Member Benefit

At the 2005 Eastern Conference in Burlington, Vermont, Keynote Speaker John Abrams discussed how a craftsman addresses the challenges of a progressive small business.

John Abrams is a Timber Framers Guild member and a cofounder of South Mountain Company, a thirty-year-old employee-owned design and building company on Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. He chairs the Island Affordable Housing Fund and is vice-chair of Island Housing Trust. These private non-profits are dedicated to solving his community’s affordable housing crisis. He is also the author of a new book, The Company We Keep. To order a copy of his book from our online store, click here.

To listen to his talk, download this file in WMA format. Note: If you have a problem with downloading the file (for example, if you have a popup blocker), you may need to download the talk by pressing Ctrl-Click (or Option-Click for Mac users) in order for it to work correctly.