Save The Date - Blue Ridge Chapter Meeting 22 November

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The next Blue Ridge chapter meeting is 22 November 2025 in the Richmond, Virginia area.

We begin with presentations at the Richmond Woodcraft. The owners have graciously offered a 10% discount to meeting attendees.

• Reid Beverly, who presented at a recent SAPFM annual conference, is our first presenter in the morning.
• Charlie Driggs, who led the team that made a child-sized copy of the Dominy workbench at Winterthur will give a presentation on that project.
• Barry Jones will present on a pair of Goddard corner chairs he recently completed.
• If anyone else has something they would like to present, please contact me.

Following the morning session, we will adjourn for lunch to Lola’s Farmhouse, a country restaurant in an old house outside Richmond. From there, the first twenty to register will carpool to the home of David Williams to see his private collection and tour a historic barn that he restored for his wife’s ceramics and artist’s studio.

This is another unique opportunity to see a stunning collection that is not available to the public.

We will update emerging details in the Blue Ridge chapter forum page on the SAPFM website and I will send out the invitation as we get closer to the event.

FYI, registration is now live for the SAPFM annual conference in Colonial Williamsburg from 10 – 13 October. You won’t want to miss the optional tour of a colonial home on Friday. This link should enable you to register - - https://sapfm.org/2025-annual-conference-2

Steve Dietrich
Blue Ridge Chapter Lead
540.907.9137

Here is a pic of the kind of furniture in the private collection.