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Hat Maker Gene Baldwin

Using old-fashioned techniques to create custom hats began as a retirement hobby for Gene Baldwin. Now it's a full time business. His cowboy and other styles of hats are often colorful and sometimes decorated with beads or braid. He sizes hats made of rabbit or beaver fur felt by hand, customizing them to individual customers' heads.

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Kids Ballroom Dancing

Learning a brand new art can be tough, especially if you also have to battle cooties. A group of Portland fifth graders from Forest Park Elementary overcome their reluctance to learn ballroom dancing.

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Lifecasting Artist Peny Wallace

If realism is what you are after, we suggest Peny Wallace, whose three dimensional portraits of the human form are so life-like that they simply stop viewers in their tracks. That's because Peny uses human beings as molds for her plaster castings. But there's true art in the way she creates her impressions.

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