Volunteer Woodworker

Anne Briggs is a social media phenom known as "Anne of All Trades". She is also a farmer, teacher, and woodworker who turns weakness into strength. She tells us how as she demonstrates how to make something for the kitchen from firewood.

Anne of All Trades is a multi-talented woodworker, gardener, builder, and creator of many things. She is a social media star with a huge following because of her "Can-Do” attitude. Her natural ability makes her a fantastic woodworker and teacher. Anne takes us on a tour of her farm, her future woodworking shop, and demonstrates how she carves with an ax and a knife.

Retiring to the perfect tiny house he and his wife designed and built on a Tennessee hilltop, Bill
Lester decided building banjos and dulcimers would make life perfect. We will hear his story,
take a tour of their 600-square-foot dream home and then go to his spacious shop to learn how
he makes his beautiful banjos from bending hoops to inlay.

George Wurtzel was born with a degenerative eye disease that left him unsighted by the age of twenty. The Volunteer Woodworker visits George at his East Tennessee workshop where he shares his compelling story and shows us how he accomplishes his woodworking projects.