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The Musical and Agricultural Heritage of Eric Campbell

 
Eric at the microphone; although he was a good MC, he preferred to concentrate on playing
37 of 137 		Irvyn Behm, piano player at the Fiddler's Jamborees, participant at maple syrup and sawing events
38 of 137 		Dominic Curley, legendary fiddler, recites a poem about a Fiddler at the Pearly Gates
39 of 137 		Dominic Curley gives his final public performance. Tony Misefri, guitar, Luella Curley, piano
40 of 137 		Davis Hodgins, a regular performer at the Fiddler's Jamborees
41 of 137 		Ray Roach, a Fiddle Jamboree regular, played bass as well as fiddle
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Fiddlers of all ages gather onstage for a Jamboree finale
43 of 137 		An older chapter of Pontiac musical tradition; Dominic Curley, fiddle, Lennox Gavan, singer
44 of 137 		A sap pail, hung to catch the dripping maple sap
45 of 137 		Eric gathers the maple sap in buckets which are poured into the tank on this wagon.
46 of 137 		Eric checks the boiling sap as it nears the syrup stage
47 of 137 		Eric shows a visitor the final stage of boiling maple sap to syrup
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The Case dozer and sap wagon
49 of 137 		Eric before a wall of vapor, rising from the maple sap as it boils to syrup
50 of 137 		the sugar shack, with maple vapor escaping into the cool spring air
51 of 137 		Friends and visitors to the Campbell maple sugar cabin
52 of 137 		Friends gather in the shack to await the sap boiling to syrup
53 of 137 		The hygrometer is used to tell exactly when the syrup is ready, by specific gravity
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