• News,  The Local

    The Branch Manager

    By Anne Rowlands MARCH-APRIL 2018 – Meet Christopher Hawver who – in the late ’90s after 18 years as a celebrated chef – chose to make a career change and pursue life as a rustic furniture maker. Why the switch? Like so many of us who find inspiration and comfort in a natural setting, Hawver was looking for a way into the woods. In his youth, he wondered how to make it possible. Could he be a forest ranger? A fishing or hunting guide? At age 15, however, the door to the woods swung shut when he began a culinary journey that lasted many years until – after taking up…