This vision is truly compelling and practical. May you be blessed with the right board team to share the load on the journey to making this a reality for Hillsdale and her citizens.
I'm going to watch your progress with interest. I did like your intro - I don't have a substack, but I do have a podcast, so I suppose I'll do.
I'm also very interested in what you're planning for your school of craftsmanship. You might consider talking with the folks at Tillers International, in Kalamazoo, who might have some advice on pulling your board together. And perhaps also see if you can get any advice from Michigan architect Mark Bishak. He may know some of the sorts of people you're interested in bringing on board.
Congratulations on finding another brilliant type in North Boston of the variety of school many of us have hoped for for years. The need is truly global, with typical trade schools focusing on quick-to-market post-modern methods with novel materials, and our aging built-to-last infrastructure fading and being destroyed to make way for futuristic Frank Lloyd Wrong monstrosities - and those not built to last. I stood, stupefied, gazing at the massive parking lot full of cars awaiting delivery a couple of years ago, on the site of what was The Palace in Auburn Hills, MI. What a waste! Sitting in The Eagle and Child in 2018, I was shocked and amazed to learn it was in danger of razing by sharp-penciled managers seeking to avoid having to restore that inspirational edifice. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-62992921 We, as a civil society, need craftsmen and women to be more common so as to reduce the cost and raise the probability that these icons of our heritage remain actual touchstones our progeny can touch, lean on, learn from, live in, and leave to their children. Hillsdale's wealthy legacy of masters of handcrafts and extensive inventory of homes and businesses, both exemplary and in need of redemption and maintenance, and a budding class of virtuous and energetic young people eager to develop knowledge and skills into whitish-blue-collar restoration craft careers satisfying to whole people, mind, body, and soul, make this a natural place for such an effort. Kudos to you and your future school, Luke!
This vision is truly compelling and practical. May you be blessed with the right board team to share the load on the journey to making this a reality for Hillsdale and her citizens.
I'm going to watch your progress with interest. I did like your intro - I don't have a substack, but I do have a podcast, so I suppose I'll do.
I'm also very interested in what you're planning for your school of craftsmanship. You might consider talking with the folks at Tillers International, in Kalamazoo, who might have some advice on pulling your board together. And perhaps also see if you can get any advice from Michigan architect Mark Bishak. He may know some of the sorts of people you're interested in bringing on board.
Congratulations on finding another brilliant type in North Boston of the variety of school many of us have hoped for for years. The need is truly global, with typical trade schools focusing on quick-to-market post-modern methods with novel materials, and our aging built-to-last infrastructure fading and being destroyed to make way for futuristic Frank Lloyd Wrong monstrosities - and those not built to last. I stood, stupefied, gazing at the massive parking lot full of cars awaiting delivery a couple of years ago, on the site of what was The Palace in Auburn Hills, MI. What a waste! Sitting in The Eagle and Child in 2018, I was shocked and amazed to learn it was in danger of razing by sharp-penciled managers seeking to avoid having to restore that inspirational edifice. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-62992921 We, as a civil society, need craftsmen and women to be more common so as to reduce the cost and raise the probability that these icons of our heritage remain actual touchstones our progeny can touch, lean on, learn from, live in, and leave to their children. Hillsdale's wealthy legacy of masters of handcrafts and extensive inventory of homes and businesses, both exemplary and in need of redemption and maintenance, and a budding class of virtuous and energetic young people eager to develop knowledge and skills into whitish-blue-collar restoration craft careers satisfying to whole people, mind, body, and soul, make this a natural place for such an effort. Kudos to you and your future school, Luke!