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Makin' It: Jamie Self, Bus Adventurer Turned Small-Town Reporter
"There's so much sloppy journalism out there, and we miss so much with our heads buried in our iPhones."
Read & DiscussMakin' It: Sam Temple, Wooden Boat Builder in Maine
"A boat built with local wood that stays in local waters will last a long time."
Read & DiscussMakin' It: Kira Eng-Wilmot, Tapestry Bather and Textile Conservator
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"It is very rewarding to see a 16-foot tapestry finally installed in a space like the Cathedral after having spent months fixing the damage."
Read & DiscussMakin' It: Edward Janssen, Silversmith and Jeweler
The Tiffany's silversmith who found his way out of the service industry rabbit hole to craft jewelry and keep his clients from destroying antiques.
Read & DiscussMakin' It: Elizabeth Carey Smith, a Designer With Type as Her Medium
"Type is certainly seeing a golden age right now."
Read & DiscussMakin' It: Denmark's Quirky Brewmaster
"A lot of people think what we do is too extreme, to which we say that they are welcome to drink their Carlsberg instead."
Read & DiscussMakin' It: Howard Veregin, Wisconsin's Postmodern State Cartographer
"We wouldn’t allow someone to name a lake after their pet, for example."
Read & DiscussMakin' It: Emily Thompson, Floral Designer
"White House curators ok'd some designs I thought were fairly outrageous... dumping giant moss and lichen-covered rocks all over their mantelpieces."
Read & DiscussMakin' It: Kalia Brooks, Curator
"Being in the creative field is being in a playful field."
Read & DiscussMakin' It: Maurice Leacock, Robot Builder
"There is still a little backyard inventor/sci-fi geek in many of the folks here, for sure."
Read & DiscussMakin' It: Jeffrey de Picciotto, Butcher
"I make a point not to forget that this thing I'm cutting in front of me gave its life for us to eat."
Read & DiscussMakin' It: Jerrold Jackson, Social Worker
"I think it's difficult, and probably unhelpful, to be void of all emotion in this field."
Read & DiscussMakin' It: Willy Muse, Fashion Designer
I showed up in a shirt I had made, some tight black women's jeans, my red vanilla ice Nike Blazers, [with] my old Montgomery Ward sewing machine.
Read & DiscussMakin' It: Meg Paska, Urban Beekeeper
I found out that there were people breaking the law to keep bees in NYC and I decided I wanted to break the law, too.
Read & DiscussMakin' It: Jason Sigal, Free Music Expert
GOOD's career column talks to Jason Sigal, manager of the Free Music Archive, about radio in the digital era and making copyrights "human readable."
Read & DiscussMakin' It: Carolyn Vega, Librarian for Handwritten Stuff
GOOD's career column talks to mansucript cataloger Carolyn Vega about really old stuff, the archive bug, and Sir Walter Scott's letter-writing style.
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