Little Journeys

Lucky Penny

  It all started at my grandmother’s kitchen table, a late 19th-century walnut dropleaf table she and my grandfather had bought second-hand from Maurice Peterson during the Great Depression, just after they first started farming on eighty…

A Rose Amid the Thorns

  Back in the era before cell phones, emails, text messages, and instant photographs, we had little to rely on when someone called with a piece of Arts and Crafts furniture for sale. I would typically start with some basic questions, such…

Changing Times

  What a difference a few decades can make.   Soon after the Grove Park Inn opened on July 12, 1913, general manager Frederick L. Seely printed a string-bound, informational brochure intended to entice people across the country…

The Printed Word

  Sometimes there are events in history you just can’t let go of. Mine took place on March 23, 1903. The location was the Craftsman Building in downtown Syracuse, where Gustav Stickley hosted the first of what I like to call his Arts…

Farm Work

  I grew up in a small town out on the rolling Illinois prairie, small enough that from our yard I could walk east, west, north, or south and have a good chance of soon seeing a farmer working his fields. Many of my earliest jobs took…

Considering the Consequences

  With both a home and an office jammed with Arts and Crafts furniture, I really cannot call myself a collector anymore, as I cannot even recall the last piece of Arts and Crafts furniture which I brought home. Of course, that may have…

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