Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]- --- Frank Filippone <red735i@earthlink.net> wrote: > First the unmitigated woodworking gloat: Sam Maloof had - ------------------------------------------------------------ If you ever have the occasion to travel to or through northern Illinois, be sure to reward yourself with a trip to Rockford to see and tour the "Tinker Swiss Cottage". If memory serves me correctly, it was built shortly after the Civil War. Tinker was a Scots accountant who came to America to seek his fortune. When the civil war draft started he took off to Europe for the grand tour. When he returned, he made his fortune the old fashioned way. He married the boss's widow! But I digress. The interior of the house has some of the most beautiful hand crafted woodwork you will ever find. Included is a bannister for a circular stairway that was steamed and bent from a single piece of wood! During that period of time Rockford was in the center of hundreds of square miles of virgin hardwood forrest. It became a major furniture manufacturing center. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/ - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html