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,…
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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…
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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…
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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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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…
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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…
