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{SPEAKER name="audience member"}
Decide to include the, the audio, I mean to me the exhibit is made because of the show.

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{SPEAKER name="Rayna Green"}
Yeah, her presence, yeah.

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The snapshot. So how did you decide to do that, and you've done... What, there's is two of them right?

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There are two, two, two videos. One of them, there's a quite long one; which people stay to see. It's 90 minutes and it was made for PBS.

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{SPEAKER name="audience member"}
Oh, no wonder I have never seen the end of it.

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{SPEAKER name="Rayna Green"}
It's made for PBS and you can buy it at the store, little plug, [[laughs]] by her old producer Jeff Drummond

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who has worked with us from the very beginning, been very kind to us.

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And he made that for PBS a number of years ago and just basically gave it to us,

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and it, it's a series of clips not only from all of her career on television but, interviews with people like,

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you know, um, Martha Stewart, and Alice Waters, and Charlie Gibson who was one of Julia's many, many, many boyfriends out there in the media.

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Julia had a real eye for the young gentlemen, she had hundreds of boyfriends out there who really just loved her and would do all these wonderful, uh, film clips for.

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The other one, we made. Um, uh, on a very, uh, a very strange and amazing day on 9/11/2001.

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Uh, we were up there, we ah, we had agreed with her to do a video all day, uh interview,

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of her in the kitchen with the stuff that she loved and the kitchen we were about to take away and bring down here.

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And so we shot that all day with her old producers and old film crew who really knew how to shoot her.

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And, uh, and me and my sister curator Paula Johnson are sitting at the kitchen table with her and we are,

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uh talking all day with her and what we did that day was really quite extraordinary.

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I think it's really wonderful, it's Julia up close and personal in a way that you aren't used to seeing,

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and just talking about her life in the kitchen and objects in it and, as she says, everything has a story, and so she's telling those stories.

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And what we did that day, we knew from the very beginning that morning, we were setting up the cameras at 8:45,

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and uh watching the news on her kitchen TV. Which is in the gallery by the way, the television is right there.

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And uh, when all the news started to come over, we realized rather quickly that we probably weren't going back to Washington,

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we could not phone here, we realized it was pretty much over, so, we ah, we decided we had to go ahead.

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We were all just a bunch of, just... weenies, but Julia said that we needed to do our work.

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She, uh, she knew too that we weren't going anywhere and that we should just buckle down and do our work

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and we'd occasionally try to check in with our families, so we spent the whole day, ah, this remarkable day,

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shooting that lovely, lovely footage with her.

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And we have basically five, ah five hours or more of footage that was the last really long interview with her before her death in 2004

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and we came and packed up the kitchen a month later and, and, that was, that was it.

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But uh- it was quite a day. It was quite a day.

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Both Paula and I are folklorists by training so it's our nature to do oral history.

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We, I, I, I can't collect an object if I'm not talking to the person who lived with it or made it, that's the story I want.

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I want the things to have stories and so that's, that's just the way we do things.

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Who else? Yeah

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{SPEAKER name="audience member"}
What's the story--

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