Kussmaul, Chip: - Chip Kussmaul taught science in public schools for six years at the beginning of his career. Wanting to examine other opportunities, he became and architectural woodworker. Besides commercial work, Chip restored a number of Victorian homes, in a period appropriate manner. He and his wife Jan have lived for many years in one such home, an 1880s Italianate. The nineteenth century fascinates Chip. It was one of the most rapidly transitioning centuries in human history. The age of enlightenment was forcing slavery to a close, while the industrial revolution, for better and worse, rapidly changed how people lived.