Graduation Day

Washington Park, Charleston, SC

I was taking a short cut through Washington Park yesterday and found myself in the middle of the very first graduation ceremony for the College of Building Arts.

Not a traditional university, the college of building arts teaches the old traditional arts of stone masonry, architectural plaster work, ironwork and timber framing.

It's good to know people will still be able to work on these old homes and buildings. According to their web site the need became appearant after the damage doe to these grand building after hurricane Hugo and they discovered how difficult it was to find anyone who could repair them.

I tracked down a student blog but it doesn't look like it has taken off yet.