in the back.
15:29.995 --> 15:31.931 align:left position:27.5%,start line:65% size:62.5%
[piano leads
calm orchestration]
15:32.031 --> 15:33.899 align:left position:50%,start line:65% size:40%
♪
15:33.999 --> 15:36.535 align:left position:15%,start line:65% size:75%
Once in a while,
towards the end of a firing,
15:36.635 --> 15:39.438 align:left position:10%,start line:65% size:80%
I'll pull out a cup or
15:36.635 --> 15:39.438 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80%
so
15:36.635 --> 15:39.438 align:left position:10%,start line:65% size:80%
mething small from the front.
15:39.538 --> 15:41.473 align:left position:50%,start line:65% size:40%
♪
15:41.573 --> 15:43.542 align:left position:25%,start line:65% size:65%
I'm never actually
in love with the pots
15:43.642 --> 15:45.611 align:left position:25%,start line:65% size:65%
that I pull out
because a lot happens
15:45.711 --> 15:47.346 align:left position:15%,start line:65% size:75%
from the time you stop firing
15:47.446 --> 15:49.648 align:left position:17.5%,start line:65% size:72.5%
to the time
they come out of the kiln.
15:49.748 --> 15:52.751 align:left position:17.5%,start line:65% size:72.5%
What it does give me
is a sense of how much ash
15:52.851 --> 15:55.054 align:left position:27.5%,start line:65% size:62.5%
and how much salt
I have on the pots.
15:55.154 --> 15:57.356 align:left position:17.5%,start line:65% size:72.5%
This has
a pretty thin shino on it,
15:57.456 --> 15:59.858 align:left position:20%,start line:65% size:70%
which has gotten a little
darker in the reduction--
15:59.959 --> 16:01.593 align:left position:22.5%,start line:65% size:67.5%
the heat in the front,
16:01.694 --> 16:04.463 align:left position:12.5%,start line:65% size:77.5%
that I would like
a little more ash on this pot,
16:04.563 --> 16:06.198 align:left position:30%,start line:65% size:60%
so I'll probably
just keep goin'
16:06.298 --> 16:07.933 align:left position:20%,start line:65% size:70%
for another hour or two.
16:08.033 --> 16:10.436 align:left position:35%,start line:65% size:55%
[oboe leads]
16:10.536 --> 16:19.011 align:left position:50%,start line:65% size:40%
♪
16:19.111 --> 16:21.313 align:left position:20%,start line:65% size:70%
I had this sort of notion
16:21.413 --> 16:24.049 align:left position:25%,start line:65% size:65%
of wanting
to go into the woods
16:24.149 --> 16:26.051 align:left position:27.5%,start line:65% size:62.5%
and come out and--
16:26.151 --> 16:28.320 align:left position:22.5%,start line:65% size:67.5%
and have this skill...
16:28.420 --> 16:30.456 align:left position:50%,start line:65% size:40%
♪
16:30.556 --> 16:33.759 align:left position:22.5%,start line:65% size:67.5%
and have something to--
to offer the world.
16:33.859 --> 16:37.796 align:left position:17.5%,start line:65% size:72.5%
I wanted to create a place
that would eventually
16:37.896 --> 16:39.999 align:left position:27.5%,start line:65% size:62.5%
have its own energy
16:40.099 --> 16:42.935 align:left position:20%,start line:65% size:70%
and attract other people.
16:43.035 --> 16:44.803 align:left position:30%,start line:65% size:60%
It is doing that.
16:44.903 --> 16:47.573 align:left position:20%,start line:65% size:70%
It is opening itself up.
16:47.673 --> 16:50.275 align:left position:17.5%,start line:65% size:72.5%
The evolution is very slow.
16:50.376 --> 16:52.444 align:left position:50%,start line:65% size:40%
♪
16:52.544 --> 16:54.713 align:left position:27.5%,start line:65% size:62.5%
You're not gonna
hit a point one day
16:54.813 --> 16:56.582 align:left position:35%,start line:65% size:55%
and wake up,
and suddenly,
16:56.682 --> 16:58.684 align:left position:32.5%,start line:65% size:57.5%
you're there;
you've arrived.
16:58.784 --> 17:00.919 align:left position:25%,start line:65% size:65%
I have to work at it.
17:01.020 --> 17:02.988 align:left position:22.5%,start line:65% size:67.5%
[bells and piano lead]
17:03.088 --> 17:08.160 align:left position:50%,start line:65% size:40%
♪
17:09.995 --> 17:12.164 align:left position:22.5%,start line:65% size:67.5%
[cascading
acoustic guitar notes]
17:12.264 --> 17:16.335 align:left position:50%,start line:65% size:40%
♪
17:16.435 --> 17:19.371 align:left position:17.5%,start line:65% size:72.5%
It might not sound like it
from the names,
17:19.471 --> 17:22.074 align:left position:17.5%,start line:65% size:72.5%
but right where Naked Creek
enters Drowning Creek
17:22.174 --> 17:24.209 align:left position:30%,start line:65% size:60%
above Wagram,
that's where one
17:24.309 --> 17:27.279 align:left position:17.5%,start line:65% size:72.5%
of eastern Carolina's
loveliest rivers is formed,
17:27.379 --> 17:29.048 align:left position:30%,start line:65% size:60%
the Lumber River.
17:29.148 --> 17:31.050 align:left position:50%,start line:65% size:40%
♪
17:31.150 --> 17:34.019 align:left position:25%,start line:65% size:65%
In its upper reaches,
this is its aspect:
17:34.119 --> 17:36.021 align:left position:25%,start line:65% size:65%
a thin, dark stream,
17:36.121 --> 17:39.291 align:left position:17.5%,start line:65% size:72.5%
one of short stretches
and sharp, slaloming turns,
17:39.391 --> 17:41.727 align:left position:27.5%,start line:65% size:62.5%
bends known locally
as "cow faces,"
17:41.827 --> 17:44.797 align:left position:17.5%,start line:65% size:72.5%
the river varying
from 20 to 40 feet in width
17:44.897 --> 17:48.267 align:left position:17.5%,start line:65% size:72.5%
and almost always canopied
by cypress, gum, maple,
17:48.367 --> 17:50.302 align:left position:25%,start line:65% size:65%
and occasional pine.
17:50.402 --> 17:52.337 align:left position:27.5%,start line:65% size:62.5%
In recent decades,
the Lumber,
17:52.438 --> 17:53.972 align:left position:15%,start line:65% size:75%
particularly the upper river,
17:54.073 --> 17:56.141 align:left position:25%,start line:65% size:65%
with its black-water
lowland look
17:56.241 --> 17:58.243 align:left position:12.5%,start line:65% size:77.5%
and its hill-country rapidity,
17:58.343 --> 18:02.014 align:left position:15%,start line:65% size:75%
has charmed many thousands
of canoe and kayak paddlers.
18:02.114 --> 18:04.016 align:left position:50%,start line:65% size:40%
♪
18:04.116 --> 18:05.584 align:left position:20%,start line:65% size:70%
[strummed guitar chords]
18:05.684 --> 18:07.219 align:left position:27.5%,start line:65% size:62.5%
Over a century ago,
18:07.319 --> 18:09.288 align:left position:25%,start line:65% size:65%
the Riverton poet
John Charles McNeill,
18:09.388 --> 18:11.056 align:left position:15%,start line:65% size:75%
our unofficial poet laureate
18:11.156 --> 18:13.959 align:left position:10%,start line:65% size:80%
and a favorite of
President Theodore Roosevelt's,
18:14.059 --> 18:16.862 align:left position:22.5%,start line:65% size:67.5%
called the Lumber River
a "sweetheart stream."
18:16.962 --> 18:19.465 align:left position:20%,start line:65% size:70%
This was his home,
and he absolutely adored
18:19.565 --> 18:21.867 align:left position:15%,start line:65% size:75%
the river
that ran through his boyhood
18:21.967 --> 18:23.702 align:left position:25%,start line:65% size:65%
and helped raise him.
18:23.802 --> 18:27.806 align:left position:20%,start line:65% size:70%
In 1907, the year he died
young at the age of 33,
18:27.906 --> 18:29.608 align:left position:22.5%,start line:65% size:67.5%
he wrote
these parting thoughts
18:29.708 --> 18:31.243 align:left position:22.5%,start line:65% size:67.5%
about the Lumber River:
18:31.343 --> 18:34.246 align:left position:27.5%,start line:65% size:62.5%
"She is a tortuous,
delicious flirt,
18:34.346 --> 18:36.582 align:left position:20%,start line:65% size:70%
"but she does not deserve
the punishment
18:36.682 --> 18:39.251 align:left position:15%,start line:65% size:75%
"put upon her by geographers,
who have perverted
18:39.351 --> 18:41.420 align:left position:22.5%,start line:65% size:67.5%
"her sweet Indian name
of 'Lumbee'
18:41.520 --> 18:43.322 align:left position:32.5%,start line:65% size:57.5%
"into something
that suggests
18:43.422 --> 18:45.657 align:left position:30%,start line:65% size:60%
"choking sawdust,
rotting slabs,
18:45.757 --> 18:49.094 align:left position:25%,start line:65% size:65%
and the shrill scream
of the circular saw."
18:50.362 --> 18:52.731 align:left position:22.5%,start line:65% size:67.5%
The upside-down goblet
on the Bible
18:52.831 --> 18:55.567 align:left position:17.5%,start line:65% size:72.5%
sits atop Temperance Hall,
near the McNeill home,
18:55.667 --> 18:57.970 align:left position:15%,start line:65% size:75%
a brick hexagon built in 1860
18:58.070 --> 19:01.473 align:left position:15%,start line:65% size:75%
and now on the National
Register of Historic Places.
19:01.573 --> 19:03.542 align:left position:22.5%,start line:65% size:67.5%
The Richmond Temperance
and Literary Society
19:03.642 --> 19:05.544 align:left position:27.5%,start line:65% size:62.5%
met here regularly
for 40 years,
19:05.644 --> 19:07.146 align:left position:27.5%,start line:65% size:62.5%
and it later served
19:07.246 --> 19:09.781 align:left position:17.5%,start line:65% size:72.5%
as part
of the Spring Hill Academy.
19:09.882 --> 19:12.584 align:left position:17.5%,start line:65% size:72.5%
Sherman's force
shot the place up in 1865,
19:12.684 --> 19:15.687 align:left position:17.5%,start line:65% size:72.5%
but it's still here,
and the society still meets
19:15.787 --> 19:18.123 align:left position:25%,start line:65% size:65%
at least once a year.
19:18.223 --> 19:20.592 align:left position:22.5%,start line:65% size:67.5%
Maxton,
a little railroad town,
19:20.692 --> 19:22.794 align:left position:15%,start line:65% size:75%
sits between the Lumber River
19:22.895 --> 19:25.230 align:left position:30%,start line:65% size:60%
and its tributary
Shoe Heel Creek.
19:25.330 --> 19:28.000 align:left position:22.5%,start line:65% size:67.5%
In fact, the community
was named Shoe Heel
19:28.100 --> 19:30.135 align:left position:17.5%,start line:65% size:72.5%
on two different occasions,
but there were
19:30.235 --> 19:32.137 align:left position:27.5%,start line:65% size:62.5%
so many settlers
of Scottish descent
19:32.237 --> 19:34.806 align:left position:17.5%,start line:65% size:72.5%
in this part
of the Lumber River valley,
19:34.907 --> 19:38.310 align:left position:20%,start line:65% size:70%
so many folks whose names
began withMcorMac,
19:38.410 --> 19:40.779 align:left position:20%,start line:65% size:70%
that the place
became known as Mackstown
19:40.879 --> 19:43.782 align:left position:15%,start line:65% size:75%
till the post office
resolved the name as Maxton,
19:43.882 --> 19:45.951 align:left position:20%,start line:65% size:70%
with an X in the middle.
19:46.051 --> 19:49.121 align:left position:10%,start line:65% size:80%
Here at the corner of McCaskill
and Patterson Streets,
19:49.221 --> 19:53.959 align:left position:15%,start line:65% size:75%
Maxton boasts its own genuine
clock-towered flatiron.
19:54.059 --> 19:57.029 align:left position:22.5%,start line:65% size:67.5%
[burbling piano notes]
19:57.129 --> 19:58.564 align:left position:25%,start line:65% size:65%
Pembroke is the home,
19:58.664 --> 20:01.500 align:left position:17.5%,start line:65% size:72.5%
the cultural and historical
center of the Lumbee--
20:01.600 --> 20:03.535 align:left position:20%,start line:65% size:70%
at 55,000 in population,
20:03.635 --> 20:05.904 align:left position:20%,start line:65% size:70%
our state's largest tribe
of Native Americans.
20:06.004 --> 20:08.373 align:left position:25%,start line:65% size:65%
And it is home, too,
to a branch
20:08.473 --> 20:10.909 align:left position:27.5%,start line:65% size:62.5%
of the University
of North Carolina.
20:11.009 --> 20:12.911 align:left position:22.5%,start line:65% size:67.5%
At the Native American
Resource Center,
20:13.011 --> 20:15.647 align:left position:12.5%,start line:65% size:77.5%
we pay homage
to the heritage of the Lumbee,
20:15.747 --> 20:18.617 align:left position:22.5%,start line:65% size:67.5%
and the life and legend
of one in particular
20:18.717 --> 20:20.953 align:left position:17.5%,start line:65% size:72.5%
never fails
to capture folks' interest
20:21.053 --> 20:23.689 align:left position:27.5%,start line:65% size:62.5%
and imagination:
Henry Berry Lowrie.
20:23.789 --> 20:25.123 align:left position:22.5%,start line:65% size:67.5%
[dramatic arrangement]
20:25.224 --> 20:27.226 align:left position:12.5%,start line:65% size:77.5%
In the Civil War,
Lumbees were being conscripted
20:27.326 --> 20:28.727 align:left position:27.5%,start line:65% size:62.5%
by the Confederacy
20:28.827 --> 20:30.896 align:left position:17.5%,start line:65% size:72.5%
and put to work
building the sand ramparts
20:30.996 --> 20:32.664 align:left position:15%,start line:65% size:75%
of Fort Fisher on our coast,
20:32.764 --> 20:34.266 align:left position:20%,start line:65% size:70%
but young Lowrie resisted
20:34.366 --> 20:36.335 align:left position:12.5%,start line:65% size:77.5%
and is said to have witnessed,
from hiding,
20:36.435 --> 20:39.171 align:left position:15%,start line:65% size:75%
the murders at the hands
of the Confederate Home Guard
20:39.271 --> 20:41.240 align:left position:27.5%,start line:65% size:62.5%
of both his father
and his brother.
20:41.340 --> 20:43.342 align:left position:15%,start line:65% size:75%
He swore
he would avenge their deaths,
20:43.442 --> 20:46.144 align:left position:15%,start line:65% size:75%
and hiding out in the swamps,
he and his gang
20:46.245 --> 20:48.313 align:left position:25%,start line:65% size:65%
robbed and raided
during the Civil War,
20:48.413 --> 20:50.115 align:left position:20%,start line:65% size:70%
skirmishing
with the Confederate Army
20:50.215 --> 20:52.618 align:left position:27.5%,start line:65% size:62.5%
and the Home Guard
as Sherman advanced
20:52.718 --> 20:55.320 align:left position:22.5%,start line:65% size:67.5%
through Robeson
in the spring of 1865.
20:55.420 --> 20:57.789 align:left position:22.5%,start line:65% size:67.5%
Lowrie kept on fighting
during Reconstruction,
20:57.889 --> 20:59.758 align:left position:25%,start line:65% size:65%
and he was
well and widely known
20:59.858 --> 21:01.393 align:left position:20%,start line:65% size:70%
as the Lumbee Robin Hood.
21:01.493 --> 21:02.828 align:left position:32.5%,start line:65% size:57.5%
[strings fade]
21:02.928 --> 21:04.196 align:left position:22.5%,start line:65% size:67.5%
Colonel Thomas Robeson,
21:04.296 --> 21:07.032 align:left position:15%,start line:65% size:75%
hero of the Revolutionary War
Battle of Elizabethtown,
21:07.132 --> 21:09.201 align:left position:22.5%,start line:65% size:67.5%
is said to have opposed
the creation
21:09.301 --> 21:11.870 align:left position:17.5%,start line:65% size:72.5%
of a new county
to be pulled out of Bladen
21:11.970 --> 21:14.873 align:left position:20%,start line:65% size:70%
until the suggestion came
to name it for him,
21:14.973 --> 21:17.876 align:left position:12.5%,start line:65% size:77.5%
and the idea
then found favor in his heart.
21:17.976 --> 21:19.678 align:left position:25%,start line:65% size:65%
Robeson County's seat
21:19.778 --> 21:21.813 align:left position:25%,start line:65% size:65%
is Lumberton
on the Lumber River,
21:21.913 --> 21:24.216 align:left position:22.5%,start line:65% size:67.5%
through and from which
resin, pitch, tar,
21:24.316 --> 21:26.785 align:left position:27.5%,start line:65% size:62.5%
and turpentine
have been shipped.
21:26.885 --> 21:30.389 align:left position:30%,start line:65% size:60%
Proposals in 1798
and again in 1815
21:30.489 --> 21:33.425 align:left position:17.5%,start line:65% size:72.5%
to connect the Lumber
and nearby Cape Fear Rivers
21:33.525 --> 21:35.594 align:left position:25%,start line:65% size:65%
by canal both failed.
21:35.694 --> 21:37.296 align:left position:27.5%,start line:65% size:62.5%
In the late 1800s,
21:37.396 --> 21:39.731 align:left position:12.5%,start line:65% size:77.5%
the timber and turpentine town
of Lumberton
21:39.831 --> 21:42.567 align:left position:22.5%,start line:65% size:67.5%
was still sending
hundred-foot log rafts
21:42.668 --> 21:44.636 align:left position:20%,start line:65% size:70%
downriver to Georgetown,
South Carolina,
21:44.736 --> 21:46.238 align:left position:17.5%,start line:65% size:72.5%
where their three-man crews
21:46.338 --> 21:47.973 align:left position:27.5%,start line:65% size:62.5%
would collect $200
for the timber
21:48.073 --> 21:51.343 align:left position:17.5%,start line:65% size:72.5%
and the two weeks' poling,
and then walk on home.
21:52.611 --> 21:56.181 align:left position:15%,start line:65% size:75%
On the west side of the river
just outside of town
21:56.281 --> 21:59.017 align:left position:17.5%,start line:65% size:72.5%
was a campground for wagons
carryin' produce,
21:59.117 --> 22:02.421 align:left position:17.5%,start line:65% size:72.5%
tobacca,and whiskey,
a spot called Mud Market.
22:02.521 --> 22:04.523 align:left position:27.5%,start line:65% size:62.5%
Old-time Lumberton
had a reputation
22:04.623 --> 22:06.892 align:left position:15%,start line:65% size:75%
for being
a wide-open turpentine town,
22:06.992 --> 22:08.627 align:left position:20%,start line:65% size:70%
but you might not know it
22:08.727 --> 22:11.163 align:left position:15%,start line:65% size:75%
from lookin' over
the modern city that emerged
22:11.263 --> 22:15.500 align:left position:15%,start line:65% size:75%
after the great fire of 1897
burned Lumberton down.
22:15.600 --> 22:17.502 align:left position:10%,start line:65% size:80%
An early-19th-century structure
22:17.602 --> 22:19.538 align:left position:27.5%,start line:65% size:62.5%
that survived
that conflagration
22:19.638 --> 22:22.841 align:left position:27.5%,start line:65% size:62.5%
is the small, brick
Proctor Law Office.
22:22.941 --> 22:24.676 align:left position:25%,start line:65% size:65%
Dating to about 1820,
22:24.776 --> 22:27.412 align:left position:20%,start line:65% size:70%
it's the oldest building
in this old town.
22:27.512 --> 22:28.780 align:left position:17.5%,start line:65% size:72.5%
[mellow guitar arrangement]
22:28.880 --> 22:31.149 align:left position:20%,start line:65% size:70%
I've got
a front-row balcony seat
22:31.249 --> 22:33.618 align:left position:15%,start line:65% size:75%
at the Carolina Civic Center
Historic Theater,
22:33.719 --> 22:37.189 align:left position:17.5%,start line:65% size:72.5%
which first opened in 1928,
featuring silent movies,
22:37.289 --> 22:39.891 align:left position:25%,start line:65% size:65%
vaudeville acts,
and yodelin' cowboys.
22:39.991 --> 22:42.694 align:left position:17.5%,start line:65% size:72.5%
After a major preservation
and renovation effort,
22:42.794 --> 22:44.629 align:left position:25%,start line:65% size:65%
it reopened in 2008--
22:44.730 --> 22:48.300 align:left position:15%,start line:65% size:75%
another Lumber River landmark
on the National Register.
22:48.400 --> 22:50.802 align:left position:20%,start line:65% size:70%
It's currently presenting
a hundred events a year
22:50.902 --> 22:52.437 align:left position:30%,start line:65% size:60%
and on the rise.
22:52.537 --> 22:55.807 align:left position:20%,start line:65% size:70%
Now playing,
John Wayne inRed River.
22:55.907 --> 22:58.009 align:left position:20%,start line:65% size:70%
[hollering and whistling]
22:58.110 --> 23:00.078 align:left position:22.5%,start line:65% size:67.5%
[choir supports
orchestral film score]
23:00.178 --> 23:02.180 align:left position:30%,start line:65% size:60%
The fine arts
and literary arts
23:02.280 --> 23:04.182 align:left position:20%,start line:65% size:70%
are alive and well here,
23:04.282 --> 23:06.351 align:left position:12.5%,start line:65% size:77.5%
and Lumberton
is much appreciated these days
23:06.451 --> 23:08.653 align:left position:17.5%,start line:65% size:72.5%
as the home
of one of North Carolina's
23:08.754 --> 23:12.891 align:left position:17.5%,start line:65% size:72.5%
and the South's best-loved
authors, Jill McCorkle.
23:12.991 --> 23:14.659 align:left position:35%,start line:65% size:55%
I have
always loved
23:14.760 --> 23:15.927 align:left position:37.5%,start line:65% size:52.5%
Meadowbrook
Cemetery,
23:16.027 --> 23:19.231 align:left position:32.5%,start line:65% size:57.5%
just the--
it's beautiful,
quiet,
23:19.331 --> 23:22.334 align:left position:30%,start line:65% size:60%
and I would
come here
to ride my bike.
23:22.434 --> 23:24.970 align:left position:17.5%,start line:65% size:72.5%
We would always come visit
Clare Townsend.
23:25.070 --> 23:29.775 align:left position:17.5%,start line:65% size:72.5%
The--the local tale
is that Clare Townsend, um,
23:29.875 --> 23:32.110 align:left position:15%,start line:65% size:75%
who died way too young, uh--
23:32.210 --> 23:34.012 align:left position:15%,start line:65% size:75%
when this statue was erected,
23:34.112 --> 23:37.482 align:left position:22.5%,start line:65% size:67.5%
we always heard
that she had ruby eyes
23:37.582 --> 23:41.386 align:left position:17.5%,start line:65% size:72.5%
in the statue
and that someone stole them
23:41.486 --> 23:45.090 align:left position:15%,start line:65% size:75%
and that Clare
is always watching, and, um,
23:45.190 --> 23:48.727 align:left position:20%,start line:65% size:70%
hoping to see the person
who stole her ruby eyes.
23:48.827 --> 23:52.030 align:left position:15%,start line:65% size:75%
And so kids would, you know,
dare each other to run up
23:52.130 --> 23:53.965 align:left position:27.5%,start line:65% size:62.5%
and touch her
and run away, and--
23:54.065 --> 23:55.700 align:left position:32.5%,start line:65% size:57.5%
and I always
just loved her.
23:55.801 --> 23:57.936 align:left position:25%,start line:65% size:65%
Somebody dared me
one time to kiss her,
23:58.036 --> 24:01.273 align:left position:17.5%,start line:65% size:72.5%
and I did, and it didn't
bother me a bit--hah, hah!
24:01.373 --> 24:03.909 align:left position:15%,start line:65% size:75%
(Simpson)
We're in downtown
Princess Ann, North Carolina,
24:04.009 --> 24:05.644 align:left position:25%,start line:65% size:65%
established in 1796,
24:05.744 --> 24:07.546 align:left position:22.5%,start line:65% size:67.5%
back when
the whole Lumber River
24:07.646 --> 24:09.514 align:left position:30%,start line:65% size:60%
was still called
Drowning Creek.
24:09.614 --> 24:11.249 align:left position:32.5%,start line:65% size:57.5%
All that's left
of Princess Ann
24:11.349 --> 24:12.984 align:left position:22.5%,start line:65% size:67.5%
is her name on a road,
24:13.084 --> 24:14.719 align:left position:17.5%,start line:65% size:72.5%
and yet
that's just the beginning,
24:14.820 --> 24:16.455 align:left position:32.5%,start line:65% size:57.5%
not the ending
of the tale,
24:16.555 --> 24:19.157 align:left position:25%,start line:65% size:65%
for the road leads
to one of our state's
24:19.257 --> 24:21.226 align:left position:12.5%,start line:65% size:77.5%
truly great natural treasures.
24:21.326 --> 24:23.094 align:left position:20%,start line:65% size:70%
We're at Griffin's Whirl,
24:23.195 --> 24:25.063 align:left position:25%,start line:65% size:65%
a hypnotic,
reverse-flow feature
24:25.163 --> 24:27.699 align:left position:20%,start line:65% size:70%
on the river near Orrum.
24:27.799 --> 24:30.969 align:left position:12.5%,start line:65% size:77.5%
Our state has one and only one
black-water stream
24:31.069 --> 24:32.537 align:left position:15%,start line:65% size:75%
with the federal government's
24:32.637 --> 24:34.539 align:left position:25%,start line:65% size:65%
wild and scenic river
designation,
24:34.639 --> 24:36.241 align:left position:32.5%,start line:65% size:57.5%
and this is it.
24:36.341 --> 24:40.045 align:left position:12.5%,start line:65% size:77.5%
Eighty-one miles
of the Lumber hold that honor.
24:40.145 --> 24:42.280 align:left position:17.5%,start line:65% size:72.5%
In 1989,
the state of North Carolina
24:42.380 --> 24:43.648 align:left position:27.5%,start line:65% size:62.5%
declared the Lumber
24:43.748 --> 24:45.984 align:left position:30%,start line:65% size:60%
a state natural
and scenic river
24:46.084 --> 24:47.786 align:left position:20%,start line:65% size:70%
and made a goodly portion
24:47.886 --> 24:49.721 align:left position:17.5%,start line:65% size:72.5%
of McNeill's
"tortuous, delicious flirt"
24:49.821 --> 24:51.957 align:left position:25%,start line:65% size:65%
into the Lumber River
State Park.
24:52.057 --> 24:53.758 align:left position:22.5%,start line:65% size:67.5%
[gentle piano
and guitar arrangement]
24:53.859 --> 24:55.694 align:left position:22.5%,start line:65% size:67.5%
A number
of primitive campsites
24:55.794 --> 24:58.563 align:left position:17.5%,start line:65% size:72.5%
await campers at the park's
two key facilities,
24:58.663 --> 25:00.632 align:left position:17.5%,start line:65% size:72.5%
at Chalk Banks near Wagram
25:00.732 --> 25:03.401 align:left position:22.5%,start line:65% size:67.5%
and at the headquarters
here at Princess Ann,
25:03.502 --> 25:06.204 align:left position:20%,start line:65% size:70%
about 15 miles downstream
of Lumberton.
25:06.304 --> 25:08.707 align:left position:17.5%,start line:65% size:72.5%
More overnight ports
for canoeists and kayakers
25:08.807 --> 25:11.109 align:left position:17.5%,start line:65% size:72.5%
are along remote stretches
of the stream,
25:11.209 --> 25:15.413 align:left position:15%,start line:65% size:75%
and their names of traders
and landings from bygone days
25:15.514 --> 25:18.950 align:left position:22.5%,start line:65% size:67.5%
read like a roll call
of the river's history.
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The Powell House,
this small coastal cottage,
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was built here
as the Wooten trading post,
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hard by the Lumber River,
back in 1802,
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predating the laying out
of the town of Fair Bluff
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by four years.
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This lovely,
little crossroads town,
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with its mile-long river walk,
is the last civilization
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along the Lumber River
in North Carolina.
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Below Fair Bluff,
it's only a short way
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through wilderness
river-swamp jungle,
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and then nothing...
but South Carolina,
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where the Lumber flows
into the Little Pee Dee.
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Yet the wondrous Lumber River
is ours for 115 miles,
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and one
of the very best reasons
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to get out
and afloat in our state
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is the dark, alluring water
of this "sweetheart stream."
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[water sloshing faintly]
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placid orchestration]
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From the time BB&T
opened its doors in 1872
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in the town of Wilson,
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we've supported
the people and communities
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from the Outer Banks
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We've been in business
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making us the oldest bank
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We're proud
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