This digital story recording was created in conjunction with the Smithsonian's Museum on Main Street program and its Stories from Main Street student documentary initiative, called "Stories: Yes." The project encourages students and their mentors to research and record stories about small-towns and rural neighborhoods, waterways, personal memories, cultural traditions, work histories, as well as thoughts about American democracy. These documentaries are then shared on Smithsonian websites and social media.
Filmed and created by Buffalo Island Central High School, EAST Students, in conjunction with the Buffalo Island Museum, Arkansas.
Arkansas residents Rudy and Doodle discuss the mule shears on display in the Buffalo Island Museum in Arkansas. This story is connected to Buffalo Island Central EAST's online story map From Swamp to Farmland and interactive exhibits at the Buffalo Island Museum, which both trace the the history of agriculture in the area. Within the exhibition, the photo was connected to an augmented reality experience that brought the object to life. To see it, search for this story on www.museumonmainstreet.org.
Narrator (00:00): A crosscut saw is any saw designed for cutting wood across the grain.
Doodle (00:06): Those old crosscut saws, that's the way we used to cut wood. Our dad would get on to us for riding the saw. You had to know how to use them. They'd sharpen them. Now, I never put the set in it. Rudy said he knew how. After you sharpen them, they'd bend it a little bit and you've got to [ut a set in it before it will even cut again. Take a hammer and chisel or something. I didn't know how to do that. But it was rough back then.
Rudy (00:39): Simond's special four cutter. It's got four teeth there. Two on each side. I wasn't real crazy about them, either.
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