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Norlands Re-enactors

The Norlands Living History Center in Livermore employs local residents to re-enact the 19th century Maine farming life. From lugging in pails of water from a hand pump to chopping the wood to heat the cooking stove, schoolchildren and tourists alike can get a real sense of how hard people back then needed to work in order to survive. Maine Experience segment producer Eric Bunford describes some of the scenes that he videotaped for the Norlands segment and offers some insight into just how seriously these actors take their portrayals of life in the 1800's.

 

   

Funding for production of Maine Experience was provided in part by: Elsie Viles, Cynthia Crocker, the Richard Bresnahan Family, Harry and Susan Konkel, the Borman Family Foundation, Henrietta Farnum Stewart, Randy Phelps and Pamela Daley, the Roy A. Hunt Foundation, Judith and Joe Kaminski and Calista L. Harder.