About Chuck Kraemer

Chuck Kraemer has been building things for more than half a
century. Furniture, fireplaces, toys, kitchens, signage, lighting,

sand castles,

rock walls, fences, decks, additions to houses, and, apparently,

shoe racks, or whatever that is, in this 1950 photo

Around 1974, Chuck Kraemer was in fact a full-time self-employed
cabinet maker,

working out of an old barn in Belmont,

where he raised a family of giant clamps, and long whiskers.

Between 1975 and 2003, however, what he mostly built was television
stories, on Channel 5 and Channel 2 in Boston,

working not only on-camera but in many technical roles, including photographer and editor, and garnering in the process more than 20 Emmy awards and a dozen or so other national honors, including two Peabody Awards, considered the Pulitzer Prize of broadcasting.

He finally had to buy an award-acceptance tuxedo, seen here at the
Emmy ceremonies of 1978 or thereabouts. The tux hasn’t fit since 1986.

But throughout this detour into television, Chuck Kraemer’s first
love was manual labor: the making of a thing with physical stuff. So,

on turning 60, he returned to his roots, and now spends his workday
imagining, designing and constructing all manner of things from all
manner of materials for all manner of customers.
Including, occasionally, video pieces, for which he typically serves as
producer, writer, director, videographer, and editor.

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