Fire by Friction

Reconnect with this primitive and sacred method of creating fire- with nothing but wood, a knife, and some string. I will be teaching the ancient skill of the bow-drill, as taught to me by Tom Brown Jr. at the Tracker School. I will provide wood, string, and tinder; you will need a knife, preferably a non-folding sheath knife which will withstand a slight beating (we will be using it to split wood as well
as to carve the parts).

Joel Sindelar:

Joel Sindelar is a 35 year old, occasionally loud human living in Jamaica Plain, MA. He has a BS(!) in Molecular Biology from MIT and an M(&)M from New England Conservatory in Choral Conducting. He spends his time: figuring out how to help along the evolution; figuring out how to heal himself and his fellow fellows (of any gender or species); fixing bicycles; performing in the streets; initiating cooperative, musical, community-building enterprises; and taking classes at the Tracker School with Tom Brown, Jr., ...among other things. He may be reached by sending email to: jds@alum.mit.edu

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