New Hampshire Crossroads; 1013; The Census Taker?Frank Jones?King of the Alemakers?Robert Frost Poem?Taggart's Diary

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Series
New Hampshire Crossroads
Episode
1013
Segment
The Census Taker?Frank Jones?King of the Alemakers?Robert Frost Poem?Taggart's Diary
Producing Organization
New Hampshire Public Television
Contributing Organization
New Hampshire Public Television (Durham, New Hampshire)
AAPB ID
cpb-aacip/298-30bvqfvg
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Description
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Wraps: In the woods go back and visit the life and music of John Taggart, a farmer and fiddler who lived in 19th century Sharon, NH. We visit the haunts of a man who was the pre-eminent entrepreneur of his time--millionaire Frank Jones. We continue with the Robert Frost series of poetry with the poem entitled "The Census Taker.". A folk music group called the "NH's Fiddlers Union" has resurrected some old fiddle tunes from the recently discovered 19th century mongraph on life in the town of Sharon written by farmer, fiddler, and entertainer John Taggart.. Historian Ray Brighton takes Fritz on a tour of the life and haunts of Frank Jones, King of the Alemakers. We see the former Jones Brewery, the Jones mansion, the Jones tombstone, and other Jones legacies which show the mark this man left on the region.. A reading of the Robert Frost poem "The Census Taker". This poem's narrator encounters an abandoned lumberman's shack while on a census. The eerie setting, with its absence of people, sparks the speaker's imagination. Sorrowfully, he tallies the missing people inside the wreck of the shack, as evidenced by the telltale clues and objects of its missing inhabitants.
Asset type
Program
Subjects
Ale; alemaker; brewery; Census; census taker; diary; entertainer; farm; fiddle; fiddler; folk; folk music; Frost; lumberman; mansion; MUSIC; poem; Poetry; resurrect; Robert; Robert Frost; shack; Taggart; taker; tombstone
Media type
Moving Image
Credits
: Fritz Wetherbee, John Wackman, Andrea Melville, Chip Neal, Steve Salniker
Producing Organization: New Hampshire Public Television
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New Hampshire Public Television
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Duration: 27:52:00
New Hampshire Public Television
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Citations
Chicago: “New Hampshire Crossroads; 1013; The Census Taker?Frank Jones?King of the Alemakers?Robert Frost Poem?Taggart's Diary ,” New Hampshire Public Television, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed July 16, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-298-30bvqfvg.
MLA: “New Hampshire Crossroads; 1013; The Census Taker?Frank Jones?King of the Alemakers?Robert Frost Poem?Taggart's Diary .” New Hampshire Public Television, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. July 16, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-298-30bvqfvg>.
APA: New Hampshire Crossroads; 1013; The Census Taker?Frank Jones?King of the Alemakers?Robert Frost Poem?Taggart's Diary . Boston, MA: New Hampshire Public Television, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-298-30bvqfvg