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NEWSLETTER SUMMER 2018 lives, helping oth urturing ers boats, n Building Balanced Living I have been blessed to have led a pretty schedule, giving you the opportunity should contain these seven basic elements healthy life. Aside from some recurring to get a taste of what life is like as an of balance: work, worship, study, prayer, back issues and the typical seasonal cold, apprentice. At the end of these three hospitality, service and personal re- I have rarely dealt with serious illness. days, we always take the time to sit down creation. And thus, our schedule requires This all changed significantly for me this and have an exit interview with each of the apprentices to work in the shops spring as a chest cold became pneumonia our potential apprentice applicants. One each day from 8am-4:30pm, but at the that was then immediately followed by of the questions that we ask during this same time, the schedule also mandates a serious case of appendicitis, ruptured interview is “how did you find the pace that we all pause for Tea Break from appendix and all! of the Boat Shop schedule?” While our 10-10:20am and also take 30 minutes of schedule can require apprentices to be at “contemplative time” after lunch. After five days in the hospital and almost work in the kitchen as early as 6:00 in the four weeks of sick leave, I returned to the morning and often we do not conclude In my time of healing and recovery, I Boat Shop with orders from my doctor our daily community time together until really could not have been more grateful to “pace myself, take it easy, and not over 6:30 or 7:30 at night, our visitors most to be immersed in a daily schedule that do it.” Hmmm… While these orders often comment on the number of breaks has at its heart the understanding of sounded like good ol’ common sense we take during the day rather than on the balance and the importance of pacing after what I had been through, they were rigors of the long days. ourselves, taking it easy and not over not easy for me to follow. It is not in my doing it, or phrased another way, the nature to “take it easy.” And, perhaps, it is Our western culture has often taught value of pausing, contemplation and self- not necessarily in your nature either. us that working long hard hours is care—the makings not of laziness, but of respectable, while pacing ourselves, taking a balanced life. If you want to be an apprentice here at it easy and not over doing it is a recipe the Boat Shop, you need to come and stay for appearing lazy. At the Boat Shop, Peace to you all, with us for three days. During that time, our schedule is guided by the Rule of Kimberly J. Hoare you are asked to follow the Boat Shop St. Benedict that suggests that each day Executive Director Top Row (Left to Right): Seward Matel, Sarah Highland, Caleb Gross, Kim Hoare, Careyleah MacLeod, Colby Black Middle Row: Serafina & Linnea Carlucci, Dan Thorington, Ben Dows, Diane Foglizzo, Breanna Heidari, Cookie, Megan Bellamy,Bottom: Darin & Calla Carlucci, Lynora Stallsmith, Myrtle Kirk, Chlesea Fisher Apprentice Class of 2018 Meet our apprentices as they first introduced themselves to the Boat Shop this fall along with a short reflection of what the experience has meant to them as their 9-month apprenticeships come to a close. Megan Bellamy (she) Fast forward eight months, life at the Boat Shop has for creating and learning through hands-on activity Megan is from London (UK) and is happiest helped Megs realize that she needs to be a maker. once again, there be it, through a google search for when she is outside, creating and learning. Megs’ What she’ll be making is still a little murky. woodworking apprenticeships, I discovered The working life is varied, but has focused on making Carpenter’s Boat Shop. The future is still unknown, a positive and meaningful difference. From Colby Black (he) but I am extremely thankful for The Carpenter’s recovering Nazi looted artwork and teaching sailing My name is Colby Black, and I am the youngest of Boat Shop and the opportunities that will arise. in Turkey, to working at non-profits campaigning three children, who are the result of Chris Black and The Apprenticeship is winding down, and the for environmental sustainability and social welfare. Amy Owens. I hail from Lancaster, Ohio, where I opportunities have been immense—everything from Woodworking and carpentry are skills Megs has spent the first eighteen years of my life. After high improving woodworking skills to raising chickens. always been interested in developing. Combined school I attended Berea College (Berea, KY), where Have been appreciative of all the different people with the opportunity to be an active part of a I studied Industrial Technology and Applied Design I have met and been introduced to. All in all, the supportive community and explore Maine, the Boat and worked in the Berea College Crafts woodshop Carpenter’s Boat Shop has been the most life- Shop is the perfect home for her to reflect, take space for my four years. After graduation in May of 2016, enriching experience of my life. and gain a fresh perspective whilst she figures out her I worked for The Ohio State University as a delivery next move. driver for a year. Since I left school, I was longing Cookie (they) Boat Shop where I am deepening my love and until 2006 when my family moved to my mother’s Cookie, 36, comes to the Boat Shop from appreciation for learning how to build things, hometown of Round Pond. I am a 2014 graduate Philadelphia, PA where they have spent the last sailing, collective living and singing. I’m grateful for of Lincoln Academy and attended Washington & 20 years involved in queer, punk, DIY (do-it- this opportunity which serves as both a moment of Lee University in Lexington, Virginia from 2014- yourself) and community radio circles. They have deep reflection as well as a door opening to 2016 before a variety of factors led to my decision also kept busy with community theater projects, Wnew futures! to return home prior to the start of my junior year stage managing and costume design for an array and apply to The Carpenter’s Boat Shop. Over the Now in the last weeks of the Apprenticeship, I feel of events. An amateur oceanic naturalist, Cookie past year, I interned at Coastal Enterprises, Inc. in excited and nervous about my next steps. I plan has volunteered with coastal restoration agencies Brunswick, Maine, helped my family open Round on staying in Maine to continue this journey a bit along the New Jersey shore for projects such as the Pond’s first coffee shop (Round Pond Coffee), and longer. I have new skills in woodworking and in annual survey of horseshoe crabs and the creation studied philosophy independently. I am unsure navigating transitions that will support me as I move of intertidal oyster reefs. Cookie was compelled to precisely where I will be going or what I will be into my future We are always becoming. join the Boat Shop apprenticeship program for the doing after my apprenticeship, but am confident that opportunity to live in closer community with the my time at the Boat Shop will leave me prepared to Caleb Gross (he) ocean and those who work with it, and to hopefully sail on whatever winds come my way. find a vocational and spiritual home here along the My name is Caleb Gross. I’m nineteen years young, With a month to go in my apprentice year at coast. They have been delightfully overwhelmed by but most would consider me an old soul. I was the Boat Shop, I am left to reflect on a variety of all they are learning about carpentry and feel very born and raised in South Kingstown, Rhode Island. meaningful experiences and memories. Immediately lucky to work closely and learn from the staff and Being from southern Rhode Island, the ocean has coming to mind are sailing into November, spending apprentices here. always been a big part of my life. As a small child nobody could get me out of the water. On beach a weekend solo on Marsh Island, launching my first Cookie has learned the sublime joy of paint- days in the summer, I’d stay in for hours until I’d boat and learning lofting with Douglas Brooks. As scraping, varnishing and finishing work! become a human prune. I grew up loving nature. I the time draws to a close, I am looking forward to am fascinated by the natural world and have always continuing to develop my woodworking through Ben Dows (he) wanted to understand, protect, and enjoy everything antique restoration and house carpentry. Growing up outside of Richmond, VA, I spent my Mother Nature has to offer. I love sports, games, Lynora Stallsmith (she) summers canoeing on nearby rivers, camping and music, poetry and books. I also enjoy horticulture riding my bike. Then life happened. I got a job and gardening, and wild foraging. I graduated high I’m from a large family in Northwest PA, or and grew up a little too fast. I was a linecook off school in 2016, and volunteered on several organic Pennsyltucky, as the locals call it. I grew up and on for about ten years and learned the arts of farms in Portugal for a few months from Winter- homeschooled on a small farmette in the country.