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DEPARTMENTS 6 Letters 10 On Display A visit to New Hampshire's Strawb ery Banke Museum 14 Calendar Anot her Way to Lock a Cradle, p. 32 18 The Drawing Board Refining your thumbnail sketches with transparencies 70 Fine Furn iture Timbers Luscious pink pear 74 Materials Cracking glass 78 About the Authors 82 Index Index to issues 6 through 77 86 Furniture Stories john M cPhee recalls his grandfather's horned furniture Making Chairs Strong, p. 36 Computer Photograph Brings Lamp to Life, p. 54 Home Furn itu re (ISSN 1076-8327) is pu blish ed six times a year. by The Taunto n Press. Inc.. Newtown, CT 06470 -5506. Telephon e (203) 426-8171. Periodicals postage paid at Newt o wn. CT 06470-5506 and at additio na l mailing o ffices. u.s. newsstand distribution by Curtis Circulatio n Co.. 730 Rive r Road , New Milford.NJ 07646-3048 and Eastern News Distributor s. Inc., O ne I> led ia Way. 12406 Route 250. l>lilan. all ·i4846-9705. GST # 123210981. 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