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Add & Mabel's punkin center [electronic resource] / produced and directed by Richard Kane ; written and directed by Dillon Bustin.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Ethnographic video online.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Historical museums--Indiana.
- Historical museums.
- Folk art--Indiana.
- Folk art.
- Punkin Center (Ind.).
- Indiana--History.
- Indiana.
- Genre:
- Ethnographic films.
- Documentary films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 streaming video (16 min.) : sd., col.
- Other Title:
- Add and Mabel's punkin center
- Place of Publication:
- Watertown, Mass. : Documentary Educational Resources, 1984.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- Add and Mabel's Punkin Center is about memories. It's about the urge to collect things from the past to help make vivid those cherished times. But it's also about today, about two old-timers whose tender and jovial banter reveals a contentment with the present derived only from knowing their past. To experience Punkin Center in Southern Indiana is to experience the value of reminiscence. Today, we see a homespun folk museum filled with hundreds of thousands of antiques and curios Add and Mabel Gray have collected since the 1920s. Each item inspires stories about vaudeville acts and organ grinders, Kraft cheese parties and western swing, Depression days and Amish neighbors. Over the years, Punkin Center grew to become the hub - the true backbone of their Midwestern community, fulfilling a need for isolated rural folk to be in touch with each other and the rest of the world.
- Participant:
- Mark Hammer.
- Notes:
- Title from title frames (Ethnographic video online, viewed on Oct. 3, 2011).
- Previously released on DVD.
- Recorded in Indiana.
- Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2010. (Ethnographic video online). Available via World Wide Web.
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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