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NEWSLETTER Fall NEWSLETTERNEWSLETTER 2002Fall The Newsletter of Joiners' Quarterly & Fox Maple School of Traditional Building No. 14 The Art of Making Things Happen From the or...the reliance upon minor miracles The sun had just crested over the horizon that time, of her father, Henry Crow Dog, and Ground Up and in the relative coolness of this July morn- of Diane’s uncanny psychic abilities. It had THE ART OF NATURAL BUILDING ing, Tom, Lupe and I began scratching, pok- been so many years I wasn’t sure if we could ing and turning the 15 or so logs remaining in find her, and if we did, if she would remember The Art of Natural Building is a great new our log pile in hopes of finding a few worthy of me. Her grandson (by way of Lakota spiritual resource book recently published by New milling. We knew our attempts were futile as relationships) Rusty Leeds, and his son Society Publishers. we had already gone over the pile half a dozen Krishawn, came along for the ride. He had not Co-Editors, Joseph F. Kennedy, Michael times the previous day, and the day before seen Diane since he had visited her as a child G. Smith and Catherine Wanek, all three that, concluding each time that we’d exhausted some 10 or 12 years earlier. He also was progressive innovators in the natural build- our good logs—the few left were all punky and looking forward to the visit. ing movement over the past decade, have rotten. Nonetheless, there we stood, in the We arrived in Rosebud late in the morning compiled over 60 articles from over 50 lead- soft glow of sunrise, scratching our heads, and sniffed our way to their old place on the ers in the alternative building field in an hoping and praying that the spirits had in Little White River. We found the dirt drive just extremely user-friendly reference volume. some magical way transformed only a few of before Crow Dog bridge and turned in, ever The full array of natural, traditional and these ponderosa pine logs into sound timber alert for landmarks that would jar my memory. alternative building systems is included in a overnight. No such luck. I recognized the bend in the river, the setting, comprehensive format, backed up with loads We were nearing the end of our first week but the old house was gone, the only remnant of photos and illustrations. While the nature of the 2001 workshop in Slim Buttes, on the was a patch of debris marking the spot. Cover- Pine Ridge Reservation. Our ing the pile of decomposing of the work does not allow extremely in- project was not one, but two pieces of wood that had been depth technical information, it provides plenty greenhouse frames. We were the house were scraps of green of how-to and technical details of a wide facing the grim reality that with- roll roofing. This was the same range of alternative building systems, backed out some sort of miracle, we’d roofing I’d placed on the roof so up with plenty of resources. be lucky to complete even one. many years earlier. Most strik- The Art of Natural Building: Design, Con- The workshop group con- ing was the delicately fenced struction, Resources. ISBN 0-86571-433-9 sisted of nearly 20 people; 8 grave at the foot of a mature New Society Publishers, PO Box 189, students from off rez, and 8 to ash tree set back a few short Gabriola Island, BC V0R 1X0, Canada. 1- 10 Lakota students from the yards from where the house 800-567-6772. www.newsociety.com community, with additional once stood. It was the grave of help from some of the 15 or so Diane’s daughter, Christina, LANDMARK VOLUNTEERS Landmark Volunteers (teenag- who passed away in 1995. ers who had devoted 2 weeks Christina was about 8 years old Landmark Volunteers is a nonprofit sum- of their summer vacation as when I gave her my farewell mer service organization for high school volunteers to help cultivate gar- hug so many years earlier, and students. If you are a high school student at dens and carry out minor home my memory of her was that of least 14-1/2 years of age, entering the 10th, Diane Crow Dog and son, Frank 11th, or 12th grade and are looking for an repair, or whatever else Running, in front of the ceremo- her playing behind the house seemed necessary, on the res- nial lodge frame we raised near with her dolls and doll house opportunity to do something for others, to ervation). We needed a lot of her daughters grave site on the under a small ash tree. It was expand your world view through community timber to keep this group work- Little White River in July, 2002. It her favorite spot to play. service, to give something back to society, ing, timbers we didn’t have. was cut in the Fall 2001 Advanced We found Diane living in a you might qualify as a Landmark Volunteer. This was not altogether a new Workshop at Fox Maple. HUD development house on the The program offers the opportunity to experience to me. After years of conducting top of a knoll a few miles from the village of spend two weeks working at one of many workshops in remote and isolated areas, I Rosebud. She was now in her mid 70’s and (nearly 60 options from Maine to California) have come to accept these challenges. I’d struck a remarkable resemblance to her fa- important historical, cultural, environmental faced these dilemmas, and worse, and each ther, Henry, who was about the same age or social service institutions. In return for time something seemingly miraculous always back in 1972. She was ill with pneumonia, and giving up two weeks of your summer, you’ll happend. Those reading this who have taken moving slowly. I introduced myself by way of receive an exceptional learning opportunity part may understand what I mean. describing events that took place so many and a chance to understand how voluntary On this day we chose to let it rest and take years before. To my joy, she followed up with service functions as an essential element of the day off. We decided to go to the Rosebud stories of her own. She had not lost a step the American experience. And you’ll have to visit Diane Crow Dog, whom I’d not seen for mentally; we embraced. She told of the ensu- nearly 30 years, and then make our way back ing years, the story of her daughter’s passing, fun and make new lifelong friends. to the Cascade Falls in the foothills of the why she chose that spot for the grave, and of This is an excellent program, highly rec- Black Hills. So, six of us piled into my truck her long-standing wish to build a permanent ommended to any high school student look- and headed off to the Rosebud. ceremonial lodge on that site so she could go ing to expand their horizon. For more infor- The last time I had seen Diane was in the there to pray with her daughter (which we mation contact: early winter of 1972. I’d lived with her and her provided in 2002). Landmark Volunteers, PO Box 455, family on their place on the Little White River We reminisced for an hour or so, then it Sheffield, MA 01257. Ph: 413-229-2050, for 6 months, working around the place and was time to head back to Pine Ridge and email: [email protected]. ultimately building an addition onto their one beyond to the cascades. I felt I had in some website: www.volunteers.com room house. On the ride over I told stories of way completed a round, that I had indeed 2 Fox Maple Newsletter #14 Pine Ridge, SD 2002 Wood Chip Clay Building The workshop project this past summer in Slim Buttes was a cake walk compared to last years Corbett, Oregon, July 2002 efforts. The project was a 24’x32’ frame that will be This workshop was co sponsored by the Northwest used for a repair garage/workshop. Funding to cover Ecobuilders Guild and the Timber Framers Guild. Thanks the greater part of the construction budget was go out to Katy Langstaff, of Sustainable Systems De- provided through a grant from Running Strong for sign, for her tireless efforts in organizing the workshop. American Indian Youth. Thanks go out also to the It has always been Fox Maple’s belief that if natural, generous product donations from: Great Brook Lum- alternative systems are to be viable, they must be easily ber, Lebanon, ME, who donated planed and squared adaptable to any building crew. The primary goal of this timbers; Foard Panel, Inc., who donated panels; and workshop was to train the building crew of a 6,000 Pella Windows who donated windows. The building square foot timber frame hybrid the essentials of building is now tight and warm, and ready for winter work. with woodchip/clay. Joining the group were several members of the Ecobuilders Guild and individuals from the northwest. It was a great success. Clay was harvested from the side of the drive into the site. Aloysius Weasel Bear using chain mortiser for the first time; Tom Cook nailing roof tree with Jayson and Nefu; Completed frame with Belsaw mill in foreground. come home, and felt a soothing sense offering their prayers to the rocks.
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