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BYRON — Jim Wharton built an aircraft from parts at his home in rural Byron. After 22 years of working on the craft, he hopes to fly it for the first time this winter. “When it finally takes off, there’ll be a big rush for me,” Wharton said. Wharton built a Zenith CH701 experimental amateur-built aircraft with a
Subaru of America Inc. car engine inside. Wharton said he logged the first 800 hours in his builder’s log, and then after that, he lost interest in keeping track of his time. He said he estimates he worked approximately 1,000 hours building the aircraft. “You have to keep the dream of flying in your head,” Wharton said. Wharton started building his airplane in October 2001 with his friend Dale Hindal, and he completed the work in 2021. A year later, his
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the threehour airworthiness inspection. “(For) people who build planes, getting the airworthiness is everything,” Wharton said. “That’s all you can think about. (You) don’t even hardly think about flying the thing because you’re worried about passing that inspection.” According to the Experimental Aircraft Association Inc., there are more than 33,000 aircraft like Wharton’s licensed by the Federal Aviation Administration. Building an airplane was not Wharton’s idea, it was his friend Hindal’s. The two would go to the EAA AirVenture show each year in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, and it was Hindal’s idea to build a plane. Several years into the project, Hindal passed away from an inoperable brain tumor. “I wanted to finish it for him and me,” Wharton said. Wharton hopes to take the plane for its maiden voyage this winter. He said he is going to be picky about having perfect weather conditions for
the first time flying. “I am more concerned about my ability than the airplane,” Wharton said. “The airplane is going to fly just fine.” Wharton served in the military from 1968-71 as a paratrooper. In the 1980s, he learned to fly and was a pilot in the Civil Air Patrol for several years. Today, he is licensed with a sport pilot certificate to fly light-sport airplanes. “I think about flying every day,” Wharton said. “One phase or part of it, I’ll dream about it.” Wharton will need to log 40 hours flying solo with his plane within a 50mile radius of the Austin Municipal Airport where he stores the craft. Once completed, the distance regulation will be removed and he will be allowed to have passengers. Wharton has a grassy field at his home designated as an airstrip. He said he hopes to eventually go between his home and Austin with the airplane but maintain the hangar at Austin Aeroflight as his homebase. Wharton’s airplane is a two-seater which weighs 665 pounds empty and 1,100 pounds with fuel and oil — but no passengers. The plane is built predominantly of aluminum.
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Jim Wharton talks as he pages through the plans for his airplane Dec. 4, 2023, at a hangar at Austin Aeroflight in Austin. The airplane is made from a kit of parts Wharton brought back from Missouri in a station wagon.
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from page 2 Another modification was on the flap lever, which the pilot can use to adjust the flaps. In the plans, the flap lever was supposed to be pushed forward to apply the flaps. Wharton said he thought this design was counterintuitive and he got plans from a person in California for a flap lever that pulled back instead. “I reached a level of confidence where I knew I could build this airplane,” Wharton said. “As long as I followed the directions given me. ... If you want to do it bad enough, you’ll learn.” Wharton said he also used the internet for help. Wharton said he does not recommend that people who want to fly build their own plane. “It took me too long,” Wharton said. “I lost too many years that I could have been flying.” But, the end result is important to him and honors his friend. Wharton said now that he is done, he is glad he committed to crafting his own pair of wings.
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WINONA — For Rachel Pauli, magic is contained in an ordinary gourd. Pauli grows, makes and sells brightly-colored, lightweight earrings made out of gourds grown in her backyard. Pauli’s brand is Gourdgeous Jewelry, and she has been selling items since 2022. “This brings people joy, and it brings me joy,” Pauli said. “Through my artwork, I get to be that little glimmer.” Pauli said she has always liked big, chunky jewelry. Her hand-crafted earrings look somewhat like glass or stone when complete but have the feathery weight of dried gourd and are durable. “Every single year, I’m able to produce my own medium,” Pauli said. “The fact that I can harvest it, dry it (and) grow it is magical to me.” Pauli said sustainability is an important value for her. Her art is made using a material that is decomposable. “I wouldn’t be doing this if I didn’t feel so passionately about the medium,” she said. Pauli, who is also a substitute teacher at an elementary school, works about 30-50 hours per week on her gourd art. She can make about 50-70 pairs of earrings in 40 hours. The artist said she hopes that those who buy her earrings receive both joy and a story. “Someone put their heart and soul into something that they are wearing,” Pauli said. “Someone honestly put everything of their being into what they’re wearing. ... Also, knowing that that material is doing something good for the world.” Both Pauli’s parents were artists, and she said she was encouraged to be a maker in her childhood. Her first experience with gourds was in 2019 when she painted a gourd and instantly found something she wanted to do more with. “I thought, ‘This is the most beautiful thing I have done outside of have my kid. I need to wear it on my body somehow,’” Pauli said. Most of Pauli’s earrings are painted with translucent paint or stain. She uses such materials
Green gourds hang from trellises during the summer at Rachel Pauli’s home in Winona. Trellising the gourds helps them to grow spherically.
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Rachel Pauli cuts a gourd Dec. 5, 2023, in the basement of her home in Winona. Pauli makes lightweight earrings out of gourds from her backyard.
because it allows the natural qualities of the gourd to shine through. These qualities even include the mold from the gourd while it was drying. “It provides all the texture,” Pauli said. “That’s what makes every single one different and unique and beautiful. ... I want the nastiness; I want all the weirdness that the gourd has to offer.” Pauli said she is an aspiring landscape artist. “I close my eyes at night and think about color
and think about shapes and beautiful color patterns,” she said. She enjoys being outside and takes her inspiration for her earrings from nature. “Translating (nature) into something that is wearable and the fact that I can do it on something that is grown in nature ... just enhances the magic,” Pauli said.
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Rachel Pauli sits with a collection of her earrings Dec. 5, 2023, at her home in Winona. In 40 hours, Pauli can make approximately 50 to 70 pairs of earrings.
Pauli from page 6 The earrings are predominantly shaped with hand tools. The gourds’ curvature makes the pieces difficult to put through a machine. Also, too much pressure can cause them to crack. To make an earring, first, the gourd is broken down into pieces, and the pieces are painted or stained. Next, Pauli uses a stencil to mark where to cut the earrings with her coping saw. A lightweight grinder and a belt sander help to get the earring pieces closer
to the desired shape. Then, every earring is finished via hand sanding. Once completed, the earrings are covered with clear sealant. Pauli also makes other items such as bowls, and this last holiday season, she put Nativity scene cutouts inside of small gourds. Pauli sells her earrings at vendor shows and online. She said she works to keep her prices low so her work is accessible.
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Gourdgeous Jewelry earrings hang Dec. 5, 2023, at Rachel Pauli’s home in Winona. Pauli likes using gourds as a medium in part because of their sustainability.
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“I remember buying art as a kid and thinking it was the coolest thing,” Pauli said. Pauli starts growing her gourds from seeds in mid-May. Once the vines have sprouted, she works to train the vines onto trellises. This helps the gourds grow in a spherical shape. Pauli works with the gourd vines nearly every day. The gourds weigh around 10 pounds while they are green. Besides making an artistic medium, the gourds also benefit pollinators in Pauli’s yard. “I have so many bees and ... so much wildlife in my backyard during the summer months,” she said. “That’s what the gourd is providing.” Once the growing season is complete, Pauli leaves the gourds on the vine as long as possible. This is part of the drying process. Once harvested, Pauli leaves some of the vine on and allows them to continue to dry over winter. Each gourd gives enough material for about 40 pairs of earrings. “Gourds have been used throughout thousands and thousands of years throughout human history,” Pauli said. “The fact that I get to use them for artwork just makes me feel very connected to that experience and that story.” Pauli said she would like to teach the process of making her art. “A lot of people tell me not to because nobody’s doing it,” Pauli said. “It is a pretty unique thing, but if it gets people to think about sustainable artistry, then that is the goal.”
Gourd Nativity scenes stand on Rachel Pauli’s work counter Dec. 5, 2023, in the basement of her home in Winona. Pauli painted her first gourd in 2019.
Light gleams off of gourd bowls Dec. 5, 2023, in the basement of Rachel Pauli’s home in Winona. Pauli said she is an aspiring landscape painter and takes her inspiration for painting the gourds from nature.
Rachel Pauli saws a piece of gourd Dec. 5, 2023, in the basement of her home in Winona. Each gourd provides material for about 40 pairs of earrings.
Gourd pieces lie on Rachel Pauli’s work counter Dec. 5, 2023, in the basement of her home in Winona. Pauli works 30 to 50 hours a week on her gourd jewelry.
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This hand-forged padlock is the result of a three-day class taught by Tom Latané in 2020 at Tunnel Mill Crafts. The site at Tunnel Mill features blacksmithing classroom stations.
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John Adams works at the forge in 2017 in an outdoor classroom near Spring Valley. Every classroom at Tunnel Mill Crafts is equipped with a forge, a vice and an anvil.
John, is set up with nine student stations and a teaching station just next to the mill. Each station is complete with a forge, anvil, leg vice and a work area. Some of the classes are higher-level blacksmithing taught by the experts and others are taught through community education and include the basics of how to start a fire and how to make traditional tools including a fire poker, chisel and tongs. “It’s amazing to see how you can stick a piece of metal in the fire, heat it up and manipulate it,” Adams said. While students have gone onto make other things, including a dinner
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The Adamses began the school as a way to keep the arts alive. They were inspired to start their school after a trip to Silver Dollar City, a craft village in Missouri. “Our family has always been craft-oriented,” Adams said. During the summer months, Adams keeps some weeks open for her family to enjoy the property. The kids fish and play in the stream, they
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and other crafts like barn quilt painting and quilt making. Most classes have six to eight students. Throughout the year, 25-35 students participate in eight to 10 blacksmith classes held per year and many more participate in the craft classes. “You meet really interesting people,” Adams said. “They come and they’re so enthusiastic because they want to learn this.”
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While students attend what are traditionally three-day blacksmithing workshops, their registration includes a stay at the property. Guests can sleep in vardo wagons John created complete with futon-like beds. The wagons sit on the property, giving guests more of a camping-style experience. Alternatively, there is a large room on-site that sleeps eight guests. A second, more private room sleeps two, and the site is equipped with restrooms and showers. John renovated or built many of the buildings on the property. “We had to do a lot of restoration work, and John wanted to share the property with other people,” Adams said. The old mill now serves as a gathering place for students to relax or share a meal. The mill was created in 1869 when four men dug a one-quarter mile tunnel under the road to dam, divert and then return some of the water from Bear Creek to the crankshaft-style mill. The mill was used to grind wheat and other grains for animal and human consumption. When the Adamses purchased the property, the mill had been repurposed as a barn with stanchions in the lower level. Another barn on the property, built by John and complete with a wooden floor, serves as the class space. That site is used for tinsmith classes, woodworking classes
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