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Renowned in his day as an artist and teacher, Douglas Volk has received little attention in recent years, and his role in the arts and crafts movement has been all but forgotten. From 1898 until about 1908, Hewn Oaks, the summer house he and his wife, Marion Larrabee Volk, built in western Maine (see Figs. 3-6 and 9), was an active "Center of Art and Handicraft," (1) where Volk determined to "revive a few of the old industries that were carried on in the farm houses" (2) in the first half of the nineteenth century. Although he inspired and guided the venture, Volk kept to his easel painting, while his wife, children, friends, and neighbors were busy carving wood and making ...