St. Roy is 67 years old.  Has he ever said how long he intends to 
continue producing The Woodwright's Shop?  (With absolutely no evidence 
one way or the other) I always imagined he'd eventually retire from TV 
and focus on his school.  Of course, that man seemingly has more energy 
at 67 than I had in my 20s.

My impression of PBS/NPR is that they get a big chunk of their budgets 
from patronages and fan donations.  If the current administration is 
successful in de-funding public broadcasting (which I doubt will fully 
come to fruition), I would expect private funding to ramp up in response.


Michael




On 2/18/2018 11:33 AM, Cliff wrote:
> They have excellent private sources of funding.   public money has 
> been trifling.
>
> But if ya want to have a voice how about we organize a find to keep 
> shows like Roy's alive? Why not bear the burden for our own interests 
> ourselves?
>
>
> On 2/17/2018 7:41 PM, Don Schwartz wrote:
>>
>> I know that politics are OT, but this is serious.
>>
>> I read today, with no little dismay, that the Trump Budget proposes 
>> to eliminate all federal funding for the Corporation for Public 
>> Broadcasting over the next two years - NPR and PBS.
>>
>> As a Canadian, I have always envied those of you who have had ready 
>> access to St Roy's show, the longest-running series in American 
>> television, for little money.
>>
>> Here in Canada, he is only available by cable. I was an early 
>> cable-cutter (1997 or thereabouts), so I did without his guidance for 
>> many years. But then I learned his shows were available on DVD, and I 
>> persuaded the local public library to purchase the whole set. I have 
>> made my way through them over the past several years, and have begun 
>> to watch the more recent series on the PBS website, which seems to 
>> suffer from issues when it comes to delivering online content. 
>> Nonetheless, I persist. I would be greatly disappointed were his show 
>> to be discontinued for fundamentally political or any other reasons. 
>> I believe that St Roy, were he in Japan, would be declared a National 
>> Treasure for the work he has done to acquire and share information 
>> about hand-tool technologies and methods. And it would be shameful 
>> were he to be cut off before his time. Those of you who have a pony 
>> in this race may want to consider what if anything to do about it. 
>> I'm just an outsider.
>>
>> I apologize in advance for this divergence. I'll crawl back in my 
>> igloo now, and polish some ice.
>>
>> Don
>>
>
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