community impact

2020 Annual Report

By Drew Vetere, Outreach Coordinator

Yestermorrow is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that teaches hands-on courses in design, construction, woodworking, and architectural craft. Our intensive, hands-on courses are taught by top architects, builders, and craftspeople from across the country. For people of all ages and experience levels, from novice to professional.

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Miriam Gee and Steve Badanes: Community Design/Build Pioneers

By Chrissy Bellmyer, Operations Director
In 2010, Steve Badanes - a Yestermorrow Instructor and Architecture Professor at the University of Washington (UW) -  received an interesting phone call while in his woodshop on Whidbey Island, Washington. It was from Miriam Gee, a young architect living in Honolulu, Hawaii.  Inspired by the documentary “Citizen Architect,” a film...

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Guertin Park, Montpelier VT

By Chrissy Bellmyer, Operations Director

In the middle of downtown Montpelier, right on the Winooski River and only a stone’s throw from the State House, is a strange 9’ by 26’ bump jutting from the bike path. It’s an empty, flat, unremarkable piece of pavement and fence that thousands of eyes scan over every day. Hundreds of legs walk and ride past. There’s nothing to see, and nothing there. But in a few weeks, there will be.

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