Where Hands Create.

Whew - the past couple of weeks have flown by - and I didn't even get a blog post in last week.  To catch everyone up....

The Boston trip was great - and I learned a great deal at the Harvard Colloquium on Quality & Safety.  The speakers were great - and obviously you can imagine, there was a lot of discussion on healthcare quality reform, etc.  In between sessions - we were able to visit four shops in the Boston area - two in Cambridge, one in Brookline, and the best one was from our afternoon in Lexington! 

The shop in Lexington was fantastic - Wild and Woolly on the Green.  The owner Jacquelyn Katzenstein has had a shop in Lexington for 32 years - and has even survived a shop fire 18 years ago.  Truly she had a wealth of patterns, fantastic yarn, etc.  I did have a bit of envy that she has a "first floor" under the shop that is just as cozy and useful as you could imagine.  While visiting with Jacquelyn, she was impressed that Scott and I knew the history of Lexington.  She said far too many people don't realize the impact.  In case you are not a history nerd:

It was here, on the morning of April 19, 1775, that "the first blood was spilt in the dispute with Great Britain," as George Washington wrote in his diary. In this first skirmish, 77 Minutemen (local colonists who had volunteered to be first responders to military and other threats) faced British Regulars. Eight Minutemen lost their lives and 10 were wounded. Two British soldiers were also injured. After the battle, Samuel Adams exclaimed to John Hancock, "What a glorious morning for America!"