by Roberta Hoffman | Nov 8, 2021 | News
JOURNEY MAN A Carpenter’s Story By Daniel Foster FOLLOW THAT TRUCK Deanna and I were married in April. I remember some people thinking it a strange time to be married. It was mud season in Vermont, when the melting snow from 5 months of winter turns the back...
by Roberta Hoffman | Nov 5, 2021 | News
Suklal’s Hunt By Hamilton Pevec During the monsoon of July 2013 my wife, Devika, asked me if I wanted to go to the high country to hunt mushrooms with our brother-in-law, Suklal Gurung. I said yes, of course, and then followed up with: “what mushrooms are we...
by Roberta Hoffman | Nov 1, 2021 | News
JOURNEY MAN A Carpenter’s Story By Daniel Foster FIFTH AVENUE My friend Francois was a member of the family that owned one of the world’s foremost luxury fashion brands, so he moved in high circles. His girlfriend Roberta was remodeling her condo apartment, he...
by Roberta Hoffman | Oct 25, 2021 | News
JOURNEY MAN A Carpenter’s Story By Daniel Foster BILL FAY AND SAM’S HAMMER Bill Fay was a contractor in West Woodstock, Vermont. His house and shop were just up a dirt road from the Shiretown Lumber yard, for whom I drove a truck and worked as a yardman for a...
by Roberta Hoffman | Oct 18, 2021 | News
JOURNEY MAN A Carpenter’s Story By Daniel Foster TRANSPO 72 In the spring of 1972 I was living on a commune in rural Virginia named Skymont. About 175 of us, including many kids, were living on a former boys camp about 90 minutes west of Washington, D.C. It...
