A mechanical engineer and international project manager by profession “anchored” in Bolton, MA, I have always had a strong interest in historic hand crafts including joinery, wooden boats, tinsmithing, and blacksmithing regardless of the many places in the world I have been stationed. I joined EAIA in 1990 on the recommendation of an amateur blacksmith who was helping me learn the craft while I forged hardware to restore our 1793 home. My first EAIA Annual Meeting was in Albany in 2008 where I was particularly attracted by the emphasis on craft demonstrations. I’ve since focused my efforts on craft and restoration trades training including demonstrations under the EAIA banner at the Bolton Fair, teaching middle school kids in our regional school system and an annual EAIA regional meeting at our blacksmith Shop in Bolton, MA. EAIA introduced me to Historic Eastfield Village through the “EAIA Sampler” program after which I joined the Board in 2012 and went on to host the Annual Meeting with my wife, Alice, at Old Sturbridge Village in 2017 where I was a trustee. Although I have inevitably collected a substantial number of hand tools, the emphasis has always been on learning and teaching about how to use them as reflected in a posted EAIA broadside at Eastfield: “The difference between learning how things are done…..and how to do them”. Now, as president of the Historic Eastfield Foundation and an EAIA director, I hope to re-establish the EAIA Sampler program which introduced so many EAIA members to early American hand crafts.