Douglas Stowe| "We Traveled Rivers" is a reading table with benches which I made as part of a traveling exhibit featuring the best works by writers and poets of Arkansas. "The Lost Roads Project--A Walk-in Book of Arkansas," was created by poet, C.D. Wright, and funded by the Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Foundation. The table and benches were commissioned to provide a reading place within the exhibit area where visitors would feel free to sit and read the text of the exhibit in the usual way... from a book. The top of the table features a river channel filled with Arkansas river stones which I gathered during canoe trips on various Arkansas rivers. This work was featured in Fine Woodworking, April 1996. The table and benches are made with "quilted" sugar maple. Because I live in the Ozark mountain portion of the state where level is just an imaginary concept, one leg of the table is cut shorter than the rest and is perched on a "little rock". "We Traveled Rivers" was displayed around the state of Arkansas for two years. | 
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