Rivendell Enterprises featuring Betty D. Tesh and Samuel Lee Tesh III.

Rivendell Enterprises features the writings of author Betty Tesh and the crafts of Sam Tesh.

Betty Davenport Tesh , whose short stories have won both the Robert Ruark Short Story Competition and the Pockets Magazine Fiction Competition, has published two non-fiction books: A Wider Circle (Zondervan, 1987) and The Handy-Dandy Desktop Mentor (Rivendell Press, 1999) and three novels, May I Help You, Said the Counselor (Writer's Club, 2002) Furure Perfect (1st Books Library) and Raising Sand (Airleaf Marketing and Publishing) She is a frequent contributor to Pockets Magazine, a publication of The Upper Room.

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Samuel Lee Tesh III is a craftsman and leather worker. He specializes in painted leather belts and belt buckles and will design a belt to a customer's specifications. He is a master woodworker, producing a wide variety of wooden products from benches and tables to wooden toys, barbecue racks, and seasonal decorations.

Second only to his leather and woodworking projects is his interest in the environment. Co-chair of Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League (www.BREDL.org), he works with local grassroots environmental groups in such areas as the proliferation of hog factories, problems with nuclear waste, uninvited regional landfills, and unnecessary asphalt plants.

In addition to his work with hobbies and the environment, Sam is a dedicated United Methodist who is active in the Volunteers in Mission programs of the United Methodist Church. He has traveled to Puerto Rico and to Alaska on church building teams, has worked at the Red Bird Mission in Kentucky, and has taken four teams from First United Methodist Church in Elkin, North Carolina, to work on repairing and restoring homes damaged by Hurricane Floyd in Eastern North Carolina.