Little Journeys

Growing Stronger

  This year’s virtual 34th National Arts and Crafts Conference is a far cry from what our conference and show looked like in 1988, or what any conference or show looked like three decades ago. Long after vaccines, face masks, and stringent…

A Milestone Birthday

  Last week, in the midst of the political firestorm fueled by the terrorists’ attack on our nation’s capital, my father quietly turned 95. Because of our Covid concerns and precautions, I wasn’t there this year to celebrate it…

Finding Comfort Amid Confinement

  I don’t know what it is like to not be a collector, but I do know that during these times of self-imposed restrictions and confinement, my collection gives me comfort. My Arts and Crafts collection has never been of museum quality.…

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…

Sharing Our Passions

Please see the bottom of the page for a link to the event schedule for the National Arts and Crafts Conference   Regardless whether it was after the fifth, the fifteenth, or the twenty-fifth annual National Arts and Crafts Conference,…

Changing Traditions

  One of the behind-the-scenes traditions we honor each year at the National Arts and Crafts Conference are the two exhibitor meetings I hold late on Thursday afternoon prior to the opening of the shows on Friday. By that time nearly all…

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