Eleanora Eden on sun 8 apr 07
Last fall I mentioned this TV movie with Sidney Poitier.
It is airing this coming Tuesday at 9 pm on Hallmark channel.
Eleanora
From that post:
There was a TV movie on the other night called The Last Brickmaker starring
an elderly and still compelling Sidney Poitier as the maker of all
the brick in a
small town near Springfield, MO.
The process of making bricks in the old-fashioned way was depicted using a
donkey to turn the clay mixer. Way cool was the process of building and firing
the wood-fired kiln that was composed of all the brick that had to be
fired with
a mortar layer on the outside.
Adjustments had to be made on the damper on the roof of the kiln
during the firing
and he had these wooden sandals to put on over his shoes to walk on the roof.
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Bellows Falls Vermont
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