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Johns Congdon Furniture Design's Lucca Armoire, macassar ebony veneer, was a finalist at the Design Within Reach (DWR) show in Providence, MODERN + DESIGN + FUNCTION, April 2008.

McGuire Family FurnitureMakers'  Shaker Rocker, Natural Cherry with Birdseye Maple Slats is pictured in the comprehensive instructional book, Woodworking, by Nancy McDonald, P.594.

McGuire Family FurnitureMakers/Vermont Clock Company's  Tiger Maple Essex Tall Clock, is featured in
Old House Journal's  2008-2009 Traditional Products Catalog- Guide to hard to find period pieces. P.62.

David Hurwitz's Writing Desk and Steve Holman's Lingerie Chest were featured in the October / December, 2008 special issue of Fine Woodworking magazine titled "Furniture: 102 Contemporary Designs". 

Timothy Clark's Cherry Sideboard appears in the Reader's Gallery of the October 2008 isssue of Fine Woodworking.


McGuire Family FurnitureMakers/Vermont Clock Company's Mission Tall Clock, produced in Figured Cherry, is featured in the Spring 2008 issue of Arts and Crafts Homes Magazine, Art + Craft, page 42.

Timothy Clark's Waltham Rocker appears on page 338 in the 2008 edition of 500 Chairs  by Lark Books.

Janet Collins has an article in the most recent issue of
WoodenBoat Magazine. It is titled, Inlaying a Compass Rose, Building a modern equipment case with old world style.  It is issue Number 202, May/June 2008. 

Janet is also teaching a week long Inlay course at the
WoodenBoat School, Brooklin, Maine this summer, August
25 - 29.

William Laberge's Enfield Shaker Cupboard is on loan at The Bard Graduate Center at 18 West 86th Street in New York City in a show titled-  Shaker Design: Out of This World a great exhibit on Shaker Style. Along with it are fine examples of original Shaker furniture, the exhibit features furniture inspired by Shaker design, including pieces by George Nakashima, Thomas Moser and others. The show will run until June 15, 2008.  He will also be teaching a bed making class at the Vermont Wood Working School.  July 21-25.  Information is available at www.vermontwoodworkingschool.com

Charles Shackleton appears in the April 2008 issue of Fine WoodWorking Magazine in an article titled New Twist on a Sleigh Bed.

Timothy Clark's Waltham Rocker appears in the January 2008 issue of The World of Interiors in an article noted as "Our selection of the best Rocking Chairs".

David Hurwitz's  carved cherry Wine Cabinet was featured in an article titled “Wood Works Wonders”, in the October 21, 2007 issue of The Providence Sunday Journal, Providence, Rhode Island.  David was also mentioned in the October 11, 2007 issue of The Burlington Free Press, for the "Best of Show" award he won at the 2007 Vermont Fine Furniture and Woodworking Festival, in Woodstock, VT.  The October 7, 2007 issue of Florida, a magazine of the Orlando Sentinel featured a collaborative end table by David and Vermont stone sculptor Kerry O. Furlani, in an article titled “Turn The Tables: Side and occasional tables put the accent on style”.  The same end table was also featured in the Summer 2007 issue of Ocean Home magazine.  Another article, titled "Wood, glorious wood” featured David's Arden Writing Desk, in the September 27, 2007 issue of theRutland Herald. 

David Hurwitz's Wine Cabinet, Brookside Woodworking's Sleigh Bed and Tables and Bob Gasperetti's Vermont Rocker were featured in an article titled "The Wonders of Wood: Vermont Woodworking at its Best", in the September 2007 issue of Vermont HomeStyle magazine.

Timothy Clark's Cod Rib Settee's appeared in the November 2007 issue of Metropolitan Home Magazine in an article titled Duck, Duck, Blue about the restaurant Blue Duck Tavern at the Park Hyatt in Washington, D.C.

Mark Lackley's trestle table and benches appeared in Fine Woodworking, June 2007 in the Reader's Gallery.

Rick Schneider’s shop/studio is featured in an article and photographs in a new Taunton Press book entitled Manspace that was released on 10/03/06.
pp. 196-199  


  

 


Royalton Woodworker Rescues Motorist at Night in Freezing Brook By John P. Gregg Valley News Staff Writer South Royalton -- A 53-year-old furniture maker driving home on a lonely country road late Thursday night noticed tire marks cutting through a snowbank and wound up rescuing a motorist trapped in the frigid waters of Broad Brook. RANDY LEAVITT was headed south on Broad Brook Road in South Royalton around 11 p.m. Thursday following a weekly music jam session with friends when he saw “a cut on the side of the road where there shouldn't be one.” When he stopped to investigate, Leavitt spotted car lights and found a Toyota Camry upside down in the brook, motor still running, with its headlights on. Leavitt scrambled down the steep bank, landing in the brook, and found the driver with only his head above water, trapped in the car. “I spent a few minutes … trying to get him out the door, but I couldn't get the door open” wide enough, said Leavitt, who thinks the car might only have been there for a few minutes before he arrived. Fire officials said temperatures that night reached minus 4 degrees Fahrenheit, and ice had formed on parts of the brook. The driver, later identified as David Martineau, a tenant in a home in nearby East Barnard, was “barely semiconscious” and speaking from time to time, said Leavitt, who spent some of the time holding the driver's head above water. “He responded to my questions sometimes, but I couldn't understand what he was saying,” Leavitt said. “I heard him say a couple of times he didn't think he could make it.” Leavitt was able to pull Martineau “through the door enough so that when I left, he was kind of jammed and he couldn't sink back under,” and ran across the road to a nearby home to summon help. He also called Peter Cole, a self-employed landscaper who lives a quarter-mile away on the road, who pulled on rubber boots and a leather jacket and raced to the scene. “When I got there, we had all we could do to save the fellow,” Cole said. “The driver's side was completely submerged, and the water was running through the car.” Cole who had one foot on the bank and one on the car, was able to wrench the door open. “I just grabbed it and ripped it. The adrenaline gets going,” he said. “The water was freezing cold; it was liquid ice.” The two rescuers were able to pull Martineau from the car, but said they were unable to get him up the steep bank because of his weight. Instead, they hoisted him on top of the car and waited several more minutes for help to arrive. Dave Whitney, fire chief of South Royalton Fire and Rescue, said responders lowered a ladder down the bank and pulled the motorist up the bank on a Stokes litter. “I would say he was in pretty serious condition … hypothermia,” Whitney said. “I would say Randy probably saved his life.” Martineau was taken to Sharon Elementary School, then transported by DHART helicopter to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. He was discharged yesterday, according to a hospital spokesman. Martineau was back at his East Barnard home yesterday, but a message left for him through his landlady was not returned. Leavitt, who runs Freight House Woodworks in South Royalton, said he had to be helped up the bank himself because of the cold and fatigue, having spent about 20 minutes in the brook holding Martineau up. “I'd wrapped my coat around his head. It was all wet, and frozen solid,” he said. Leavitt said the incident reminded him of how his grandfather, then a truck driver in his 20s, had a premonition as he drove past a field decades ago one summer's day, turned the truck around and went back to the field, and found a farmer trapped under a tractor. That same grandfather used to say, “‘you see somebody stuck in a snowbank, you always stop,' ” said Leavitt. Cole said the accident was a reminder about the hazards of country roads in winter, especially those that parallel brooks and rivers but often have no guardrails. Only a few cars an hour, at best, travel down Broad Brook Road at that time of night. “It is wintertime and these are back roads,” Cole said. “Regardless of the conditions, you just have to pay attention.” Vermont State Police also responded to the scene, but troopers with information about the incident could not be reached for comment yesterday. John P. Gregg can be reached at jgregg@vnews.com or (603) 727-3213.