New Hampshire Crossroads; 1020; Evening in a Sugar Orchard?Itinerant Butcher?R.P. Hale?Robert Frost Poem?Videodisc History
- Series
- New Hampshire Crossroads
- Episode
- 1020
- Producing Organization
- New Hampshire Public Television
- Contributing Organization
- New Hampshire Public Television (Durham, New Hampshire)
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip/298-47dr81w3
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- Description
- Description
- Travel the Connecticut River Valley with an unforgettable character named Daniel "Boone" Rondeau, an itinerant butcher. The 18th century arts of harpsichord building and paper marbling come alive in the hands of R.P. Hale. Sample a few dozen of the 12,000 sights of New Hampshire's history that are preserved for the first time on videodisc. Hear a reading of Robert Frost's poem "Evening in a Sugar Orchard.". Daniel "Boone" Rondeau is one of a disappearing breed, the itinerant butcher. He still travels the Connecticut River Valley each fall, butchering cows, sheep, and hogs right on the farm. Producer Chip Neal travels with him for a day.. Was R.P. Hale born 200 years too late? This musician, instrument builder, calligrapher, and illustrator models himself on an educated 18th-century gentleman. What can we learn from him in the 1990's? We see him performing a variety of 18th century skills-- music making, calligraphy, paper-making.. We see a videodisc collection of historic pictures. This videodisc system contains hundreds of thousands of pictures regarding the history of NH. Everything from cars driving up Mt. Washington to a collection about Christa McAuliffe.. A reading of the Robert Frost poem "Evening in a Sugar Orchard." This Frost poem focuses on the images/sensations connected with maple sugaring, and the evening atmosphere after dark of stepping outside a sugarhouse.
- Asset type
- Program
- Subjects
- Butcher; calligrapher; calligraphy; Connecticut; Connecticut River Valley; Disc; Evening; farm; Frost; gentleman; groves; harpsichord; hogs; instrument; itinerant; itinerant butcher; livestock; maple; maple sugar; marble; marbling; MUSIC; musician; Orchard; paper; poem; River; Robert; Robert Frost; sugar; sugar orchard; sugarhouse; Valley; video; video disc; videodisc
- Media type
- Moving Image
- Credits
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: Fritz Wetherbee, Chip Neal, Marya Danihel, Steve Salniker,
Producing Organization: New Hampshire Public Television
- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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New Hampshire Public Television
Identifier: (unknown)
Duration: 27:50:00
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New Hampshire Public Television
Identifier: (unknown)
Color: RGB
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- Citations
- Chicago: “New Hampshire Crossroads; 1020; Evening in a Sugar Orchard?Itinerant Butcher?R.P. Hale?Robert Frost Poem?Videodisc History ,” New Hampshire Public Television, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed April 27, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-298-47dr81w3.
- MLA: “New Hampshire Crossroads; 1020; Evening in a Sugar Orchard?Itinerant Butcher?R.P. Hale?Robert Frost Poem?Videodisc History .” New Hampshire Public Television, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. April 27, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-298-47dr81w3>.
- APA: New Hampshire Crossroads; 1020; Evening in a Sugar Orchard?Itinerant Butcher?R.P. Hale?Robert Frost Poem?Videodisc History . 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-298-47dr81w3