I get Contemporary Stone and Tile Design magazine. It’s mostly dynamic pictures with some print. More elaborate than what I might be involved in, but worth the look if you get a chance. The web site seems to offer the articles from the mag.
Here’s one about the newly reconstructed distillery that Washington started in Va. Beautiful stonework and joinery.
A pity they only include one small photo of the exterior. If you can find it on a shelf, check out the other shots.
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Mt. Vernon is just down the street from me. Beautiful place to visit if you get the chance.
Here's part of the Mt. Vernon site that deals with the history, excavation, and restoration of the distillery. Also includes a whole list of photos.
http://www.mountvernon.org/learn/pres_arch/index.cfm/pid/745/
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No worries. They've actually done a fabulous job restoring Mt. Vernon and the new visitor center is supposed to be terrific. So if you get a desire to see it one of these days, let me know. Beers in the tavern here are nice, but a glass of whisky there is on me!
Thanks for the link and thanks to Calvin for the topic. I've been meaning to visit Mt. Vernon for many years, just never got it together. Now that I see all the work that's been done there, I'm glad that it's taken me a while. I'll enjoy it that much more.
Say Cal, have you done stone work too, or do you just harbor a fantasy about it like me and this pewriodical is your #### fix?
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Well Paul, I harbor some fantasies, but stonework isn't one of them.
Minor dry stacking is the length of my experience, but I admire the beauty and permanence that stone can exhibit. Some areas of the country with their abundance of material just scream stone. Here, gravel is the easiest found with the occasional round field stone. A porch of two is all you really see. Some of the old places have stacked and mortered flat river stone foundations. Just not much around.
Landscapers probably utilize it the most.
Remember a while back here there was a foriegn guy I think that was going to build his house completely (not the roof) out of stone-some where in the eastern U.S. I think. Never heard back from that fellow.A great place for Information, Comraderie, and a sucker punch.
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Definitely make time for it one day. It's a pretty impressive spread. Some of aerial photos on the site where you can see the proximity to the Potomac give you a good idea as to why Washington was so attached to the place.
Neat!
One of the big sponsors of work and historical research there was my client here on the Cannonball house. he'd had the same historical archy do a preliminary study of that house to ID elements that were worthy of preserving and protecting to prioritize when we did that one.
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A real treat to be a part of I'm sure. A great place for Information, Comraderie, and a sucker punch.
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I learned a little.The good part was that he left final decisions to me and was not a purist, just initial guidance.
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You might like to see one of the distilleries just down the road from me, essentially the same as the GW on, just a difference of scale.
http://www.discovering-distilleries.com/dalwhinnie
Any Stewarts around there?
Next time I'm over, I'll stop by.
thanks.A great place for Information, Comraderie, and a sucker punch.
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There are plenty of folks with the surname Stewart over here and also a blended whisky called' Stewarts cream of the barley'.
You're not a Campbell by chance?A great place for Information, Comraderie, and a sucker punch.
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Not me!
The Campbells have had a bad press over the years, at one time they dominated the Western Isles.
I tutored at a workshop at the Mount Vernon Highland Games a few years back and was amazed at the passion the locals had for their clan, they were recollecting clan fueds we had little knowledge of back home. It all made for great fun though.
It's hard to be humble when you're Scottish.
Their plaid isn't anything to write home about either.
See you when I get there.A great place for Information, Comraderie, and a sucker punch.
Remodeling Contractor just outside the Glass City.
http://www.quittintime.com/