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Mark Richey, president of Mark Richey Woodworking, the Resolute Desk in the reproduction Oval Office his company built.
Massachusetts architectural woodworking innovator Mark Richey Woodworking is celebrating a double anniversary this year. Not only does 2021 mark the 40th year since Mark Richey founded the company in his basement workshop, but also, it’s the 50th anniversary of the company’s Vermont-based WallGoldfinger division.
Mark Richey is number 204 on the FDMC 300 list of largest woodworking manufacturers with an estimated $25 million in sales and about 100 employees.
Mark Richey Woodworking has specialized in doing high-profile woodworking projects like the Harvard Art Museums while also blazing trails in environmentally responsible manufacturing with a plant that uses biomass, wind, and solar power to operate.
The Oscar nominees for Documentary Shorts are usually very difficult to watch. I mean, they re uniformly excellent, but the films are always extremely topical and unflinchingly brutal in their dedication to truth. At Tin Pan Theater over the last six or seven years, I ve been lucky enough to watch most of the Oscar Shorts (including the Animation and Live Action ones), but I m not sure any single short film affected me the way Skye Fitzgerald and Michael Scheuerman s Hunger Ward did. Hunger Ward focuses on the famine in Yemen, ongoing since 2016 and beginning during the Yemini Civil War. As of 2018, more than 85,000 children have died with UNICEF calling the famine the largest humanitarian crisis in the world. The film follows health care workers Dr. Aida Alsadeeq and Nurse Mekkia Mahdi across two hospitals as they struggle to combat child malnutrition. It s filled with stories and imagery that will stay with me for the rest of my life.
A storm bashed against the pillar of rock and ice projecting from the South Face of Mount Bradley in Alaska, a barrage of snow in its swirling gusts. Mark and I dove into our tent, placed on the only ledge we’d found for hundreds of feet. We had planned to spend a single night on the route. This was our third. We were 3,000 feet up, with 1,000 feet of climbing still to go.
Between us we assembled a small pile: two energy bars, a half can of gas and a single freeze-dried meal.
“We’re going to need these for tomorrow,” Mark said quietly, and packed the bars into a stuff sack. I looked at the nutritional information on the meal packet: 400 calories each for dinner.