After six months of not teaching, I can say it’s unlikely I’ll ever go back to teaching again. I’m getting an incredible amount of work done on furniture, writing, editing and research. And I’m sleeping better.
But as much as I enjoy The Hermitage, I know it’s good to have some human contact from time to time.
So this is a reminder that we will have our doors open at 837 Willard St., Covington, KY 41011 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on May 14. We’ll have all our books there, plus free stickers, T-shirts that are exclusive to our storefront, letterpress posters and we will spray paint the dividers on your butt, if so requested.
My daughter Katy will be there selling some soft wax, and John (the other half of Lost Art Press) will be there, as will as Raney Nelson of Daed Toolworks.
I’ll also be opening the storefront on Sunday, May 22, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. so that members of the Early American industries Association can stop by on the way home from the organization’s national meeting at the Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill.
Here are the days we will be open for the rest of 2016:
May 14
June 11
July 9
August 13
September 10
October 8
November 12
December 10
We might open one day during Woodworking in America (Sept. 16-18), but it will be tricky to manage because I am teaching the entire weekend and John will be working the Lost Art Press booth during the Marketplace. So stay tuned.
— Christopher Schwarz
I have been a on-and-off full time post-secondary instructor for more than 40 years. I have determined that I enjoyed the environment where I was in class no more than 12 hrs a week. Time to think, plan, make mockups and meet with students one-on-one. I went home every day with the feeling that everything was covered for the next day. I doubt that this teaching formula exists today in business or technical colleges.
This may be on purpose, but I cannot find an address for the shop anywhere on your site. I assume it’s in old blog posts. For all the work you’ve put into it, “Shop” probably deserves it’s own spot on the masthead.
It’s on our blog posts. We don’t have it on the site for several reasons, including the fact that people will try to return books there and send mail there. Which will get lost in the urban mail system, never to be heard from again.
Don’t forget weirdos looking in the windows as another drawback.
I think the only weirdos are *inside* the window….
I hope to be able to visit someday. Is this location purely commercial or is it a combination residence/shop, i.e. do you live upstairs work downstairs?
Right now I work downstairs and we have renters upstairs.
When my youngest goes to college, we will live upstairs. Very 19th c of us.
Go full Pynchon instead; you might be on The Simpsons.
I don’t have the vocabulary to go even 10 percent Pynchon.
While one would not want the trials and trauma of teaching lead you to find a perfect day for bananafish, some of us had hopes of taking a class with you sometime.
I want to get there too sometime. And the photo-bombing Stop sign is a nice touch.
Is anyone planning on visiting the storefront and willing to buy a letterpress poster and mail it to me? Lee Valley says they’re probably only going to sell them to Canadian customers (in Canada), and I can’t make it to Covington (live in DC). If anyone is willing to, I’ll glady send you a check for the poster and postage….shoot me an email at spymac@hotmail.com. Thanks for considering!
Cheers,
Derek
Never mind. Lee Valley decided to sell them to customers outside of Canada, so I just ordered mine.
Cheers,
Derek
This store is not modeled after any successful retail establishment. Only open 12 days a year!
Bob,
You’re right. I’m certain we’ll go out of business any day now.