Musical accompaniment: The Lord Knows I’m Drinking by Cal Smith

 

We’ve been talking recently (at least in the comments) about how fun it is to make things by hand. A little fun fact: The word manufacture is derived from the Latin words manu and factus, which means “made by hand.”

Here are a few more pictures from the lantern slide collection by North Carolina photographer Bayard Morgan Wootten.

One of the few subjects who was named in these photographs. The fiddler is Doc Hoppas of Penland, North Carolina.

 

Also, here are a couple of pictures of the potting bench I salvaged and stained. I learned how to use a sander and stain wood. It was really fun. I’m ridiculously proud of it!

Here’s a before and after:

And one with the light on: