John,  You may just be our savior!!!!!!  These organizations are JUST
keeping their collective heads above water as it were.  I think that would
be a great combination of efforts and just what we are looking for.

My windows project rather came to a standstill because the garage project
was MUCH more than I had anticipated--of course, aren't they always.  So
now winter is staring me in the face and I still have windows that HAVE to
be done.  I WILL get them done though.

We did find a man to take the garage down for the lumber, not charge us
$1,500 and then burn it as one fellow wanted to do.  This man apparently
restores old barns and houses and uses the lumber.  He is also buying the
sawmill.  He hopes to be able to saw out lumber for some of his work.
Thanks,  Ruth




At 9:51 AM -0400 9/26/06, John Leeke, Preservation Consultant wrote:
>Ruth:
>
>I routinely do these conditions assessments with recommendations,
>priorities, care and maintenance strategies, project planning, etc.
>
>When I visited you earlier this year I had just come from teaching a
>windows workshop just up the pike in Windsor, VT, at the Preservation
>Education Institute (aka Historic Windsor). Judy Hayward, the director
>there, is always looking for subject buildings and I suspect I could
>arrange to teach a workshop at your building on conditions assessments
>and maintenance programming that would result in the guidance you are
>looking for. I'll talk with Judy and see what the possibilities are for
>next year.
>
>(how are your windows?)
>
>
>John
>by hammer and hand great works do stand
>by pen and thought best words are wrought
-- 
Ruth Barton
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Dummerston, VT

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