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About Me

I'm a carpenter/artisan.( My largely ceremonial job title is "Director of Historic Preservation"...yet I still find myself most often at the business end of a hammer or even a shovel...ah, the glamour.) My life pretty much revolves around the past; principally preserving, reproducing, and decorating historic buildings, furniture, and artifacts. My chief sphere of interest is the American pre-industrial era(pre 1850), although the mid-20th century style is a fascination as well.

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"Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place." - FrÃ©dÃ©ric Bastiat
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Philosophy of Liberty

Enthusiasms and Influences~stuff I'm made from:

1954 Ford Victoria. My first "old" car; I got it when I was 18, and drove it daily for 2 years. I should never have sold it. Hopefully someday I'll find another... ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ The first house I ever owned (and last, so far). It was built ca. 1798 in Newportville, Bucks County, Pa. I did a lot of restorstion work on it, which eventually led to my current voaction. It was also wonderfully haunted. (look into my blogs for details)
I loved this little house. If I could have packed it up and taken it with me, I would have. I may just have to build a reproduction one day...albiet one with closets. ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ Ephemera...Like this Civil War poster requesting blankets for the 104th Pa. Infantry, which was raised in Bucks County. I love old paper...books, letters, newspapers (My oldest is a Phila. paper from 1801). I'm in awe of anything old and fragile that still exists. ____________________________________________________________

Family Album
____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ My Parents, Edward and Barbara, 1965. ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ My Grandfather, Edward Sr.(In the Marine Uniform), with my Great-Aunt Anna, Great-Grandfather Anthony, Great-Uncle Bruno, and Great-Uncle Bill. 1919. ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ My Maternal Grandfather, Christopher, and my Great-Grandmother Caroline, 1935. ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ My Great-Great Aunt, Elsie Wilkins...I still have her glasses. ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ Elsie's sister, My Great-Great Aunt Mabel Wilkins Glantz and her husband Elmer Glantz...I have a bunch of their photographs. Elmer was an artist, my mother and I still have several of his paintings. ____________________________________________________________

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My Blog

Beating the blues

I have been struck with a mood today, so I've decided to relieve it in the best way I know of...by ranting about something I have no control over and which really doesn't affect me, and by viciously m...
Posted by Dan on Wed, 12 Sep 2007 05:16:00 PST

September 10th, 1900

Today was my grandfather's birthday. Just paying my respects. He's been gone for 16 years, but I still miss the old Devil Dog....
Posted by Dan on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 04:13:00 PST

When it rains...

...it pours. Okay, it's bad enough my car is going to cost me almost $500 to fix, but today in work the other shoe dropped. I just yesterday finished what was basically my first tile job. It looks goo...
Posted by Dan on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 06:49:00 PST

Drive it til the wheels fall off.

That's usually been my slogan, and unfortunately one of my worst habits. I know things are going to break on my car, but I tend to remain in a blissful state of denial until I experience catastrophic ...
Posted by Dan on Wed, 05 Sep 2007 05:14:00 PST

My current song

I just re-found this album...Smash Palace's self-titled debut from 1985. I haven't heard it in 20 years, when I lent the original record to a friend and it 'vanished'. It's not the greatest music, but...
Posted by Dan on Mon, 03 Sep 2007 10:06:00 PST

Uh...havent we gotten past this yet?

Watching Spike just now (yeah, I know...what do I expect), I see an ad for a show featuring guys in a tournament to catch sharks. I'm not sure, but my presumption is that they (the sharks that is) are...
Posted by Dan on Wed, 29 Aug 2007 05:07:00 PST

A little bitta new

...and a little bitta same ol' same ol' too, but I just pulled it out of my keester, and I kinda like it:My hopeful soul reached out to you, With nothing to defend it. My hopeless heart you broke in t...
Posted by Dan on Sat, 21 Jul 2007 07:47:00 PST

Patience, prudence, and the art of just saying no.

Today was yet another delightfully humid day in East Tennessee, made all the more gleeful by the fact that I was working near a lake...is it possible to be above 100% humidity? I'm no scientist, but I...
Posted by Dan on Thu, 12 Jul 2007 05:37:00 PST

And then...

Life comes along and decides to get interesting again. I realize just how diversified my position at work can get. I go from Dirt shoveler one day, to Interior Designer/Decorator the next (with a loya...
Posted by Dan on Sat, 30 Jun 2007 07:24:00 PST

So...

...I'm wondering...am I beginning to be a bore? Or have I been one for a while, which would make me a rather dense bore? I'm feeling disinterested and uninteresting lately. I feel as if that tiny frag...
Posted by Dan on Thu, 28 Jun 2007 10:43:00 PST