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Volume 6, Number 24 | July 24, 2014
Paul Markham brings his reasonably-priced cutting boards and other wooden creations to Carbondale Mountain Fair on July 25-27. He is part the CCAH’s Artisans Gallery that includes: Laine Fabijanic, Mary Cervantes, Brian Colley, Lisa Dresback, Launa Eddy, Asha Ironwood, Peg Malloy, Ro Mead, Marlane Miller, Judy Milne, Terry Muldoon, Penelope Olson, Pam Porter, Carla Reed, Elizabeth Riecks and Philip Hone Williams. Photo by Lynn Burton
Paul Markham: the story behind a woodworker By Lynn Burton Sopris Sun Staff Writer At 89 years old, Paul Markham might be the oldest arts/crafts vendor at this weekend’s Carbondale Mountain Fair. In the summer
time when the overhead door is open, passersby near Eighth and Colorado can see him inside his tidy shop creating wooden cutting boards and other wooden items, such as “Tâ€? puzzles that he warns “nine out of 10 people can’t solve,â€?“ringâ€? puzzles whose solving apparently requires a less lofty IQ, novelty items, cleats for hanging clay pots on deck posts, and decorative creations like thimblesized birdhouses afďŹ xed to long dowles that add interest to any ower bed or pot. “The ladies love them,â€? he said with a
smile during a tour of his shop. Recently, Markham’s table saw, benches and other at surfaces were covered with cardboard boxes, each neatly labeled and ďŹ lled with cutting boards (two sizes) and other inventory. Markham, trim and ďŹ t, moves easily through his shop, although maybe not quite as uidly as when he was bringing the ball up during his basketball days at McPherson College in Kansas (more on that in a minute). Priced at $25 each, the 10X16-inch cutting boards are Markham’s bread and butter. One
of the ďŹ rst steps in making a board is gluing together alternating strips of cherry, walnut and maple. When asked why not just make the cutting board out of one piece of wood, he answered “This is very attractive to people.â€? A Markham cutting board is more complex than gluing together strips of light and dark colored wood. A pair of three-eighths-inch dowels, running laterally through the board at each end, keeps it all together. “The dowles keep it from warping or coming unglued.â€? MARKHAM page 3
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