The following speech was presented by Executive Director Kate Stephenson at the 30th Anniversary celebration on May 15, 2010Yestermorrow 2010 and BeyondFor those of you who I haven’t met yet, my name is Kate Stephenson, and I am the Executive Director here at Yestermorrow. It’s wonderful to see so many familiar faces and at the same time so many...
THANK YOU to everyone who came out on Saturday to help celebrate our 30th Anniversary! The work day got so much done I can't even list it all, but I'll try: 3 new perennial beds around the entry, setting up the new herb garden, clearing trees and brush, seeding wildflowers and clover, building trails, stacking firewood, deconstructing and...
In preparation for our upcoming 30th Anniversary Reunion we decided to check in with Yestermorrow's founder, John Connell, on what he's observed about the School over the last 30 years...What was your original vision for Yestermorrow? I wanted to teach the butcher/baker/candlestick maker a method of design-driven construction that would allow...
Yestermorrow is excited to announce the winner of our 30th Anniversary logo competition. Peter M. James of Silver Spring, Maryland was the designer of the winning entry. Peter is a graduate of the 2008 Community Design/Build class and is an architecture student at the University of Maryland. Peter will receive a free one-week Yestermorrow class in...
