Touchstone rebuilding damaged dining hall
After being knocked down by terrible snowstorms two years ago, the dining hall at Touchstone’s Center for Crafts in Farmington is coming back better.
“It happened during Snowmageddon 2010. Terrible weather brought it down. Now we’re having unseasonably good weather while we’re rebuilding. It’s as if it’s nature’s way of apologizing,” said Adam Kenney, executive director.
The 2010 winter storms brought record snowfall to the region, causing damage to buildings throughout the area. Several buildings at Touchstone, Pennsylvania’s only residential crafts school, were damaged that winter and were repaired with help from staff and volunteers.
But the dining hall, located in the center of the campus, proved a total loss with the collapse of the roof.
Read more in Sunday’s feature section of HeraldStandard.com.