This has been in the works for a while now, and now it’s done. I can’t wait to have it in my hands and start learning the thing.
I wanted a tenor because it’s something different than I already have, and the sound is so distinctive. This one was custom made by Matt Artinger, an absolutely fantastic luthier from Pennsylvania.

And it seems to be something that’s coming back. A fair number of my friends and acquaintances in the music world play the tenor.

Joel Plaskett

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xX_UBgi9SPc&NR=1

Steve Poltz

Mark Rubin

Marcy Marxer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gIsebfTqmc

Tom Mindte

Even Eastwood Guitars is getting in on the act, with the Warren Ellis signature model

In other guitar related news- for Christmas, I got a Gibson RD Custom. Story goes it used to belong to Dave Grohl, but I don’t know whether to believe that or not.

And with these two new aquisitions, I’m letting go of one of my Godin 5th Avenues. If any of you are interested, drop me a line.

My architecture studio group made a roadtrip today to visit our design professor, Brian McKay Lyons, at his studio outside Lunenburg.

This house, the residence and office of Geoff Keddy, architect, is just down around the corner from my appt., and next door to Bonehead’s BBQ.

Interior pictures at:
http://www.geoffkeddy.com/geoffkeddy/Template.html?i=1,j=2,k=7#ARC-1

This is quickly becoming a regular stop for me- just down the road from my apartment. In my opinion, the Barbecue is rivaled only by some of the better places I’ve been to in the south. Really top notch, juicy flavorful sandwiches. We’ve been working our way through their side dish menu- their whole menu, really, but usually we get a pork sandwich and a beef sandwich and split them.
They’ve got locally brewed beers and sodas, too.

Clear White
1-K Kerosene
Notify Attendant
inside for pump to
be turned on.
Dispense Kerosene.
Turn Pump Off.
Pay Attendant Inside.
Thank you.

This Kerosene station was originally a conoco. It looks like it’s been what it is currently for a while, though.

Originally, it would have looked like this, though this is a different location.

Nothing quite like an A-Frame

http://www.civilwarhome.com/Gathland.htm

Probably Townsend’s most unique and certainly his most lasting architectural endeavor at Gathland is an unusual monument erected in 1896 as a memorial to his fellow war correspondents. Ruthanna Hindes, in her book “George Alfred Townsend” describes the monument in some detail:

“In appearance the monument is quite odd. It is fifty feet high and forty feet broad. Above a Moorish arch sixteen feet high built of Hummelstown purple stone are super-imposed three Roman arches. These are flanked on one side with a square crenellated tower, producing a bizarre and picturesque effect. Niches in different places shelter the carving of two horses’ heads, and symbolic terra cotta statuettes of Mercury, Electricity and Poetry. Tables under the horses’ heads bear the suggestive words “Speed” and “Heed”; the heads are over the Roman arches. The three Roman arches are made of limestone from Creek Battlefield, Virginia, and each is nine feet high and six feet wide. These arches represent Description, Depiction and Photography.
The aforementioned tower contains a statue of Pan with the traditional pipes, and he is either half drawing or sheathing a Roman sword. Over a small turret on the opposite side of the tower is a gold vane of a pen bending a sword. (Note: This weather vane may now be seen in the Park Museum.)
At various places on the monument are quotations appropriate to the art of war correspondence. These are from a great variety of sources beginning with Old Testament verses.
Perhaps the most striking feature of all are the tablets inscribed with the names of 157 correspondents and war artists who saw and described in narrative and picture almost all the events of the tour years of the war-”

The unusual monument was dedicated by Governor Lloyd Lowndes on October 16, 1896, and in 1904 was turned over to the National Park Service to be maintained as a National Monument.
After Townsend’s death on April 15, 1914, his daughter sold Gathland. In 1943 the property was purchased by a church group and used as a summer conference site. Later it was acquired by members of the Frederick Chamber of Commerce and the Historical Society of Frederick County, Inc. On May 13,1949, it was deeded to the State of Maryland to be administered as a State Park by the Department of Forests and Par

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6107 Roseland Dr, Rockville, MD.

I had heard it was built by Frank Lloyd Wright, but it doesn’t show up on the lists of his projects. Certainly looks similar in style.

Year Built: 1951
1 Bathrooms
Approximately 1,316 Sq Ft
Lot size: 23,820 Sq Ft
Stories: 1
Last sold for $155,000 on 12/26/1985

If the columns hadn’t been removed from the porch, this house would be just about perfect in my eye.