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Ben Franklin's World is a production of the Yomohandro Institute, and is sponsored by

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Hello, and welcome to your subscribers' only bonus episode of Ben Franklin's World.

Thank you for your support, and I hope you're enjoying this holiday season.

As a holiday season often involves stuff and the beginning of stuff to others, I thought

it would be fun to take some time to consider how early Americans created the tools, objects,

presents, and items that they needed.

How did early Americans create all the things that they needed and wanted in life?

Of course part of this answer is that early Americans didn't always make the things that

they wanted and needed.

Like we do today, early Americans often imported goods from other places, places like England,

continental Europe, and the Caribbean colonies.

But as you may recall from episode 292, when we spoke with Glenn Adamson, early Americans

could not and did not import everything.

They made a lot of what they needed in the colonies and later, right in the new United

States.

So today, we're going to revisit with Glenn Adamson, a scholar who has served as a curator

and director of research at several museums, and a scholar who has spent most of his career

researching crafts and craft goods so that we can get answers to a few more of your questions

that we couldn't address in our full-length conversation.

Questions like, what is the relationship between craft tradition and the arts and crafts

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