The next Meeting

The club meets the second Saturday of each month in the high school woodshop in St Ignace.  We have donated a lathe to the school so students will be able to turn projects.  Their old lathe was faulty and did not provide them with a good working environment.  The new lathe is smaller and well suited to student turning.  Club members have come in and offered their time and experience to teach students about wood turning methods and techniques. 

Our Past Meeting

Our last meeting, [the second Saturday in September]. because we have sold our home and we will be leaving the area[ and the club, the club] the organization  presented me with a parting gift.  It is a carved Eagle Feather.  It is a wood carving masterpiece created by our club president Jm Rutledge. Our club name is the Hiawatha Woodturning Club and we have many other strong  Native American connections through out our organization.  The presentation of an Eagle's Feather is one of the highest honors that can be bestowed on someone by a Native American.  So in this part of the world, even those of us with no connection to tribal roots recognize the significance of this gesture.  To say the least, I am extremely honored to have receive this from the group.

The significance of the gesture and the quality of the art work is very powerful for me and  I am deeply moved by this.

Thank you so much to the Hiawatha Woodturning Club.  I will remember each of you always.

Tom Cadwalader