The Boston Globe, March 14th, 2002
By 1979, Ken Burns, then living in Manhattan, had spent two years shooting his first documentary film. It became clear to him that unless he left his cramped apartment, not much would come of it. "I knew that if I put the footage of `Brooklyn Bridge' on top of the refrigerator . . . it would still be there," he recalled. He knew he needed more space so it wouldn't languish there, forgotten, for years. So he went to New Hampshire to scout out accommodations suitable for the life of a filmmaker. He found an 1820 farmhouse in Walpole, in which he still lives and works. "It had more closet space t...
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