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Great Designs in Wood: The Pennsylvania Dutch Box

The Pennsylvania Dutch culture, and the artifacts that they left us, tell the story of fine woodworkers and artisans, who prize simple beauty in combination with functionality perhaps as much as any culture that ever existed on the face of the earth.

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The Write Stuff

One of the best wood products that everyone has used but almost nobody ever notices...pencils.

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A Future Creator of Great Designs in Wood

In 2008, Carol Chang started on her degree in Wood Science at Penn State at our Mont Alto campus and now, with graduation in sight, she is about to embark on the next phase - a career in woodworking.

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Great Designs in Wood - The Kamppi Chapel of Silence

When it comes to unusual, and creative, uses of wood, you have to hand it to the Finns. It seems that their culture causes their mental juices to flow naturally to wood as a first solution for just about everything you can think of...and some that you never would. Such as a chapel of... silence.

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Most Promising Wood Industry Story of 2012

Time magazine chose the "Great Housing Rebound of 2012" but I vote for the rising support for "forest restoration" and specifically, the story of the Four Forest Restoration Initiative in northern Arizona.