Friday, July 15, 2011
last day at Lake Tahoe
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I am ready to go home to Arkansas in the morning, and it will be good to get back to work in my own wood shop. This morning my wife and I went to Vikingsholm at Emerald Bay, a small Scandinavian styled castle built on a fiord-like setting. It was all hand crafted in the late 1920's and is preserved with some of its owner's hand crafted furniture still in place. If you are in the Lake Tahoe area, if you love wood, admire craftsmanship, or the beauty of such idyllic settings, Vikingsholm is worth the walk down a very long path from the top. As an added reward, you will find the base of Eagle Falls.
This blog is dedicated to sharing the concept that our hands are essential to learning- that we engage the world and its wonders, sensing and creating primarily through the agency of our hands. We abandon our children to education in boredom and intellectual escapism by failing to engage their hands in learning and making.
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- Doug Stowe
- I have been a self-employed woodworker in Eureka Springs, Arkansas since 1976. I live with my wife Jean on a wooded hillside overlooking our beautiful historic community. In addition to work in my wood shop,I'm retired from teaching at the Clear Spring School in a program called "The Wisdom of the Hands." That experience is summarized in my book, "The Guide to Woodworking with Kids". My book "Wisdom of our Hands: Crafting, A Life" is my attempt to explain the importance of hands on learning. I also write for Fine Woodworking, Popular Woodworking and other woodworking magazines. My new book, Designing Boxes will be released on April 16, 2024. My resume can be downloaded at www.dougstowe.com/resume.doc
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