World Ocean Radio 6/11/25: Apprenticing, A Manifesto

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives · Jun 11, 2025 · 5m

Host: Peter Neill Producer: Trisha Badger ABOUT THIS EPISODE Apprenticing has long been thought of as a term to describe someone working beside a master craftsperson to learn a trade and to refine a professional skill: whether it be pottery or electrical, cabinetry or plumbing. As an educational model it has long been mostly lost or forgotten, except in a place in midcoast Maine: The Apprenticeshop, where apprentices are learning the craft of building and restoring small traditional wooden boats and associated seamanship, in what can be argued as a most effective way of learning and living in…