[Field Trip: Jax]

Date1986

Can DescriptionsProgram #18. Record date: December 17, 1986. // A look at the Jackson Laboratory, research center in Bar Harbor, Maine, which uses genetically pure strains of mice used worldwide for medical investigations. Includes still photos from the lab's early days, and some film footage shot some time after the Bar Harbor fire of 1947, which destroyed the original lab. // Later on tape: Portion of a program called Stepping Cite in which Jeanne Meserve reports on Maine women who use a legal procedure called pro se divorce; includes footage in court before Judge Jessie Briggs. Also, an on-location segment filmed in Bar Harbor, where a restauranteur sings to the customers she feeds. This is not included on the transfer.