1 00:00:05,533 --> 00:00:13,466 >> PRODUCTION SUPPORT FOR "THE 2 00:00:06,333 --> 00:00:34,600 WEEKLY SPECIAL" IS PROVIDED BY: 3 00:00:34,600 --> 00:00:36,100 >> SCHOOL IS OUT AND SUMMER IS 4 00:00:36,100 --> 00:00:36,400 HERE! 5 00:00:36,400 --> 00:00:38,066 BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT 6 00:00:38,066 --> 00:00:39,233 EDUCATION HAS TO STOP. 7 00:00:39,233 --> 00:00:40,833 LEARN ABOUT LIVING HISTORY 8 00:00:40,833 --> 00:00:43,000 THROUGHOUT INDIANA. 9 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:49,400 CELEBRATE THE POWER. 10 00:00:49,400 --> 00:00:51,700 STEP BACK AT TIME IN THE 11 00:00:51,700 --> 00:00:54,733 SCHRADER SADDLE TREE FACTORY IN 12 00:00:54,733 --> 00:00:56,000 MADISON, INDIANA AND PULL THE 13 00:00:56,000 --> 00:00:58,900 PAST INTO THE PRESENT AT 14 00:00:58,900 --> 00:01:02,133 PROFITTOWN FARMS AND JOIN 15 00:01:02,133 --> 00:01:04,266 BLOOMINGTON SINGER SONGWRITER, 16 00:01:04,266 --> 00:01:06,333 AMY OLSNER. 17 00:01:06,333 --> 00:01:09,766 LOOK AT HOW HISTORY CONTINUES TO 18 00:01:09,766 --> 00:01:11,533 INSPIRE THE HOOSIERS OF TODAY. 19 00:01:11,533 --> 00:01:16,433 THAT'S ALL COMING UP "THE WEEKLY 20 00:01:14,466 --> 00:01:17,100 SPECIAL." 21 00:01:17,100 --> 00:01:26,833 ♪♪ 22 00:01:26,833 --> 00:01:28,000 >> WELCOME TO "THE WEEKLY 23 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:28,500 SPECIAL." 24 00:01:28,500 --> 00:01:30,700 I'M ERICA SAGON. 25 00:01:30,700 --> 00:01:32,900 FOR MANY EXPERIENCING HISTORY IS 26 00:01:32,900 --> 00:01:35,833 COMBINED TO TEXT IN A BOOK, BUT 27 00:01:35,833 --> 00:01:37,066 HOOSIERS ACROSS THE STATE ARE 28 00:01:37,066 --> 00:01:38,466 BRINGING HISTORY ALIVE WITH 29 00:01:38,466 --> 00:01:39,966 RELICS OF PAST AND INSPIRATION 30 00:01:39,966 --> 00:01:41,500 FOR THE PRESENT. 31 00:01:41,500 --> 00:01:43,733 AT THE INDIANA HISTORICAL 32 00:01:43,733 --> 00:01:45,000 SOCIETY, ONE SUCH STORY HAS 33 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:46,866 TAKEN ON NEW RELEVANCE IN 34 00:01:46,866 --> 00:01:49,800 TODAY'S CULTURAL CLIMATE. 35 00:01:49,800 --> 00:01:51,400 >> AS THE UNITED STATES ENTERS 36 00:01:51,400 --> 00:01:52,733 THE INDUSTRIAL AGE, CITIES 37 00:01:52,733 --> 00:01:54,900 ACROSS AMERICA, TRANSFORM. 38 00:01:54,900 --> 00:01:57,333 BY 1900s, THOUSANDS HAD 39 00:01:57,333 --> 00:02:02,600 UPROOTS THEIR LIVES. 40 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:03,833 >> INDIANAPOLIS WAS A LOT LIKE 41 00:02:03,833 --> 00:02:08,000 OTHER NORTHERN CITIES AT THE 42 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:08,966 TURN OF THE CENTURY. 43 00:02:08,966 --> 00:02:10,466 THERE WAS A LOT OF 44 00:02:10,466 --> 00:02:12,666 INDUSTRIALIZATION, URBANIZATION 45 00:02:12,666 --> 00:02:14,966 BY THE TURN OF THE CENTURY, BY 46 00:02:14,966 --> 00:02:18,066 1900s, THERE WAS SOMETHING 47 00:02:18,066 --> 00:02:18,833 LIKE 18,000 AFRICAN-AMERICANS IN 48 00:02:18,833 --> 00:02:19,200 THE CITY. 49 00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:22,466 SO IT WAS A CONSTANT GROWTH. 50 00:02:22,466 --> 00:02:23,633 WE LOOK AT THE TIME PERIOD AND 51 00:02:23,633 --> 00:02:28,966 ONE OF THE THINGS THAT HAD BEEN 52 00:02:28,966 --> 00:02:29,900 ADDRESSED WAS THE ABILITY TO DO 53 00:02:29,900 --> 00:02:32,766 SOME OF THESE JOBS, EVEN THE 54 00:02:32,766 --> 00:02:35,500 RUDIMENTARY JOBS, EVEN 55 00:02:35,500 --> 00:03:16,666 DIFFERENTLY THAN THOSE 56 00:03:16,666 --> 00:03:17,466 >> THE WOMEN'S IMPROVEMENT CLUB 57 00:03:17,466 --> 00:03:19,600 WAS SUCH AN ALLIANCE WHICH WAS 58 00:03:19,600 --> 00:03:21,100 COMPRISED OF 20 AFRICAN-AMERICAN 59 00:03:21,100 --> 00:03:24,966 WOMEN REPRESENTING A DIVERSE 60 00:03:24,966 --> 00:03:25,866 RANGE OF THE COMMUNITY. 61 00:03:25,866 --> 00:03:27,866 >> THESE WOMEN PERFORMED THE 62 00:03:27,866 --> 00:03:30,633 WOMEN'S IMPROVEMENT CLUB WERE 63 00:03:30,633 --> 00:03:32,800 RESPONDING TO THE NECESSITY OF 64 00:03:32,800 --> 00:03:35,666 COMING TOGETHER AND AGREED TO 65 00:03:35,666 --> 00:03:36,600 ADDRESS THESE PROBLEMS THAT THEY 66 00:03:36,600 --> 00:03:37,866 DON'T ADDRESS IN AN INDIVIDUAL 67 00:03:37,866 --> 00:03:40,366 WAY. 68 00:03:40,366 --> 00:03:44,300 THE LAIDS LADIES IMPROVE CLUB WAS 69 00:03:44,300 --> 00:03:50,533 ESTABLISHED IN 1903. 70 00:03:50,533 --> 00:03:51,766 INITIALLY THEY WERE FOUNDED TO 71 00:03:51,766 --> 00:03:53,833 BE A LITERARY SOCIETY, BUT IT 72 00:03:53,833 --> 00:03:59,500 DID NOT TAKE VERY LONG. 73 00:03:59,500 --> 00:04:04,733 THEY NEEDED TO ADDRESS SERIOUS 74 00:04:04,733 --> 00:04:05,066 ISSUES. 75 00:04:05,066 --> 00:04:06,666 AND MOST OF THESE WOMEN, THEY 76 00:04:06,666 --> 00:04:10,566 DID NOT HAVE FORMAL EDUCATION, 77 00:04:10,566 --> 00:04:11,800 THEY WERE SELF-EDUCATED AND IT 78 00:04:11,800 --> 00:04:13,533 WAS AN IMPACT ON THE COMMUNITY. 79 00:04:13,533 --> 00:04:14,833 BECAUSE THEY LOOKED AROUND AND 80 00:04:14,833 --> 00:04:16,433 THEY SAW THE NEEDS OF A 81 00:04:16,433 --> 00:04:20,366 COMMUNITY AND THEY WENT ABOUT 82 00:04:20,366 --> 00:04:21,733 TRYING TO MEET THOSE FEEDS. 83 00:04:21,733 --> 00:04:24,666 THEY WERE NOT A LOT OF PUBLIC 84 00:04:24,666 --> 00:04:25,166 ACCOMMODATION FOR 85 00:04:25,166 --> 00:04:29,033 AFRICAN-AMERICANS. 86 00:04:29,033 --> 00:04:34,966 YOU KNOW, THERE WERE A SET 87 00:04:34,966 --> 00:04:36,166 NUMBER DEDICATED TO THE 88 00:04:36,166 --> 00:04:38,666 HOSPITAL. 89 00:04:38,666 --> 00:04:40,166 BY 1905, THEY WERE OPERATING AN 90 00:04:40,166 --> 00:04:41,900 OPEN AIR CAMP LOCATED HERE ON 91 00:04:41,900 --> 00:04:43,566 THE EAST SIDE OF INDIANAPOLIS. 92 00:04:43,566 --> 00:04:45,433 BECAUSE THIS IS SOMETHING THAT 93 00:04:45,433 --> 00:04:48,033 WAS VERY MUCH NEEDED, JUST IN 94 00:04:48,033 --> 00:04:50,333 TERMS OF TRYING TO QUELL THE 95 00:04:50,333 --> 00:04:53,066 GREAT RAMPAGE OF TUBERCULOSIS. 96 00:04:53,066 --> 00:04:53,800 THEY WERE REACTING TO THE FACT 97 00:04:53,800 --> 00:04:59,666 THAT THERE WAS VERY LIMITED AND 98 00:04:59,666 --> 00:05:01,866 NOT ENOUGH, SUFFICIENT 99 00:05:01,866 --> 00:05:05,500 HEALTHCARE FOR BLACKS IN 100 00:05:05,500 --> 00:05:06,466 INDIANAPOLIS. 101 00:05:06,466 --> 00:05:10,900 >> THEY SUCCESSFULLY PRESSURED 102 00:05:10,900 --> 00:05:11,500 HOSPITALS TO TREAT MORE 103 00:05:11,500 --> 00:05:12,833 AFRICAN-AMERICAN PATIENTS. 104 00:05:12,833 --> 00:05:14,533 THE WOMEN EVEN OPENED THEIR OWN 105 00:05:14,533 --> 00:05:15,933 CLINIC AND STARTED THE CITY'S 106 00:05:15,933 --> 00:05:17,866 FIRST NURSING PROGRAM FOR 107 00:05:17,866 --> 00:05:21,466 AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN. 108 00:05:21,466 --> 00:05:23,033 >> BEAULAH WRIGHT WAS A SCHOOL 109 00:05:23,033 --> 00:05:26,733 TEACHER AND WENT BACK TO SCHOOL, 110 00:05:26,733 --> 00:05:28,400 GOT HER MEDICAL LICENSE DEGREE, 111 00:05:28,400 --> 00:05:29,133 AND BECAME A DOCTOR AND THEN 112 00:05:29,133 --> 00:05:31,666 WENT BACK TO TEACHING. 113 00:05:31,666 --> 00:05:35,333 BUT A LOT OF HER SKILLS WERE 114 00:05:35,333 --> 00:05:37,166 USED AS IT RELATED TO SOME OF 115 00:05:37,166 --> 00:05:39,033 THE TUBERCULOSIS WORK. 116 00:05:39,033 --> 00:05:40,566 I MARVEL AT THEIR ABILITY TO 117 00:05:40,566 --> 00:05:41,866 COME TOGETHER, TO TRY TO MEET 118 00:05:41,866 --> 00:05:45,166 THOSE NEEDS, BECAUSE THESE ARE 119 00:05:45,166 --> 00:05:46,600 WOMEN WHO REALLY QUICKLY 120 00:05:46,600 --> 00:05:47,766 ASSESSED THAT THEY DID NOT HAVE 121 00:05:47,766 --> 00:05:52,600 THE LUXURY OF BEING INDIVIDUALS. 122 00:05:52,600 --> 00:05:53,866 WHAT IS MOST INTERESTING TO ME 123 00:05:53,866 --> 00:05:55,700 IS THAT THEY WERE ABLE TO UNIFY 124 00:05:55,700 --> 00:05:58,133 AS IT RELATED TO THE WOMEN'S 125 00:05:58,133 --> 00:06:00,300 CLUBS THEMSELVES, BECAUSE IN 126 00:06:00,300 --> 00:06:02,233 ADDITION TO THE FORMATION OF 127 00:06:02,233 --> 00:06:04,533 WOMEN'S IMPROVEMENT CLUB IN 128 00:06:04,533 --> 00:06:09,400 1903, IN 1905, THEY GAVE THE 129 00:06:09,400 --> 00:06:11,700 CALL FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF 130 00:06:11,700 --> 00:06:13,500 THE INDIANA STATE FEDERATION OF 131 00:06:13,500 --> 00:06:15,200 COLORED WOMEN'S CLUB. 132 00:06:15,200 --> 00:06:16,766 AND IF YOU LOOK THROUGH THEIR 133 00:06:16,766 --> 00:06:20,166 MINUTES, THEIR EARLY MINUTES 134 00:06:20,166 --> 00:06:21,466 BOOKS, IT'S REPLETE WITH 135 00:06:21,466 --> 00:06:23,166 EXAMPLES OF THEM GIVING MONEY 136 00:06:23,166 --> 00:06:26,866 THAT IS TO BE TURNED OVER TO AID 137 00:06:26,866 --> 00:06:28,833 THE NATIONAL FEDERATION. 138 00:06:28,833 --> 00:06:30,166 SO THIS WAS A PROBLEM THAT WAS 139 00:06:30,166 --> 00:06:31,533 NOT GOING AWAY. 140 00:06:31,533 --> 00:06:33,733 THERE WERE ISSUES THERE THAT 141 00:06:33,733 --> 00:06:35,400 NEEDED TO BE DEALT WITH. 142 00:06:35,400 --> 00:06:37,600 YOU KNOW, THESE WERE NOT WOMEN 143 00:06:37,600 --> 00:06:41,233 WHO WERE FINANCIALLY SOUND 144 00:06:41,233 --> 00:06:42,600 NECESSARILY, BUT THESE ARE WOMEN 145 00:06:42,600 --> 00:06:46,433 WHO KNEW HOW TO ORGANIZE AND TO 146 00:06:46,433 --> 00:06:49,166 REACH OUT AND TRY TO SECURE 147 00:06:49,166 --> 00:06:50,900 FUNDS FOR WHATEVER IT WAS THEY 148 00:06:50,900 --> 00:06:52,733 WERE DOING. 149 00:06:52,733 --> 00:06:54,400 THEY WEREN'T ABOVE USING THEIR 150 00:06:54,400 --> 00:06:56,266 OWN RESOURCES AS NEGRO AS THEY 151 00:06:56,266 --> 00:06:57,566 MIGHT HAVE BEEN, TO CONTRIBUTE 152 00:06:57,566 --> 00:06:59,100 AS WELL. 153 00:06:59,100 --> 00:07:01,933 THE IMPACT OF THEM HAS BEEN 154 00:07:01,933 --> 00:07:02,433 TREMENDOUS. 155 00:07:02,433 --> 00:07:06,900 THE GREATEST FEELING THAT I 156 00:07:06,900 --> 00:07:10,800 WOULD ATTRIBUTE TO THEM WERE 157 00:07:10,800 --> 00:07:11,233 ORGANIZATION. 158 00:07:11,233 --> 00:07:12,000 THEY WERE PASSIONATE ABOUT WHAT 159 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:13,000 THEY WERE DOING. 160 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:14,966 AND HOW IMPORTANT COLLABORATION 161 00:07:14,966 --> 00:07:15,233 IS. 162 00:07:15,233 --> 00:07:17,933 THOSE ARE PROBABLY THE BIGGEST 163 00:07:17,933 --> 00:07:20,033 THINGS THAT THEY GAVE US WITH 164 00:07:20,033 --> 00:07:22,266 EDUCATION, PASSION AND 165 00:07:22,266 --> 00:07:22,700 COLLABORATION. 166 00:07:22,700 --> 00:07:23,766 >> THE INDIANA HISTORICAL 167 00:07:23,766 --> 00:07:25,033 SOCIETY IS FREE ON THURSDAYS 168 00:07:25,033 --> 00:07:26,300 DURING THE SUMMER. 169 00:07:26,300 --> 00:07:28,100 TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE WOMEN'S 170 00:07:28,100 --> 00:07:32,700 IMPROVEMENT CLUB OR TO SEE OTHER 171 00:07:32,700 --> 00:07:33,633 INCREDIBLE INDIANA EXHIBITS, 172 00:07:33,633 --> 00:07:35,766 VISIT INDIANAHISTORY.ORG. 173 00:07:35,766 --> 00:07:37,300 THE INDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY 174 00:07:37,300 --> 00:07:39,233 LIBRARY IS FILLED WITH CAREFULLY 175 00:07:39,233 --> 00:07:40,766 CATALOGED ARTIFACTS BUT IN 176 00:07:40,766 --> 00:07:43,433 MADISON, THE SCHRADER SADDLE 177 00:07:43,433 --> 00:07:44,700 TREE FACTORY MUSEUM IS THE 178 00:07:44,700 --> 00:07:46,933 ARTIFACT. 179 00:07:46,933 --> 00:07:48,633 DURING THE LATE 19th CENTURY, 180 00:07:48,633 --> 00:07:51,233 AS SETTLERS RUSHED BEST TO 181 00:07:51,233 --> 00:07:53,300 DISCOVER UNKNOWN TERRITORIES, 182 00:07:53,300 --> 00:07:54,533 RIVER TRANSPORTATION WAS THE 183 00:07:54,533 --> 00:07:55,700 HEART OF THE NEW WORLD AND 184 00:07:55,700 --> 00:07:57,100 MADISON, INDIANA, BECAME THE 185 00:07:57,100 --> 00:08:01,033 CENTER OF INDUSTRY. 186 00:08:01,033 --> 00:08:03,233 >> WE ARE MIDWAY BETWEEN 187 00:08:03,233 --> 00:08:04,533 CINCINNATI, UP RIVER AND 188 00:08:04,533 --> 00:08:05,666 LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, DOWN 189 00:08:05,666 --> 00:08:05,966 RIVER. 190 00:08:05,966 --> 00:08:07,500 AND BOTH OF THOSE CITIES HAD 191 00:08:07,500 --> 00:08:08,833 LARGE SADDLE MAKING INDUSTRIES 192 00:08:08,833 --> 00:08:10,633 AND THEY NEEDED SADDLE TREES 193 00:08:10,633 --> 00:08:13,833 WHICH ARE THE BONES OR THE FRAME 194 00:08:13,833 --> 00:08:16,266 THAT A SADDLE MAKER ATTACHES THE 195 00:08:16,266 --> 00:08:19,233 LEATHER TO, TO COMPLETE THE 196 00:08:19,233 --> 00:08:19,566 SADDLE. 197 00:08:19,566 --> 00:08:21,633 THERE WERE 12 OR 13 SADDLE TREE 198 00:08:21,633 --> 00:08:23,133 FACTORIES IN MADISON AND THEY 199 00:08:23,133 --> 00:08:25,733 WERE PRODUCING UPWARDS OF 200 00:08:25,733 --> 00:08:27,033 150,000 SADDLE TREES PER YEAR 201 00:08:27,033 --> 00:08:28,566 AND SHIPPING THEM AS FAR AS WE 202 00:08:28,566 --> 00:08:30,400 KNOW WORLDWIDE. 203 00:08:30,400 --> 00:08:33,133 >> MADISON ATTRACTS RESIDENTS IF 204 00:08:33,133 --> 00:08:35,466 FAR AND WIDE, INCLUDING GERMAN 205 00:08:35,466 --> 00:08:40,600 IMMIGRANT PEN BEN SCHRADER. 206 00:08:40,600 --> 00:08:42,633 SCHRADER STARTED HIS OWN SADDLE 207 00:08:42,633 --> 00:08:45,433 TREE COMPANY, AND WORKED UP 208 00:08:45,433 --> 00:08:46,300 UNTIL 1909, JUST AS THE 209 00:08:46,300 --> 00:08:50,133 AUTOMOBILE THREATENED 210 00:08:50,133 --> 00:08:50,533 NATIONWIDE. 211 00:08:50,533 --> 00:08:53,466 >> APT WASADAPTATION WAS IMPORTANT FOR 212 00:08:53,466 --> 00:08:54,533 THE SCHRADERS. 213 00:08:54,533 --> 00:08:55,966 ONE THE FIRST THINGS THAT THEY 214 00:08:55,966 --> 00:08:59,566 DID DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR, 215 00:08:59,566 --> 00:09:01,133 THEY GOT INTO GLOVE 216 00:09:01,133 --> 00:09:01,566 MANUFACTURING. 217 00:09:01,566 --> 00:09:02,666 AND IN THE 1930s, THEY GOT 218 00:09:02,666 --> 00:09:05,400 INTO MAKING CLOTHES PINS BUT BY 219 00:09:05,400 --> 00:09:06,733 THE 1930s, THERE WAS REALLY 220 00:09:06,733 --> 00:09:08,366 NOT A GREAT DEMAND FOR SADDLE 221 00:09:08,366 --> 00:09:08,700 TREES. 222 00:09:08,700 --> 00:09:10,300 THE SCHRADERS FOR SOME REASON 223 00:09:10,300 --> 00:09:11,966 WERE ABLE TO HANG ON AND THEY 224 00:09:11,966 --> 00:09:13,366 BECAME THE LAST OF THE SADDLE 225 00:09:13,366 --> 00:09:15,266 TREE COMPANIES IN MADISON, OF 226 00:09:15,266 --> 00:09:19,633 THE 12 OR 13 THAT WERE HERE AND 227 00:09:19,633 --> 00:09:21,333 ONE OF THE VERY LAST IN THE 228 00:09:21,333 --> 00:09:23,600 UNITED STATES FROM THE 19th 229 00:09:23,600 --> 00:09:24,400 19th CENTURY. 230 00:09:24,400 --> 00:09:25,300 >> BETWEEN 1878 WHEN THE COMPANY 231 00:09:25,300 --> 00:09:27,466 BEGAN AND 1972, AFTER THE LAST 232 00:09:27,466 --> 00:09:29,633 OF SCHRADER'S SONS PASSED AWAY, 233 00:09:29,633 --> 00:09:31,366 THE BUSINESS PRODUCED BETWEEN 234 00:09:31,366 --> 00:09:33,566 300,000 AND 500,000 SADDLE 235 00:09:33,566 --> 00:09:36,666 TREES, IN OVER 250 STYLES. 236 00:09:36,666 --> 00:09:38,633 >> WHEN I FIRST WALKED INTO THE 237 00:09:38,633 --> 00:09:42,900 FACTORY, I FELT LIKE I WAS 238 00:09:42,900 --> 00:09:44,966 WALKING INTO KING TUT'S TOO 239 00:09:44,966 --> 00:09:45,266 MANY. 240 00:09:45,266 --> 00:09:47,466 THERE WERE SHOP APRONS STILL 241 00:09:47,466 --> 00:09:49,100 HANGING AND A LUNCH PAIL BY A 242 00:09:49,100 --> 00:09:49,533 MACHINE. 243 00:09:49,533 --> 00:09:51,566 SADDLE TREE PARTS THAT WERE CUT 244 00:09:51,566 --> 00:09:53,566 20, 30, 40 YEARS AGO WERE STILL 245 00:09:53,566 --> 00:09:55,600 SITTING NEXT TO THEIR MACHINES. 246 00:09:55,600 --> 00:09:58,033 THE ORIGINAL SAWDUST WAS ON THE 247 00:09:58,033 --> 00:09:58,433 FLOOR. 248 00:09:58,433 --> 00:10:01,000 IT WAS SO SIGNIFICANT THAT THE 249 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:03,500 NATIONAL PARKS SERVICE SENT THE 250 00:10:03,500 --> 00:10:05,766 HISTORIC AMERICAN ENGINEERING 251 00:10:05,766 --> 00:10:07,066 RECORD EMERGENCY TEAM HERE IN 252 00:10:07,066 --> 00:10:10,033 THE 1970s TO DOCUMENT THE SITE 253 00:10:10,033 --> 00:10:11,200 BECAUSE THEY WEREN'T SURE IF 254 00:10:11,200 --> 00:10:12,866 THERE WERE ANY SADDLE TREE 255 00:10:12,866 --> 00:10:14,200 MAKING FACTORIES LIKE THIS LEFT 256 00:10:14,200 --> 00:10:14,766 IN THE UNITED STATES. 257 00:10:14,766 --> 00:10:16,766 SO THEY WANTED TO AT LEAST TAKE 258 00:10:16,766 --> 00:10:18,633 SOME PHOTOS AND DO SOME DRAWINGS 259 00:10:18,633 --> 00:10:21,133 OF IT AND DO SOME RECORDATION IN 260 00:10:21,133 --> 00:10:23,266 CASE IT SHOULD DISAPPEAR. 261 00:10:23,266 --> 00:10:25,733 >> WITH NO REMAINING RELATIVES, 262 00:10:25,733 --> 00:10:27,600 THEY GIFTED THE FACTORY TO 263 00:10:27,600 --> 00:10:30,000 HISTORIC MADISON IN AN EFFORT TO 264 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:34,333 CONSERVE THE BUSINESS'S LEGACY. 265 00:10:34,333 --> 00:10:36,633 THEY TREATED THE ENTIRE FACTORY 266 00:10:36,633 --> 00:10:48,966 LIKE ANNAIO ANNAIO ANNA -- AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL 267 00:10:48,966 --> 00:10:49,233 DIG. 268 00:10:49,233 --> 00:10:50,366 THEY WORKED TO SAVE MUCH MORE 269 00:10:50,366 --> 00:10:53,066 THAN JUST THE BUILDINGS. 270 00:10:53,066 --> 00:10:55,300 >> THE SCHRADERS LEFT SUCH A 271 00:10:55,300 --> 00:10:56,066 RICH SITE BEHIND. 272 00:10:56,066 --> 00:10:58,166 THEY LEFT PARTS AND PIECE MS. IN 273 00:10:58,166 --> 00:11:00,400 VARIOUS STAGES OF PRODUCTION. 274 00:11:00,400 --> 00:11:02,266 BY LOOKING AT THE PARTS AND 275 00:11:02,266 --> 00:11:04,100 PIECES OF WOOD THAT WERE CARVED 276 00:11:04,100 --> 00:11:05,233 WITH DIFFERENT SHAPES AND 277 00:11:05,233 --> 00:11:06,933 MACHINES AND TOOLS, WE WERE ABLE 278 00:11:06,933 --> 00:11:08,833 TO IDENTIFY SOME OF THE 279 00:11:08,833 --> 00:11:10,766 PROCESSES IN A STEP-BY-STEP 280 00:11:10,766 --> 00:11:12,633 PROCESS AS TO HOW THEY MADE 281 00:11:12,633 --> 00:11:13,600 THEIR SADDLE TREES. 282 00:11:13,600 --> 00:11:14,833 AND SO OVER THE COURSE OF A 283 00:11:14,833 --> 00:11:16,533 COUPLE EVER YEARS, WE WERE ABLE 284 00:11:16,533 --> 00:11:18,500 TO ACTUALLY MAKE A SADDLE TREE, 285 00:11:18,500 --> 00:11:20,666 ONE SADDLE TREE. 286 00:11:20,666 --> 00:11:22,933 BEN SCHRADER WOULD HAVE FIRED US 287 00:11:22,933 --> 00:11:24,200 BECAUSE WE WERE NOT PRODUCING 288 00:11:24,200 --> 00:11:27,566 THREE SADDLE TREES PER WORKER 289 00:11:27,566 --> 00:11:28,700 PER DAY, WHICH WAS THEIR 290 00:11:28,700 --> 00:11:29,166 PRODUCTION RATE. 291 00:11:29,166 --> 00:11:31,066 THE IDEA WAS NOT ONLY TO 292 00:11:31,066 --> 00:11:32,566 PRESERVE THE BUILDINGS BUT IN 293 00:11:32,566 --> 00:11:34,233 SOME WAY, SHAPE OR FORM 294 00:11:34,233 --> 00:11:36,066 UNDERSTAND AND PRESERVE SOME OF 295 00:11:36,066 --> 00:11:37,366 THE MANUFACTURING PROCESSES. 296 00:11:37,366 --> 00:11:39,466 THOSE ARE THE SORTS OF THINGS 297 00:11:39,466 --> 00:11:41,900 THAT DISAPPEAR OVER TIME, AND 298 00:11:41,900 --> 00:11:45,533 THIS IS THE ONLY SITE IN THE 299 00:11:45,533 --> 00:11:47,066 NATION WHERE WE ARE ABLE TO 300 00:11:47,066 --> 00:11:48,466 PRESERVE THE CRAFT OF THE 301 00:11:48,466 --> 00:11:50,100 AMERICAN SADDLE TREE MAKER. 302 00:11:50,100 --> 00:11:52,366 USUALLY WHEN YOU GO TO A MUSEUM 303 00:11:52,366 --> 00:11:54,833 OR AN HISTORIC SITE, IT'S THE 304 00:11:54,833 --> 00:11:56,333 HISTORY OF THE RICH AND THE 305 00:11:56,333 --> 00:11:56,733 FAMOUS. 306 00:11:56,733 --> 00:11:58,700 THE SCHRADERS WERE NEITHER RICH, 307 00:11:58,700 --> 00:11:59,466 NOR FAMOUS. 308 00:11:59,466 --> 00:12:02,000 THEY WERE MIDDLE-CLASS BUSINESS 309 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:03,666 PEOPLE WITH A SMALL FACTORY OUT 310 00:12:03,666 --> 00:12:05,200 IN THEIR BACKYARD. 311 00:12:05,200 --> 00:12:07,200 SO IT'S SOMETHING THAT MOST 312 00:12:07,200 --> 00:12:08,700 AMERICANS CAN RELATE TO. 313 00:12:08,700 --> 00:12:10,433 PEOPLE WALK IN HERE ALL THE TIME 314 00:12:10,433 --> 00:12:12,433 AND SAY, OH, YOU KNOW, THIS 315 00:12:12,433 --> 00:12:14,266 REMINDS ME OF GRANDPA'S BARN! 316 00:12:14,266 --> 00:12:16,533 YOU KNOW, HIS WOOD WORK SHOP AND 317 00:12:16,533 --> 00:12:19,066 ALL OF A SUDDEN THEY ARE MAKING 318 00:12:19,066 --> 00:12:20,400 THE CONNECTION FROM SOMETHING IN 319 00:12:20,400 --> 00:12:22,533 THEIR LIVES THAT WAS MEANINGFUL, 320 00:12:22,533 --> 00:12:24,333 TO SOMETHING THAT THEY ARE 321 00:12:24,333 --> 00:12:25,066 SEEING HERE TODAY. 322 00:12:25,066 --> 00:12:27,033 WE DON'T HAVE HISTORY BOOKS. 323 00:12:27,033 --> 00:12:29,100 THAT STUFF IS KIND OF BORING BUT 324 00:12:29,100 --> 00:12:30,966 THESE PLACES BRING HISTORY TO 325 00:12:30,966 --> 00:12:32,800 LIFE AND YOU JUST FEEL LIKE YOU 326 00:12:32,800 --> 00:12:35,333 CAN ALMOST REACH OUT AND TOUCH 327 00:12:35,333 --> 00:12:37,533 THOSE PEOPLE THAT WORKED HERE. 328 00:12:37,533 --> 00:12:39,266 THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS THAT 329 00:12:39,266 --> 00:12:40,633 MAKES THIS PLACE SO UNIQUE AND 330 00:12:40,633 --> 00:12:46,066 IMPORTANT. 331 00:12:46,066 --> 00:12:47,100 >> IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO STEP 332 00:12:47,100 --> 00:12:49,066 BACK IN TIME, AT THE SCHRADER 333 00:12:49,066 --> 00:12:55,533 SADDLE TREE FACTORY OR VISIT OR 334 00:12:55,533 --> 00:12:57,466 HISTORIC MADISON PROPERTIES, GO 335 00:12:57,466 --> 00:12:58,866 TO THEIR WEBSITE. 336 00:12:58,866 --> 00:12:59,733 >>> THERE ARE NOT MANY SADDLE 337 00:12:59,733 --> 00:13:01,400 TREE MAKERS WORKING TODAY. 338 00:13:01,400 --> 00:13:07,566 BUT IN THE PROFITS TOWN FARM HAS 339 00:13:07,566 --> 00:13:10,100 ITS WAY, SADDLE TREES WILL BE 340 00:13:10,100 --> 00:13:11,433 NEEDED FOR YEARS TO COME. 341 00:13:11,433 --> 00:13:15,533 IN THE SOFT GLOW OF THE SUMMER 342 00:13:15,533 --> 00:13:18,566 SUN, THEY PREPARE AN AFTERNOON 343 00:13:18,566 --> 00:13:23,533 SNACK FOR THE BELGIAN DRAFT 344 00:13:23,533 --> 00:13:25,600 HORSES. 345 00:13:25,600 --> 00:13:28,100 KNOWN FOR THEIR GENTLE SPIRIT. 346 00:13:28,100 --> 00:13:29,300 >> WE WOULD GO TO SHOE THE 347 00:13:29,300 --> 00:13:30,933 HORSES AND WE WOULD HAVE TO TAKE 348 00:13:30,933 --> 00:13:32,333 OUR SCHOOL BOOKS WITH US. 349 00:13:32,333 --> 00:13:34,333 WE ORIGINALLY FIRST STARTED 350 00:13:34,333 --> 00:13:35,733 PULLING HORSES AND THEN WE MOVED 351 00:13:35,733 --> 00:13:37,933 UP AND I THINK WHAT STARTED US 352 00:13:37,933 --> 00:13:40,466 SHOWING THE HORSES IS 353 00:13:40,466 --> 00:13:40,866 COMPETITION. 354 00:13:40,866 --> 00:13:42,400 I GREW UP WITH MY BROTHER AND 355 00:13:42,400 --> 00:13:46,966 SISTER ALL AND THE 4-Hers AND 356 00:13:46,966 --> 00:13:48,566 IT WAS A BIG COMPETITION THING 357 00:13:48,566 --> 00:13:50,066 BACK IN THE DAY AND IT JUST 358 00:13:50,066 --> 00:13:51,500 CONTINUES ON. 359 00:13:51,500 --> 00:13:53,233 >> EVERY YEAR, STEVE AND HIS 360 00:13:53,233 --> 00:13:54,533 FAMILY TRAVERSE THE MIDWEST, 361 00:13:54,533 --> 00:13:56,500 PARTICIPATING IN DRAFT HORSE 362 00:13:56,500 --> 00:13:58,966 COMPETITIONS AT STATE AND COUNTY 363 00:13:58,966 --> 00:13:59,266 FAIRS. 364 00:13:59,266 --> 00:14:00,166 >> MOST OF THE TIME WHEN YOU ARE 365 00:14:00,166 --> 00:14:02,233 AT THE FAIRS, THE PEOPLE COME UP 366 00:14:02,233 --> 00:14:04,100 AND THEY ARE JUST STUNNED HOW 367 00:14:04,100 --> 00:14:05,800 HUGE THEY ARE AND MOST OF ALL 368 00:14:05,800 --> 00:14:06,933 HOW QUIET THEY ARE. 369 00:14:06,933 --> 00:14:09,433 HOW YOU CAN GET THEM OUT OF A 370 00:14:09,433 --> 00:14:10,700 STALL AND YOU CAN PUT A KID UP 371 00:14:10,700 --> 00:14:11,900 ON THEIR BACK AND THE PARENTS 372 00:14:11,900 --> 00:14:14,000 ARE AMAZED WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH 373 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:14,300 THEM. 374 00:14:14,300 --> 00:14:17,366 IT'S JUST UNREAL. 375 00:14:17,366 --> 00:14:23,966 PEOPLE WE WILL SHOW AND DRIVE 376 00:14:23,966 --> 00:14:24,266 TODAY. 377 00:14:24,266 --> 00:14:25,300 WE CAN DRIVE THEM ALL DAY LONG 378 00:14:25,300 --> 00:14:26,800 AND, YOU KNOW, THEY WILL BE 379 00:14:26,800 --> 00:14:27,466 READY TO GO AGAIN TOMORROW. 380 00:14:27,466 --> 00:14:29,133 I MEAN, THEY HAVE THAT MUCH IN 381 00:14:29,133 --> 00:14:31,333 THEM TO DO WHATEVER YOU ASK 382 00:14:31,333 --> 00:14:31,633 THEM. 383 00:14:31,633 --> 00:14:33,466 >> AND FARMERS LIKE STEVE ARE 384 00:14:33,466 --> 00:14:35,266 DETERMINED TO KEEP THEIR LEGACY 385 00:14:35,266 --> 00:14:36,700 ALIVE. 386 00:14:36,700 --> 00:14:38,533 STARTING WITH INDIANA BELGIAN 387 00:14:38,533 --> 00:14:39,900 HORSE ASSOCIATION. 388 00:14:39,900 --> 00:14:41,500 >> WHAT WE ARE TRYING TO DO IS 389 00:14:41,500 --> 00:14:44,000 GET OUT TO ALL THE PEOPLE WHAT 390 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:45,500 THE HORSES CAN DO, WHAT WE DO 391 00:14:45,500 --> 00:14:48,233 WITH THE HORSES, DRAW PEOPLE TO 392 00:14:48,233 --> 00:14:48,766 LIKE 'EM. 393 00:14:48,766 --> 00:14:50,366 WE NEED TO HAVE MORE PEOPLE 394 00:14:50,366 --> 00:14:51,066 INVOLVED IN IT. 395 00:14:51,066 --> 00:14:52,633 IT SEEMS LIKE IT'S DYING OFF A 396 00:14:52,633 --> 00:14:54,133 LITTLE BIT, BUT WE WANT TO GET 397 00:14:54,133 --> 00:14:54,900 BACK AT IT. 398 00:14:54,900 --> 00:14:56,366 AND JUST HAVE FUN WITH THE 399 00:14:56,366 --> 00:15:01,533 HORSES. 400 00:15:01,533 --> 00:15:05,600 ♪♪ 401 00:15:05,600 --> 00:15:07,633 >> THAT PASSION IS A COMMON 402 00:15:07,633 --> 00:15:08,833 THREAD THROUGHOUT INDIANA'S 403 00:15:08,833 --> 00:15:10,500 DRAFT HORSE COMMUNITY, AND IT'S 404 00:15:10,500 --> 00:15:15,066 LED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF A 405 00:15:15,066 --> 00:15:16,900 UNIQUE VENTURE, THE FARM AT 406 00:15:16,900 --> 00:15:18,666 PROFITS TOWN WHERE VISITORS AND 407 00:15:18,666 --> 00:15:22,500 FARMERS ALIKE IN UP CLOSE 408 00:15:22,500 --> 00:15:24,766 EDUCATION UNLIKE ANYWHERE IN THE 409 00:15:24,766 --> 00:15:25,566 COUNTRY. 410 00:15:25,566 --> 00:15:28,700 >> OUR FARM IS EXCLUSIVELY 411 00:15:28,700 --> 00:15:30,733 POWERED BY HORSEPOWER. 412 00:15:30,733 --> 00:15:32,266 WE ALLOW PEOPLE TO COME HERE AND 413 00:15:32,266 --> 00:15:33,433 TRY IT ON THEIR OWN AND 414 00:15:33,433 --> 00:15:35,900 EXPERIENCE IT, AND EVEN OUR 415 00:15:35,900 --> 00:15:37,300 DROP-IN DAILY VISITORS CAN GET 416 00:15:37,300 --> 00:15:39,133 RIGHT INTO THE MIDDLE OF IT. 417 00:15:39,133 --> 00:15:40,600 WE TEACH SEVERAL CLINICS 418 00:15:40,600 --> 00:15:41,800 THROUGHOUT THE YEAR, AND WE HAVE 419 00:15:41,800 --> 00:15:42,866 PEOPLE THAT COME FROM ALL OVER 420 00:15:42,866 --> 00:15:45,266 THE WORLD, TO SPEND THE WEEKEND 421 00:15:45,266 --> 00:15:51,333 WITH US TO HEROIN HOW TO LEARN HOW TO HARNESS 422 00:15:51,333 --> 00:15:53,033 AND HOW TO DRIVE WITH THEM. 423 00:15:53,033 --> 00:15:54,733 >> THE VETERINARY SCHOOL, WE 424 00:15:54,733 --> 00:15:56,700 WORK HAND IN HAND AND MELISSA 425 00:15:56,700 --> 00:15:58,466 AND LAUREN ARE GRADUATES OF THAT 426 00:15:58,466 --> 00:15:59,700 PROGRAM AND WE COOPERATE WITH 427 00:15:59,700 --> 00:16:01,466 THEM AND WE ADD THE EXTRA BONUS 428 00:16:01,466 --> 00:16:03,533 WITH OUR CUSTOMERS, TO COME OUT 429 00:16:03,533 --> 00:16:05,533 HERE AND GET THE EXPERTS FROM 430 00:16:05,533 --> 00:16:06,733 PURDUE AND THE PEOPLE WHO 431 00:16:06,733 --> 00:16:07,600 ACTUALLY DOT FARMING. 432 00:16:07,600 --> 00:16:12,533 AT THE END OF THE YEAR, I WILL 433 00:16:12,533 --> 00:16:14,266 PASS 700 PEOPLE. 434 00:16:14,266 --> 00:16:15,100 AND NOW WE HAVE THE NATIONAL 435 00:16:15,100 --> 00:16:16,300 GUARD TRAINING THAT WE TEACH 436 00:16:16,300 --> 00:16:18,433 THEM BEFORE GOING TO 437 00:16:18,433 --> 00:16:18,833 AFGHANISTAN. 438 00:16:18,833 --> 00:16:20,866 WE ARE BECOMING A LABORATORY 439 00:16:20,866 --> 00:16:26,533 WITH THE ANIMAL-DRAWN CARTS. 440 00:16:26,533 --> 00:16:29,533 IT TAKES NO LONGER TO GET MY HAY 441 00:16:29,533 --> 00:16:31,033 DONE, BUT ALL THE PASTURES THEY 442 00:16:31,033 --> 00:16:31,666 PUT IN. 443 00:16:31,666 --> 00:16:34,000 IT'S KIND OF LIKE YOUR TRACTOR 444 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:35,566 MAKING ITS OWN DIESEL. 445 00:16:35,566 --> 00:16:37,133 OVERALL, I HAVE TO SAY, I ENJOY 446 00:16:37,133 --> 00:16:38,000 THE QUIET. 447 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:39,533 I ENJOY THE SMOOTHNESS OF IT. 448 00:16:39,533 --> 00:16:51,633 I LIKE WORKING WITH THE ANIMALS 449 00:16:41,066 --> 00:16:52,233 AND THAT'S A REAL PLUS. 450 00:16:52,233 --> 00:16:56,400 ♪♪ 451 00:16:56,400 --> 00:16:59,066 >> IN TODAY'S WORLD, WE WANT TO 452 00:16:59,066 --> 00:17:00,766 TALK ABOUT DOING A BETTER JOB 453 00:17:00,766 --> 00:17:02,766 WITH FARMING, SMALL ACRE FARMS 454 00:17:02,766 --> 00:17:05,900 AND ALL OF THESE PEOPLE YOU TALK 455 00:17:05,900 --> 00:17:08,966 TO TODAY, THEY ARE NOT BIG. 456 00:17:08,966 --> 00:17:10,600 THEY ARE SMALL. 457 00:17:10,600 --> 00:17:12,033 WE USE THIS TO ATTRACT PEOPLE. 458 00:17:12,033 --> 00:17:13,433 WE THINK IT'S JUST A BETTER WAY 459 00:17:13,433 --> 00:17:14,766 TO FARM ON SMALL ACRES. 460 00:17:14,766 --> 00:17:17,200 WE ARE NOT TALKING ABOUT 461 00:17:17,200 --> 00:17:18,700 REPLACING PRODUCTION AGRICULTURE 462 00:17:18,700 --> 00:17:22,900 BUT THE 250 ACRES OR LESS IS A 463 00:17:22,900 --> 00:17:24,800 COMPETITIVE WAY TO DO THIS AND 464 00:17:24,800 --> 00:17:27,100 MAKE IT WORK, PROVIDED THAT IT 465 00:17:27,100 --> 00:17:28,200 SHOULD BE JUST A LITTLE 466 00:17:28,200 --> 00:17:31,000 DIFFERENT TYPE OF FARMING. 467 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:34,333 IN 2008, WE HAD A SURVEY AND IT 468 00:17:34,333 --> 00:17:35,633 WAS 425,000 PEOPLE IN NORTH 469 00:17:35,633 --> 00:17:37,900 AMERICA, FARMING WITH HORSES. 470 00:17:37,900 --> 00:17:40,300 LESS THAN 100,000 OF THEM, AND 471 00:17:40,300 --> 00:17:43,700 PEOPLE ARE LOOKING AT THE WHOLE 472 00:17:43,700 --> 00:17:44,433 AGRITOURISM MOVEMENT. 473 00:17:44,433 --> 00:17:47,733 EVEN GUYS THAT GROW CORN AND 474 00:17:47,733 --> 00:17:50,000 SOYBEANS GIVE HORSE DRAWN RIDES. 475 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:51,566 THEY TEACH PEOPLE ABOUT 476 00:17:51,566 --> 00:17:51,966 AGRICULTURE. 477 00:17:51,966 --> 00:17:54,333 SO THAT VALUE ADDED THING HAS 478 00:17:54,333 --> 00:17:57,233 MADE A RESURGENCE. 479 00:17:57,233 --> 00:17:59,100 NOBODY EVER STOPS AND GETS THEIR 480 00:17:59,100 --> 00:18:05,866 PICTURE TAKEN WITH A JOHN DEERE. 481 00:18:05,866 --> 00:18:08,566 I GREW UP NEAR HOLMES COUNTY, 482 00:18:08,566 --> 00:18:15,533 HIGH, THE CENTER OF HORSE-DRAWN 483 00:18:15,533 --> 00:18:15,866 FARMING. 484 00:18:15,866 --> 00:18:17,366 WE STARTED RAISING WITH THESE 485 00:18:17,366 --> 00:18:19,100 HORSES AND FEELING ALL WEATHERED 486 00:18:19,100 --> 00:18:21,033 AND TIRED AND SMELLY AND ALL OF 487 00:18:21,033 --> 00:18:21,633 THIS STUFF. 488 00:18:21,633 --> 00:18:23,233 I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU DON'T DO 489 00:18:23,233 --> 00:18:23,533 THAT. 490 00:18:23,533 --> 00:18:27,366 I REALLY MEAN IT FROM THE BOTTOM 491 00:18:27,366 --> 00:18:28,566 OF MY HEART. 492 00:18:28,566 --> 00:18:30,133 I REALLY DON'T KNOW WHAT ELSE I 493 00:18:30,133 --> 00:18:30,700 WOULD DO. 494 00:18:30,700 --> 00:18:32,300 IF YOU CAN DO THIS AND WATCH 495 00:18:32,300 --> 00:18:33,366 THESE PEOPLE, WATCH THEM COME 496 00:18:33,366 --> 00:18:34,466 HERE AND CHANGE THEIR MIND ABOUT 497 00:18:34,466 --> 00:18:35,466 HOW THEY LIVE. 498 00:18:35,466 --> 00:18:37,600 AND I THINK WE JUST HELP PEOPLE 499 00:18:37,600 --> 00:18:43,466 TO BE A LITTLE DIFFERENT. 500 00:18:43,466 --> 00:18:45,733 >> THE FARM IS OPEN SEVEN DAYS A 501 00:18:45,733 --> 00:18:47,033 WEEK WITH SPECIAL EVENTS GOING 502 00:18:47,033 --> 00:18:48,666 ON THROUGHOUT THE SUMMER. 503 00:18:48,666 --> 00:18:57,733 LEARN MORE AT PROFITSTOWN.ORG. 504 00:18:57,733 --> 00:19:02,533 AMY OLSNER IS DRIVEN BY A 505 00:19:02,533 --> 00:19:06,666 DEDICATION AND A LOVE OF HER 506 00:19:03,633 --> 00:19:07,200 WORK. 507 00:19:07,200 --> 00:19:15,733 ♪♪ 508 00:19:15,733 --> 00:19:17,700 >> I HAVE BEEN DOING MUSIC MY 509 00:19:17,700 --> 00:19:20,566 WHOLE LIFE, BASICALLY. 510 00:19:20,566 --> 00:19:25,200 WHEN I WAS 5, I PLAYED A VIOLIN. 511 00:19:25,200 --> 00:19:30,900 ITIT TRAINS YOUR EAR, INSTEAD OF 512 00:19:30,900 --> 00:19:32,033 TEACHING YOU TO READ MUSIC. 513 00:19:32,033 --> 00:19:34,233 I GUESS I ALWAYS LOVED MUSIC AND 514 00:19:34,233 --> 00:19:36,300 THEN I REALLY FELL IN LOVE WITH 515 00:19:36,300 --> 00:19:38,200 SONG WRITING WHEN I STARTED 516 00:19:38,200 --> 00:19:38,533 COLLEGE. 517 00:19:38,533 --> 00:19:41,666 AND I JUST FOUND IT TO BE THIS 518 00:19:41,666 --> 00:19:44,433 REALLY POWERFUL WAY OF 519 00:19:44,433 --> 00:19:46,266 PROCESSING FEELINGS THAT I WAS 520 00:19:46,266 --> 00:19:47,666 HAVING, AS WELL AS EXPRESSING 521 00:19:47,666 --> 00:19:50,366 MYSELF TO THE WORLD. 522 00:19:50,366 --> 00:19:52,600 I FIRST STARTED AS A BEDROOM 523 00:19:52,600 --> 00:19:53,233 RECORDING PROJECT. 524 00:19:53,233 --> 00:19:55,433 I REALLY DIDN'T WANT ANYONE 525 00:19:55,433 --> 00:19:56,200 ELSE'S INPUT. 526 00:19:56,200 --> 00:19:59,033 I WANTED TO HAVE COMPLETE 527 00:19:59,033 --> 00:20:01,533 CREATIVE CONTROL AND TO BE IN 528 00:20:01,533 --> 00:20:03,266 THIS SAFE LITTLE BUBBLE OF MY 529 00:20:03,266 --> 00:20:05,366 ROOM, BUT THEN I STARTED REALLY 530 00:20:05,366 --> 00:20:08,866 HAVING THE DESIRE TO CREATE A 531 00:20:08,866 --> 00:20:12,366 FULLER SOUND AND TO BE LOUDER 532 00:20:12,366 --> 00:20:18,033 AND TO WRITE FOLK ORIENTED SOPS 533 00:20:18,033 --> 00:20:20,133 SOPS -- SONGS AND MORE ROCK 534 00:20:20,133 --> 00:20:20,433 SONGS. 535 00:20:20,433 --> 00:20:22,400 WHEN I MOVED TO BLOOMINGTON, I 536 00:20:22,400 --> 00:20:24,766 THINK THINGS CAME TOGETHER. 537 00:20:24,766 --> 00:20:27,800 I STARTED PLAYING WITH JUSTIN 538 00:20:27,800 --> 00:20:28,600 VOLLMER AND MADELINE ROBINSON 539 00:20:28,600 --> 00:20:30,933 AND THEN WE JUST ADDED ON FROM 540 00:20:30,933 --> 00:20:32,533 THERE AND NOW IT'S A FIVE PIECE, 541 00:20:32,533 --> 00:20:36,400 WHICH IS A LITTLE OUT OF 542 00:20:36,400 --> 00:20:37,300 CONTROL, WHICH IS GREAT. 543 00:20:37,300 --> 00:20:40,800 THE REASON WHY I WORKED ON MUSIC 544 00:20:40,800 --> 00:20:42,566 FOR SO LONG AND DIDN'T REALLY 545 00:20:42,566 --> 00:20:45,733 SHARE IT BECAUSE IT FELT VERY 546 00:20:45,733 --> 00:20:46,800 EXPOSING AND VULNERABLE. 547 00:20:46,800 --> 00:20:49,200 THE MORE I FIGURED OUT WAYS TO 548 00:20:49,200 --> 00:20:51,166 WRITE SONGS BUT THEN REALLY 549 00:20:51,166 --> 00:20:52,900 DRESS THEM UP WITH THIS BAND 550 00:20:52,900 --> 00:20:55,966 THAT I HAVE AND ALSO TO REALLY 551 00:20:55,966 --> 00:20:57,166 REFIND THEM SO THAT IT'S NOT 552 00:20:57,166 --> 00:20:58,800 JUST RAW EMOTION BUT THERE'S 553 00:20:58,800 --> 00:21:00,533 SOME SORT OF TECHNIQUE THERE, IT 554 00:21:00,533 --> 00:21:02,933 FEELS A LOT MORE COMFORTABLE TO 555 00:21:02,933 --> 00:21:03,233 SHARE. 556 00:21:03,233 --> 00:21:05,300 IT'S JUST A REALLY COOL PLATFORM 557 00:21:05,300 --> 00:21:07,100 TO JUST BE LIKE THIS IS MY 558 00:21:07,100 --> 00:21:08,800 PERSPECTIVE IN THE WORLD AND 559 00:21:08,800 --> 00:21:10,966 MAYBE EVEN LET PEOPLE GET TO 560 00:21:10,966 --> 00:21:12,700 KNOW ME A LITTLE BIT BETTER. 561 00:21:12,700 --> 00:21:15,200 IF I COULD MAKE SOMEONE FEEL 562 00:21:15,200 --> 00:21:16,866 THAT THEY RELATE TO WHAT I'M 563 00:21:16,866 --> 00:21:18,500 GOING THROUGH, THROUGH A SONG, 564 00:21:18,500 --> 00:21:21,466 THAT WOULD BE THE ULTIMATE GOAL, 565 00:21:21,466 --> 00:21:22,833 BECAUSE I'M TRYING TO FIGURE OUT 566 00:21:22,833 --> 00:21:25,066 WHAT MY GOALS ARE, WHAT AM I 567 00:21:25,066 --> 00:21:27,033 GOING FOR WITH THIS? 568 00:21:27,033 --> 00:21:29,066 THINK IT'S TWOFOLD. 569 00:21:29,066 --> 00:21:30,533 I THINK THERE'S THE INDIVIDUAL 570 00:21:30,533 --> 00:21:31,933 SUCCESS OF ENGAGING IN THE 571 00:21:31,933 --> 00:21:32,266 PROCESS. 572 00:21:32,266 --> 00:21:33,766 I FIND IT REALLY SATISFYING TO 573 00:21:33,766 --> 00:21:36,066 JUST WORK ON A CRAFT, THAT 574 00:21:36,066 --> 00:21:37,900 REALLY CALLS OUT TO ME. 575 00:21:37,900 --> 00:21:40,466 I FEEL LIKE THAT GIVES A LOT OF 576 00:21:40,466 --> 00:21:42,466 MEANING TO PEOPLE'S LIVES THAT 577 00:21:42,466 --> 00:21:43,866 THEY ARE JUST WORKING ON 578 00:21:43,866 --> 00:21:45,466 SOMETHING AND TRYING TO IMPROVE 579 00:21:45,466 --> 00:21:46,000 ON IT. 580 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:47,900 I WOULD LIKE TO KEEP WORKING ON 581 00:21:47,900 --> 00:21:49,200 IMPROVING AT SONG WRITING AND 582 00:21:49,200 --> 00:21:51,733 GUITAR PLAYING AND SINGING AND 583 00:21:51,733 --> 00:21:52,500 EVERYTHING FOREVER. 584 00:21:52,500 --> 00:21:54,066 THAT 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