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Educated in Iowa and Illinois, I had a ten year career teaching
English and Drama at international schools in Taiwan, England and
Morocco. In 1985 my late wife and I relocated to Chestertown, New
York where I taught English at North Warren Central School from 1985
until retirement in 2002.
Shortly after retiring from teaching, I attended an Arts and Crafts
Fair in Ludlow, Vermont and saw the beautiful chip carvings of Wayne
Barton, a teacher at the school. I had always loved wood, appreciating
its finished beauty and appreciating the opportunity to learn to carve
it. Later I took Wayne’s class, Introductory Chip Carving, and was
“hooked!” During subsequent summers, I took several of Wayne’s
advanced classes and during the last few years have carved over two-
hundred pieces including breadboards, lamps, stools, geometric floral
and free form plaques, jewelry boxes and decorative plates. I have
become a chip carving teacher myself. In June, 2016, I taught an
introductory chip carving class at the Adirondack Folk School and will
teach several classes at AFS this year. I have also been invited to
teach chip carving at The View Art Center in Old Forge, NY, and at the
Fletcher Farms Arts and Crafts School in Ludlow, Vermont.
I reside in Chestertown and am a member of NorthCountryARTS in
Glens Falls and a former president of the Our Town Theatre Group in
North Creek. I am also a Board Member of the Adirondack Folk School
in Lake Luzerne. My carvings are for sale in the Adirondack Folk School gift shop, in the LARAC gift shop, Glens Falls, in the McKernon Gallery, Hudson Falls and in the Birds Of A Feather Gallery in Chestertown.