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Colin Woodard’s History of Andersen Design
WHEN I WAS A BOY in the late 1970s and early 1980s, 1 would see my grandparents’ handiwork everywhere: on the windowsill of a doctor’s office, on the coffee table at a stranger’s cottage, on display in countless retail shops from Boston to Bar Harbor. One of their stoneware sculptures—my grandmother’s seagull, wings tucked for…
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Andersen Design In 1952
Andersen Design was started in 1952 by Weston and Brenda Andersen Customized just for You A Husband and Wife Team of Midcentury Industrial Designers Who Took a Unique Path She was from London, and he was from Iowa, and they met and got married during World War II In the fifties, the middle class was…
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Land To Individuals- The Concept
Customized just for You The Self-Perpetuating Cycle How selling affordable land to individuals (not developers) creates a self-expanding middle class through homeownership and wealth building Get in touch with us now to participate in making it a reality. Only three people are needed to form a non-profit organization. How This Builds Middle Class Wealth 01…
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Peeling Back the Wrapper on the Narrative
Water, Housing, Education- What is really going on and whose Interests are being served? A letter titled Admiring the finery, ignoring the supply written by Andy Cozzi, a retired geologist, raised the issue of unusually low water levels of Knickerbocker Lake Finery is easily interpreted as the newly installed cultivated landscape at the Boothbay Center, bought and paid for…
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Expanding the Affordable Housing Options-A Letter to the Editor of The Boothbay Register
Letter to the Editor of Boothbay Register Dear Editor, Recently, there have been two widely publicized housing developments in the region funded with affordable housing funds and celebrated as a great step forward in righting the “underproduction of housing”. Such is the cause attributed to the housing shortage by state studies. However, I identify the…