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A High School for Boatbuilders

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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 the country we… »

The Beauty of the Warm and Familiar

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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 story vernacular house built in… »