Homeless No More

Homeless No More

Photos used with permission from McMillan Pazdan Smith Architecture “‘I looked for anyone to repair the wall and stand in the gap for me on behalf of the land, so I wouldn’t have to destroy it. But I couldn’t find anyone.’” the prophet, on behalf of God...
High Strung: Local Guitar Builder Soars

High Strung: Local Guitar Builder Soars

By Ryan LutzPhotography by Randy Pace The first guitar tunes I can recall are those I heard on 8-track in my dad’s truck while he drove me to school. I was in second grade. We listened to Bach’s “Sheep May Safely Graze” and “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring” and, in a...
Rawhide Revival

Rawhide Revival

The thought of making work that’s easily consumed and quickly forgotten — what’s the point? I want my work to be cohesive, to age and improve like old leather. ~ Tift Merritt, country folk musician and songwriter TIMELESS MATERIAL When I was a boy, my dad thought that...
Putting the Swig in Swing

Putting the Swig in Swing

And we may take a glass together;The whisky makes it all so clear;It fires our dulled imaginations,And I feel so near, so near. ~ Dougie MacLean By Ryan LutzPhotos courtesy of Sweetens Cove Once upon a time, at the end of a country road in the foothills of a mountain...
Watching the Signs

Watching the Signs

Jordan Trotter makes its mark in Augusta’s commercial real estate market By Ryan Lutz | Photos provided by Jordan Trotter and Amy J. Owen   If you’ve driven on River Watch Parkway lately or turned up Cabela Drive on a shopping or sporting whim, you might have noticed...