Barrel-making demonstration draws interest during Goessel Fall Festival

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Cooper Jim Gaster (lower right) warms the wood for shaping as he demonstrates barrel-making at Goessel?s Fall Festival Saturday, Oct. 6, at the Mennonite Heritage & Agricultural Museum. Gaster is a full-time cooper who specializes in ?white coopering,? a branch of cooperage that features wooden buckets, butter churns and other household items. He lives near Indianola, Neb., and calls his business Beaver Buckets. His work has appeared in several movies, including ?The Alamo,? ?Seabiscuit,? ?The Legend of Zorro? and ?The Assassination of Jesse James.?

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