A Call for Articles For Print & World Wide Web
We are looking for articles for the newsletter and the website. As far
as the newsletter is concerned, lately we have adequate copy each month,
but we would like to have more of a variety of contributors. The newsletter
should reflect the ideas and viewpoints of a cross section of the club.
If you are interested in writing for the newsletter and have access to
the Internet, submit articles via e-mail to Editor-In-Chief Jim Cosgrove,
at clairejim@hotmail.com. Copy can also be sent by regular (snail) mail
to 3570 Manchester Road, Wantagh, NY 11793. If you want your article to
appear in next month's newsletter, please submit it before the 15th, or
preferably earlier, of the previous month.
Having an active website calls for articles that talk to the members
between meetings. The website is a dynamic medium. We can ask for information;
we can inform other members of a function that may be going on, like a
woodworking discussion at a library or a museum, or it may be a technique
you have perfected. The address of the club's website is www.liwoodworkers.org.
We know there are some of you out there who can write and write well.
We get correspondence from some of you, and can use some of this talent.
For example, Joe Bottigliere wrote a letter suggesting some possible ideas
for the newsletter. The letter was concise and easily read. Another is
Graham Kelly. Graham had attended a series of seminars held by Ian Kirby.
At the next meeting he handed out a summary of the seminars and drawings
of the various things demonstrated, such as sharpening, joinery and dovetails.
These papers are invaluable. We refer to them often. Information like
this is easily put on the website for all to use.
There is someone else. Richard Weil modified a proposed ad for the exhibition
by changing some of the wording around and then drew a picture of a standing
clock that I think was the one exhibited two years ago in the barn. It
had wooden gears and a case that was merely a skeletal structure. You'll
see a copy of the proposed ad soon and see what I'm talking about. You
know that adage, "It's better to have loved and lost than not to have
loved at all." Well, it's better to write than not to have written at
all.
- Gabe Jaen and Jim Cosgrove
