[five Marshall Dodge programs] Smile-In Part 1

1505.0001
Dodge, Fred/MPBN Collection
Maine
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1960-1980s
Six programs featuring Maine humorist Marshall Dodge: - 'Downeast Smile-In #1' - 'Downeast Smile-In #2' - 'Downeast Smile-In #3' - 'Fresh Breeze Part I' - 'Fresh Breeze Part II' - 'Virgil Bliss--20 cuts' (producer, WNET, New York)
Marshall Dodge voiceover; views on the deck of a small fishing vessel while Dodge described going turkey hunting on Hogg Island; Dodge talks of his background for story-telling, not joke-telling, about Maine; Dodge is on camera with a live audience telling the story of going fishing with Bert on the Bluebird; frequent sound effects at the microphone; the Bangor Packet strikes the Bluebird and there is swimming for the shore near Kennebunkport; Cutler Harbor is the subject of the second story and carrying a load of lumber; other stories, told while boat-side, include lobstering is a lonely life; a skinny little kid; Wilber and George hatch a plan; Addie Lou, a special lobster, and giving up lobstering altogether; Orron and the fish with extra weight; describing a lead and its uses, told dockside; the good ship Mozambique and whale watching is the subject of another story; Tom Ryles is the subject of the next story, told on the church steps; mistaken burial is the next story; back in front of a live audience he talks about a young woman in a tight t-shirt; credits to the Maine broadcaster;

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