The Ancient Craft of Japanese Boat Making
b'Japanese Boats
Guest:\\xa0Douglas Brooks;\\xa0author of five books on Japanese boatbuilding, most recently "Japanese Wooden Boatbuilding," and is a visiting faculty teacher at Middlebury College and Bates College
Douglas Brooks is trying to save an age-old tradition, traveling to and from Japan to document and learn right from the old master boatbuilders to preserve their craft
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The Big World of Miniature Trees
Guest: Peter Chan, expert bonsai artist
The history of bonsai and how an electrical engineer taught himself the this ancient art and became an award-winning expert.'