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The Irish Times – August 21, 2010: “Take a seat at the Naked Table” by Deirdre McQuillan
“People are really interested in going back to doing things for themselves, like growing their vegetables or making a table. It has touched a lot of passions. It’s not just about furniture. People have been brought home in a lot of different ways, and closer to the soil.”
» Read the full article at IrishTimes.com
The Los Angeles Times – May 29, 2010: “Success made from scratch” by Susan Salter Reynolds, part of a feature on Charles Shackleton & Miranda Thomas
‘For Shackleton, enlarging the community he worked with made the business more bearable. He wanted to know the foresters and millers and loggers who provided his workshops with wood… “It’s thrilling to see people making these connections,” Shackleton says. “Like connecting cows with milk.”’
» Read the full article at LATimes.com
The Boston Globe – September 3, 2009: “Sustainable furniture” by Hayley Kaufman
“There’s been much hand-wringing in recent years about how disconnected we are from our food… Charles Shackleton contends the same can be said of much of the furniture we live with, and he aims, little by little, to change that.”
» Read the full article at The Boston Globe online
Bloomberg News – October 20, 2010: “Spa Resorts Try ‘Naked Table’ Building, Yoga to Lure Executives” by Nadja Brandt
“Stowe Mountain has boosted its corporate group bookings with such programs as “The Naked Table Project,” in which participants build furniture from scratch.”
» Read the full article at Bloomberg.com
Woodstock Magazine – December 2009: “Staying in Touch the Shackleton Way” by Sara Duncan Widness
“Shackleton’s toast-of-the-town project is all about, to paraphrase [Martin] Buber, real living through meeting and opening ourselves to the world and others…’The table’s story belongs to those who use the table to prepare food, eat, gather, and work. It is where stories are told. The table becomes an icon of the family, the home, and community, and a symbol of their connection to the place and the land,’ says Shackleton.”
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Heritage Radio Network – September 2009: Deborah Schapiro interviews Charlie Shackleton on Edible Communities
“It’s one thing having a beautiful dining room table to show off to your friends, but it’s another whole thing if that dining room table is not only something you eat off and gather ‘round… but also represents something you believe in.”
