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The Very Best of Westport Matters
 hosted by Claude Ledoux

Title

Description

Runtime

Date

Disc

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Home for Battered Women

Our Sister's place Fall-River MA

 

7/19/96

37

Ernie Waite's Life History

Narrative: Farmer, Sawmiller, Lifelong Westporter

 

3 parts 1/1997

43-45

Gill Netting:
The Westport Fisherman, 1996

Claude films the captain and crew of the Fishing Trawler Marci Ann during a one-day, gill-netting trip.

0:59:30

2/21/97

76A

Homemade Firewood Processor, 2000

Claude Ledoux and Billy White demonstrate their amazing firewood processor made mostly from junk!

0:45:05

6/21/00

149

Small Scale Lobstering

F/V Adrien- Rose of Westport MA

 

6/23/95

61

Life on a local Christmas tree farm

A Quiet Place Westport MA

 

10/18/96

68

Regional Landfill Operation

Crapo Landfill Dartmouth MA

 

11/8/96

69

How to run a successful small business:
Butler's Donuts, 1998

Claude interviews Former Owner, Alex Kogler

0:39:54

3/20/98

97

Agricultural Activities

Vignettes of Westport, MA, farming

 

10/17/97

91

Greenhouse Farming

Lettuce growing on a large scale

 

5/8/98

101

Horseshoeing

How it's done

 

7/17/98

  105A

Culinary Arts Schooling

New-Bedford MA HS. Culinary class

 

10/2/98

108

Stone Walls, 1999

Brian Guimond and Co. demonstrate the art of building a stone wall.

0:52:45

9/24/99

129

Draft Horses

Stables, Harnesses. Mules at work

 

10/15/99

130

Honey Harvesting

How it's done

 

12/3/99

134

New Bedford MA Fishing Industry, Part 1

Fishing, marketing and processing

 

2/4/00

138

New Bedford MA Fishing Industry, Part 2

Fishing, marketing and processing

 

2/11/00

139

New Bedford MA Fishing Industry, Part 3

Fishing, marketing and processing

 

2/18/00

140

Billy White's Antique Shingle Mill, 2000

Mayflower descendent, Billy White, demonstrates how homesteaders made wood shingles in the early 1900's.

0:46:31

5/5/00

145

Billy White's Antique Engines, 2000

Mayflower descendent, Billy White, demonstrates his collection of antique, one-lunger engines.

0:58:18

5/12/00

146

East Branch Westport River MA

Barge transit. Slow ride. Includes Buzzard's Bay

 

8/7/01

181

Raising Beef - Westport Style, 2001 Darren Mendes, Jim McBratney and Gary Ranney of the Triple S Farm demonstrate their local cattle raising operation.

1:06:35

8/17/01

 
Wood Cutting, Log Hauling

Small scale operation with winch and farm tractor

 

11/3/00

156

Pearl Harbor Veteran

Lifelong Westport resident, Manny Martin, a Pearl Harbor veteran, recalls December 7, 1941.

 

12/8/00

158

Regional Bio-Reserve Freetown MA

14,000 acres dedicated to open land preservation

 

5/3/02

196

Deep Tunnels Work

Real world footage of high risk profession.

 

7/26/02

171

Raising Prize Rabbits, 2002

Westport resident, Jim Bounakes, demonstrates the workings of his local rabbitry.

0:44:55

8/9/02

210

Shellfish Relay

Dredging of contaminated shellfish for depuration

 

6/20/03

265

L'independent former French Paper

Fall River, MA ethnic publication

 

8/1/03

  246A

Cleanup of an Old Barge, 2003

Tripp Marine Works, Tiverton, RI, removes a navigation hazard from the Sakonnett River.

0:58:45

9/19/03

250

Swordfishing

Old style method. From pulpit using spear.

 

10/31/03

266

New Bedford Commercial Fishing, Part 1

Fishing Vessel Tropico net dragging operations

1:01:40

6/27/05

320

New Bedford Commercial Fishing, Part 2

Fishing Vessel Tropico scalloping operations

1:00:19

6/27/05

321

Tripp Farm Pollution Cleanup, 2007

Extensive volunteer work designed to stop manure from entering the Westport River is stopped by the Feds.

0:60:00

7/31/07

325

An Endangered Species:
The Westport Farmer, 1997
Follows the corn crop from spring to fall showing various operations on the John Silvia Farm, the Santos Bros. Farm, and Manuel Ferry's,  Milky Way Farm.

0:45:30

May - Oct
1997

  316

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