For more than six decades, Richard Kinard worked with wood. By the time I filmed Richard in 2015, he was eighty years old. The work had followed him through most of his life, measured in timber and sawmills, long days and the kind of knowledge acquired only by doing something over and over again. He … Continue reading Wood: A Family Affair
Decorating for Halloween
It felt like I was doing something wrong being up that early on a Saturday morning. The roads were nearly empty, the morning cool enough to notice after months of summer. Saturday mornings, especially early ones, are supposed to be slow. Coffee. Sleeping in. Nowhere to be for at least another hour or two. And … Continue reading Decorating for Halloween
Dear Reader, Consider this a Beginning
Dear Reader, I have always been drawn to stories. The big ones, certainly, but perhaps even more to the small ones. The history tucked inside an old building. The photograph that makes you wonder what happened just before the shutter clicked. The person who remembers something everyone else has forgotten. For most of my life, … Continue reading Dear Reader, Consider this a Beginning
