For the April 2021 issue of Wood News Online, Temple Blackwood wrote about strategies for getting the younger generation involved in woodworking:
As many of us age into emerging responsibilities of family seniority, we have time and inclination to reflect on our own experiences, family traditions, and stories of our own “amazing” and “impressive” adventures of the past. If we are lucky, we have opportunities to share these tales with our younger generation relatives and their friends, an important transmission of passing along oral history, family values, identity building, and family pride. But the competition for grabbing today’s children’s time and attention is stiff, and it is essential to have “a gimmick” that will attract them and sustain their desire to participate.
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