{"id":52036,"date":"2012-01-24T15:26:21","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T20:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=52036"},"modified":"2018-10-01T13:45:39","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T17:45:39","slug":"in-blood-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2012\/01\/24\/in-blood-documentary\/","title":{"rendered":"‘In the Blood’: Bates presents Maine lumber industry documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Wiscasset resident Sumner McKane shows his new documentary on Maine logging history, In the Blood<\/em>, at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 3, at the Olin Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.<\/p>\n

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NOTE: This event<\/em><\/strong> is sold out<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

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The event is presented by L\/A Arts and the Olin Arts Center. Tickets are $6 and available at www.batestickets.com. For more information, please contact 207-786-6135 or olinarts@bates.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Maine lumbermen formed the backbone of an industry that helped make the state an economic powerhouse in the mid-to-late 19th century. They were innovators who found ways to extract countless tons of lumber through thick forests and down turbulent waterways to the sawmills and paper mills — relying on horses, oxen, primitive steam technology and, of course, sheer manpower. These workers symbolize Maine\u2019s gritty and resilient reputation.<\/p>\n

As a child, McKane was fascinated by stories he heard in school about the rough and dangerous lives of Maine lumberjacks. For In the Blood<\/em><\/a>, he compiled archival film and still photographs of the logging industry from the turn of the 20th century into a documentary both entertaining and educational.<\/p>\n

The film illustrates and investigates these individuals, their character and history, and takes viewers into their rugged world — the camps, the haul roads, landings and yards, rivers and lakes. The experience is a striking virtual journey into the 19th-century Maine woods.<\/p>\n

A singer-songwriter of folk-rock and Americana music, McKane also created the score for the film, which he’ll perform during the Bates screening with his bandmate Joshua Robbins.<\/p>\n

Maine lumbermen, Maine Sunday Telegram reporter Bob Keyes wrote in a recent article<\/a> about the project, “had character, strength and resilience, and worked dangerous jobs under horrid conditions. They lived difficult, crude lives, and survived . . . deep in the woods on a steady diet of beans. In winter.”<\/p>\n

“Their way of life has gone by the wayside,” McKane told Keyes, and their type of “character also seems to be dwindling, [for whom] work came first.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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