Wednesday, September 8, 2021 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon C O M M U N I T 3 Y Writers to host acclaimed author for workshop PHOTO PROVIDED Tony Cosby speaking to Ethan Kennedy about the guitar he built in 2018. Retiring SHS teacher plans reunion for guitar builders By Charlie Kanzig Correspondent Since 2005, Tony Cosby has directed hundreds of Sisters High School students through the detailed process of building their own gui- tars. As he eases into his last year of teaching the class on his way to full retirement, Cosby has come up with a plan to bring his former stu- dents together for a reunion. A reunion for students from over all the years is scheduled to take place on Sunday, October 17 at the Sisters Artworks building from 4 to 7 p.m. Cosby sees it as a way to celebrate the program, the relationships that were formed in the process, and as a perfect way to close out this chapter of his profes- sional life. According to Cosby, the guitar-building class was created after Cosby met Jayson Bowerman of Breedlove Guitars during a river clean-up activity. The two started talking and before long the brainstorm became a plan and soon the plan became a reality.