The New York Times – Fashion & Style:
The budding field is turning dreams into reality for older adults who are eager to age in place, filling caregiving gaps and easing minds as America ages rapidly.
Category: Tools
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A Landscape Designer’s Essential Toolkit
The New York Times – T Magazine:
Edwina von Gal shares her favorite garments and implements, including the “world’s best trowel.”
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Blacksmithing Is Alive and Well in Kentucky
The New York Times – Fashion & Style:
The “functional art” of Craig Kaviar, including transforming guns into garden tools, is part of a revival of the ancient craft.
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You Hear the Musical Saw. These Mathematicians Heard Geometry.
The New York Times – Music:
A scientist who has studied falling playing cards, coiling rope and other phenomena has now analyzed what transforms a carpenter’s tool into a sonorous instrument.
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Franz Mohr, Piano Tuner to the Stars, Is Dead at 94
The New York Times – Music:
“I play more in Carnegie Hall than anybody else,” he said of his career adjusting instruments for Horowitz, Gould and others, “but I have no audience.”