. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. person from getting through the bars. "There also is a four-inch subfloor that kept prisoners from getting out," she adds. Presently, the couple is renovating two houses from the 18th century and one from the early 19th century. "It is very time consuming," she adds. "It took us three years to restore the ; Furniture Class To get to the Hobbs complex, turn off 17 north to Hertford onto Snug Harbor Road. The road is flat with endless farm fields and little traff


. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. person from getting through the bars. "There also is a four-inch subfloor that kept prisoners from getting out," she adds. Presently, the couple is renovating two houses from the 18th century and one from the early 19th century. "It is very time consuming," she adds. "It took us three years to restore the ; Furniture Class To get to the Hobbs complex, turn off 17 north to Hertford onto Snug Harbor Road. The road is flat with endless farm fields and little traffic. The only sign of life is a country store and church at the end of the road. Turn the comer and the complex is on 30 acres next to his family's farm. His workshop is in a building behind his home. During a recent class, Hobbs, sporting a plaid shirt and green apron, gives a lesson in cutting a mortise and tenon for a joint on the back of a chair. "You cut it to the width and then to the length," he says. "Then find the center ; After the demonstration, Hobbs shows his two students the back of a finished cherry and walnut chair. "This is not angled," he says while pointing to the splat that is shaped so that it is thinner than parts in the front of the chair. While teaching a class, Hobbs always works on a piece alongside his students. "Every time I do a class I make a chair," says Hobbs. "I teach four or five classes a ; Most of the students make furniture as a hobby. "This is my first woodworking class," says Curt Ivey, who works for the Navy in Virginia. "It is a jump in my skill level. I promised my wife that I would make her a set of ; The class is intense — running from 8 to 6 Monday through Friday and a half day on Saturday. The students break at lunch, when they walk across the yard to the restaurant in the complex. They eat lunch together at a large table in the re


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