Monthly Archives: June 2015

Sculpture Fields

In Chattanooga I went to work for John Henry in building Tatlin’s Sentinel. It was one of many monumental sculptures in steel and aluminum fabricated at his Chattanooga studio. And at 101 feet tall and 100,000 pounds, it is one of the largest contemporary sculptures in the world, and the second tallest in the United States. I drilled the steel…
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Will The Circle Be Unbroken

When I first moved to Tennessee I had a guitar to be repaired, but couldn’t remember the name of the man so many people had referred me to for the job. All I knew was that he lived on a mountain top, in another town. Trying to remember, I picked up a phone book, hoping…
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