1993

Building something. Who knows what. But he has his own toolbox and his own leather apron and his own hammer. Building something.

1993

Watching and learning.
He would spend endless hours doing just this--watching it done once, and then seldom forgetting.

Tolstoy's Anne Karanina and Too Hot to Handle

1995

Blue ribbon winner at the Sonoma County Fair for his redwood table

2004

With his older brother Sam Prowell, on the right, for a family gathering at the Beach Chalet in San Francisco

2005

At work on gate Sryle #51 for an historic Georgetown site in Washington, DC

2007

Ben and Parker

2007

A marketer's dream: Five Prowells in the shop at once. Ben giving a few of his cousins a little time in the shop.
Left to right: Jackson, Ben, Parker, Asa, and Soren.

2007

Coming up with Patio Table #22 and Bench #3

A typical Gate subjected to Quality Control Test #32---the Sonoma coast

2008

Geared up with his headphones for music and ear protection; his high tech battery operated dust filter; and the special woodworker's gloves.

2009

Founded in the mid-1800's as a vocational institute for immigrants, the school remains in the same building in Boston's historic North End. Considered by many as the nation's most prestigious furniture-making guild, while also offering a cirriculum in violin-making; and traditional timber carpentry.

2010

The first visit. The second visit lasted a week during late October of the same year and ended, not surprisingly, with the arrival of the first nor'easterly of the season.

2010

The third floor shop, reserved for second-year students.

The Demi Lune Table.
Walnut. Lacewood.

The Serpentine Table

December 2011

Returning from Boston, Ben drives cross country yet again. In Colorado he is joined by his older brother, the initimable Sam Prowell. They detour the last stretch by visiting Bozeman, Montana, below. Then on to idao to cross the panhandle following the lewis and Clark route to drop down for a visit Aunt Sarah Prowell in Portland, and down the northern Californian coast.

Sonoma County's Press Democrat
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