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THE WEIRS TIMES & THE COCHECO TIMES, Thursday, June 2, 2011


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Richard Mardin of Holderness, who makes fiddles from maple and spruce, was one of the exhibitors at Old Ways Traditions in Canterbury last year.


WOOD from 1 the couple will host the


20th annual Wood Days, an event which Dave Em- erson helped start at Can- terbury Shaker Village in 1992 and which he took over when the village dropped the event five


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10, 2001, motivated him to revive Wood Days after the event was dropped by Canterbury Shaker Vil- lage. He said that with help


from members of the woodworkers guild, friends and fellow townspeople,


Visitors to Old Ways Day Traditions events now get to meet oxen from Ox-K Farm in Gilford.


years ago. One of the founding


members of the Guild of New Hampshire Wood- workers, Emerson says that the support and en- couragement he received from fellow woodwork- ers after his woodwork- ing and retail business, formerly known as Shaker Pine Furniture, burned to the ground on August


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the Sant Bani School and members of the New Hampshire Crafts League he was able to rebuild with a far superior facil- ity which has become Old Ways Traditions. “It was like an extended


barn-raising. So many people pitched in to help, just like the early settlers did when they first arrived See WOOD on 31


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