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Wilderness vs. folklore in Ozarks chairmakers clash with wilderness
Jack McCutcheon and Charles Christian keep a vanishing American craft alive by hand making chairs from bitternut bark in Boss Hollow Arkansas. As wilderness designations threaten their sole supply, the brothers face a choice between preserving the wild and preserving their art.
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Jules Loch
Boss Hollow
Ark
Jack McCutcheon
Charles Christian
Ozarks
Jack
Charles
Jim Nichols
Charlie
Smithsonian Institution
Washington
America
Kentucky
Lois
Carl
Ben’s Branch