{"id":6633,"date":"2017-12-16T11:25:39","date_gmt":"2017-12-16T15:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainefood\/?p=6633"},"modified":"2022-03-28T12:54:02","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T16:54:02","slug":"the-watermen-of-georgetown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainefood\/2017\/12\/16\/the-watermen-of-georgetown\/","title":{"rendered":"The Watermen of Georgetown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;We really feel that this is a way to not just revitalize our community, but the entire marine economy up and down the coast of Maine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-video\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/246329476\" width=\"1165\" height=\"655\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"The Watermen of Georgetown\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">After discovering the significant decline in his town&#8217;s marine economy and the subsequent emigration of its youth, Pat Burns established Georgetown Aquaculture in an attempt to restore Georgetown&#8217;s vibrant marine economy. To supplement their current clamming and lobstering efforts, several &#8220;watermen&#8221; venture into the cultivation of oysters and discuss the impacts aquaculture has had on their lives. This video not only documents the watermen\u2019s efforts to revitalize Georgetown, but offers a broader story of hope for other small, struggling Maine communities with strong historical and cultural ties to the sea.<\/p>\n<p>Film by Annie Lee<\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-6633\" data-postid=\"6633\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-6633 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We really feel that this is a way to not just revitalize our community, but the entire marine economy up and down the coast of Maine.&#8221; After discovering the significant decline in his town&#8217;s marine economy and the subsequent emigration of its youth, Pat Burns established Georgetown Aquaculture in an attempt to restore Georgetown&#8217;s vibrant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5263,"featured_media":6659,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17553],"tags":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainefood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6633"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainefood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainefood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainefood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainefood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6633"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainefood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6670,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainefood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6633\/revisions\/6670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainefood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainefood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainefood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainefood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}