“Oh, he makes his life as a carpenter/he works his hands in wood/and he lives the way his granddad/might have liked and understood.” Dan Fogelberg, “Song for a Carpenter” Trim carpenter Tim Reidy, of ...
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The lumber at your local yard is a fundamentally different material than it was.