I was out of town this weekend, and heard something cool about my neighbourhood while driving around someone else's.
"NPR's Jacki Lyden recently toured the PRS factory and talked with CEO Paul Reed Smith about the exacting art of making guitars. Smith made his first instrument as an extra-credit project while studying at St. Mary's College in Maryland, and he was hooked. Smith started his company in the 1980s, to manufacture guitars that met the same standards of craftsmanship that characterize American-made instruments built during the guitar industry's 'golden era' from 1955 to 1963."