Rendezvous
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More timber frame volunteers arrive through this week, from Montana, Virginia, North Carolina, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and all over New England. The setting is calm and pastoral, and the pace seems sure and steady. As cutting and drilling continues at various stations around the gardens, under the tent, and in the sheep barn, two stalwart portable sawmillers -- Jim Clarke and Tyler Higgenbotham -- continue the milling.   Left: Kendra Clarke and her twin brothers, Jamie and Jay, are building a fort or monument to our cutting progress. Right: Kendra shows off her pet bark beetle feasting on some watermelon.  Gould Farm Board Member and Hollywood film effects pioneer Douglas Trumbull films the action for the Visionaries' future film of the project. 
Meanwhile, in the lower field, Tyler Higginbotham, Pittsfield, MA, and assistant Chris Callahan continue to saw the dwindling pile of logs. 
Running the layout crew in the sheep barn, Alicia Hammarlund shows Ellen Gibson how to operate a chain mortiser.  
Left: Steve Miller, of Waccaduc, NY, runs a Mafell saw. Right: Laurie Macrae of Lexington, VA, arrived today.  
Left: Apprentice Jack Witherington, of Philadelphia, PA, works on an octagonal beam. Left to right: Russ Ley, Maryanne Magann, Chris Zollo, leader Dave Bowman and Paul Magann doing the framing square shuffle on the 9 pitch brace layouts. | ||