Little Journeys

Arts and Crafts Nostalgia

  If you can’t handle a little nostalgia, then you might want to click over to one of your favorite YouTube videos. Last year, a Japanese boy band got 74,600,000 views. Today, nobody cares who they are. Fame is fleeting. As you are…

An Arts and Crafts Silver Spoon In His Mouth

  When my oldest son Eric was born in 1988, we received a small package from my dear friend Emyl Jenkins, an antiques appraiser and author then living in Raleigh. We had met through a mutual friend, George Viall, who also introduced me…

Wooden Wisdom

  Here on the farm, there are annual rituals which accompany the changing of the seasons. Winter requires occasional snow removal from our long, uphill driveway. Spring means the first mowing of the year and repairing fence boards damaged…

Hooked on Signs

  I grew up in a house of collectibles, as my mother collected antique bells, buttons, tea-leaf china, figurines, and thimbles, among other things. But she was not a hoarder, in the negative sense of the word. Her collections were always…

Reflections at the Hull-House

  In our often-frenzied pursuit of the “objects” made by Arts and Crafts craftsmen, we often forget about the “objectives” of the Arts and Crafts reformers. Along with their goal of raising the status of craftsmen to that previously…

Journey to Chicago

  I was in Chicago on business not long ago and finished my work with just enough time to be able to treat myself to a few hours at one of the downtown museums. Naturally, my first thought was to walk over to the Art Institute to visit…

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