Little Journeys

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…

Head, Heart, and Hand

  If the widespread Covid-19 restrictions we have endured these past two years have demonstrated anything, it is that collectors crave social connections. Facebook and Zoom have helped to ease our longing to meet other Arts and Crafts…

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