Jack McKee

BUILDER BOARDS, CONSTRUCTION PLANS, Community Service, and the 'World's Largest Set' (new-4th edition) contains all the details a woodworker needs to construct a full set of parts for this remarkable imagination machine. Wide-eyed children put BUILDER BOARDS together, using them to erect structures large enough to play in. Builder Boards 4th edition has an expanded chapter about scouts and students constructing Builder Boards as a community service project and a chapter about taking the World's Largest Set to community events. Builder Boards by Jack McKee was originally published in 1997. The new, 2025 4th edition, contains information gleaned from 30 years of woodworking experience combined with stories about using Builder Boards with the children. It includes new roof-board and gable-end designs and covers the use of recycled and leftover materials to construct Builder Boards. There are easy-to-use layout plans, tips on how to take advantage of a shaper and the discussion of a computer controlled router to cut notches. Also included are new sanding and finishing recommendations. New color pictures give you a sense of joy children feel while turning their ideas into a structure that stands on its own. Finally, a new chapter about taking the 'World's Largest Set' out to community events like farmers markets and neighborhood parties was a eye opener for the author.

'Back in the day', Brown Square was a small Protestant enclave at the bottom end of the infamous Shankill Road in Belfast. It was a place where the people possessed very little in terms of material wealth, but what they did have they willingly shared with each other. Yet, regardless of their obvious financial and material lack, the people in this rundown inner-city slum, had enough self-belief to call themselves 'Brown Square Millionaires'. They might not have had much in their pockets, but they were rich in hope, humour and hospitality, whose wealth was not based on money, but on having the kinds of neighbours, friends, and family that no amount of money could buy.Brown Square may not have produced any real financial millionaires, but it did produce quality pieces of 'Hidden Gold'. Kathleen McKee (n e McDermott), is one of those whose life enriched the lives of many within and beyond the Square, and whose life has proved that Brown Square really did have some Hidden Gold.