The Ship Builders of Essex

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June 14, 2012

Bill Mayher

A world apart. Sit back and enjoy as this 1940′s documentary evokes wooden ship building in the legendary town of Essex, Massachusetts. A little hokie in a Movietone News sort of way, the film nevertheless shows how it took a village to build a boat in the era of the adze and the caulking mallet.

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