In
October of 2008, Joe led a two day workshop in drystone masonry
construction for staff of the Olmsted Parks Conservancy in
Louisville Kentucky. Participants built two headwalls around
culverts in Seneca Park.
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In
October of 2008, Joe and Frank Jenkins led a 6-day workshop on
construction of drystone masonry retaining wall construction at
Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina. One group of
participants disassembled and rebuilt a curved, failing retaining
wall, and the other group built a new curved, retaining wall.
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In
summer of 2008, Joe led a one-day workshop for homeowners in
Asheville, North Carolina on construction of a flagstone patio.
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In June of 2008,
Joe Dinwiddie led a 5-day workshop on
drystone masonry at Touchstone Crafts in Farmington,
Pennsylvania. Workshop participants built
a set of stone steps, a straight retaining wall,
and a curved, stepped retaining wall in front of
the pottery studio, and in the process widened
the path to make it handicap accessible.
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Throughout the Spring and Summer 2008,
Joe Dinwiddie lead one-day
workshops in traditional drystone masonry
at the Black Mountain Center for the Arts in Black
Mountain, North Carolina. These workshops covered the
fundamentals of drystone masonry for landscape
projects - how to design projects and figure the
amount of materials needed, tool selection and use,
safety, and durable building methodology.
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In Spring of
2008, Joe Dinwiddie led a half-day, workshop in drystone steps
construction for the Henderson County Master Gardeners.
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In
Spring of 2008, Joe Dinwiddie gave presentations to the North
Carolina Master Gardeners in Henderson County, the Weekend Gardener Seminar series at Westmoreland County Community
College, Pennsylvania, and the Men's Garden Club of Asheville, North
Carolina.
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In Fall 2007,
Joe Dinwiddie taught a 70-hour course on
drystone masonry at Asheville-Buncombe Technical
Community College in Enka, North Carolina.
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In fall of 2007, Joe Dinwiddie and Frank Jenkins led a
3-day workshop on drystone masonry in Mars Hill,
North Carolina. Participants constructed a drystone
foundation for a log cabin with stone salvaged from
an abandoned chimney.
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In spring of 2007, Joe Dinwiddie led a 2-day drystone
masonry workshop at Warren Wilson College in
Swannanoa, North Carolina. The student rock crew
constructed a curved, stepped retaining and sitting
wall, eventually 60' in length.
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In Fall of 2006, Frank Jenkins and Joe Dinwiddie
co-taught a weeklong workshop at the
John C.
Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, North Carolina. Participants
worked on the construction of a 20'-long L-shaped
freestanding drystone fence.
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