[GSBN] Fresh enthusiasm; and another four nominations

Joyce Coppinger jc10508 at windstream.net
Fri Feb 28 15:25:00 UTC 2014


Thanks Frank. Great additions to the GSBN list.
Joyce

> Hi Joyce and others,
> 
> (And thanks Bill for verifying Dawn and Emily's existence here on the GSBN.)
> 
> Liz Johndrow has been volunteering her time, and wisely spending her Winters,
> working with communities and small children, building  school buildings, solar
> dryers, and other community infastructure, in Nicaragua. She has lead classes
> and worked with Sara Halley and Karen George. Timberframing excellence, mud
> and straw and adobe and smart.
> 
> Michael Henry has worked with Camel's Back Construction for eons, and has a
> quiet, serious demeanor when it comes to debating earthen plasters vs. lime
> plasters vs. tadelakt, and coming up with the correct recipes for each
> application.  A very good listener.
> 
> Anna is a mud and fibre genius from Chicago, who has done remarkable interior
> design and application of interiors for restaurants, cafes and other urban
> Chicago projects.  Equisite sense of experimentation , composition, and
> earthy design in all her work that I've viewed on this computer screen. Sense
> of humour, too.
> 
> Frank
> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> ....
> 
> For those of us who don't know these folks and their work, could you tell us
> a bit about them.
> 
> Joyce
> 
>> Tony, that was a wake up for me.  I hadn't even considered Liz might not
>> be on the list. And so I began to consider who else might not be on the
>> list.
>> 
>> In an effort to leave no stones unturned, I would like to nominate the
>> following:
>> 
>> Dawn Marie Smith
>> Anna Wolfson
>> Michael Henry
>> Emily Rydell Niehaus
>> 
>> I'd also like to apologize to any of the people, nominated above, who
>> are reading this right now,
>> because, they are already on this list!
>> I just didn't know.





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