Summer 2019 Road Trip – The Deanery Project

ON August 24, 2019, a group of members headed on an adventure to the Deanery Project Lto do some volunteer work in their woodshop. We started our trip with a stop to visit members Mary Elizabeth O’Toole and Stephen Parsons at their home woodshop in West...

2017-08-04 – Elmsdale Lumber

On August 4, a small number of members met at Elmsdale Lumber, where we had a tour of the full facility and got answers to all our questions – and we had lots of questions. Elmsdale Lumber is celebrating 100 years of operation in 2017 so it has a long history...

Road Trip: Expressions of Wood

Thanks to Stephen Parsons for this trip report On Saturday April 22, 2017, a contingent of AWA members took the opportunity to visit the factory workshops and studio of Expressions of Wood, a furniture manufacturer in Windsor Junction, Nova Scotia. The owner,...

2015-10-03 South Shore Road Trip

On Saturday, October 3, 2015, 10 AWA members spent the day visiting shops and homes on the South Shore.  It was a great day and it is too bad that more members were not able to make the trip.  What a time we had! Our first stop was a post and beam...

Member Shop Tours

On Sept. 26, 2015, a small group of members took the opportunity to take a shop tour of three of our members: Ted Monk, Bob Baird and Gary Dumas. The shops were quite different, reflecting the available space, the preferred wood projects, and the personality of the...