[birds chirping] [loon call]
- Myrtle Bartling: 50 years ago, we started the marshes.
There were no marshes up here then.
There was nothing here to start with.
No roads out here, no electricity, no telephones.
Everything was done by a few machines, but mostly by hand.
Everybody had to have a pumping system
to get the water from the lake to the marshes.
They would mow cranberries from the central part of the state
and scatter them on the land, all of this by hand.
Then they'd stomp the vines into the land.
And then they'd wait for three to five years.
They couldn't begin to grow berries like they do today,
without machines.

[dreamy music]