Little Journeys

Dandelion Wine: Summer Caught and Stoppered

  It started out innocently enough, as most Saturdays in June do. It was 1978 and I had seen a notice in the Iowa City Press-Citizen of an estate auction to be held on site, which is always more enjoyable than being crammed into a long,…

A Message of Honesty and Joy: a Q&A with David Cathers

by Kate Nixon   (Since Bruce is hard at work on Conference matters, we've giving the spotlight to David Cathers, guest curator of the upcoming exhibition "The American Arts and Crafts Chair: A Message of Honesty and Joy" to talk about…

Sentimental for Cemeteries

  I have a thing for cemeteries. Not a ghoulish, midnight on Halloween obsession, but more like a combination of historical research mixed with a curiosity about the inhabitants of those small plots of landscape.   As a small child,…

Dress For Success

  Sorry, not a column on wearing a jacket and tie to a job interview. Just the opposite. By farm standards, Leigh Ann and I live on a small farm, just 16 acres of woods and pastures. In contrast, a cousin of mine in Illinois farms 2,000…

An Artisan in the Making?

A special edition of Little Journeys written by Kate Nixon - Bruce Johnson's assistant - on her views of the Arts & Crafts movement   It was my first month here in 2017 and I wanted to get a sense of Bruce’s research, so I remember…

Getting Ahead of the Rain

  Each February when we gather at the historic Grove Park Inn for the National Arts and Crafts Conference and Shows, we each leave behind our regular lives and for three days put aside all thoughts of work. Rather than playing the roles…

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