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We have reports and photos of many of the recent workshops and projects. Simply click on the link to view the reports.


2006 Jan: Bus Shelter, Brattleboro, VT with Building a Better Brattleboro and Windham County Career Center (H.S.)
July-August: Farm and Wilderness Camp Dairy Barn, Plymouth, VT
July-August: Professional Development Workshop, Brattleboro and Plymouth, VT
September: Carriage Hill MetroPark Farm Barn Reconstruction, Dayton, OH
September: Nidoto Nai Yoni, Japanese-American Memorial, Bainbridge Island, WA
October: Long Island Seaport and Eco-Center Bayles Boat Shed, Port Jefferson, NY
2005 April: Rotary Centennial Pavilion, Salem, OR
April: Sponsor of the NH Old House & Barn Expo, Manchester, NH
June: Selman Memorial Pavilion Rendezvous, Angola, IN
November: Nature Reserve Visitor Center Project, Central Suriname, South America
2004 Jan-April: Spring Field Exercise: Cannon Carriages, with VMI, Lexington, VA and Fort Sumter, SC
Mar-April: Demonstration Frame and Cannon Carriage, Masters of the Building Arts Festival, Charleston, SC
April-May: Timber Framing for the Texas Inland Fisheries Center, Texas Parks & Wildlife, Tyler, TX
May: Stablizing, Assessing, and Dismantling Historic Structures. Blood Farm, Westmoreland, NH
July: Authentic Repair of Historic Structures, Pisgah State Park, Winchester, NH
August: Julia Davis Park Pavilion. Boise, ID
September: Historic truss workshop, Windsor, VT
Sep: Gewerbe-Akademie Three-Week Workshop, Rottweil, Germany
2003 January: Gewerbe-Akademie Three-Week Workshop, Rottweil, Germany June: Phelps Barn Restoration & Rendezvous, Elmwood, IL
June: Mountain School Barn Raising & Rendezvous, Vershire, VT
September: Russell Colbath Homestead Visitors' Center & Rendezvous, Albany, NH
September: Lake Vermillion Observation Tower Workshop & Rendezvous, Danville, IL
November: Botanical Garden of the Ozarks Workshop & Rendezvous, Fayetteville, Arkansas
2002 April: Traditional English Scribe Workshop, Lenox, MA
May: Preservation Trades Network/TFG Partnership Back to School, Brooklyn, NY
May: Visitor Center & Torii Gate Workshop & Rendezvous, Sechelt, British Columbia
April & July: Cuvilly Barn Survey, Repair, and Raising , Ipswich, MA
May: Northfield Mount Hermon School Rendezvous & Barn Raising, Northfield, MA
2001 March: Texas Pavilion, Athens, TX May: Square rule timber framing, Slate Run Historic farm, Columbus, OH
June-July: Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Masters of the Building Arts (Cutting and raising a frame), Washington, DC
August: Osprey Pavilion, Troy, MT
September: Kicking Horse River Covered Bridge, Golden, BC
2000 May: Robertson Post Windmill, Kendallville, IN
July: Gould Farm Work Barn, Monterey, MA
August: Airport Terminal, Whitefield, NH

Workshops:
January: Compound Joinery, Palomar College (see an earlier Palomar project, San Marcos, CA
February: Rope Skills & Knowledge,
Saugerties, NY
May: Timber Framed Appalachian Trail Shelter,
Scott Farm Trail Work Center, Carlisle, PA
1999 March: Project Horizon, Lexington, VA
April: COLTS Woodshop Raising, Huffman, TX
June-July: Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Masters of the Building Arts (Cutting and raising a frame), Washington, DC

October: Compound Joinery, Fairlee, VT

Other Timber Framing Project:
August-September: Obelisk Raising, Massachusetts

1998 January 10-11: Compound Joinery Workshop, Floyd, VA
March 15-21: Children's Garden Pavilion Workshop,
Nacogdoches, TX
April 4-7: Effinger Community Gazebo Project and Rendezvous.
Lexington, VA
August 24-28: St. Peter's Steeple Workshop: Restoration and
Traditional Building,
Greensboro Bend, VT
September 5-7: Crawford Barn Raising. Frazeyburg, OH
September 5-7: Franklin Park Theater. Loudon County, VA
November 6-8: Compound Joinery Workshop
The Cascade Joinery, Everson, WA

Other Timber Framing Project:
October: Highland Fling, trebuchet project for NOVA/PBS, Castle Urquhart, Scotland

1997 April 5-8: Trebuchet Workshop
Virginia Military Institute Campus,
Lexington, VA
June 19: Medieval English Cottage Workshop
Royalston Oak Timber Frames,
Royalston, MA
September 27-28: Compound Joinery Workshop
San Juan Timberwrights, Arboles, CO
1996 March 8-15: Friendship Pavilion Workshop
Tyler and Nacogdoches, TX
April 13-14: Design Workshop. Bloomington Convention Center,
Bloomington, IN
July 7-20: Dolly Copp Pavilion Project and Rendezvous
White Mountain National Forest,
Pinkham Notch, NH
1995 May 8-20: Lone Mountain Ranch Pavilion Workshop
Big Sky, MT
July 31-August 11: Driftwood Boathouse Workshop and Rendezvous
Greene's Island, ME
August 21-September 4: Ste. Marie-Among-the-Iroquois
Museum Workshop.
Syracuse, NY
September 29-October 1: Design Retreat. Bucksteep Manor,
Washington, MA
October 23-28: Ronald McDonald House
Timber Frame Workshop. Bend, OR
1994 August 2-7: French Scribe Pavilion Workshop
and Rendezvous, Penetanguishene, ON
September 3-5: Malabar Farm Barn Raising
Malabar Farm State Park, Mansfield, OH
March 10-17: Sterne Park Gazebo Workshop.
Nacogdoches, TX
June 18-24: Franklin Pierce College Pavilion.
Rindge, NH
1993 October 18-30: Russian Boat Building
Apprenticeshop, 2nd trip
St. Petersburg, Russia
1992 February 22: Hip and Valley Workshop
The Beamery, Heiskell, TN
May 9: Hip and Valley Workshop
The Cascade Joinery, Everson, WA
June 9-13: Guelph Bridge. Guelph, Ontario
August 2-14: Russian Boat Building Apprenticeshop
St. Petersburg, Russia
April-October: Ameriflora Victory Garden Project. Columbus, OH
1991 September 7: Stress Grading Workshop
The Beamery, Heiskell, TN
October 19: Timber Framing Techniques
Hancock Shaker Village, Hancock, MA
1989 February 25-26: Design Workshop:
Designing the Timber Frame House.
The Presbyterian Camps, Saugatuck, Ml
March 3: Stress Grading Workshop.
Colonial Carpentry, Millbrook, NY
March 4: Stress Grading Workshop
E.F. Button & Son, Princeton, NY
May 18-20: Habitat for Humanity: Two-House Project
York, PA
1990 June 3: Stress Grading Workshop
Northern Timber Framing, Grand Rapids, OH
September 11-16: Timber Framing Workshop:
This Old House Project. Concord, MA
1988 October 29: Design Workshop:
Designing the Timber Frame House.
Plimoth Plantation, Plymouth, MA
November 12: Design Workshop:
Designing the Timber Frame House.
Hancock Shaker Village, Hancock, MA

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