Hi Ellen,
You might well be confusing me with K F Hines. I am K F Hume and currently live about 3000 miles from Maine !
As a 501c3 organisation with the recently agreed mission statement "The Timber Framers Guild is a not-for-profit corporation organized as the centre for timber framing information, to train people in the craft, and to promote timber framing to the public" it might be argued that Guild members should possibly be seen more as enthusiastic supporting philanthropists engaged in helping the board to achieve this mission rather than deriving personal benefit by being members. i.e. Ask not what the Guild can do for you - but what you can do for The Guild.
This forum goes a long way towards providing low cost public timber-framing educational benefit and also provides additional benefit in respect of many other associated activities like woodland management, timber conversion, historic building research, craft training, social and cultural practices, etc.
I am very pleased to see another BoD member show up on the forum and this goes some way to helping satisfy the initiative proposed by Tim Beal above.
"Stat Attack"
Ellen is the 6061 person registered to use this forum. The Guild has about 1500 paid up members so the obvious persons to contact regarding obtaining additional financial support to maintain the Guild mission is already known to The Guild.
Regards
Ken Hume
