Mule Rider
From Snowstorm to Screen: PBS NC Director Morgan Potts Describes the Making of Swan Song
During a snowy winter storm that buried eastern North Carolina in a once-in-twenty-years storm, my mule Polly and I set off in a hundred year old covered wagon to explore Hyde County and Lake Mattamuskeet.
Joining us was a film crew from PBS North Carolina. Mule Polly got snowed in in our covered wagon, the film crew struggled to keep their cameras rolling in the icy conditions… Continue reading
Mule Rider: Emmy-Winning Covered Wagon Documentary
It was about this time of year, a few years ago, that a TV crew for UNC-TV followed mule Polly and me on a wagon ramble through eastern North Carolina.
Director Morgan Potts and his film crew followed me from Oriental, North Carolina to Hobucken and Aurora and back to Oriental. They dropped in from time to film me as I visited with folks… Continue reading
Watch the Emmy-Winning “Mule Rider” on PBS North Carolina
Are you curios what it’s like to spend a week traveling in a mule wagon? Last winter, mule Polly and I hit the road with a film crew from PBS North Carolina. We spent the better part of a week traveling the back roads of eastern North Carolina – from Oriental to Aurora. Through the dormant potato fields, past the moored shrimp boats and giant rusting anchors. We visited with net maker Virgil Potter and guitar picker John Carawan.
UNC-TV and Our State "Mule Rider" Program
Note: the following article is about the making of “Mule Rider”, the UNC-TV program that ran the “Our State” program on October 3.
Post Scrip: You can watch the program below
Bayboro, North Carolina. That winter night I parked the wagon by the shrimp boat fleet. Their nets hung like green mist. Mule Polly was grazing next to that giant anchor and I thought of how all day long, she’d marched through the wind and highway trucks and now it… Continue reading
