The Road to the Black Rose Dulcimer Shop

Black Rose Dulcimers is located in the back woods at the edge of the Hocking Hills region of south eastern Ohio. It is a beautiful region but this isn't the New Yankee Workshop. The work shop is a converted barn and is still often blessed with visits from the herd of goats and the hogs I keep. The region itself is often used to reflect the poverty of Appalachia. Carbondale, a small community just a couple miles away as a crow flies, is often used as a back drop for visitors who want to visit the "poverty belt" of Applalachian Ohio and has been visited and used as a photo opportunity by such people as Hillary Clinton, Jesse Jackson and Dan Rather. It is my home though and it is where I build dulcimers. I can't think of any other place I'd rather be.

The view from outside the dulcimer shop

The nearest Kroger store is an hour round trip so you try not to forget anything when you're in town. The nearest WalMart is over an hour away and the nearest interstate highway is over an hour and a half away. With all that issolation comes the beauty you can only find from living in the hills.

Like I said, this isn't the New Yankee Workshop but this is where Black Rose Dulcimers are built. Heated in the summer and air conditioned in the winter but I like it.