The show must go on! My son Henry plays while I stack the milled timbers.

After checking with several builders, I signed up for Will Beamer’s, barn building school www.heartwoodschool.com in Becket, Massachusetts. It was a two week introductory school on timber framing. Most of the students were interested in an apprenticeship to the trade or learning about building their own timber framed home. A few builders wanted to know how to repair old barns.