I have just begun reading an obscure second hand book I picked up. Its title is Country Chairs of Central Pennsylvania by Marie Purnell Musser. (I read stuff like this all the time.) The books is a large format paperback published in 1990 by an 85 year-old local historian. In the Introduction Marie describes how
Monthly Archives: December 2009
It’s over. The 2009 class year ended pretty much as anticipated and as described in an earlier post. We graduated everyone and then, burned backboards. After the class left, Don, Fred, and I cleaned the shop. The only difference is that we did not set up for the next class. We’ll do that the week before March
Running a business in this economic climate requires lots of planning. When times were fat, we maintained a well stocked catalog building. While we liked it that way, we can’t afford it now. The result is that I look ahead to what we will need for upcoming classes and I order what I need plus
We are teaching the 2 Kids Chairs class this week. In this class each student makes a child’s sack back and a matching youth chair for use at the table. I have written before about the joint we worked out to attach the footrest. I am proud of it and the way it snaps together