a chairmakers' picnic

From time to time I’ve mentioned my project I call my Craft Genealogy. I’m still in the information-gathering aspect of that endeavor. Yesterday I drove 5 hours round trip to our friends Peter Lamb and Faith Harrington’s house to spend the afternoon with some people connected in various ways to that project. 

The impetus was a northern swing by our friends Curtis & Marilyn Buchanan.

I had seen them down here a few days earlier - but this was a chance to re-connect with a bunch of people in one fell swoop. And blather on about chairs. And time, as in “how many years ago was that?”. 36 is the answer to when Curtis taught his first Windsor chair class at Drew & Louise Langsner’s - and I was a student there, as was Scott Landis who was there with his wife Nina Maurer. (Below is the class photo, 1987. Me on the far left, Scott Landis 3rd from left. Jennie Alexander 5th from left. The woman in the apron is Nancy Goyne Evans - who wrote 3 huge volumes’ worth of American Windsor chair books.)