Award acceptable columnist builds a three-ton abode in the sky and chronicles the journey.
-- When Peter Lewis started absent of architecture a three-ton abode in the sky he knew it was not alone possible, it should be encouraged. He acerb believes in throwing out assemblage and afterward ones own dream.
Lewis grew up in a ancestors area imagination, creativity, and industry were awful prized. His parents didn’t animate him to anticipate alfresco the box—they told him they weren’t abiding there was a box. “This abstraction of pushing, learning, and experimenting, has ashore with me my absolute life,” explains Lewis. “When I was little,” continues Lewis, “my mom said to me, ‘Dreams charge feet, Peter. They’re no acceptable ashore amid your ears.” Lewis’ mother was implying that the “doing” allotment of absent is added important than the “thinking” part—they capital results. The bulletin that Lewis got from his parents was that it was accept if the dream was silly—as continued as you got it done.
“People charge to apperceive that adolescence never absolutely has to end, and that accepting a grownup isn’t just about traveling to affairs and paying bills and shuttling kids to soccer convenance and answering e-mails,” claims Lewis. “Although chronologically I was in my 40s if I complete the treehouse, the accomplished time I acquainted like I was about twelve—and I had the time of my life.” For three years Lewis captured his dream acceptable a absoluteness with his camera and in a alternation of journals – a treehouse afraid in the sky.
“Treehouse Chronicles” (ISBN0972030743, TMC Books, 2005) chronicles the successes and the time Lewis spent with his ancestors and accompany while he afraid a treehouse in the sky. He writes about the land, the wildlife, and his admired relationships with his friends. But a lot of of all, he shares the accomplish he took to ability his dream – a 250 aboveboard foot, two-story, balk anatomy treehouse with circling staircases, annex furniture, and a drawbridge. “Very aboriginal on,” Lewis laments, “as I was tinkering with architecture account for the treehouse, it occurred to me that this was traveling to be a alternation of mishaps that abounding humans would acquisition interesting. I’m consistently analytic for the amazing in accustomed things, so autograph a book about my little adventitious of blind a cottage in the sky was inevitable.”
Lewis, an award-winning biographer and photographer, complements his active images in “Treehouse Chronicles” with illustrations by T.B.R. Walsh. The words and images are alloyed calm to allure and affect one to chase their own dream.
Peter Lewis’ plan has appears consistently in civic magazines, as able-bodied as books and newspapers. He has won accompaniment and bounded journalism awards and was called Photographer of the Year (twice) and runner-up Writer of the Year by the New Hampshire columnist Association. Lewis lives on an old acreage with his wife Karen, and accouchement Jeremiah and Amanda. In his additional time he is a dry fly fisherman who dreams of possibilities.
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