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goobster  ·  1244 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: June 23, 2021

I got to see Dobson and his Sidewalk Astronomers acolytes regularly in the 1980's in the Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco. They'd set up on a corner about three blocks from my house, once or twice a month, several summers in a row. It was always a lovely time.

But I had little interest in what they were looking at. I liked the people. And their craft. All of them hand-built the scopes they were using, and loved to talk about the process.

Craft has value. Always has, and always will.