The Artspace apprentices came from several public schools in New Haven and were recommended for the program by their art teachers and principals.
Most of the apprentices come from the region, with members of this year's group coming from John Jay High School in South Salem, Ossining High School, Horace Mann High School in Riverdale, Hendrick Hudson High School in Cortlandt Manor, Mahopac High School, Nanuet High School and the Poughkeepsie Day School.
Not bad for a tyrant apprentice coming fully into his own.
But from 9 p.m. to 10 p.m., "The Apprentice" came in second to a repeat of "CSI".
Sorry if that's a bit of a shock coming from a so-called household name-stroke-apprentice national treasure.
Of course, if the apprentice comes up with an original piece of leatherwork or glassware that's good.
They learned through endless repetition and hands-on work, with very little verbal instruction (the word "apprentice" itself comes from the Latin prehendere, meaning to grasp with the hand).
Their only help comes from an apprentice, who lives with them for a year to learn about farming; they grind the animals' feed from local grain; they hand-clean 300 eggs a day; and they're developing enough breeding stock so that all animals will be born on the farm.
The anti-hunt campaigning, for example, came from an "Apprentice-style" meeting in which store managers were invited to invent products and campaigns they wanted to associate with.
For these activities, the class was split into seven groups, mainly composed of three apprentices; all group members came from different workplaces to avoid pre-operating organizations of work.
His off-season earnings over the years came from an extraordinary variety of means: apprentice butcher, toolmaker, coalman, general labourer, lorry driver, and "an umbrella-handle putter-onner".
