My lifestyle of making a living off of Red River by building dogwood furniture caught the attention of the media. The Texas Country Reporter, Bob Phillips, did a TV story about me in 1986. The Dallas Morning News, Southern Living Magazine and PBS stations in Texas jumped on the bandwagon. With the tremendous amount of publicity the demand for my dogwood hoop furniture
skyrocketed. I couldn't carry enough dogwood out of the Red River Swamps, on my back, to supply the demand. I remembered my dream ... the dream machine.