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Jerry has an elegant milo vessel showing in the Baulines Craft Guild show, "The Parlor of Earthly Delights", at the Falkirk Cultural Center in San Rafael, California, through August 30th. See our itinerary for more information.
A new show in our itinerary this year was the June Contemporary Crafts Market in Santa Monica. We combined this trip with a visit to Deborah's home town of Laguna Beach where she and her sister presented their family scholarship to a graduating Laguna High School drama student. Then we enjoyed our stay with good friends in Malibu where Jerry and Jack surfed each morning before the show.
Now we head east to the American Association of Woodturners Annual Symposium in Richmond, Virginia. Jerry will be attending in his new role as a committee member for the Professional Outreach Program and he will join David Ellsworth for a seminar on teaching woodturning. The symposium is a great place to check out wood turnings from throughout the country: the instant gallery showcases hundreds of pieces. Check it out at http://www.woodturner.org/sym/sym2008/
After the symposium, we will take short vacation to visit Virginia Beach and the Outer Banks of North Carolina, where we spent the first few years of our marriage. It has been nearly 40 years since we were there, so we expect big changes. We will visit "old" friends, including the "young" man who is our son's namesake. He was 13 years old when we last saw him.
We return to prepare for the ACC San Francisco show mid August and the Sausalito Art Festival Labor Day weekend. July classes in our woodturning school are filling, but we still have openings. Please check our itinerary for school dates and further details on the above events and more. We hope to see you at one or all of them!
 This winter we had a visit from Ann Pifer, owner of The Grand Hand Gallery in St. Paul, Minnesota, and one of our favorite buyers to play with at the ACC shows. She and her family all tried their hands carving on the lathe, and then were enthralled by Jerry's snap tops, one for each of them.
 You can check out her award-winning gallery at www.thegrandhand.com or next time you are in St. Paul.
In February and March we had a most memorable and successful trip to Baltimore and Philadelphia. First of all a huge thank you goes out to Mark and Nancy Supik, who hosted us in Baltimore this year. Their 19th century brick row house was a treat for these "ranch house style" Californians, and walking through their neighborhood hearing the local history made it even more so. In Philadelphia for the Germantown Friends School Craft Show, we were hosted for our third year by Jennifer and Bob Celata in the carriage house of their wonderful 18th century manor. Again we were able to explore the local neighborhood, walk in a beautiful natural park, and they introduced us to one of the best restaurants we have ever enjoyed, a tiny local-knowledge culinary gem.
In Baltimore Jerry spent three days with Mark Supik and his employees at their shop showing them the intricacies of bowl turning. Mark, a very successful wood carver and architectural turner, is developing his skill in bowl turning. For information,and to learn about his creative business of making beer tap handles go to http://www.marksupikco.com
On Thursday, February 21, Jerry demonstrated at Mark's shop for a joint session of the Baltimore Area Woodturners and the Chesapeake Woodturners. Snow was in the forecast, so a small turnout was expected. But, thanks to the Supik's and the clubs' great promotional efforts, we had 60+ attendees, some from as far as 100 miles away, and they all seemed to enjoy the evening of exploring Mark and Nancy's shop and watching Jerry "perform."
All photos thanks to Nancy Supik.
Mark Supik during the tour of his shop.
Jerry and I were both impressed with Mark's largest lathe
--Turns approx. 9' diameter!
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