Tuesday, April 24, 2018

My Father's Craft

Since I mentioned the chess board and the little bowl my late father made, I thought I'd show them to you.

My father, James Armstrong Hindman, was a skilled craftsman, but he was the kind of person who did not want to do what he did for work in his spare time.  My mother would get so frustrated because just getting him to throw together a simple bookcase for us was almost impossible.  That said, my sister and I each have bookcases he made and we each have tall clocks for which he made the cases.  We treasure them all.

Here are the chess board and the bowl:





6 comments:

  1. Those are lovely, Joan. I admire anyone who can do that sort of work.

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    1. Thanks, Tracy. He was a skilled cabinetmaker and outdoorsman. I was always delighted when, as an old man, he would would flawlessly recite poems he'd learned in school back in the 1920s.

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  2. They're lovely. It must have been great to be able to make such things but I can understand why he wouldn't want his work to also be his hobby.

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    1. I can understand that, too. I'm just glad I have these few things to remember him by.

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    1. Thank you, Stefanie. I'm very proud of his work. My parents have been gone for almost twenty years and I still miss them. I was very lucky to have such supportive and loving parents. I was a real handful!

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