(THEY SAID “DO ART FAIRS, SEE THE WORLD!) The day is done, we have worked long and hard, diligently and efficiently. I am surrounded by people that share our similar dream of craftsmanship and quality. I reflect on where I am and what is my purpose. We are humble craftsmen and to survive …
WE HAVE BORNE WITNESS. We witnessed a man who grabbed and mocked women with no consequence.We witnessed a man who mocked a professional news reporter with serious health issues and deformity. We witnessed a man who knows many world class prostitutes. (Possibly some in Russia) We witnessed a man who cheated on his first two …
There is an English adage that states “it takes 200 years to sprout and English Oak, it takes another 200 years to grow and it takes another 200 years to die.” The Oak that is depicted is one of those English Oak Trees. It is found in the Cotswold region of the U.K. It sheltered …
Recently while exploring the attic crawl space I came across this box, the Jefferson Wizard Doorbell Transformer along with a ten pound can of commercial putty. The Citizens National Bank was built in 1901 when the streets of Worthington, Minnesota were dirt. Horses, wagons and trains were the only means of transportation. The bank was …
We live in an age where electronics, weather services, and GPS systems inform us of all our meteorological needs. Our temperature, our speed, our heat index, our low and high pressure systems, our wind speeds. All of these indexes are determined by people with state of the art electronic contrivance. Step back two hundred years …
My interest in all things stone came about at an early age. I marveled at the workmanship of arrowheads that I had found in the outlying fields and later in life I was in need of a fireplace that included a brick surround. It was one on my first masonry projects and it turned out …
From an early age I read with clarity the Boys Life Magazine. There in was advertised the “Ithaca Saddle Rifle. It was the object of my absolute interest. It had a very western look, it had a lever action, it had the “Rifleman” look to it. Alas, my father knew a bit about rifles and …
DON’T ALWAYS BELIEVE WHAT YOU THINK-THE CREATION OF A VIEW POINT By Bill Keitel. A curious beginning, I had just finished apprenticing at a local shoe repair shop, I specialized in creating prescription orthopedic buildups for a Podiatry School that was located in my community. I elected to strike out on my own and …
David Behrens started his life with a pencil in hand, drawing was an integral part of his childhood and it followed into his adult life. He has always had the ability to put on paper what he has pictured in his minds eye. Drawing life’s images is a talent that he does not take lightly. …
RoadNotes Summer 2018-The Dakota’s As we travel throughout the nation we often visit communities at the same time each year. Over the course of a couple of decades this gives us a glimpse into the phenology of a community. A curious event occurred in Brookings South Dakota about a decade ago, it was the mass …