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Fall 2003
Center for Essential Education
School of Woodworking Newsletter
Dear Friends,
With
the heat of summer at its peak, sometimes I find it hard to think
of the fall and winter months just around the corner. Here at Homestead
Heritage we are preparing for our fall festival which is our largest
single event of the year. Over 10,000 people travel in from all over
the country to share in this celebration of craftsmanship and community
life. Each Thanksgiving weekend (Friday, Saturday and Sunday after
Thanksgiving day) we schedule major demonstrations in all areas of
our community life, everything from family and children’s music
to craft demonstrations by our master craftsmen, horse farming, spinning
and weaving, printing, leather working, woodworking and broommaking.
We will also be having another fund-raising event when we will have
a barn raising scheduled during the first two days of the fair. The
historic barn structure will be auctioned off and erected on the successful
bidder’s home site. From blacksmithing to metal casting, sewing
and quilting to basketry, there’s plenty for the whole family
to see. Please accept my invitation to this special family time. Plan
on spending at least one whole day from 10 A.M. until 9 P.M. We cook
over 20,000 meals for this one event, from barbecued brisket to Italian,
Mexican and Israeli. We also make over 100 gallons of real home made
ice cream. In the afternoon and evening their will be special presentations
of music including children’s singing and our adult choir and
orchestra. I hope you will be able to attend. I know you will enjoy
it.
Yours sincerely,
A Special Workshop for Parents to Teach
Woodworking to Their Children
that it will only be a matter of time before we see woodworking with hand tools as thing of the past. I realize that there are some schools as well as publications that have a serious educational value and goal to promote hand skills. But the likelihood of seeing the general woodworking population return to the fullness of what was accomplished using hand methods has now long since gone.