.
THE POUNDER
JULY, 2008
THERE WILL BE
NO MEETINGS IN JULY OR AUGUST.
OUR NEXT REGULAR MEETING WILL BE SEPTEMBER 21 st
KEVIN COHN, PRESIDENT, PITTPOUNDERS
EMAIL,
NOTE; KEVIN’S NEW PHONE NUMBER,
JUNE, 2008 412
– 837 - 2159
PITTPOUNDERS
WEB SITE
WEBMASTER,
JOHANNA SCHROER -
PHONE 419 - 753 – 2612
PITTPOUNDER
GUILD OFFICERS;
PRESIDENT
– KEVIN COHN 412 – 559
8216 NEW (MAY, 2008)
VICE
PRESIDENT – TERRY MOORE 724 –
567 - 6664 TREASURER - JOYCE WEDGE
724 –
538 - 5853
SECRETARY – POOR DRAPER
412 –
715 - 2756 LIBRARIAN -
LOIS SILVIS 724 –
254 – 4457
INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF LEATHER
GUILDS, “IFOLG”
WEB SITE
“IFOLG”
IS THE PITTPOUNDERS MOTHER ORGANIZATION
(WITH ABOUT 15 OTHER GUILDS)
COMING EVENTS;
2008 IFOLG SHOW SEPT 26
– 28, COLUMBUS OHIO
H I FOLKS;
There will be NO MEETINGS IN JULY
& AUGUST. Our next regular meeting will be September 21st. This
will be one week before the International Federation Of Leather Guilds Annual
Show. Although gas prices are affecting all of us, with the show being held at
the Columbus Airport Marriott, it’s a great opportunity for all of us to make
the short journey for such a fun, memorable & learning experience. Besides
all of the good people from the Buckeye Leathercrafters who will be hosting the
show, leather workers from far and wide will be there as well. So if you are
interested in car-pooling and/or room sharing, please give Chris a call at:
724-816-3901, anytime before 7:00 pm.
And for those of
you who can’t attend, Dave Briggs has graciously offered to take any
competition entries to the show for you.
DUES ARE DUE.
If you haven’t
already, please send your dues to:
Joyce Wedge
PO Box 38
Evans City, PA
16033
We are hoping to have everyone’s
dues in by the end of July, and here is why: In order to enter the competition
at the IFOLG Shows you must be a member of a guild that is a member of the
IFOLG. And as a member guild, we have to send a list of our members to both the
host guild & the IFOLG a month before the show. So please send your dues in
NOW so that we can get our membership list together and sent out. Thanks!
One of the things we have been
discussing at our meetings for months is our guild display sign. A number of
suggestions have been made as to ways to update it. The idea that was settled
on was to cut a piece of leather into the shape of our state, then cut that
into pieces roughly following the outline of groups of counties. Well, thanks
to Dave Briggs for donating the piece of leather and to Chris Kearns for the
cutting, we ended up with 17 pieces of assorted sized leather. What we are
asking is for each member to take a piece or two and carve/tool/paint or
whatever it is you do to leather, so that when it is all put back together, our
guild sign will reflect the work of it’s members. Just so you know, 6 of the
pieces are already gone, so if you are willing to be part of this, please give
Chris a call, or drop him an email
and he will get one to you.
Many of you will remember that a few
months back Kevin, Draper & Chris had a good time teaching a leather
working class at Old
Economy Village.
Things went so well that our guild has been invited to participate in a number
of upcoming events. Here is part of an email from Roberta Sunstein with the
details: Erntefest is the Harvest Festival and we do various demonstrations
having to do with bringing in the Harvest. We usually have the blacksmith
and printer work both events, and I was wondering if the group would like to do
traditional leatherworking demonstrations. It is on Saturday, September
27th from 10 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. We generally see close to 2,000 people
attend.
For Christmas at the Village, on Dec. 6 from 2-8:30 p.m., again we are
looking at 2000 or more participants. The Village is decorated for a 19th
century holiday: horse-drawn carriage rides, music by our orchestra and
singers, there are craft demonstrations and we have a German Marketplace set up
so visitors can buy handmade crafts directly from the craftsmen. Would
your folks wish to demonstrate and sell their pieces during this event.
Let me know what you think, guys, we would love to have you join us.
Demonstration space is limited, as you may recall, so I would want to
reserve a spot for you sooner rather than later
Dave was going
to see if anyone from the North East Leather Guild would like to join us in
this venture. If you are interested in participating, please let Kevin know
ASAP.
And last, but certainly not least, YOUR GUILD NEEDS YOUR HELP! After years
of sharing his time, talents and humor with us, Gary Draper is retiring from
our guild so that he can spend more time with one of his other passions:
photography. Draper will be greatly missed at each meeting and special event we
attend, but his absence will be felt profoundly as he has been our guild
Secretary for years, and thus has been the one to put together and send out the
newsletter each month. We desperately need someone to fill the big shoes that
Draper is leaving. Now we know that not everyone is computer savvy, but if you
are willing to learn some simple steps used to put a newsletter together, Chris,
Johanna and Draper will come to your house and show you how to use your
computer to do this. And if you aren’t hooked up to the Internet or don’t even
own a computer but would still like to help, we need someone who would be
willing to make copies of the newsletter and mail them each month.
Not many of us can make it to every
meeting, which makes the information in the newsletter all that more important.
Even if you have never done anything like this before, PLEASE consider doing
this for the benefit of all of us. Then let Kevin and/or Chris know. Thanks,
from all the Pitt Pounders!
Bless
You, Chris
THE COLUMBUS SHOW IS COMING
IN SEPTEMBER. SO FAR THAT WE KNOW OF, CHRIS KEARNS
AND DAVE AND PAULA BRIGGS WILL BE GOING.
CONSIDER, NOT ONLY CAN WE SAVE MONEY BY CAR POOLING, BUT ALSO SHARING
THE COST OF ROOMS. PLEASE TRY TO GO SO
WE CAN SUPPORT OUR FRIENDS IN OHIO.
IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, CALL
CHUCK OR DEB AT 440 466 3299
CALL ANYTIME. OR EMAIL CHUCK ------------------------------------------------------------------
NEW
TEACHING GROUP “NORTH EAST OHIO LEATHER GUILD”.
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DUES ARE
DUE , FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO DIDN’T, NOW IS THE TIME
BRING
YOUR DUES TO THE MEETING, OR MAIL THEM TO;
JOYCE WEDGE
PO BOX 38
EVANS CITY, PA.
16033
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