Joseph A. Veres

The show truly raises the appreciation of early America through the architecture and wood working skills needed to create what meant survival. The barn episodes show the joinery almost foreign to today. The raw manpower to fell trees, shape them to frame the structure, and use only pegs to keep the jigsaw together is astounding... but not to those who did the work. I am disappointed on the Augustus Peck house leaving Connecticut to Idaho episode. Yes, it preserved the structure... but it destroyed the history of a man who was in the Connecticut line of the Continental Army. It should have remained in Connecticut and preserved there through a public funding effort. The show is more than preservation, it's also our history.