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Jerry Blackburn is "The Junk King" of the downeast region of Maine -- a junk king with a dream. Read the full description.
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Jerry Blackburn's is "The Junk King" of the downeast region of Maine. His yard and house are a noah's ark of junk -- two of everything. "Neigh on to twenty years ago," as he says, Jerry got the idea to turn the junk into a museum. Josh Gleason produced this profile of a jink king with a dream.
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Jerry Blackburn's is "The Junk King" of the downeast region of Maine. His yard and house are a noah's ark of junk -- two of everything. "Neigh on to twenty years ago," as he says, Jerry got the idea to turn the junk into a museum. Josh Gleason produced this profile of a jink king with a dream.
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This piece was produced by Josh Gleason while he was a student at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in the spring of 2006.
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