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After
many years as a maker of rustic furniture, and many hours on-line
searching and looking at different rustic furniture sites, I
decided to start this site with the thought of having it provide
some of the history of the rustic furniture movement in the
Adirondacks which I have found on-line and am using in the
paragraphs below. My name is Jim Howard. I also thought it might be a cool place
for people to go to discuss rustic openly in a web-forum
manner. The power of the internet is amazing to me and I'm
always finding new sites on rustic furniture popping up.
Many of us want that
piece of land away from it all and away from everyone as I often
crave living here in the city of Seattle. I often miss the
the Adirondacks and dream of my 27 acres of trees I bought there
years ago. I feel fortunate too that I became a bush pilot
and fly to some of the most remote regions on the west coast to
really rustic fishing lodges dropping off eager fishermen and
women. I often look down and say to myself, what a cool
house or what a cool place to live, so remote, "I'd like
that", and then I look at the machine I'm flying and know
that I love the air and love to live in the air. The
cool thing about rustic I like is all of its perfect and
imperfectness and textures and its ability to mesh with so many
styles, shapes and forms. I will always make and be
enthralled with this wonderful art form. I'm glad I began
making rustic furniture in the early 80's and that I was accepted into the
small Adirondack community of Long Lake back then when the locals
and true Adirondack natives looked at me as just
another outsider coming into their world to use and not give
back. I love to give and giving surely doesn't always have
to mean just monetarily. Thanks to all of the rustic
furniture makers near and far and to our rustic ancestors who
helped to show us the way.
Please fell free to go to our Rustic
Forum to meet and discuss all you want.
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