On a recent weekend I visited 21 sites in New York from Friday night until Sunday evening. I was touring with some west coast-based members of our timber framing team. The goal is sharing, connecting, and learning from recent and ongoing projects as well as some from our long past. I think I’ll write more about this trip in an upcoming post, as we were all deeply affected, with a Friday night ride on the Buffalo Heritage Carousel and ending with an acapella performance at Christ Church in Rochester and touring the Baroque period organ project there.


The tour left us all pretty stunned. Even for me, who had been part of these projects. Seeing it all together like this was magic, if a bit overwhelming.
Towards the end of Sunday, we were at our longtime clients Tom and Karen’s place in the Finger Lakes when Tom said, “Hey our neighbor Larry stopped by and when he heard you were coming was adamant you guys visit him as well.” Wow, a total warm wind of memory whipped right through. Larry H. We built for him in 1988. And when his name comes up, so do the stories…