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About Me
- Joe Cottonwood
- La Honda, California, United States
- I've made my wages in construction work, made my peace in poetry.
About 99 Jobs:
Life, love, and construction. A memoir.
About Clear Heart:
A novel about carpenters, nail guns, and wet concrete.
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James Adams, cabinetmaker, has been accumulating trees for a while. Not entire trees, exactly, but the rough-sawn lumber milled by wood... -
Apple Jack's in La Honda has a beer sign in the window, which somebody put there, and ferns growing above the window, which nobody inten... -
When we think of carpenters, we think of hammers. Nails. Sawdust. But on a construction site, what surprises beginning carpenters is how ... -
Saturday, September 29, 1979 to Sunday, July 22, 1991 On a Saturday afternoon in 1979, I was working outdoors with a pick and shovel, ... -
Never argue with a redwood tree. Just build around it - and leave a little space. This is the rear of Apple Jack's Saloon in La Honda... -
October 1983 Hamilton Holmes Hamilton Holmes has a heart condition. You want to listen? In his garage he found under a wheel six hundred s...
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Here it comes again! Next readings will be Wednesday, February 24, starting at 6:30 in the bar at Sullivan's Pub. -
Bars come and go in La Honda, but Apple Jack's endures like the redwoods that tower over it. Sometimes it's spelled Applejack's... -
I am utterly embarrassed to be a member of the Authors Guild. I joined the Guild about 30 years ago when I was first published by a mainst...
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It might look like an insurance claim, but actually the garage was built this way. The oaks have kept right on growing. It's time for ...
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