A Mirror for the First Lady

Here’s the guy you read about in Huckleberries Best of the Northwest today: Barney Longacre of Frenchtown, Mont., applies liquid asphalt in his shop Monday, Oct.17, 2005, to a mirror frame he is making for first lady Laura Bush. Longacre and his wife, Judy, make one-of-a-kind, rustic wooden frames for mirrors at their wholesale frame shop, Framenco LLC. Last week, first lady Laura Bush ordered one of the couple’s handmade frames from a retailer in Washington, D.C.