Experiences We Can’t Afford to Miss
Dear Readers -
I am on the road this week, so I took this opportunity to print a letter from one of our readers who, while not a dyed-in-the-wool Arts & Crafts collector, attended last week's Grove Park Inn Arts & Crafts Conference.…
The Education of an Arts & Crafts Collector – GPI Style
As you know from following my daily posts this past week, my latest Little Journey has taken me to the Grove Park Inn, that magnificent Arts & Crafts hotel and resort cemented into the side of Sunset Mountain overlooking Asheville, North…
Coming Clean: Time for A True (?) Confession
I have a confession to make:
I have broken the Historian's Oath.
I have written a novel.
First, a little background. I had tried twice before to write a novel. The first was when I was just 24 and a second-year English teacher. Lasted two…
If Winter Comes, Can Spring Be Far Behind?
We got a brief reminder this past weekend of what Spring will be like, and we drank it in deeply, like a silky glass of rich, red wine.
The sun came out, the thermometer flirted with fifty degrees, a flock of robins congregated in the hay…
A Mystical Evening at the Grove Park Inn
It was one of those rare evenings that you swear could never be repeated – then was.
In 1932 twenty-year-old Edgar Tafel stepped off the train in Spring Green, Wisconsin, and stepped into the world of Frank Lloyd Wright. Among the first…
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