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Episode 910: Thursday November 22, 2007

Encaustic Painter Ruth Grover
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Ruth Grover was the force responsible for bringing the difficult encaustic method of painting back to the world. It had been a lost art until she began her work in the 1960s. See never before seen footage of her at work in the mid-1970s.
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Blues Musician Paul deLay
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He was one of the world's greatest blues harmonica players, we see Paul Delay play at the Waterfront Blues Festival in Portland.
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Allan deLay
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Allan deLay played the musical saw, was an Olympian at age 89, and was an Oregonian news photographer for decades. He took Art Beat to the very spot in which he shot his world-famous photographs of the Vanport Flood.
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