Artisan Historic Contracting
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ABOUT US
Finding My Path to the Future 

My path began when my grandmother had a stroke. She was bound to a wheelchair. She lived in an old Victorian built in 1918, (I love that house). She was coming home from the hospital and needed access to the house. My uncle had just returned home from Vietnam. I was 8 years old. It was the first time I had ever met him. We spent the summer building a beautiful wheelchair ramp to match the existing house. The first thing he taught me after how to hammer a nail, was the one reoccurring theme in my life and what I teach to my children; “A carpenter never leaves a bent nail in place even if he must straighten it himself”.  It was a LIFE changing experience. I will always remember those three weeks, the sweltering summer of 1977.  

(I lost him after his body gave out after years of abusing heroin. All that knowledge skill and life; lost so young).

When we were completing the white exterior siding, I told him “When I grow up, I will be a carpenter”, (Like most of the men in my family on both sides, going back as far the 1700s in St. Mary’s County Maryland). He simply and directly told me that “the world changes; and we must change with it; but never forget the past, remember the forgotten, integrate the past, present and future. True beauty, he explained in fashion that my 8-year-old mind would later interpret as meaning the following. Mountains are old and majestic, and Trees new and sprightly, but each complement thy other. As should your carpentry as an Artisan, complement what you are building.”.

After completing my training in the trade of carpentry & building maintenance at the Western School of Technology & Environmental Science in Catonsville Md. in 1986, I spend the next years, due to life’s circumstance traveling and working in the field of carpentry. I worked in Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Missouri, Illinois, and California. (READ MORE at JDBRestore.com)

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