Little Journeys

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…

Letting Go

Original Date of Publication: October 23rd, 2017.   Tryon, North Carolina, is a small town that literally straddles the invisible border with South Carolina. Located just 45 miles south of Asheville, it, too, lies at the base of the Blue…

Collecting Stories

  I grew up in a small town on the Illinois prairie, one which fit Garrison Keillor’s classification of being so small that no one ever used their turn signal, simply because everyone already knew where you were going.     With…

Thinking Through Craft at the Grove Park Inn

  “We’re different.” That’s one of the first lines you’ll read when you go to the website of Warren Wilson College, which I did last Monday in preparation for a tour I volunteered to lead for a group of their students enrolled…

Judging a Book By Its Cover?

  “Any fool can make history, but it takes a genius to write it.” - Oscar Wilde     Oscar Wilde may have exaggerated what it takes to be an historian, if only to make his point, but he inspired me to turn his phrase ever…

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