Clark, Frank
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content: Johnson, Paula, Curator
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content: McCulla, Theresa
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content: National Museum of American History (U.S.)
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content: American Beer Brewing Oral History Collection
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content: American Beer Brewing Oral History Collection / Series 1: Born-Digital Interviews
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content: 590.26 Megabytes (Total Running Time: 00:58:29, audio/wav)
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content: 2018-08-28
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content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: Oral history interview with Frank Clark, master of historic foodways at Colonial Williamsburg, in Williamsburg, Virginia. Topics covered include Clark's childhood in Williamsburg, growing up in and near Colonial Williamsburg; his early career working as a public historian and being hired to work full-time at Colonial Williamsburg in 1993; and his early interest in historic foodways and historic brewing. Clark also discusses his research into eighteenth-century brewing techniques, ingredients, vocabulary, and tools; meeting Fritz Maytag when Maytag toured Colonial Williamsburg; attending the Craft Brewers Conference and watching it grow over time; the history of beer and brewing in central Virginia; how he procures tools and ingredients to brew beer in his job; what he has learned about historic brewing through the experiential nature of his work; the unique potential of beer to connect with visitors; and the meaning of the term "craft" as applied to beer.