Sound |  | Interview with Robert Rich
Maine Folklife Center, Sound
Selection from an interview with Robert Rich, a boat-builder in Tremont, on Mount Desert Island, conducted by Richard Lunt. In the selection, Rich discusses the history of boat-building on Mount Desert Island, and how his father and grandfather would build boats in the winter, sail them down the coast to ship ice and lumber in the summer, then sell that boat and build another one.
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