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A High School for Boatbuilders

April 27, 2009
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A High School for Boatbuilders

SWEDEN’S STENSUND FOLKHOGSKOLA BY DREW LANGSNER As director of Country Workshops, a small crafts school focused on traditional woodworking, I have enjoyed organizing an annual international craft tour. Since 1991, we have visited Sweden, England, Switzerland, and Japan. I organize each tour with someone well versed in the regional crafts and local culture of...

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The Beauty of the Warm and Familiar

March 4, 2009
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The Beauty of the Warm and Familiar

The Furniture of Walker Weed BY EDWARD S. COOKE, JR. ALL PHOTOS COURTESY OF WALKER WEED EXCEPT AS NOTED Walker Weed working on a dining table in his Gilford, New Hampshire shop, 1956. Nestled above the Mink Brook in Etna, New Hampshire, a half mile from the Appalachian Trail, sits a small, red, one-and-a-half...

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