Saturday, September 27, 2025 from 10:00am - 4:00pm
Castlerock Museum in Alma, Wisconsin will hold its annual From Forest to Furniture event. During the event, Todd Fleming, Tom Latane, Derek Olson, Will Reser and Alex Yerks will demonstrate woodworking techniques used since the days when woodworkers walked into the woods for their material and began their work on the forest floor. Spectators will be able to visit with the woodworkers as the chips fly.
Todd Fleming, a carpenter and traditional woodworker from Middleton, Wisconsin, will be turning wood on a spring pole lathe. Tom Latane, a blacksmith and woodworker with a shop in Pepin, Wisconsin, will demonstrate mortise and tenon joinery on an oak clamp front chest. Derek Olson, an award-winning woodworker from La Crosse, Wisconsin, will be showing how early chairs were made. Will Reser, a blacksmith and woodworker from Minneapolis, will be cutting dovetails for a toolbox. Alex Yerks, another woodworker from Minneapolis, will demonstrate kuksa carving.
Admission is $8 for adults and $5 for students. Contact the museum at 608-685-4231 or
info@castlerockmuseum.com for more details.
Castlerock Museum has over two thousand years of history in a building that looks like a castle! See authentic arms and armor from Romans, Dark Age Warriors, Vikings, Crusader Knights, and Renaissance "Knights in Shining Armor." New galleries cover American history from the Colonial Era through the late 1800's and include a hundred period firearms.
The Alma Chamber of Commerce Visitor Center is located in the Wings Over Alma Building on Main Street. Let us know if you have any questions or comments. We are happy to provide more details. Please email us 24/7 or call us to learn more.
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