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Boatbuilder Douglas Brooks to speak Oct. 8
VERGENNES BOATBUILDER DOUGLAS Brooks works on one of six wooden boats that he and a team built for a Japanese adventure tours company using traditional Japanese skills that Brooks himself learned over decades of apprenticeships with Japanese master craftsmen.
Photo courtesy of Douglas Brooks
October 3, 2024
Douglas Brooks, a boatbuilder, writer, and researcher from Vergennes, will be the featured speaker at the New Haven Community Library on Tuesday, Oct. 8, at 6:30 p.m., with his talk, “Traditional Boatbuilder from Japan to Hollywood.”
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