The Washington Post, October 30th, 2003
In the 231-year-old, rail-stop town of Ellicott City, folks tend to preserve and reinvent the past. A 19th-century lumberyard on Main Street now holds a brewpub. A historic stone church has become Howard County's historical museum. And at the Shoemaker Country shop, two generations of a Maryland family turn old wood and architectural salvage into furniture for today's homes. Combining new wood with antique pine flooring, Victorian-era doors or corbels from old porches, the Shoemaker clan -- fifty-somethings Tom and Susan and their 31-year-old son, John -- create their wares from past and prese...
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