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So as we come to the realization that we now find ourselves in the month of December, I always feel that it is the opportune time to look back at the passing year, celebrate your life’s highs and reflect on the lows, and then look forward to the coming year. When I was in college I had a professor who most of the students were afraid of due to his directness. But I got him; I got why he pushed us and that he was challenging us to be the best we could be. Something he said has always stuck with me, he said that every year (around this time) he sat down, CONTENTS by himself in a quiet place, and wrote down 6 | THE “PLAY’S THE THING…” 29 | PRESERVING HISTORY: with pen and paper his one year plan for artist profile MILLERHURST FARM the coming year, and then he wrote down his two year plan, his three, four, and five 9 | FRIENDLY FACES 33 | A LITTLE SLICE OF HEAVEN: year plans. He said that the act of physically a beginner’s guide to cross country skiing writing it down made it real, vs. having 11 | GROWING CHRISTMAS TREES these ideas just floating around in your ALL YEAR LONG 37 | ON PURPOSE: CREATING MEANING head where they weren’t as tangible. I’ve business profile IN OUR LIVES performed this exercise a few times, and I 15 | MILK CHOCOLATE HAZELNUT 41 | MUSIC ON THE MENU am going to sit down to do so ahead of the REVEL BARS coming year. I think that this exercise is a 45 | HISTORIC HOUSES OF WORSHIP very positive one because you not only put 17 | PROTECTING OUR FORESTS, your wishes, desires, and dreams down to REDUCING YOUR TAXES 49 | OLANA: PAST PERFECT paper, but you are, in a way, trying to plan the impact of forestry exemptions on your best life. 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He did (Easton Studio Press, 2012) starts University, Tim Prentice graduated not want to be derivative, but to with his dedication – kind words with a Master’s Degree in 1960 and create a form that was uniquely his to his family – then proceeds with headed for New York City where, in own. a quote from Kurt Vonnegut as a 1995, he and Lo-Yi Chan created There was no doubt that his directional beacon for what is to a firm that would win contracts architectural training had provided come. “The arts are not a way of and awards for their imaginative the technical skills required to making a living. They are a very concepts. execute his dreams, but there was human way of making life more Ten years on, Tim and his wife, an ingredient latent in his personal- bearable.” Marie, headed north to Cornwall, ity that made his artistic pursuit a Sitting and talking with architect CT, and settled in a farm house passion. He was still very much an and kinetic sculptor Tim Prentice is with several barns and an ice house architect – 60 homes in the region to be drawn into a conversation that that would become his studio, of- are the designs of Tim Prentice, wanders, joyfully, around nature fice, workshop and “imaginarium.” many of them based on the fun- and light and air and color and As sculptural pieces were created, damental design of a barn. “I like form … and leaves the visitor with they would dot the landscape – barns because they don’t put on airs. two powerful reactions. hanging from trees, standing in the And, I like using local builders who First, one feels like this man has fields, set carefully near the pond know the materials, the people, the always been a friend, no matter if that, in decades past, had been seasons.” this is the first meeting or if your where a farm family had harvested As a point of interest, Tim lives paths have crossed at a local market, ice in winter.